Saturday, May 18, 2013

Scorched Earth - if Google can't own the web then it must destroy it.

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Over the two years Google has knifed a number of open net protocols , including CalDAV, RSS, XMPP, Atom and CardDAV and they split Chrome fr...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

The Ranbaxy story: why we still can't trust our medications

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It isn't just China that struggles with counterfeit and defective medications. India's  Ranbaxy  makes much of the generic Lipitor ...
Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Our secret questions will be helpful after the singularity.

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My corporate US Bank account has a rich set of ' secret questions '... As a security measure this is ' marching morons '...
Saturday, May 04, 2013

Addressing structural underemployment (aka mass disability)

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Thirteen years after the first crash of the post-disruption era  the glory days of 1996 are a fading memory. Most people under 40 do not rem...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Muscle soreness two days after CrossFit -- why does it go away?

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If I survive a few more months, I'll write about why I started CrossFit at 53. It's been an interesting experience, not least beca...
Saturday, April 20, 2013

Learning programming for middle school - Python

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We survived our monster spring break trip to Florida ( example ), so now it is time to think about how to make our children miserable this s...

Math education if you don't care for everyday math and religious purity is not required

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Medicine is barely evidence based, so it's not surprising that education is not.  Research is expensive, and kids are so variable that e...

Why does the Fujitsu iX500 document scanner need a computer?

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For the past decade I've used a typical corporate document scanner. These are the big brothers of the home "MFC" - laser print...

Blood donation false-positive HTLV I/II test interpretation. Update - a single case of later onset auto-immune disorder

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After decades of blood donation I was rejected in 2010 because of a false positive HTLV I/II test. I was annoyed, but not too concerned. I...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

The Net is a forest. It has fires.

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Whatever RSS (Atom, etc) was intended to be, it became the standard plumbing for subscription and notification. When In Our Time has a new ...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

I closed my PayPal account. You probably should too.

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In the old days I did casual hookups -- of new net accounts and services. Now, of course, every net identity and related service is a secur...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Is this AT&T rate change minute expiration a new dirty trick?

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We use about 1,000 minutes a month on our AT&T mobile family plan. So our use is halfway between their 700 ($48) and 1,400 minute plans ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Buying a used road bike (Mineapolis St Paul example).

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When I published  my 'touring bike' page  in 1997 I'd just bought a new 1996 Cannondale touring bike for $600. I've made man...
Thursday, April 04, 2013

Roger Ebert and Iain (M) Banks

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Two days ago I learned that Iain (M) Banks , one of my favorite writers , had months to live . He should have had decades. He announced he w...
Monday, April 01, 2013

Google Field Trip -- Scooba Mississippi

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My gypsy wife sent us on a 12 state 9 day road trip from the frozen north to Florida's "Emerald Coast" and back to the still f...