Dr Fragen in the operating room
  • Leaving the Left

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    [Leaving the Left](http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/22/INGUNCQHKJ1.DTL) > I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives — people who once championed solidarity > Keith Thompson > Sunday, May 22, 2005 > … I look back on that experience as the beginning of my departure from a left already well on its way to losing its bearings.…

  • Conversion to TRF

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    [Marc Barrot][aR] is putting the finishing touches on *[The Radio Factory][1]* and I’m putting the finishing touches on the conversion of `Markdown.root` to a fully Radio Factory compliant tool. Many of the scripts have been made extremely generic so they can mostly be dropped into any tool and function. Along with the conversion I’m also…

  • The Radio Factory

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    [Marc Barrot][1], [Steve Kirks][2], [Patrick Ritchie][3], and myself are working on a system to make the distribution of a select group of [Radio tools][4]. The idea is that we’ll try to make the installation and removal process as painless as possible. To do this we need to make a couple of generic scripts. This post…

  • Blade left inside heart patient

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    [BBC News | Health | UK Edition](http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/devon/4562997.stm) >A Devon hospital apologises for leaving a scalpel blade inside the body of man having a heart bypass operation. Oops. Personally, I’ve never seen a scalpel blade *fall off* the knife handle and I can’t imagine they were using a *free* blade.

  • US 'could win over Muslim world'

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    [BBC News | World | UK Edition](http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/4563601.stm) >The US could improve its image among Muslims if it showed more respect and emphasised its aid programmes, a report says. I doubt it. All you have to do is listen to the rhetoric espoused by the mullahs of the region. They want any and all infidels (that’s…

  • What is Radio 9?

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    We had our first [conference call][1] today. Mostly it was about technical stuff and lots of ideology. Actually the technical stuff was pretty simple, the complicated part was “what do we want for the future of Radio?” We decided that the first thing to do was bring the Window app up to parity with the…