Thoughts on Medical Banking

This past week, I was in Nashville attending the Medical Banking Project’s Leadership Forum, which was hosted by the Vanderbilt University Center for Better Health.  The Medical Banking Project is a think-tank whose goal is to raise awareness of how banks and healthcare can intersect and drive increased efficiency, visibility, etc.  The goal of the [...]

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Favorite Beers (and Bars)

Here are a few of my favorite beers, at least those than can be obtained fairly easily.  I like pretty much every kind of beer, and enjoy everything from the “pedestrian” Miller Lite to some of the more snotty barley wines available from craft breweries.
I’ve got a couple of rules when I’m drinking beer:

Always drink [...]

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How to Access Your Django Models from External Python Scripts

Spent a good portion of time on this over the weekend, and it turned out to be frustrating enough and the answers available incomplete enough for me to want to document this here briefly.
I wanted to be able to populate my Django models from an external script by simply calling MyObject.save() .  My particular case [...]

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A Cloud is Only as Good as Its Backup Strategy

Saw this morning where T-Mobile and Microsoft (their subsidiary “Danger”, really) have lost all data stored by users of the Sidekick phone, due to some type of failure with their cloud storage.  We’re starting to see stories like this pop up more and more where so-called clouds fail due to some really simple reasons like [...]

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