Valiant effort to provide friendly messages

Our friends in the Vista team has gone a long way to make the OS friendly..
In fact, these days even when programs crash, Vista tells you in a nice way...

Today, trusty skype failed with this,

It took a while for that one to sink in..

Another little while to start imagining the possibilities...

_______ has stopped working.

Come up with your own friendly application name to insert here..

All you need is a C++ app which does

int * i = NULL ;
*i = 0 ;

Bite the bullet and RHIOlize..

The portland tribune has an excellent article published on how efforts to bring health information technology to share healthcare information has been stalled by different reasons such as lack of cash and privacy issues in Oregon.
http://portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=118670243207447600
The longer such efforts have reasons to stall, the more precarious the condition of the ultimate end users of such systems. It could be you or me, this week, next year or five years from now.

I just wish the hospitals would realize this, come forward and talk to the technology enablers about how this can be addressed. But of course, who wants another big project when something like a pesky time tracking system takes 6 months to install and is the top priority ?

I guess its all about buying into a vision and trusting the geeks.

Trip along the oregon coastline