June 25, 2005
California Cousins.
I found out that some of my young cousins in California read this blog. Hello to you!
June 22, 2005
Front Street Burmuda.
I just got back from several days in Burmuda. It's an amazingly clean place with prompt, friendly service, high prices, beautiful beaches, and shallow water.
If you are thinking about living there, here's the Burmuda Expat's Survival Guide.
OpenID.
I am really excited about OpenID. Essentially it's a truly distributed system that allows you to assert your identity. Once OpenID gets hashed out, I'm going going to have to be playing with it.
June 20, 2005
June 11, 2005
Idea: Medicode.
Sometimes in institutions (hospitals, nursing homes) with many patients receiving many medicines all the time, a patient will inadvertently get medicine ordered for someone else. To provide another check, each patient could get a color code which would be on all their medicines, and affixed unobtrusively to their beds.
Before giving medicine, the nurse would check that the color code on the medicine sheet matched the color code on the patient's bed.
The code would be generated by hashing up their Social Security number, date of birth, and name. In this way each patient gets an apparently random color code. This also means that the color code does not have to be stored in the hospital database - only the medicine issuing software has to know about the color codes.
