The Senate passed the Insurance Industry Protection Act. Glad to know that our insurance industry will be healthy. Now can we start to deal with how to make Americans healthy? And hopefully that can be done without effecting the health of the insurance companies otherwise, it will not happen. After all when the press counts … Continue reading
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I can’t figure out how the Obama Health Plan will really fix our medical system.
I can’t figure out how the Obama Health Plan will really fix our medical system. It just deals with a sub set. It is hard to see how private insurance companies can do much to fix the bulk of these problems. While I hate to think of the govermen taking over health care, I think … Continue reading
Microsoft needs end of life counseling: Bring on the death panel
Installing Windows 7 on a vista computer seems about as easy as passing health care. Check out this column from Walt Mossberg And guess what, there is no way to upgrade from Windows XP. I am now into my second day trying to upgrade my Vaio Vista notebook to the windows 7 release candidate. I … Continue reading
Great talk by Prof. Tedlow on the 386
Professor Richard Tedlow gave a really interesting and fun talk at the computer museum recently. You can see the lecture here or read a summery here. Tedlow wrote a back about Andy Grove that while very much worth reading was a bit unbalanced (I think most of his sources where people Andy gave him). … Continue reading
Some thoughts about the last third
First of all I am not really retired although I like to tell people I am. I probably work 2-3 days a weeks which is a bout a 1/3 of the time I use to work (those nine days weeks were a bitch). I wish there was a better word the semi retired. I “retired” … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 