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health, learning

Reflections on Newsweek Feb. 8, 2010 Cover Story (Anti-Depressants).

I’m a huge fan of Newsweek. A few years ago Charity called in and supported NPR for one of their fundraising drives and we received a free one year subscription to Newsweek – we’ve kept it ever since. We both love to read Newsweek – finding it informative and oftentimes approaching issues from multiple perspectives.
Tonight [...]

gaming, learning

Tilted Mill’s Mosby’s Confederacy.

Over Christmas Break Steam (hey, guys, what about an affiliate program?  i should get paid for this promotion ) had some absolutely amazing sales on games – including some strategy war games (I mean like 80-90% off). I purchased four for around $25 total – Rome Total War, Rome Total War: Alexander, Take Command [...]

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Healthcare Reform and Technology.

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Disclaimer:
When it comes to discussions about nationalized healthcare, cost reductions, and other major political issues – I generally don’t feel qualified to comment. With this post I’m stepping out on a limb – and my qualifications(1) for doing so are probably still lacking. I welcome your feedback. I’m more than happy to be [...]

technology

Interesting (Web) Reading.

Figured I’d share with everyone some interesting articles I’ve stumbled across recently. Enjoy!

Five Features We Want to See in Ubuntu (Kevin Purdy, Lifehacker). Techiness: 3
MySQL Connector for OpenOffice.org 1.0 GA (Frank Schoenheit, Sun). Techiness: 5
Could One Laptop Per Child be a Bad Thing? (Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet). Techiness: 2
ShoreTel Gives Skype’s Enterprise Plans a Lift (Larry [...]

programming, technology, web

ScrewTurn Wiki (ASP.NET Software).

For those who are interested in website design / management ScrewTurn Wiki will probably be of interest. Free, open source (GPLv2), and under constant development ScrewTurn Wiki is a ASP.NET wiki application. I use it on my freewargamer site.
Why would I suggest ScrewTurn as worth a turn or two? Well:

It depends on whether you are [...]

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