Hemochromatosis Marches On: Now paging nurse-with-big-needle

Well, I went the whole month of March without blogging about hemochromatosis, more specifically, my wife’s hereditary hemochromatosis or HH. However, March brought good news on the HH front: The blood-letting has begun! (BTW, I trust people “got” that the image which accompanied my February post on phlebotomy was the barber’s chair from Sweeney Todd.) [...]

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Well That Was Fun: Monetate launches Smellr

There are many things I enjoy about working for Monetate and they all came together today: Cool technology, brilliant developers, cutting-edge digital artistry, crafty copy-writing, savvy leadership, and great camaraderie. All of this orchestrated in a concerted team effort to execute a good idea with skill, excellence, and a good laugh. And we succeeded! The [...]

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And the Good News is? Apple’s iPhone works in my house

As some readers already know, I’ve had to abandon my faithful Treo 680 because it wouldn’t always work in my house. Sad, because I’ve had a Treo since they first came out, operating on T-Mobile, then Cingular, now AT&T. Although it was only GPRS, I was able to read the news on my Treo, do [...]

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Crash Team to Oncology Stat: The latest iron overload episode

The medium may not be the message but it sure shapes it. I need to let a lot of people know what happened on Chey’s long-awaited visit to the hematologist (that’s haematologist for British readers). Should I email everyone? Maybe use a bcc with a friends and family list? But then people would feel obliged [...]

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Iron Overload Fallout: Atrial fibrilation and so much more

I promise I am not going to turn this into The Hemochromatosis Blog but blogs tend to follow what’s happening and hemochromatosis is what’s happening right now to my best friend Chey. It’s happening because it’s a progressive and incurable genetic condition. And it’s also happening because new stuff keeps cropping up. Like today, I [...]

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The Problem With Bloodletting

Eric made an interesting comment on my last iron overload post. He wondered why my wife has not pursued phlebotomy as it is a recognized treatment for iron overload. Eric states “Blood banks are happy to see you because they know they will see you many more times than regular donors.” Eric’s comment and concern [...]

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The Ongoing Impact of Iron Overload

I first posted about iron overload or hemochromatosis around Thanksgiving 2008. That’s when my wife Chey learned she had this incurable, degenerative, and potentially fatal genetic condition. Since then we’ve learned a lot about iron overload (for example, as many as 1 in 300 Americans of Northern European descent may suffer from it, most of [...]

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A LEAP Into the Future?

What was the most-subscribed non-profit channel on YouTube last month? The answer might surprise you: LEAP, as in Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. Click the link and check it out. And here’s another surprise. On February 6, the #1 most-viewed article on the entire Huffington Post site was this article: One Cop To Another: Don’t Arrest [...]

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More for Virgins, Less for Screw-ups: The surprising cost of data breaches

In its fourth annual study on data breaches, the Ponemon Institute examined the costs of 43 companies that had been hit by a data breach. The study found, not surprisingly, that the cost per record breached had risen (actual numbers coming up). I have always thought it ironic that one of the biggest obstacles to [...]

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Blog Backlog: Computer Security Handbook 5th Edition Launches

I got a nice nod last week from Norwich University in an article about Wiley’s soon to be launched 2,000 page behemoth: “Computer Security Handbook, 5th Edition.” It turns out that 37 of the 80 chapters are by people with Norwich connections. That includes me (Chapters 4, 7, 15, 20) and Chey (Chapters 15, 41, [...]

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Blog Backlog: A shout out to the frozen ones

I don’t know if the blogosphere or the wider economy registered a dip last week due to people not blogging because of power outages caused by freezing rain (I suspect Twitter picked up the slack for some, at least while the batteries lasted). But what really struck me about last week was the UTTER STUPIDITY [...]

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From Warm Engine to Hot Laptop: Saturdays now and then

So, I spent this Saturday fixing things. First there was the font problem with my blog, a classic case of a web site  looking fine in every browser but Internet Explorer. I finally cracked the right code in the css file to get it to look right in IE as well as the other browsers [...]

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Hacking My Way to My Own Blog: Anonymously

Well, I’m back…after 4 days of being kept from my own web site by my ISP, the increasingly notorious HughesNet, about which I have written before. In fact, I still can’t surf to my blog, unless I use a proxy server and bypass the HughesNet DNS. So I am running Anonymizer, a very clever program [...]

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Moving Mountains

Recently I made a comment on Twitter about my wife moving mountains. Figured I better post some evidence to back that up. Here she is moving a mountain of snow from our yard. That’s a 400cc Arctic Cat 4 wheel drive ATV that Chey is wrangling, without the benefit of power steering. It’s locked in [...]

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Top Gear’s Clarkson Faces Head Gear Challenge

ROSEBOOM, N.Y., Jan. 22 /Newzwire/ — Known for being over-the-top in deed and word, Jeremy Clarkson, presenter of the BBC hit series “Top Gear” may be facing a challenge for the ‘top spot’ when it comes to winter head gear. Clarkson, seen it the top half of the image on the left, famously wore an [...]

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A Cool Place: City Coffee Company in America’s oldest city

Okay, so Saint Augustine is not exactly America’s oldest city, it is the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in North America (founded 1563). But the City Coffee Company, founded 2008, is exactly what a coffee shop should be. Good coffee, good pastry, good sandwiches, and free WiFi, from 6AM to 6PM weekdays (slightly shorter hours [...]

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A Few of My Favorite Quotes

From today’s inauguration speech: “A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.” “Our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please.” “Because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot [...]

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