Debunking the 12 Key Myths of EHR Implementation

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You don't have to be insane to be a progammer...

Excellent cautionary tale with very  useful pointers.
If you code professionally I reccomend this post.



Common Programmer Health Problems

I find many programmers seem to ignore their body's physical state when they're coding, most likely due to the intense concentration required. I'm hoping other people could benefit by simply understanding a few health related problems programming has almost caused me or caused many other people I know, and how I avoided them.

What I do want to cover are a set of particular problems programmers have from their daily profession. These are just simple really obvious things that for some reason programmers don't realize aren't supposed to be happening:

 

• Pain in your wrists from Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI).
• Problems with your eyes from staring at moving print for extended periods.
• Back problems from poor posture, especially in the lower back and upper shoulders.
• Bowel and urinary issues from not crapping and pissing when you should.
• Dehydration from drinking too much caffeine and not enough water.
• Problems with hemorrhoids and the prostate for guys from sitting too much. Yep, I'm gonna go there.
• Vitamin D deficiency from lack of sunshine.
• Sleeping disorders from staying up late and drinking too much coffee.
• General stiffness and soreness from a lack of stretching in general.

Google search - No region

My machine (in NZ) is connected via proxy in Australia or on occaison in the UK.
By default going to google.com will redirect (based on my current proxy) to the regional sites google.com.au or google.com.uk. by using the following URL I am redirected to google.com without redirection.

www.google.com/ncr

NCR = no country redirect

I discovered this here

Finally we are catching up with plumbers and builders

Cash offer sees Citrix staff bring their own computers to work

The company initiated an employee-owned IT programme earlier this year. Citrix offers $US2,000 to employees to buy their own work/home PC under the scheme, dubbed ‘Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC)’. The stipulation: The computer must have a minimum three-year support and maintenance contract.

BTW yes I do think I can choose my own PC better than a head office IT person. As long as this is an annual 'tools allowance' I would be the first to sign up.

Open Government and Local body data

Open Data Catalogue

Opengovt.org.nz is an open, independent catalogue of Government and Local Body datasets

Looking to download the latest list of Primary Schools? Want to find out the average market rents for Dunedin suburbs and use these in a report? Are you interested in the boundaries of your suburb? If the answer is yes then you may find some of this information hard to come by. Even though this information should be easy to obtain it is sometimes hard to find who to talk to, where to look and worse hidden behind pay-walls and restrictive license agreements. The Open Data Catalogue is an attempt to classify where this information resides, who ‘owns’ it, what license it is distributed under and if it is free or not.

Including SPATIAL datasets

Cut 8 wires and see what happens

Bruce Perens - A Cyber-Attack on an American City

The city of Morgan Hill and parts of three counties lost 911 service, cellular mobile telephone communications, land-line telephone, DSL internet and private networks, central station fire and burglar alarms, ATMs, credit card terminals, and monitoring of critical utilities. In addition, resources that should not have failed, like the local hospital's internal computer network, proved to be dependent on external resources, leaving the hospital with a "paper system" for the day.

The rest of the article is very interesting.

You know you want to

I don't come in different colours or sizes, but I am great value for money.
This year you could have your very own MrDee working at your place. (as long as your place is in Auckland)
As of tomorrow I am officially on the Job market.
So drop me a line I would love to chat.

What was XTRA thinking

Yesterday I posted an article about the Google streetview technology.
I saw it last year and took a virtual tour of Brooklyn NY. Brilliant.
I never dreamed that NZ would be in the first 10 countries to get this. Well done Google.

So when XTRA, the number one ISP in NZ (by volume) looked for a partner to offload their e-mail capability they selected Yahoo.
I assume this 'partnership' was because of the care and concern Yahoo has for our country.
just look at the stunning level of detail in the auckland Yahoo map

Pitiful.

Yahoo mail is hostile, the data is stored off shore and XTRA is still crashing more often then a drunk university student in Palmerston north.

Can anyone recommend an ISP that is affordable and still works for their money?

Walk on by...

Map here

I will wave at you from my desk :D

Protecting your software investment

Computerworld :
Protecting your software investment

Chris Auld and Mark Johnson share tips for ensuring that you’re not left holding a can of dated spaghetti code"

excellent article.