Going Beyond HIPAA
Tags: Computing, dss, hipaa, hitech, pci, Rants
Behind every rule or regulation that you can imagine, you will find an intent. The intent of speed limits is to reduce deaths and injuries caused by motor vehicle accidents. The intent of HIPAA is to safe guard HI (health information) thereby transforming it into PHI (protected health information). Its one thing to implement HIPAA [...]
Read: "Going Beyond HIPAA"How To Get Out Of Talking
It happens to all of us. Sooner or later, you will be forced to compose audible grunts into meaningful sequences and transmit them over the slower than snail speed of sound. Additionally, you must block until receiving an ACK over the same medium, often requesting even more transformation of thoughts into similar mutually understood grunts.
Do [...]
Site Stupidity – Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Read The News
Tags: haha, mindlessness, news, Rants
There are some individuals and organizations that should be prohibited by law from making web sites. Just like free speech can quickly degenerate into disorderly conduct, web sites can quickly degenerate into viciously loud, annoying and angry fruit salads.
Here’s my morning routine – Get coffee, go through RSS reader, get email. I suppose it is [...]
Way Over The Top
Tags: mindlessness, politics, Rants
I hate politics. I usually avoid political discussions and arguments at any expense, much like I would avoid punching myself in the head until I pass out. I tend to follow things related to technology (i.e. patents, litigation, etc) but not really politics in general. However, being an expat for so long, it seemed like [...]
Read: "Way Over The Top"Bracketing Does NOT Mean HDR!
Tags: bracketing, For Photographers, HDR, Rants
If I see one more photograph of a dirty toilet basin processed via Photomatix with a caption like “Toilet, Bracketed”, I’m going to pop a blood vessel.
Bracketing is a safe guard when using something like the zone system (or your own adaptation of the zone system) with film and some digital cameras to ensure that [...]
Its Almost Always The Code, Not The Server
Tags: fud, Programming, Rants, web hosting
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to deal with people who had their web site compromised who named their hosting server as the weakest link. 99.99% of the time, if your site is defaced or found to link to on-line Viagra vendors, its your fault, not the hosting provider.
Usually, this kind of [...]
I’ll Leave The Clouds To The Birds
Tags: cloud-computing, iaas, ohno, Rants, saas, Xen
Today marks the third time in one year that I’ve been bitten by someone else’s mistake. I’ve tried several `accounting as a service’ providers and should have learned my lesson after the first bad experience.
I appreciate dynamic infrastructure as a service as much as the next person. I love using tools like Xen to build [...]
Broken Towels
I try to be tolerant, patient and understanding. I try, very very hard to not let trivial and mundane set backs influence the quality of my over all mood. Today, I have failed.
When you purchase something, you have a reasonable expectation that the item will work as advertised. This gets a little sketchy when buying [...]
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