Upon2020 (archive)
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Fed Up With Awful Health Software — Let’s Build Something Better Open-Source
At the end of July, for various reasons, my wife and I had to change health insurers from Kaiser Permanente to United Health. Given that Kaiser has its own doctors, that also meant changing provider organizations, in our case to Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF), which is a Sutter Health affiliate. Which means we needed…
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Hypercritical: A Story of Triumph
Very worthwhile to listen to. http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/37-a-story-of-triumph “People made this!” Hat tip to Scott Loftesness on Facebook.
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A Wonderful Life — Steve Jobs
In the epic, powerful 1946 movie, It’s A Wonderful Life, we follow a small-town credit union manager as he learns what the world would have turned into if he had never been born. What if Steve Jobs had never been born? It’s a scary thought. There wouldn’t be iPads or any usable tablets. Their impact…
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Datacenters then and now
Rackspace has a cool video:
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It’s Time To Abolish SSL Certificate Authorities
Yet another case this week where unsuspecting users were compromised because a certificate authority that they had never heard of screwed up. In case you hadn’t heard, they issued a certificate for google.com (Google!) to somebody other than Google, and apparently that certificate was in fact used to compromise users in Iran. This is not…