If you haven’t tried the electronic kiosk checkin for Alaska Airlines then you are definitely missing out. It’s dirt easy.

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Install codeFreshener is a Tool developer’s Tool. It will install or uninstall a customized version of the codeFreshener scripts into your tool. Your tool must be in the frontmost window. If you don’t know what the codeFreshener scripts are then you probably don’t write tools. They were originally written by Dave Winer and made their…

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I went to dinner with my uncle, Jake Savin & Jeff Cheney. It’s very nice to put faces to names and to actually meet some of these people. Yeah, I know what my uncle looks like. I had a good time. It was fun discussing various people and problems in real time. Of course, some…

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This was the best talk at the ACS Conference so far. Given by Richard E. Anderson, MD, FACP, who is the Medical Director of The Doctors Company, a medical malpractice insurer. He did much to dispell the highly inflammatory finding of the IOM’s study that found 98,000 patient deaths per year secondary to physician negligence.…

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HIPAA (Health Information Portability and Acountability Act) is the law. It seems that the only way to avoid it is to be a health care provider with less than 50 employees and to not submit claims electronically. That’s OK except that Medicare is soon to require electronic claim submission. There’s supposed to be some sort…

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Big disappointment about bringing my TiBook with me to the ACS conference. Here I am in downtown San Francisco (Union Square), and I can’t even get a decent wireless broadband connection. In all fairness I may be able to but it hasn’t been easy so far. The hotel I’m staying in offers wireless broadband from…

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