Remembering September, 2008
Why I love xkcd | 29th Sep 2008
Today’s comic is the epitome of xkcd. A bit of humor, a bit of wonder, a bit of truth, and large chunk of geek. I really enjoyed it (and I especially liked seeing Ford Prefect!) Here’s another of my favorites from a few months ago. Don’t forget to read the mouse-over text.
Can a blogging platform change someone’s life? | 28th Sep 2008
Yes, it can.
Wrangling the Crazyhorse | 24th Sep 2008
It looks like a lot of great new features are getting picked up in the next version of WordPress (2.7), due out sometime in the next few months. One of the biggest changes is (again) revamping the administrative interface (my end of this blog), which I am very excited about. I like the current admin [...]
The other 2% of the time | 24th Sep 2008
Some people say that anesthesiology is kind of boring like 98% of the time. But what about that other 2%?
Will Blu-ray pull through? | 22nd Sep 2008
There’s an interesting discussion over on /. about the future of Blu-ray. Despite beating out HD-DVD a few months back, this format has yet to take off. Too much DRM? Failing economy? Players and movies too expensive? No good titles? Don’t see the benefit of upgrading when you’ve only got a 22″ CRT TV? Take [...]
Taking Back The Power of Science | 18th Sep 2008
I read an article on Ars Technica [via /.]the other day that made me very worried about the future of scientific discovery in the US. With our currently failing economy, I don’t understand how we can still be making such idiotic decisions about the future of some of our most innovative industries. The scientific research [...]
Open-source Textbooks | 18th Sep 2008
Ars Technica wrote up an article on a new open-source textbook offering from Flat World Knowledge. I’m very interested to see how it works out.
Lots of new stuff to fiddle with! | 17th Sep 2008
So there’s been lots of new stuff I’ve been able to fiddle with recently. I started a Twitter account, so if you have an account there, let me know so I can follow you. The reason I went with Twitter, over something like Facebook’s status message is that it’s able to be plugged into the [...]
Fallacies in Conservative Logic | 15th Sep 2008
I have to say that I find this article rather appalling [Sorry, Peter]. Let’s be real here for a moment. How can anyone even consider that argument poignant? Personally, I don’t care what the reasoning was for Palin or her daughter’s decision to keep their babies. The point is that both of them were free [...]
Now that’s more like it | 14th Sep 2008
Finally, it looks RMstudents.com, the project I’ve been working on at school, is going to take off. We implemented a lot of new features this summer that are (hopefully) going to be really useful for the students. In fact, we even received a request today from a student in the Nursing college to get them [...]
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. 
