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Get your IRS transcript!

31 March 201417 April 2014 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

Why can’t the IRS tell me how much has been reported? Various companies and entities forward the same information to me and to them. If only I could look at …

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Life / Software

Better than rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100

20 March 201425 March 2014 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

My MacBook Pro (10.9.2) was running slowly. I saw frequent spinning beach balls, systemstats was consuming 100% of the CPU on a regular basis, Apple Mail was grinding away indexing …

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Life / Software

And the H@ckfest results…

17 March 201418 March 2014 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

What a great weekend! What interesting ideas came from the H@ckfest! My team, the inforMED project, presented an idea for helping first responders (EMTs, ED triage) to get relevant data …

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Life

Rink Rat – A Great Essay on Hockey (not for the kids)

13 February 201414 March 2014 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

While chatting with people who play hockey just for the pure fun of it, especially those who are no longer whippersnappers, I am amazed that hardly anyone knows about this …

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Winning Team, Boston BlueButton Innovation Challenge

20 January 20141 May 2014 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I was a member of the team that won the “Most Likely to Succeed” award at the MedStart Hackathon at Tufts Medical School (http://tuftsmedstart.com/) Our four-member team (Bryan Bordeaux, Michelle …

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Life

“Hang on a minute…”

8 October 201318 February 2014 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I just ended a call from a telemarketer who was pitching some vacation deal. I just don’t do these things over the phone, so when she paused to take another …

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