David Pogue is a prolific writer on IT, having written some of the most popular books on MacIntosh, e.g., the Mac Secrets series.In an article in the Dec. 15, 2011 New York Times on "CEO's idiotic blunders" as he calls them, he reveals why IT generally, HIT included, may be so poorly done:The Latest in Technology from David PogueThe Year of CEO Failures ExplainedNew York TimesDec. 15, 2011... But it doesn’t seem like you’d need a business degree...
Selasa, 20 Desember 2011
Health Care Policy of the Insiders, by the Insiders, for the Insiders - the Newt Gingrich Case Files
Newt Gingrich's rise to the top of the pack of Republican contenders for the US presidency has earned him increased scrutiny. The resulting investigative reporting has provided a revealing set of case studies showing how insiders have come to dominate US health care policy.Below I have reorganized the information presented in a series of news articles from mid-November to mid-December, 2011.Mr Gingrich's Consulting EmpireA general description...
What was Santa thinking?

I hope you were not expecting anything from Santa this year, as he got held up at US customs.Have a safe and happy holiday.Saturday Trail runs will be at Medway Trails till March, and the Komoka Trail night runs continue year round every Wednesday at 6:00 ...
NRC Computer Science Rankings Reprise
There's an article in CACM this month by Computer Scientists Andrew Bernat and Eric Grimson, Doctoral Program Rankings for U.S. Computing Programs: The National Research Council Strikes Out. It talks about the ways in which NRC rankings are broken for CS (we have heard this before), but it details ways in which it could be fixed, which we hadn't heard before, and I like.Two suggestions I thought were good:"Explore making the rankings subdiscipline-dependent....
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