With the release of the Raspberry Pi Zero W. I can finally create a PC that fits in my pocket; an idea kicking around me head for several years. Its not an original idea, there have been commercial attempts to manufacture “stick” PCs but performance issues, compatibility with KVMs prevented wide adoption. With its compact…
INTRODUCTION The modern technology/business concepts of open source, crowd sourcing and information clouds would not have been entirely foreign to the national defense environment of World War II. The terminology would not have been understood, of course, and the communications infrastructure would not exist for decades. What did exist, however, were complex organizational structures of…
Public health programs and policy are often defined at regional and national levels, but community is, literally, where prevention and intervention take place. (MacQueen, 2001) The link between disease management and local community services is not new. In 1854 a cholera outbreak occurred in London. A Mr. John Snow took a map of the area…
If there was one technology that epitomized 2017 it was blockchain currency. Without a central bank, the value of this virtual currency is maintained by a peer to peer ledger that encrypts via hashing to manage a set number of coins. This general ledger is a long list of blocks, known as the ‘blockchain’. It…
“A map has no vocabulary, no lexicon of precise meanings. It communicates in lines, hues, tones, coded symbols, and empty spaces, much like music. Nor does a map have its own voice. It is many-tongued, a chorus reciting centuries of accumulated knowledge in echoed chants. A map provides no answers. It only suggests where to…
“This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play” ~ Alan Watts I was updating my resume as I’ve done 100’s of times in the past 20 years and realized that there…