WebMD WebMD health record enables printing and faxing records to health providers. It can track basic labs. The information can be imported by screening exam done at the work site or the reference lab. WebMD PHR has a medication list. It flags allergies. WebMD will work with employer to incorporate drug health plan benefits of … Read More “Health 2.0: WebMD” »
Category: Technology
Today is Sunday Oct. 19 2008. I tried calling in to the appointment and advice phone bank for my wife. She has a seriously bad sore throat. The representative stated their computer system is down and they are unable to retrieve any information. They said it had been down for awhile this morning and to … Read More “When the phone bank is offline” »
Web logs are mostly about what the writers think. At least good ones in my opinion. However sometimes opinions external to the blog have an impact. I’ve been critical of the entire Web 2.0 hype and even went as far as adding a criticism section to the Wikipedia section on Web 2.0. Here is a … Read More “Web 2.0 is dead” »
There is a desire at work to participate in social media. The ‘powers that be’ wish to know how the corporation can (choose verb) leverage, utilize, market, consume, advantagize [sic] the hyperbole surrounding blogs, vlogs, wikis and blikis. There has been expressed a desire to purchase property on Second Life and (choose verb) promote, market, … Read More “My Second Life” »
Here is a list of things I can do that I couldn’t do before: Think in practical terms with reality based designs. Interact directly with the care delivery team Install stuff without threat of IT police chasing me like the gestapo No longer have suffer from work guilt Understnad, impliment and use virtualization and virtual … Read More “Ten things I can do now” »
Over the years I’ve managed my own home web server in various forms. My first web server started on a RedHat distribution back in 2001 and then morphed to IIS running Sharpoint. Now it is finally back to Ubuntu. All of this running on old antiquated systems (even in 2001). However the times are a … Read More “New from Virtualization” »
I’ve had a storied career, well maybe not storied but an interesting one I should think. Well maybe not interesting but at least I ain’t pick’n cotton. Not there is anything wrong with picking cotton I’m just not doing it. Anyway… Today was an awesome day at work. I had the chance to do something … Read More “The way Wii are” »
Favourite quote of the day, “If your program needs goto (especially in C++) the design is screwed.” –Erunno Thanks Faceboo for lowering my respect for your platform. I’ll be the first to admit I am a bad programmer, so bad I had to become a enterprise architect to avoid programming. Seriosly though, even I know … Read More “GOTO Facebook” »
I don’t really know much about it. It looks like FaceBook to me. It gives you the option to upload a photo. Oddly it ask you not to upload a picture of a pet. Now that is weird…
A colleauge of mine was interested in utilizing social networking as an adjunct to a project she is running. The idea was to use a Web 2.0 technology that would enable people to connect with people with similar interest. “Easy!”, I said. FaceBook just released their platform as open source. Of course I had only … Read More “FaceBook OpenPlatform? More like SadFace BrokenPlatform” »