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Fake sick note requests 'common'

Fake sick note requests 'common' 04/27/2004 09:42 PM
Over 40% of sick note requests are false according to a survey of doctors.

Sick Schwarzenegger suicide note leads
to Trojan

Sick Schwarzenegger suicide note leads
to Trojan 07/29/2004 10:00 AM

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“Experts at Sophos have warned computer users that a file posing as a suicide note from Arnold Schwarzenegger is in fact infected by a malicious Trojan horse. Thousands of messages posted to internet newsgroups over the weekend encourage computer users to download a file containing a supposed suicide note from actor-turned-politician Schwarzenegger. In reality, users who run the file may be opening their computers up to attack from hackers.”…

PCs take more sick days than their users

PCs take more sick days than their users 06/23/2004 10:36 PM

PCs take nine sick days a year

PCs take nine sick days a year 06/24/2004 07:31 PM
Infomatics Jun 24 2004 11:14PM GMT

PCs Use More Sick Days Than People

PCs Use More Sick Days Than People 06/25/2004 02:10 PM

How Many Sick Days Does Your Computer
Have?

How Many Sick Days Does Your Computer
Have? 06/23/2004 11:06 AM
A new study from Yahoo in the UK shows that the average British computer has nine "sick days", where the owner has to waste time fixing problems instead of being productive. Six of those nine days are due to dealing with spam, and the other three are from viruses. Once again, though, people are looking to their ISP to solve this problem, even if ISPs have been hesitant to do so. It's getting to the point, however, where ISPs that don't aggressively police their networks for spam, viruses and other malware may start losing customers to those that do.

Number of sick days 'rise by 10m'

Number of sick days 'rise by 10m' 05/23/2004 10:32 PM
The number of sick days taken by staff at British firms has risen for the first time in five years, according to a new report.

Company Gets In Trouble For Ads
Promoting Fake Sick Days

Company Gets In Trouble For Ads
Promoting Fake Sick Days 08/04/2004 03:05 PM
Apparently, despite all the clever humor to come out of the UK over the years, the folks who work at the Advertising Standards Authority in the UK have no sense of humor at all. Tech giant Benq started an ad campaign this summer suggesting that with their products, your "bogus sick days will be 33% more enjoyable." Not laugh out loud funny, but an amusing little tagline to get some interest. Apparently, the ASA is scared to death that people will take this seriously and start calling in sick just to mess around with Benq computers -- because we're sure that before this ad came out no one ever faked a sick day.

An old note from my journalist course
days...

An old note from my journalist course
days... 12/17/2004 06:42 PM

So years ago I did a journalism course and one of the early lessons in news reporting was just an exercise in trying to collectively define news. It was a pretty heavily-directed effort, and I think it had to be, because like many other things that we're so used to in our everyday lives, it's weirdly difficult to explain to people. Anyway, I'm cleaning up my flat and I find the definition that we came up with on a piece of notepaper, and I'm looking at it and I'm thinking: "This is actually quite interesting - and possibly quite useful for people who are setting up subject-based weblogs". So here it is:

"New information of significance, interest or relevance which affects the lives or interests of a particular group of readers / listeners / viewers"

It's not perfect by any means, but it gives you some places to start when you're thinking about what to write. Know your audience, make sure you're giving them information, and make sure that the information is actually going to matter to them. It's not exactly revelatory information, but I figured someone out there might find it useful. And now I've transcribed it onto the net, it means that I can throw away the piece of paper!

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A handy guide to maximizing your 2004
holiday schedule by planning your sick
days

A handy guide to maximizing your 2004
holiday schedule by planning your sick
days 01/07/2004 06:59 PM
plan their sick days properly

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Tribes: Vengeance GoldGet ready to cash
in your sick days; Tribes: Vengeance has
gone gold for the PC

Tribes: Vengeance GoldGet ready to cash
in your sick days; Tribes: Vengeance has
gone gold for the PC 09/22/2004 06:36 AM
Gigex Sep 22 2004 10:33AM GMT

How Dotster cost me days and days of
downtime: stay away from this registrar

How Dotster cost me days and days of
downtime: stay away from this registrar 08/12/2004 07:36 AM
A year ago, the DNS for craphound.com disappeared. Which was weird, because I was paying for DNS with Dotster, my registrar.

