Author: H.

Bill Adds More Motion to Things

Bill sends me his first cut at a rework of a still photo I took of him and his then-wife in 1974 or 75.  This was probably at Point Vicente or somewhere south of L.A.  And, yes, the wind was actually blowing fiercely that day. Click on through to Bill’s FB page to see the thing the way it is intended to be seen, if you see no animation here. 

Brittany Howard Does Killer Diller

(Okay, since this is the only one of my websites that halfway works right now, everything has to go here. )

Alabama Shakes’ lead woman, Brittany Howard, collaborates with Jack White and the rest of her crew on a 1940s blues classic as part of the new PBS “American Epic” series.

If you love Brittany and the Alabama Shakes as much as I do, you will want to seek out everything and anything they have done.  Start with, say, YouTube.

Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge

Around twenty years ago, my UCLA colleague and IT staffer, Jim O., and I tried our hand at writing software that would facilitate team effort and communications. We eventually abandoned the project for a number of reasons, but I continued to watch developments in the industry and marketplace for this category, and experimented with a variety of such solutions as they became available over the years.

Now, arguably the hottest product in that field would be Slack (or SLACK, as it is really an acronym for “Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge”). Many may not know about that acronym or that the software could be used as a tool that could affect your privacy. Read more here in this Quartz report.

Aleppo After The Fall

The New York Times Magazine publishes this intense story of the Syrian city of Aleppo, after its takeover by the Syrian army.  Featured are images by Brazilian photographer Sebastian Liste (whose amazing black & white work has been referenced in past years in my photoblog — but that site, where I would normally post this story today, is still out of operation as a result of the massive WordPress hackery that my ISP and many other web hosts around the world are still trying to deal with.)

Capitation

Sounds scary, eh?  Back in the day when I was assigned for three or four years of my tenure in GAO to the subject of health care, I helped draft some revisions to portions of the Medicare law and worked with a team that made recommendations that led, in a different form, to Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs).  Some of us at that time were pushing for something called capitation, and, lo and behold, the concept is being revived.  Read about it in this piece appearing online today from The New Yorker, “A BIPARTISAN WAY TO IMPROVE MEDICAL CARE“.