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Are you going to see Harry Potter this weekend? How are your kids dealing with the “end” of this much beloved decade long saga? If your kids are like mine, they’ve been counting down the days until the opening of [...]
I read a blog post not long ago that suggested we should all check our email only twice a day. Twice a day? Is that even possible?
The other day I was at an appointment and learned that the wife of someone I’ve known for over 20 years, a gal just a few years older than me, an educated and professional woman, can’t use a computer. Her husband told me she just never learned and doesn’t feel the need to. “She prefers the simple life”, he told me. “Sort of the way it used to be.”
Do you have a technology participation gap in your family? We do. In fact, most families do somewhere.
For us, we have a few older relatives who firmly believe that technology is for “the younger generation”. What’s interesting is that some of these people are not that old, at least not “old” as I definite it.
We had an interesting experience today.
My husband is scheduled for a routine test tomorrow and was notified by letter that he had to register ahead of time for the test. The test is going to take place at our local hospital. The letter clear had instructions with the name of the test and department name as well as two ways to register: phone or internet. My husband opted for the internet route assuming that was the more straight forward option.
While at BlogHer 09, I had the wonderful experience to moderate the “Healthcare by Committee” panel on Saturday July 25, 2009. All the events were “Live Blogged”. I’ll share my insights on the session later this week but let me share with you the transcript of the session to catch you up on the amazing conversation we had with the participants:
The much anticipated BlogHer Conference is only days away. As this is my first time attending, I’m especially excited, having heard about the amazing sessions and great fun from other bloggers for a while now. I’m looking forward to meeting people I’ve so far only “met” online and being a speaker and moderator of the Health Care by Committee panel with some fabulous health care bloggers!
UpToDate has been a long-trusted resources for physicians that relies on evidence-based medicine to create a thorough picture of a topic. In addition, each article is peer-reviewed by experts in that field to add credibility to the information. This has [...]
One of the great debates in parenting circles is whether the “educational” DVDs marketed to older infants and toddlers actually gives those kids a developmental edge. A new study out this week in the journal Pediatrics provides the final piece [...]
I read yesterday that Microsoft wants to improve the computer skills of Americans. Microsoft’s plan is to target beginning and intermediate computer skills through a program called “Elevate America”. The program will be made available via vouchers and be run [...]
