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
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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
Are republican pundits more like car salesmen or like computer salesmen?
Are republican pundits more like car salesmen or like computer salesmen. Back in the day (when I actually had a job), we would joke that the difference between a car salesman and a computer salesman was the the car salesman knew he was lying (not they are both out of a job). I was amazed … Continue reading
Blog Guilt
It has been a long time since I posted here and for a while I have had a vague sense of guilt about it. Frankly, I do not really know why. I don’t have that many people that read my blog. I think I must feel guilty because I do think that I have something … Continue reading
Goodbye Geocities and thanks for everything
Goodbye Geocities! Yahoo has just announced that it is shutting down Geocities. I wanted to say goodbye. We (Intel Capital) made an early investment in Geocities (maybe 1997). I remember the meeting where I first learned about it. One of the people in my organization invited me to a meeting to discuss Geocities with the … Continue reading
The effectiveness of PSA Testing
As a man who was treated for Prostate cancer over 12 years ago, I often said that I had PSA disease Continue reading
Digital Equipment Movie about the Professional Computer Series, 1983
In 1979, my wife and I decided to leave Israel where we had been living for five years with our three children. My specialty was computer in medicine (in particular at that time, the use of computers in Cardiology). I felt very confined professionally and felt that I should either focus on medicine (either research … 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
One year to medicare (if it is still available)
On Jan. 27th I turned 64. It amazes me to find myself at this age. When I was a child of ten, I can remember thinking that I would be fifty years old in 1995 and even stretched myself to think of being fifty five in the year 2000 but that is where it stopped. … Continue reading
To be or not to be
Just read another interesting article on personal genetics (here). I think we will learn so much in this field over the next twenty years. Some of it may be really surprising. Readers of my blog will know that I have been very active in doing my family history (Geneology). I have just started to add … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 