Remembering January, 2008
The tools we use | 28th Jan 2008
I found this quote particularly interesting: If you are trying out tools that will be part of your productivity, do not judge only by how quickly you can start using them. They are usually the ones that will make you power users and not limit your evolution and improvement. Tools that seem simple, can very [...]
Growing Organs? | 24th Jan 2008
Growing living organs in a lab?
Lily Photos | 21st Jan 2008
For those of you who did not get my email, I’ve uploaded 2 albums of photos of my niece, Lily, for viewing: Lily’s 2nd Birthday Lily at Lil’s House Feel free to pass these links out to anyone you know who might be interested. EDIT: If you’re only interested in photos of Lily, feel free [...]
Microsoft to squash third world economies | 18th Jan 2008
In a rather disturbing article, I found out that Microsoft was none too pleased that One Laptop Per Child has been distributing laptops with a free and open source linux operating system installed (RHEL). They can’t have everyone in a third world country growing up using gnu/linux and not Windows. Plus think about all the [...]
Bobby Fischer Dies | 18th Jan 2008
Bobby Fischer dies at 64. I didn’t realize he was quite as eccentric as he was. Still, it makes me want to play some chess…
I’m not blind | 18th Jan 2008
As I check my Rush email this afternoon, I see I’ve gotten yet another reminder to sign up for the Integrate Chicago Conference. This is really irritating, so I decided to do a little search in Gmail to see how many times they’ve emailed me about this. So far I’ve received 10 email since the [...]
Open Source Education | 16th Jan 2008
This is probably one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in my life. MIT is sponsoring a program to put their entire coursework online free for anyone to use (called OpenCourseWare). They include tests, lecture notes, videos, problem sets, and more. Everything is distributed under a Creative Commons Share-Alike License. It’s a free and [...]
UIUC website redesign | 14th Jan 2008
In their latest newsletter my alma mater UIUC announced that they’re redesigning their website. It looks like it’s very well designed and fairly functional. I’m hoping they offer a non-flash version for people who do not have flash-enabled browsers, but I assume they will. Why did they redesign it? Because it made sense from a [...]
The World Isn’t Fair | 13th Jan 2008
Good song by Randy Newman (famous singer/songwriter, e.g. wrote/sang You’ve Got a Friend in Me from Toy Story): When Karl Marx was a boy he took a hard look around He saw people were starving all over the place while others were painting the town The public spirited boy became a public spirited man So [...]
I'm Jonathan Blackhall, a 4th year medical student at RMC. This is my blog, where I ramble about technology, medicine, free software, and other random stuff. 
