Asymptomatic

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Medical Consent
August 01, 2005

I had some blood tests done this morning, and filled out some forms giving conset to the testing lab to share their test results with my doctor.

Amongst the text of their permission forms was a paragraph saying something like the following:

If you do not wish to receive materials in the mail related to your health, please initial here: _____

Well, I mentally debated whether I wanted to receive this stuff via mail, and eventually settled on not receiving it, but I got to thinking about this on my drive home. How would the lab know what materials would be related to my health?

Stinking Noisy Computers
August 01, 2005

Ok, so my computer is making this awful, awful fan noise. No, just the normal fan noise, but I find it particularly irritating today. So to overpower the fan, I put in a music CD (mp3s) to play to drown out the whirring.

Well, the music starts up ok, but then I notice that my CD drive is whirring even more loudly than the fan. In fact, the music now has this low hum in the background, coming from the CD drive.

Blogathon 2005
July 30, 2005

I never officially posted about this, but I thought that I should since some people read only via feeds and might not have noticed the garnish on every page of the site.

Please join me on August 6th for Blogathon 2005, where I will be posting a new blog entry every half hour for 24 hours beginning at 9am EST to raise money for Scholarship America.

DNS Failures
July 29, 2005

Over the past hour I’ve had DNS failures coming from my upstream provider. As a result, this server could not resolve hostnames.

This is somewhat inconvenient, since there are several services on this server that require domain name resolution to work correctly. For example, the statistics package I’m running resolves domains on every hit. So every page load is slow.