Dr Fragen in the operating room

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  • VoodooPad goodness

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    Thanks to [Gus Mueller][gm] for loads of help adapting a couple of his [Lua][] scripts to suit my needs. What we did was to enable the creation of a concatenated blog-style home page from [VoodooPad Pro][vpp]. The script polls the item meta data so VoodooPad Pro is required. One script marks the page as being…

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  • Machiavellianism Part 2

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    I had a little IM chat session with a friend in Great Britain regarding the [moral high ground][1]. It seems that the *real* solution is for the United States to discontinue its meddling in the affairs of other nations, become isolationist, and simply hope that this is enough. If we get attacked again we’re supposed…

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  • Specialty Board Equivalency

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    This is a huge win for the [American Board of Cosmetic Surgery (ABCS)][abcs]. It means that according to the State of California the ABCS has equivalent standing as any other specialty board like say the American Board of Plastic Surgery. It makes me wonder whether or not ABCS will sue the State to disallow boarded…

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  • The Moral High Ground

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    The events at the [United Nations][UN] this week with the *stirring* speeches by [Chavez][] and [Ahmadinejad][1] have left me wondering. It’s really left me wondering several things not the least of which is does the UN actually serve our interests. By us, I mean the United States. Seriously, if an organization like the UN doesn’t…

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  • Resend from Different Account

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    Have you ever mistakenly sent a message to an email group from the wrong account? Me too, and sometimes frequently. Well, in Mail.app I didn’t see an easy way to resend the message from a different account. Am I missing something? Enter AppleScript. Using a couple of parts from Apple’s example Mail scripts, I wrote…

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  • Customer Service

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    I have to give great kudos to Wendy of the Verizon Business DSL technical support department. She helped me with a very convoluted problem and had the decency not even to agree with me when I told her I probably caused it in the first place. We spent about an hour and a half straightening…

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