Alright, so I couldn’t find a single blog of mine (I have a bunch of different topiced blogs) that would allow me to express the wide variety of thoughts that I’ve had today…actually, this whole week. Therefore, I’m going to Brain Dump here and make sense of it all later.
Before I start I have to say that I’m online almost all day long. I go from one job to the next and EVERYTHING is online. The word WIRED came to my mind today as I sat and had a small break from everything.
I didn’t know that I could actually FEEL an emotion called wired. Well, I had that feeling today and with some of the things I’ll talk about here, I actually welcomed that new emotion, with some reservations of course.
Technology
I get so excited to learn of the new ways to interact with information on the web. I’m very intrigued by RSS Feeds and the multitude of ways that I can display them. I’ve got a ticker streaming across the bottom of my Firefox browser that lets me see the headlines of sites that offer RSS feeds. This allows me to do my work and every once and a while see something of interest without having to stop and go to another site to keep checking headlines.
Right now I have streaming my blog, so pretty soon I’ll see the title Brain Dump cruising across my screen. I have web topics from WebMasterWorld and world topics from NPR. I’m pretty excited about it all.
I LOVE Firefox and the extension that I can add onto it. If there’s something that I want my browser to do, I can probably find a plug-in that does it. Anything from allowing me to see more information about a website, to putting controls to my media player right in my broswer. IE is funny, smart I guess, but because I don’t really like it, funny. They’ve all but copied Firefox’s entire layout in their newest browser update. Dirty rats…anyhow.
Health
I’ve been getting more and more excited every day about the great possibilities in the heath industry. I feel that there are leaps and bounds to be made with diagnosis, brain imaging, and altogether keeping very close tabs on our health.
A while back, maybe 8 months or so ago, I drafted up some plans for a personal health monitoring system. Tied to a vast database of disease information. The idea would be to monitor key bioinformatics and compare them against the rhythms and patterns of a healthy individual. If one began to show patterns of higher than expected blood sugar levels, blood pressure, or any number of other key measurements there would be a notification set up, an alert to a potential disruptive health issue.
Yeah, lots to still think through, but I CAN’T imagine with all our technology why we’re not catching things before they happen.
Family
Melissa’s got a new photography site and family blog.
Mindy’s having a baby and just sent us ultrasound images.
Christy’s moving off to AZ, just threw a going-away for her Sunday night.
Talked with Dad about politics. Seems that we share some of the same views.