Dr Fragen in the operating room
  • Links for 2007-06-08

    * [TheHill.com – The cure to the physician crisis](http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/the-cure-to-the-physician-crisis-2007-06-06.html) The first principle of sensible physician workforce reform will require Congress to immediately halt any cuts in Medicare physician reimbursement. Allowing these scheduled cuts to go into effect would create a chain reaction in the medical community and diminish the quantity and quality of healthcare available…

  • Medical Blogging

    It seems of late there have been a number of medical bloggers that have been taken offline. Some of these apparently have been forced at the direction of their superiors while others seem to be self-imposed. Whatever the reasons the internet is a vast space and with enough time, effort and will everyone will discover…

  • Exporting and importing

    [Matt’s][1] done a great job with [Squib][] but I’ve been Jonesing for far too long about editing and writing posts using either [TextMate][tm] or [MarsEdit][me]. One of the few things holding me back was getting PHP and MySQL running on my friend’s IIS server. Well, that little detail is fixed and as soon as I…

  • Fixing MySQL and phpMyAdmin

    There seems to be a problem with how current versions of OS X store the mysql socket and how [phpMyAdmin][1] looks for it. It seems currently the socket is stored at `/tmp/mysql.sock` but phpMyAdmin is looking for it at `/var/mysql/mysql.sock`. The result is a connection error type #2002. After a lot of Googling here’s the…

  • Coda 1.0

    [Panic][] makes great software. I’ve been a very happy [Transmit][] user for years. They have just introduced a phenomenal looking web development app, [Coda][]. I spent about 10 minutes with it and if I could work it into my web development I’d use it. There’s always a but, isn’t there. But, I currently use a…

  • unmount.sh Part 2

    The unmount.sh script has been working great in testing here. I’ve added unmounting of sshfs volumes though I can’t test it ’cause I don’t have MacFUSE installed. I highly recommend running the script from a launchd process as this provides for better logging. Lingon is great for setting this up and I’ve even got a…