Author Archives: Andy

Snailjacked

Well, I’ve found out that someone is hijacking my posts with no attribution and no permission. I’m not even sure I understand the logic as there isn’t even any advertising there — yet.

If you’re seeing anything on the domain computersoftware.snailjack.com, it’s a rip off from somewhere else. Do me a favor and don’t click on […]

VoodooPad Pro Blogging

It’s time to package up all my VoodooPad Pro blogging scripts and assorted web export plugins so that I can

Remember what the heck I was thinking. Remember what all these pieces were supposed to accomplish as a whole. Provide some sort of reference to others interested in this stuff.

Concept: To use VoodooPad Pro as a CMS for […]

Amavisd settings

I run my own mail server on OS X Server. For the most part I have my SpamAssassin settings tweaked pretty well. Unfortunately, there is some spam that seems to have malformed or incomplete MIME boundaries and these messages don’t seem to be getting passed off from Amavisd to SpamAssassin. As such, they seem to […]

Backblaze Backup

I have an invite or two to distribute for the Backblaze online backup service for OS X. Price is $5 a month per machine for unlimited data. Attached disks are recognized, but not yet network attached storage. My opinion is once they allow for NAS backup it’ll be great.

Leave a comment if you want […]

Nationalized Healthcare and the Free Market

Nationalized/Universal healthcare will happen. Obama ran on it and he intends to deliver. What’s more, I can see a manner in which the country will flock to it under the current free market insurance system.

First, the federal government will expand Medicaid to cover the unemployed and uninsured. Second, the Congress will pass some law that […]

iPhone Stand

While looking for an iPhone stand I came across the simplest solution. A binder clip.

Appendiceal Duplication

I had a very interesting case the other evening. First, for the uninitiated, it’s usually a bad sign when the surgeon says it was a very interesting case. Generally routine is best.

Anyway, nice 50ish year old female with few days of diffuse abdominal pain now localizing to RLQ. Nausea and vomiting. Anorexia. Acute peritoneal finding […]

iCal - Exchange Time Zone Fix - Chapter 3

I’ve updated the iCal-Invite-Fix script again. This time to allow for adding multiple Exchange servers to the script so that you should only need a single script. The set-up is slightly more complex.

As the image above shows there are now only 2 properties, both of which are lists. These lists work together as an array; […]

Subscribing to Delegated Calendars

OK, I’m fortunate or crazy enough to run my own server using Apple’s OS X Leopard Server software. It has been, at times, very simple and very complex to set everything up. One of the options that I use is the iCal Server so that I can have shared calendars. Once I got it up […]

General Surgery in NY

So here I am in NYC at the American Society of General Surgeons clinical meeting. The program is correctly termed controversies as I’m quite certain many of the described treatment paths would cause you to fail your oral boards.

Of note is that it seems that most of the attendees have been in practice for […]