I called them up and spoke to their tech support people. "Oh yeah," they said, "your paid service ended a month ago but our billing system was broken so we didn't send out a notice. So we terminated you for nonpayment. But dude, you're lucky! We gave you a free month's DNS!"

Lucky lucky me. I got a free month's DNS and to pay for it, I was bouncing mail all over the Internet and my Website wasn't resolving. Bastards. I bought two years' worth of DNS and vowed that when the domain came up for renewal, I'd switch away from Dotster. I sent them an email telling them as much and got an email back apologizing and saying that they would certainly never terminate my DNS wihtout notice again (you see where this is going, I trust)

Craphound.com is up for renewal at the end of August. Not wanting to leave things to the last minute, I changed over early this month, switching registrars to Domain Direct, who are now the registrar for all of my domains, and boingboing.net besides.

I didn't move over the DNS -- I figured I'd paid Dotster for another year's service, I might as well get it. Instead, I left myself a reminder in my iCal for next July to set up DNS at DomainDirect a month ahead of the service running out on Dotster.

This morning, Dotster terminated my DNS. Without warning. And when I called, they told me there was nothing they could do about it. Even though there's nothing in my DNS contract that says that DNS is provided to domains registered with Dotster and no others, that is, apparently, their policy. And they can't make exceptions. Not even for 48h while I effect a graceful change to DomainDirect (who have been fantastic throughout and now have 100 percent of my domain registration and DNS business).

Bastards.

PCs are sick, sick, sick

PCs are sick, sick, sick 06/24/2004 06:18 PM
Insanely Great Mac Jun 24 2004 9:52PM GMT

sick day

sick day 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
I have a love/hate relationship. I love being home to nurture an illness, but I hate being home all day....

I'm Sick

I'm Sick 08/27/2004 01:48 PM

My insides are becoming my outsides. I'll try to get something going here in a bit.

Sick!

Sick! 03/13/2003 10:22 AM
I just wrote a long story here, it disappeared, I am sick, Marius is sick (throwing up), and everything is...

Sick Car

Sick Car 06/22/2004 12:41 PM
My car is sick. However instead of waiting for it to explode and buy a new one I actually took it to a shop to...

YSM ICQ - You Sick Me - ICQ Client

YSM ICQ - You Sick Me - ICQ Client 05/01/2004 06:54 PM
ysm 2.9.5 is ready!

sick graphics

sick graphics 08/29/2004 01:48 AM
TechTree Aug 29 2004 5:47AM GMT

Are you sick of Google yet?

Are you sick of Google yet? 08/18/2004 04:57 PM

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Are we sick of Google yet? Expect to get even sicker as the Google IPO becomes an exercise in futility for the company and the investment community at large. The reason why this has turned into a laughable fiasco is because the investment bankers, the brokers, and the middlemen have decided to queer this deal in any way they can. Nobody who got rich during the dot-com era wants to see the model for the…

All kinds of Ick in my Sick

All kinds of Ick in my Sick 12/29/2003 04:20 PM
Not to a whole lot of fun going on here I'm sick of being sick, the rain looks more like...

So Damned Sick

So Damned Sick 12/02/2002 01:17 PM
I've been mentally and physically off-line for a couple days. A ton of people at work all seem to have gotten very sick as of Tuesday night. I'll spare the details, but suffice it to say that I've not been...

Sycamore Sick No More?

Sycamore Sick No More? 05/11/2004 02:57 PM
Setting expectations for this onetime high flier.

What a sick thing to do...

What a sick thing to do... 07/25/2004 04:03 PM
Bush administration seeks to block consumer drug suits. White House says injury claims undermine FDA.
Gee. I don't know wh y we might need some legal recourse against drug manufacturers?
Weasels!

