Family Medicine Notes

From The Lancet:

The following story should be taken as a serious warning against use of a laptop computer in a literal sense. The patient, a previously healthy 50-year-old scientist and the father of two children, had been writing a report one evening in his home. Sitting comfortable in an armchair, he had placed his laptop computer on his lap while writing for about 1 h. The next day he noticed irritation and oedema of his penile prepuce. Furthermore, the ventral part of his scrotal skin had turned red, and there was a blister with a diameter of about 2 cm. ...

Ouch

Posted by Jacob Reider, MD at 05:04 PM | Permalink

Yesterday our server decided to shut down at 5 AM.  We have a spare.  Just hadn't set it up yet to step into place all-of-a-sudden.  Turns out that the power supply, which has three fans, detected that fan #1 is not working.  So to protect the rest of the computer ... it shut down.

So I fedexed the power supply from our backup server to the web host that we're using because Compaq couldn't get their act together and help me .. despite many wasted hours on the phone with them.  Turns out that they have had persistent problems with this power supply.  Hmm.

Soo .. Sorry about the blackout .. and thanks for your patience.

Posted by Jacob Reider, MD at 04:53 PM | Permalink