If your web site uses the javascript "lazy loader" I won't see any of your pictures.

Businesses: The email address that we give you is unique, created just for you. Don't share it with anyone.

Another software product falls to subscription-based licensing. Bye VMWare! We had some good times together but you've gotten a bit clingy and it's time I moved on.

Using an LLM as a writing assistant is like using a nailgun instead of a hammer to install a roof. Rejecting scientific papers solely because you *think* they were written by an AI is like assuming that roofers used only nails and no plywood, tarpaper, or shingles.


"Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now.'" ... "I will no longer be complicit in genocide... I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest." - Aaron Bushnell Feb 25, 2024
Mr. Bushnell lighting himself on fire in front of an Israeli Embassy in protest of the ongoing killing of civilians in Gaza (should be disturbing)


This is why you should not store patient data or medical records in electronic form: Medicare, CVS, MetLife, etc etc. Data cannot be both online and secure. You can have only one of those for a given collection of data. Patient data transmitted to and stored in electronic databases is stolen to the tune of hundreds of millions of records a year. Paper charts in filing cabinets are not, and cannot be. This problem would vanish if patients stopped consenting to the storage of their info in electronic form. Paper medical charts still work great, even when there's a power outage.

While I'm ranting about this stuff, I'd like to remind the world that Medicare violated USC 42 1385b when they mandated reporting by SSNs and told private health insurers to not insure anyone who wouldn't provide an SSN. Still waiting for the Department of Justice to actually enforce the Social Security Act 42 1395b and whack Medicare upside the head.


GREAT NEWS!!! The House of Representatives passed a bill requiring TikTok's owner to sell the company or be banned! Now that precedent has been established, we can do the same with Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and the rest of the harmful "social media" cesspool!