Sick and Sicker

Sick and Sicker 03/20/2003 05:31 PM
I've been sick this past week, but that hasn't stopped me from testing applications for Lockergnome. In between trips to the toilet, I stumbled upon Huminity. I'd point you directly to its site, but I don't want you to install it. In fact, I want you to tell everybody on the PLANET not to install it. Why? Because it just raped my address book. I guess I didn't take their privacy policy literally: 'Contacts are notified by a one-time e-mail notification about their inclusion in the Huminity network.' WTF?! Assume that when you install the program, the people in your contacts list will be notified with no further warning. Sick! Well, if you got a message from me telling you to join this network, let me use this space to WARN YOU to avoid this site / software at all cost....

PCs out sick more than users

PCs out sick more than users 06/25/2004 08:37 AM
The average UK PC is rendered unusable for the equivalent of around nine working days every year because the owner is cleaning up spam or fighting viruses. This is two days a year more than the average UK worker takes off as sick leave, according to Yahoo. A survey of 2,500 UK e-mail users found that 70 percent of users had been infected by a virus in the past year and 42 percent say they found it less stressful fighting their way through rush-hour traffic than finding legitimate e-mails among the spam in their inboxes. Spam is a problem for all e-mail users but some companies are hit harder than others.

sick leave?

sick leave? 03/13/2003 10:15 AM
Tell me, WTF is up with ER not being on for two weeks? This is the one show that Kevin...

School made him sick

School made him sick 06/17/2005 03:35 PM
David Pescovitz: An Olathe, Kansas high school student was charged with battery against a school official for vomiting on his Spanish teacher. The boy's father said his son was just sickened by the stress of exams and didn't purposefully throw up on the teacher. An assistant district attorney said he has witnesses who say that's not the case. "I think a message is being sent by both the school district and the district attorney that this behavior will not be tolerated," the teacher told the Associated Press. Link

Whose Busienss Is It When CEOs Get Sick?

Whose Busienss Is It When CEOs Get Sick? 08/09/2004 08:23 PM
"You don't make a disclosure every time someone gets a gallbladder surgery. But cancer is a highly charged illness in our society." By Benjamin Pimentel, MacNewsWorld (via MyAppleMenu)

Sun falls sick with same IPSec/SSH bug
as HP

Sun falls sick with same IPSec/SSH bug
as HP 01/22/2004 08:47 AM

OS X Calculator: Sick, Unreliable?

OS X Calculator: Sick, Unreliable? 08/10/2004 07:37 PM
The built-in calculator in OS 10.4 may be wildly unreliable. By Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac (via MyAppleMenu)

Sick workers 'struggle on'

Sick workers 'struggle on' 01/23/2004 03:55 AM
West Midlands employees and white-collar workers are the most likely to struggle into work when they are ill.

Computers Make You Sick

Computers Make You Sick 09/09/2004 12:33 PM
Not feeling so good? Perhaps you should blame your computer. A new study says that three out of every four office workers have health problems because they're not properly trained to use their computer. The problems are pretty obvious: back problems, eyesight problems or headaches. As this becomes a bigger and bigger problem, the suggestion is that corporations need to be more proactive in training people on good computing and good ergonomics. Of course, none of this seems particularly new, and many companies already have ergonomics groups that make sure people are well set up to use their computer in a healthy manner. At some point, good computing practices and good ergonomics are going to be issues that people are trained in at an early age -- and not at the office. However, in the meantime, companies who want to protect their employees' eyes, back and head might want to do a better job ensuring good computing ergonomic practices.

Blocking sick surfers

Blocking sick surfers 06/07/2004 07:05 PM
USA Today Jun 7 2004 10:13PM GMT

I'm sick of doing things the hard way

I'm sick of doing things the hard way 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
That's it. I've decided. I'm switching. In the very near future (after taxes are computed, reported, and paid) I'm putting one of my Thinkpads (the T21 running Linux) and my oldish G4 Apple Powerbook (15" 550MHz) up for sale. Using the funds from those sales and a bit of other cash, I'll be buying a new 15" Powerbook. This has been a long time coming. In the nearly 2 years since I wrote that reivew, I've upgraded it a bit....

