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From the Linux Foundation’s Annual Collaboration Summit:
“One-third of the Summit attendees participated in the Linux Foundation’s fifth Desktop Architects’ Meeting. In Austin, leading computer manufacturers Dell, HP, Lenovo, and many others met with the desktop community to collaborate and optimize Linux for their new desktop and ultra-mobile products. A key result from the [...]

I received word today that my Stafford loan lender for school (Northstar’s Total Higher Education Loans, T.H.E.) is temporarily suspending new loans for next year. As I went to look at the benefits available through another popular med student lender, MEDLOANS (a Sallie Mae subsidiary), I quickly read about how Sallie Mae is likewise [...]

This is a great article about the difference in Linux that I’ve read a couple of times. I thought it would be appropriate to share with it being Ubuntu Day. Linux is different. Enjoy the difference.

I just read a great little article on the new Wubi (Windows UBuntu Installer) installer, found on the new Ubuntu Live CDs. Looks like they’ve really nailed it. Now switching from Windows could not be any easier for non-technical users.

Today marks the release of Ubuntu 8.04, code named “Hardy Heron”. This is the day that occurs twice a year to celebrate the culmination of 6 months of hard work from the folks at Ubuntu, Gnome, Linux Kernel, and the thousands of other free software organizations who’s work is combined to make Ubuntu possible. [...]

Has med school taught me to appreciate the complexity of the human body and the intricacy of human disease? Hell no! What has it taught me? That the human body is a freakin’ mine field. Every which way you turn there are 10 more ways stuff can go wrong with your [...]

Lawrence Lessig (founder of Creative Commons and Professor of Law at Stanford) has become a strong supporter of Obama. He gave a talk at UPenn a few weeks ago surrounding the importance of Tuesday’s primary in Pennsylvania (via blip.tv). It’s kind of long, but I enjoyed it. I think it also demonstrates [...]

It appears as though our patient, despite a fairly unremarkable neurological exam, has significant limitations in temporal recall. Spatial recall is also commonly limited, usually after she “cleans” her room. I’ll take suggestions on differential diagnoses.

I just saw a commercial on TV for a movie featuring Ben Stein called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. It appeared to be a documentary about religion and science. I had always assumed that Ben Stein was a fairly intelligent individual, but it appears that even if that is the case he made a [...]

I learned that a friend of mine at Rush, Peter Zavislak, has a few websites. The most notable is his current work, Medical Pastiche. I don’t encourage you to read it though, or you’ll quickly figure out how silly my blog is. (Just kidding, check it out even though it makes me [...]