I have been looking for a good calendar application for my Windows PC for years. When I was working, I used Corporate Time (now known as Oracle Calendar.) Before that, I had an on-and-off relationship with Microsoft Outlook, but the client was too heavyweight for me. Later, I saw iCal for Macintosh and wanted that [...]
Entries from June 26th, 2006
Rebuilding The Spam Barrier
June 25th, 2006 No Comments
I have used Mozilla Thunderbird as my email client for two years now. While I absolutely love using TBird, I have noticed more spam getting through than before. I realized I hadn’t updated any of the junk mail settings since version 1.0.x, so I decided to rebuild the settings and see how it works. The [...]
Tags: gmail · spam · thunderbird
The Micromedex Eclectic Time Machine
June 25th, 2006 2 Comments
The library here has brokered some deals for free PDA software. One of them is with Thomson-MicroMedex. I went to register at their software site (sorry, customer ID is required) and learned about a set of medical schools I’d never heard of before. As part of the registration process, I indicated I was a medical [...]
Tags: history · medical school · New York
Palm Position
June 24th, 2006 No Comments
I bought a new Palm PDA (Palm Z22, $99 with case and free s/h) last week, and it arrived yesterday. I took the box back to my apartment, tossed it in a corner, and opened it late today. Ten years ago, I would have ripped the box open the moment my hands touched it. Now, [...]
Where is the schema?
June 22nd, 2006 No Comments
For a day or two now I've been trying to get XML parsing with XML Schema validation working using Xerces-J 2.7.1. Despite a sample document and schema that parse properly, I kept running into this in the test harness: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'purchaseOrder' Apparently that means "I didn't read about this [...]
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New Banner
June 21st, 2006 No Comments
I added a new banner graphic. Photos are from the Naval Safety Center Photo of the Week website.
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Toxo Riding the D.C. Cab
June 20th, 2006 No Comments
Great article on Toxoplasma in the NYT by Carl Zimmer. Apparently it hitches a ride on dendritic cells. Scientists are now discovering some of the secrets of Toxoplasma’s success. Researchers in Sweden report that the parasite fans out through the body by manipulating mobile cells that are part of the immune system. Toxoplasma hijacks these [...]
Tags: toxoplasmosis
Online Lab Tests
June 20th, 2006 No Comments
I just read an article in the WSJ that there are several companies offering blood lab tests direct to consumers. I had heard of mail-order paternity testing, but didn't know of blood labs being offered this way. The idea is that you order the tests you want online, have them drawn at a nearby contract [...]
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The Mystery of Eclipse(.ini)
June 19th, 2006 1 Comment
I wiped out my Eclipse installation and started fresh with the Callisto Release Candidate. I'm particularly interested in the latest Eclipse Webtools package, which will fix a circular loading bug that prevents the CDA schema from being loaded. I ran into a problem I've seen before — my eclipse.ini settings don't always seem to take [...]
What this blog is about…
June 19th, 2006 No Comments
This blog is intended to be a forum for thoughts on software, medicine, and medical records (also known as "MedRec".) It may last seven days or seven years, we'll see.
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