Contractors sick of computers

Contractors sick of computers 06/26/2004 08:29 PM
Prosperity4 Jun 27 2004 0:40AM GMT

The Internet Is a Very Sick Place

The Internet Is a Very Sick Place 12/23/2003 07:15 AM
Viruses and worms ran rampant in 2003, but be prepared for worse, as the malware writers team up with the Net's other ne'er-do-wells, the spammers. By Michelle Delio.

Does E-Mail Make You Sick?

Does E-Mail Make You Sick? 12/16/2003 05:32 AM
Popular Mechanics Dec 16 2003 4:35AM ET

heal your sick house

heal your sick house 02/16/2004 09:24 PM
Geopathic Stress , otherwise known as negative earth energies, black streams or earth rays, have become acknowledged as a hazard to health.
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Now Even Fake People Can Be Game Addicts

Now Even Fake People Can Be Game Addicts 02/16/2004 02:46 PM

The Russian Nesting Doll of Games: The implications here make my head hurt, but it's still pretty funny.

The plug-in from Simslice, called Slice City, lets the Sims in the game play a video game in which they create mini cities. So, along with the many things that Sims can be instructed to do — such as going to work, playing guitar, cooking, socializing and dating — they can blow endless hours creating small urban environments.

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Costly Fake Bank Notes Puzzle Police
(Reuters)

Costly Fake Bank Notes Puzzle Police
(Reuters) 07/27/2004 09:06 AM
Reuters - Japanese police have been scratching their heads in bewilderment over the country's latest counterfeiting trend -- fake bills that cost more to make than their face value.

Pocket PC for doctors

Pocket PC for doctors 07/07/2004 02:23 PM
Engadget Jul 7 2004 6:25PM GMT

Handheld for Doctors

Handheld for Doctors 12/16/2002 09:08 AM

On How Doctors Gets paid

On How Doctors Gets paid 12/27/2004 09:34 PM
Joe Stirt writes about how strange it is that a bad, even terrible, doctor gets paid as much as a good one. Medical care is one of those very strange parts of the economy where you get paid no matter what the quality of the service you provide....

DVD Doctors Dashboard

DVD Doctors Dashboard 09/23/2004 03:47 PM
A heads-up for Xbox owners - the 4th bonus disc in a certain DVD set that was just released will, without permission, modify the dashboard software of the console. Not a big deal unless you are one of those folks who has modded their Xbox (if you don't know what a "dashboard" is, you probably have nothing to worry about). A thanks to Gadget Madness for the tip.

"Doctors Without Borders"

"Doctors Without Borders" 12/29/2004 03:31 AM

Doctors divided over £2.3bn NHS IT
project

Doctors divided over £2.3bn NHS IT
project 02/10/2004 10:38 AM
OK in principle, but what about the implementation?

Doctors 'should be given mobiles'

Doctors 'should be given mobiles' 05/07/2004 08:28 PM
Doctors say the bleep system should be replaced with mobile phones to help them work more efficiently.

Bell Curve for Doctors

Bell Curve for Doctors 12/27/2004 09:34 PM
Is there a bell curve for doctors? How hard would it be to evaluate the performance of doctors and should this information be publicly accessible?

Aid doctors to leave Afghanistan

Aid doctors to leave Afghanistan 07/28/2004 06:21 AM
Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres says it will leave Afghanistan after 24 years because of security fears.

Patients and doctors to get say in
GBP5bn NHS IT

Patients and doctors to get say in
GBP5bn NHS IT 07/06/2004 09:47 AM
Silicon.com Jul 6 2004 1:46PM GMT

NHS fails to use refugee doctors

NHS fails to use refugee doctors 06/15/2004 09:23 PM
The BMA says the UK is failing to tap into the valuable experience of refugee doctors.

Doctors get bonuses for extra ops

Doctors get bonuses for extra ops 07/09/2004 01:38 PM
A new scheme that rewards doctors for treating extra patients is to be piloted.

