Remembering March, 2009
A Man Without A Country Review | 31st Mar 2009
A Man Without A Country is something of a memoir by Kurt Vonnegut. It contains a number of passages he has written in recent years. Some of them are excerpts of articles he wrote as Senior Editor for In These Times, a political magazine out of Chicago. The passages are often short, containing little pearls [...]
Linux for Clinics | 29th Mar 2009
I ran across a new linux distro today that I thought was pretty cool. It’s called Linux for Clinics. It’s an Ubuntu-based linux distribution geared toward running an entire medical office. It utilizes a few project I’ve heard of before, like GNUmed, but this is pushing to be a full-fledged medical clinic OS. Development seems [...]
Slaughterhouse-Five Review | 28th Mar 2009
I love Kurt Vonnegut. I don’t know how it could have taken me this long to realize it. If you’ve never read any of his books, you should take the time to make your next book one of his. I finished this one quite some time ago, but I realized I never wrote a review. [...]
On A Clear Night Review | 28th Mar 2009
Every week Amazon MP3 offers up the Friday Five. They sell 5 popular MP3 albums for $5 each. I grabbed Missy Higgins‘ album On A Clear Night on the Friday Five two weeks ago. I had actually been thinking about buying the album after hearing the song Steer on the music blog Ryan’s Smashing Life. [...]
Breathing Life Into An Old Machine | 26th Mar 2009
Sadie’s family has an old Gateway desktop in their basement. Up until last Spring, it was the only computer their family had besides Sadie’s college laptop, which was starting to show its age. The desktop was probably purchased before the turn of the century, and it came with the lovely Windows ME operating system. By [...]
Vampire Weekend Review | 25th Mar 2009
I discovered the band Vampire Weekend on The Hype Machine Zeitgeist 2008, where their self-titled album came in as the #3 album of the year according to hundreds of music bloggers. I sat down and listened to it all the way through using their lovely built-in player, and I found myself pleasantly surprised. Even though [...]
The Hype Machine rocks my world | 24th Mar 2009
I recently discovered The Hype Machine when browsing Ryan’s Smashing Life. I didn’t exactly understand what it was at first, but it’s actually really cool. So people have these music blogs all over the Internet. They review albums and usually post free promotional mp3s in their reviews. Record labels give out these promotional downloads to [...]
My Last Spring Break | 18th Mar 2009
Well, it looks like this is my last year with a “Spring Break.” I say this with quotes because with the USMLE Step 1 looming in the distance (June 15th), it’s not going to be much of a break. With only 3 months to go until my big exam, unfortunately I think I’m going to [...]
Cellphone Economics | 9th Mar 2009
I’m relatively new to Skype. I’ve known about it for quite some time, but never really used it until recently. Sadie moved into a dorm at school for a few months to save herself the headache of driving 2 hours in the snow every day. Since she would get lonely by herself sometimes, we started [...]
Ryan’s Smashing Life | 9th Mar 2009
After reading a post on Ars this morning, I got turned on to a new music blog called Ryan’s Smashing Life. I’m really liking it so far. In the past few years, I’ve become a bit disgusted with modern music, but I’ve perked up these past few months. Maybe I was just sick of the [...]
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. 
