bookofjoe: BehindTheMedspeak: CPR — How to save a life without knowing a thing A February 20, 2007 USA Today article about the latest push to improve cardiac-arrest survival rates.

I have been using Iconnecthere for Internet telephone. They provide and adapter that allows you to use a regular telephone over the Internet. It took me a while to get it setup as they did not pre-configure the adapter like they should of. Well anyhow the adapter was stolen last summer when we were away [...]

Ottawa spends $155.9M to help oil industry go green Ottawa will spend $155.9 million to make Alberta’s oil and energy industry more environmentally friendly, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Thursday. Most of the money will be spent studying ways to capture carbon dioxide emitted from the province’s oilsands and store it underground, instead of releasing [...]

Update for March 10 This is true: Planting trees won’t save us, ethanol isn’t cool, and rebuilding a city below sea level is insane “Green” celebrities often claim to reduce their carbon imprint to zero when flying around the world by buying “carbon offsets”. One popular way of doing this is by planting trees. Let’s [...]

I finally got my repaired

One of Geni’s long-term aspirations is to build a family tree of the whole world. Interesting! The Next Net: Startup Watch: Geni (Build a Family Tree, and a Network)

This is a good page with explanation also of the regional variation in how the Sari is worn. How to wear an Indian Sari