Category Archives: technology

Andy Oram, Healthcare, and VistA

Posted on August 19, 2010 by davemackey

Andy Oram is a columnist over at O’Reilly Radar and recently blogged about the VA’s VistA software and how it is being used to revolutionize healthcare. He is specifically looking at a book written by Phillip Longman entitled Best Care … Continue reading →

Posted in health, software, technology | Tagged Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours, health, Health care, opensource, Phillip Longman, politics, United States, VistA | Leave a comment

DNSMadeEasy – Enterprise DNS Services.

Posted on August 9, 2010 by davemackey

Tonight I was pondering what I should blog about. I’m trying to be a little more regular in my blogging. I noticed an email from DNSMadeEasy, an enterprise DNS service I utilize, apologizing for a recent outage – their first … Continue reading →

Posted in productivity, technology, web | Tagged Denial-of-service attack, dns, DNS Providers, Domain Name System, Internet service provider, IP address, Name server, Protocols | 3 Comments

Pondering the Future of Higher Education.

Posted on August 7, 2010 by davemackey

Image via Wikipedia Bill Gates at the Techonomy conference discussed the future of education based on technological innovation and suggested that the prevalence of place-based education will significantly decrease within the next five years, with a shift towards online / … Continue reading →

Posted in learning, other, productivity, technology, web | Tagged Bill Gates, Colleges and Universities, Distance education, Education, Higher education, technology, United States, YouTube | 5 Comments

Kindle eReader.

Posted on July 29, 2010 by davemackey

Image via Wikipedia I still don’t have personal hands-on experience with an Amazon Kindle, but I’m looking forward to getting my hands on one (someday). These are luxury devices for me – and while I want one – I haven’t … Continue reading →

Posted in books, household, learning, productivity, technology | Tagged Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com, ebook, ereader, review, Wi-Fi | Leave a comment

I’ve Abandoned Google Search for…Zakta!

Posted on June 28, 2010 by davemackey

Image via CrunchBase I’ve been using Zakta for several months now as my primary search engine – and it is about time for me to spread the word through this blog. Google is now my secondary search engine – yes, … Continue reading →

Posted in productivity, technology, web | Tagged Google, Searching, Web search engine, Web search query, Zakta | 2 Comments