Year: 2012
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Chicago – Working inside the RV
I’m sitting inside my Rialta. It’s Monday, 8:24am, Chicago time. It’s 9:24am, Eastern time. I’m working my job with a laptop and voip phone. My phone is getting Sprint 4G internet which is tethered to my laptop via USB which feeds internet to my voip phone via ethernet cable. I’m hungry. The fringe and stove…
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Driving Cross Country in Rialta RV From Delaware to Oregon
I’m finally doing it. Yesterday, I began my long awaited, cross country trip from Delaware to the West Coast. I purchased my Rialta RV almost two years ago with the intention of doing this, and it’s happening now. Speaking of the Rialta, a lot of the problems I had before have thankfully disappeared on their…
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Blog to Ebook Conversion Program v1
Since I wrote Converting WordPress Blog to Kindle Ebook, I’ve built a PHP program that can take any WordPress blog and output a zip file of the blog’s posts. With this zip file, Calibre can create an ebook PDF or MOBI file. The program consumes a great deal of memory and takes a few minutes…
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Future Common Practice: Coaching to Make Better Professional Doctors?
I saw this TEDx talk, Brian Goldman: Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that? He states that the culture in medicine currently is one of silent shame where every doctor is expected to be always correct, and any admittance of error or mistake is ignored. Undoubtedly this silent culture likely leads to a lot…
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Converting WordPress Blog to Kindle Ebook
Recently, I was on a six hour bus ride without internet. I thought, it would be nice if I could read through the blog archives of my favorite authors. Most blogs are like magazines where the most recent posts stand out, but it’s difficult to read from beginning to end like a book. Also, I…