Yes, I’m on Twitter- alandove: Another reason we need universal healthcare. @DrFriedenCDC "education & income ... keys to better health. Another reason to stay in school!"
- alandove: No, the Lexus with its lights on probably doesn't belong to anyone at this public health meeting.
- alandove: RT @stevesilberman: Taxes, spending and deficits are all lower today than when Obama took office. http://t.co/NGnJlr5l
- alandove: Good: Apple store next door to conference. Bad: they couldn't fix it either. Good: bought Bluetooth keyboard, now phone = laptop.
- alandove: @lhrandall Cool! I've been sitting about five rows back, end of row, house left. Will probably take same seat tomorrow.
- alandove: My new laptop. #oldschool http://t.co/UK1oPLAQ
- alandove: Just arrived in ATL to cover 2 conferences, and my brand new MacBook Air suddenly and completely croaked. No words for how much this sucks.
- alandove: The journey of a thousand miles should begin with an empty bladder.
- alandove: RT @profvrr: This Week in Virology (TWiV) episode 183 is up: Bats out of hell http://t.co/8ukXCDCq
- alandove: Plenty happens if you listen to HF radio frequencies. "We keep hearing about these ... sunspots and nothing happens!" @sciencegoddess
Tag Archives: computers
The NEC-4 Security Scam
A few decades ago, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California developed a computer program called the Numerical Electromagnetic Code, or NEC. This set of algorithms allowed researchers to build computer models of radio antennas so they could … Continue reading
Wolfram Alpha Gets Its Emotion Chip Installed
When Wolfram Alpha launched, I plugged a few questions into it and was fairly impressed with its abilities. Then I tried to stump it. It didn’t take long: the question “how do you feel?” generated an error. I told a … Continue reading
Simple Hack: Magnetic Mac
There are powerful magnets hidden inside the screens of recent-model iMacs*; mine has them all around the edges. I don’t know why Apple put them there, but here’s my favorite use: holding documents while I transcribe them. The picture shows … Continue reading
Displaying a Complete Archive on One Page in WordPress
Today, I tried to solve a seemingly simple problem on the Walter and Ina site. Of course, a seemingly simple computer problem can quickly turn into a huge time-suck, and that’s exactly what happened. I’m betting there’s at least one … Continue reading
Health IT Discovers the Obvious
Computer scientists at UCL Medical School and Warwick University in the UK report that open source medical records software is more secure than proprietary software. In an accompanying press release, the researchers explain: Critics of Open Source often argue that, … Continue reading
Oh My God, That Actually Worked
I just upgraded the site to the latest version of WordPress. Normally, this takes about 15 minutes of careful work, involving a download to my desktop, some FTP monkey business, checking of config files, and so forth. This time, after … Continue reading
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Medication Alerts in, Medication Alerts out
A new report in the Archives of Internal Medicine brings up an interesting problem with electronic prescribing systems. As the authors explain in an accompanying press release: The researchers reviewed the electronic prescriptions and associated medication safety alerts generated by … Continue reading
If The Shoe Fits…
Try visiting Typealyzer and entering the address of a blog. You’ll get a Myers-Briggs personality type indicator for that blog’s content. Yes, this is silly, but anyone who maintains a blog is obviously narcissistic enough to try it. Here’s the … Continue reading
Saving My iLife With Applescript and rsync
With a little bit of spare time this week, I finally got myself synchronized – my MacBook now has the same versions of all of my important files as my desktop machine, even down to mirrored libraries in iTunes and … Continue reading
Crossing Over
I’ve been struggling with a tricky problem in Web design lately: how to preview my sites in Internet Explorer. For my personal site, I largely ignore that buggy browser’s bizarre behaviors (see my archived tirade for details). But lately, I’ve been working on a Web redesign for a nonprofit group, and they need their site to be accessible. There’s no current version of Explorer for the Mac, and my old copy of IE5 doesn’t capture a lot of the more recent bugs the folks in Redmond have added. It seemed like the only reasonable option was to install Windows on my Intel Mac, paying hundreds of dollars to Microsoft to get a copy of their operating system, and then install Explorer. I have a moral objection to that, though, as it would mean enriching Microsoft, not in spite of, but because of their very worst habits.
Thankfully, the good folks at Codeweavers have come to my rescue. Instead of sending a big payment to Bill Gates, I can now send a measly $60 to this small company that helps support the Open Source movement. That’s the registration price for Crossover, a product very similar to the more popular Parallels. While both applications allow one to run Windows applications on the Mac, with Parallels you still have to shell out for a copy of Windows itself. Crossover eliminates that by using the open source Wine emulator instead. Now, back to hacking these stylesheets. Continue reading
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