Archive: November 2003
One neurologist for every 116,000 people
MS patient care embarrassing, say Scottish doctors
Scotland has 5 million people, the highest incidence of MS in the world, and 44 neurologists.
Restyling
When you re-do your Movable Type site, how do you do it? Create a duplicate blog to play with until it’s pretty?
So far, I’ve only ever worked on the live site, which can be dangerous (been lucky so far!).
I also got my main website (brokenclay) synched up with the blog, style-wise.
Pies
We’re going to my sister’s for Thanksgiving. We’re responsible for the pies. Baking Son came through – by the time I got home from work today there was one apple pie all done, filling for two cherry pies and a pumpkin pie, and a lot of pie crust ready to roll out.
Yea for Baking Son!
Ohmigod…
Did you know that there were ATMs running Windows? And getting viruses? (Via Simon Willison’s Weblog, which has much more detail.)
I knew there was a reason I don’t have one of those cards.
Clean Slate
I spent the day re-installing WinXP on the kids’ computer, which had managed to get itself incredibly gunked up. The most irritating feature was the loss of the ability to log off, thanks to some maddening piece of software I actually paid for.
It took a couple of hours to interview each kid and figure out [...]
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The Disability Gulag
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