EMR open sesame

On Monday, Andrew Miller wrote disparagingly of the glacial pace of development of an EMR. That is, he wants rapid development of a State-wide Electronic Medical Records system.

All of our medical records online, available immediately to any and every medical professional in the state.

One source, one storage site, one point of access for all of our private medical data.

May as well paint a target on the side of the computer. With a post-it note, Hackers enter here.

Mark Twain said, Put all your eggs in one basket -- and watch that basket.

With electronic storage -- today's basket -- we know that that does not work.

No matter how carefully we watch our electronic basket, someone else can steal the data.

When the State-wide medical records system is hacked... Goodbye to all our privacy.

There are better solutions.

... Nick Lethbridge  

growing grey

The Premier has a clear vision for WA.

anyone with a house bigger than his will have their block forcibly subdivided. only his very rich business and building friends, party donors, will be allowed to keep their mansions.

everywhere else will be an absolutely uniform set of suburbs. row after row after row of blocks of flats. varying only in height, otherwise identical.

all packed full of poor deserving, immigrants lured here with promises of jobs building their own slum tenements. all voting labor, because all other parties will be driven to extinction by electoral boundary reform.

it's a grand vision.

One man's concrete grey Utopia of uniformity.

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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Dying for you to read my blog, at https://notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com.au/ :-)

The word "boobs" is so scary until you get to the second "b". (Alfred E. Neumann

royalties for good

an aboriginal group wants 500million per year as mining royalties.

with the money they could build their own culturally appropriate houses. and trash them.

build their own culturally appropriate schools and ignore them.

hire culturally sympathetic nurses and teachers. and bash them.

they could afford even more lawyers to demand even higher royalties.

if the lawyers leave any money, it could pay for the daily deliveries of drugs and grog. it must be a real bother to have to steal a car to drive down the road to the local dealer

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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Dying for you to read my blog, at https://notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com.au/ :-)

The word "boobs" is so scary until you get to the second "b". (Alfred E. Neumann

family camp fun

a primary school has cancelled its usual three day camp for kids. too many kids with various issues, medical and other. too many weird allergies. teachers are already overworked.

good decision.

for parents who complain, there is an easy solution...

next time you take a family holiday, take half a dozen school mates as well.

build your kids resilience, social skills, sense of adventure, etc

why should teachers and kids have all the fun

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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Dying for you to read my blog, at https://notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com.au/ :-)

The word "boobs" is so scary until you get to the second "b". (Alfred E. Neumann

a winner so far

Voice needs input from bottom up.

so says today's paper.

luckily enough, so far that's exactly the orifice where most opinions seem to be coming from.

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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Dying for you to read my blog, at https://notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com.au/ :-)

The word "boobs" is so scary until you get to the second "b". (Alfred E. Neumann

Cops and Robbers

Back in December, police chased -- and stopped -- "alleged" "allegedly armed" criminals in a high speed vehicle chase. Police hierarchy are "investigating" 26 police officers over their actions during the chase. Now the police union suggests that its members do not chase criminals -- at least not until the chase rules are clear.

The Acting CoP (Chief of Police) says, "What we don't want is for offenders to feel like it's a good time to take on police"

Well no.

What we want -- apparently -- is for police to be hamstrung. hog-tied. Prevented from any actions which may make criminals feel under-valued or under threat.

What we want -- apparently -- is for criminals to have every opportunity to pursue their chosen careers. Occasional r&r in prison. Quick release on bail. Perhaps an apology and recompense from police who serve and protect the public.

Is that really what we want?

If so... then who is this "we" that wants more rights for alleged criminals than for police.

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

...        Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved

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"Yesterday I knew nothing. Today I know that." ... per Ginger Meggs

Dying for you to read my blog, at https://notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com/ :-)

living language

today's Noongar word is djooditj. which means wild cat.

djooditjs are a killer pest which was introduced by whyt settlers. so the word must be a recent invention. along with previously provided  words for sheep, horse and sandals.

i wonder why the existing words -- wild cat, sheep, horse, sandals -- have been rejected.

fashion, i guess.

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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Dying for you to read my blog, at https://notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com.au/ :-)

The word "boobs" is so scary until you get to the second "b". (Alfred E. Neumann

Lesser expectations

The Sunday paper asked chatGPT for an essay on the Gothic themes in Great Expectations.

The answer was printed. A generous teacher could have passed it for being easy to read.

The answer failed. It did not answer key questions:

What *are* Gothic themes?

Where are examples of how is each applied in the novel? (Or not.)

The AI app provided a loosely structured set of statements where concepts share a sentence with names and scenes from the novel. With no explanation of the relevance to "Gothic".

A generous teacher could have passed it as a high school assignment.

For a higher level it lacks substance.

I'm not worried that chatGPT will take over our thinking.

I would worry if that is an acceptable standard of question and answer in our schools.

Dr Nick Lethbridge, consulting dexitroboper
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we never learn

"Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it"

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When I was young I read a book set in WWII Europe. It was a story of a family fleeing from Nazis They fled because the Nazis had nailed shut the doors of their family home. Burning the house would be the next step. Probably with the family inside. Perhaps the family were Jewish? I can't remember but it seems likely.

That book has left me with a nasty memory. And a desire to never see such things happening again.

Meanwhile in present-day Jerusalem: A man murders Jews. He is killed because justice is quick in Jerusalem. No problem there.

But being quickly killed is only the beginning of justice.

Next, the man's family have their citizenship revoked. "Justice" across the generations.

Then the doors to his family home are welded shut.

What next? Burn the house?

We are never allowed to forget the history of Nazis, Jews and WWII.

It seems that the lessons do not apply in Jerusalem.

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

...        Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved

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"Yesterday I knew nothing. Today I know that." ... per Ginger Meggs

Dying for you to read my blog, at https://notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com/ :-)