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Don't Send iCal Replies
A tip for suppressing automatic email replies when accepting or declining iCal invites on Mac OS X, with a downloadable script bundle containing install and uninstall shell scripts and a pointer to the iCal Reply Checker app for those who prefer a GUI.
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iPad Arrives
First impressions of the original iPad after handling one at the hospital, noting its light weight, bright display, and usable keyboard, while looking forward to the upcoming iPhone 4.0 announcement.
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Happy Birthday Alan!
A short birthday greeting sent to a friend, wishing him a great day on the golf course and looking forward to seeing him in a few weeks.
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Baby Steps to Healthcare Reform
Three concise healthcare reform proposals are offered — eliminating pre-existing condition exclusions, allowing insurers to sell across all US markets, and adopting a loser-pays malpractice standard — with particular emphasis on how loser-pays would curb frivolous suits and the hidden costs of defending dropped claims.
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Fail2ban on Leopard Server
Getting fail2ban running on Mac OS X Leopard Server required several workarounds — a launchd plist to create a missing run directory, tweaks to the ipfw action module, and a custom filter for bots hammering nonexistent URLs — all of which are documented and shared.
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VoodooPad Pro Blogging
A complete workflow is documented for using VoodooPad as a static-site CMS, combining Lua script plugins, a web export plugin, and shell scripts to handle file organization, sitemap generation, Atom feed creation, and URL correction, with a sample project package included.
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Amavisd settings
Spam with malformed MIME boundaries was bypassing SpamAssassin on an OS X Server mail setup and reaching recipients unscored, and changing the Amavisd final_bad_header_destiny setting from D_PASS to D_REJECT is proposed as the fix.
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Nationalized Healthcare and the Free Market
A scenario is laid out in which nationalized healthcare arrives not through legislation but through a government-sponsored insurance option so much cheaper than private plans that employers adopt it by default, eventually leaving physicians and hospitals with a de facto single payer.
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Appendiceal Duplication
An unusual operative case is described in which a patient with classic appendicitis signs was found intraoperatively to have an appendiceal duplication — a rare anomaly confirmed on pathology — with the perforated duplicate forming a phlegmon and a relatively normal true appendix discovered just before closure.
