Why is healthcare IT different?

I was in an interview recently and asked the candidate if they have any healthcare IT experience.  Their response was one that I might have given a couple years ago: "no, but I have a lot of

How has the Internet changed your life

I realize that within the title of this post lies a very simple question - one that most everybody has pondered. However, I still realize new ways that the Internet has changed the way I work, entertain myself, and satisfy my occasional urges to obtain new, mostly useless, knowledge  Earlier today I recalled a time when, if you wanted to know if school was cancelled due to snow, you had to get up, turn on the radio, and wait until they announce it. Now, before I get my kids up in the winter, I roll over, hit the bookmark on my smartphone, look at the cancellation list and either get up or go back to sleep. How did my parents survive?

I'm curious. What are the less-obvious ways that the Internet has changed your life?

Change does not necessarily assure progress, OK Microsoft?

I originally wrote this post when Windows Vista came out. Now that Windows 8 has been released, I feel a sense of deja vu. So instead of re-hashing the same idea, I'll just re-post the original. Feel free to mentally substitute Windows 8