Fubaredness Is Contagious

Most of us often get donation solicitations in mail. When it’s for children, these solicitations often feature a story of one child who needs help. However, if one donates, the money always goes to the organization, not to this particular child. So you never know if that child got the needed treatment and you don’t [...]

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LinkedIn finally offers personalized RSS feeds.

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Elastic Server On Demand is now open to all with no registration required. You can browse around the site, see what it’s all about and even build a limited number of Elastic Servers. While you are there, check out Community Servers space where people share their stacks – including this “tracks Getting Things Done” server. [...]

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This is from Google Analytics for one of my sites. (Hint: Where is Lake Michigan?)

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Big snowfall in Chicagoland today. I would like to praise all companies (mine included) who encourage workers not to come in to the office today and work from home instead, and who actually have infrastructure in place that allows workers to be as productive as they could be in the office.

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I certainly think yes. Medical billing as it exists today in the United States (or at least this is how I understand it) is a total mess. Let’s look at a hypothetical situation.
John Doe has a PPO plan. He goes to a doctor and pays $20 co-pay. The doctor performs whatever was necessary to [...]

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I am writing this from my new Palm Centro sitting in Wynns casino in Las Vegas. Unlimited Internet at my fingertips while gambling – who would have thought it possible 10 years ago…

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One of the biggest local hospitals in Lake County recently terminated its contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois insurance company, one of the biggest medical insurers in our state. Or the latter terminated its contract with the former. I don’t know exactly what happened there, nor do I care about the reasons – [...]

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The site was down for roughly a week since we were hit with a series of severe thunderstorms and I’ve got several pieces of equipment fried. Everything has been restored and we should be back online now.

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I started my own open source project on Sourceforge this week – http://pyccolo.sourceforge.net.

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