Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Day: January 11, 2008

  • Separated at Birth

    I wondered how often this happens. Turns out it has at least once. Twins who were separated at birth got married without realizing they were brother and sister…. “Everyone has a right to knowledge about their lineage, genealogy andidentity. And if they don’t, then it will lead to cases of incest,”[Lord David] Alton. Twins unwittingly…

  • Inside Higher Ed :: Maybe He Shouldn’t Have Spoken His Mind [del.icio.us]

    “Sometimes there will come along a set of facts where you read it and you think, they couldn’t possibly have done this… Then you look at it [and realize that] yes, they did.” Read and post comments | Send to a friend

  • Computer v Human Diagnosis

    I just finished How Doctors Think yesterday. First impression was doctors don't spend very much time thinking and gathering information to make a diagnosis. That impress struck a very negative chord with me as it sounds like in my profession of database and computer administration we spend hours picking apart the data we have to…

  • Computer v Human Diagnosis

    I just finished How Doctors Think yesterday. First impression was doctors don’t spend very much time thinking and gathering information to make a diagnosis. That impress struck a very negative chord with me as it sounds like in my profession of database and computer administration we spend hours picking apart the data we have to…

  • INTJ (Strategist) Personality Type (Jung / Myers-Briggs) [del.icio.us]

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  • Tweets for Today

    08:17 Making up yesterday's telework day on today. # 10:20 Coworker is asking about www.askonline.net . Anyone have any experience with them? # 10:55 Yesterday or today will be peak of the week. We sent 243 GB of traffic yesterday. 18,825,768 hits. Avg 13KB / hit # 12:15 Having 4 Blackboard Vista sites is like…