Doctors worried about new clinics

Doctors worried about new clinics 06/08/2004 06:30 PM
A doctors' conference is set to hear concerns over fast-track surgery centres on Wednesday.

Ambulances May Get Virtual Doctors

Ambulances May Get Virtual Doctors 12/30/2004 07:38 PM
Researchers are developing technology for ambulances to improve communications and perhaps more importantly, place virtual doctors inside in transit.

Doctors Warming Up To Email

Doctors Warming Up To Email 04/27/2004 03:19 AM
Two years ago we had a post about how few doctors were willing to communicate with their patients via email. Some doctors were afraid they would be overwhelmed with email, or that important information would get lost in not being able to speak directly to the patient. A year ago, it sounded like the tide was turning as a study showed that doctor- patient emails were generally very helpful. Now, it appears the doctors are catching on. Many more are emailing with patients and find that it's been very useful. Often, patients are better able to express what they're feeling when they get to write it down, rather than when faced with the doctor in the white coat staring down at them. Certainly, some people abuse the communications channel, but it sounds like very few do - and the positives greatly outweigh the negatives. Still, there are some doctors who are concerned that they don't get to charge for email consultations, and are trying to figure out ways around that. Realizing this is becoming an issue, some health insurance plans are covering doctor email consultations in addition to regular visits.

Many doctors 'prone to stress'

Many doctors 'prone to stress' 08/18/2004 02:49 AM
Many doctors may be prone to stress because of their personalities, a study suggests.

Dragging Doctors to the Info Age

Dragging Doctors to the Info Age 06/18/2004 04:58 AM
Politicians are finally paying attention to the dearth of IT in American medicine. But don't expect your doctor to stop scribbling prescriptions in longhand anytime soon. By Randy Dotinga.

Doctors 'to put brake on drivers'

Doctors 'to put brake on drivers' 06/29/2004 12:02 PM
People who take regular medication could be told to stop driving under plans being drawn up by doctors.

Guantanamo doctors under attack

Guantanamo doctors under attack 06/24/2005 07:04 PM
The US defends the role of doctors in refining coercive interrogation used on inmates at Guantanamo Bay.

NHS doctors 'face discrimination'

NHS doctors 'face discrimination' 06/27/2004 11:14 AM
NHS doctors face discrimination because of their race, gender and sexuality, according to a report.

'Most doctors would aid suicide'

'Most doctors would aid suicide' 02/17/2004 10:13 AM
A retired GP arrested over a friend's death says "most doctors" would help terminally-ill people die.

Doctors Using Handhelds, But Not for
Medicine

Doctors Using Handhelds, But Not for
Medicine 03/27/2005 09:13 PM
U.S. physicians are five times as likely as general consumers to use handheld computers, but they're mostly using them to keep track of appointments rather than to access electronic medical records.

Ambulances May Get Virtual Doctors (AP)

Ambulances May Get Virtual Doctors (AP) 12/25/2004 05:22 PM
AP - Researchers are developing technology for ambulances to improve communications and perhaps more importantly, place virtual doctors inside in transit.

Doctors Want Their Mobile Phones

Doctors Want Their Mobile Phones 07/01/2004 03:41 PM
There have been some questions lately on why exactly hospitals ban mobile phones. The common reasoning, of course, is that the phones may interfere with medical equipment -- but most medical equipment is pretty well shielded, and there are lots of other items, such as emergency service radios that would seem likely to cause a lot more interference, but don't. So, now, many doctors in the UK are standing up and saying the ban on mobile phones should be dropped. They point out that risks are minimal, and it would make their lives much easier. They also point out (probably quite accurately) that they're positive plenty of people are wandering around hospitals all the time with mobile phones turned on in their pockets, and they don't see why they should be banned. Of course, there are other reasons for keeping mobile phones away from doctors -- such as the fact that they can pick up germs. Good thing there's now a sterilizing phone charger.

Doctors took organs from babies

Doctors took organs from babies 01/26/2004 11:27 AM
The High Court hears how doctors removed organs from dead babies without seeking consent.

Note to coworkers regarding sick days

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