(I forgot to include some points I wanted to make in my last post so I thought I would make another post.)
The word kipple implies that what fills up spaces is junk which I forgot to mention. What I was getting at is that my hard drive filled up with junk, items that I wanted to keep at the time I saved them but since there is so much stuff, I may never look at it again.
I am a hoarder and the main motivation behind it is that if I don’t grab it when I see it, it might not be available when I want to read it, watch it, whatever. Some of my favorite writers’ books go in and out of print quickly so if I don’t purchase the book when I can, I might not be able to get it later. I generally don’t read, watch or use whatever I download or buy right away but I am saving it for later. Right now I am reading two books that I bought several months ago. I will keep books for years that I haven’t read yet but plan to just because they might go out of print.
And sometimes I am right and they do go out of print.
I recently discovered/created a corollary to Moore’s Law of computing advances which says that there is an exponential increase in computing resources, basically doubling every two years.
I’m going to call my corollary the Law of Kipple:
The more capacity a hard drive has the more that it will be filled up.
I recently got a computer with about three times more hard drive capacity than I previously had and I quickly filled it up. I downloaded some public domain Charlie Chaplin movies and some Buster Keaton. And I had to have a copy of “The Voyage to the Moon” by Georges Melies. Soon my hard drive was almost full.
The same thing happened last time I expanded my capacity and I filled it up with mp3s.
Maybe the faster you make a processor, the more demands are placed on it for speed, like with video games?
I think I’m onto something here…
I found some more links I wanted to share about guidelines for creating mobile sites:
Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
The W3C’s mobile site design guideline.
Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web
This author doesn’t agree with the W3C guidelines. He provides many detailed guidelines.
These two links along with the others I provided in More Mobile Site Design Suggestions and my thoughts on mobile site design provide an excellent overview that should point anyone thinking about or creating a mobile site in the right direction.
One of my favorite authors is Philip K. Dick. One of the major themes he writes about in his work is what is real, what is reality. He presents situations that make the reader question what they perceive and understand that every person has a subjective point of view that may vary wildly from others viewpoints.
With this in mind I have a short quiz for you:
In regards to personal health records (PHRs) whose viewpoint is the most accurate and complete?
1. The hospital
2. The primary care doctor
3. The specialist
4. The patient
Answers:
1. The hospital has the information from a patient’s last visit in the hospital. The care a patient has received after being discharged is not updated in the hospital’s system.
2. The primary care doctor receives information from hospital stays, and care other doctors have given to the patient. Usually by fax or mail and generally with some delay. And the information may not be complete.
3. The specialist may not have information from a patient’s stay in the hospital unless the specialist ordered the procedure or patient requests that the specialist receives it.
4. ANSWER: The patient is the center of all of these relationships. The patient knows what procedures they have had, what conditions they have, and what medications they are taking. In addition, the patient may not be following the instructions that the physicians have given them including medication dosage directions.
I think that patients believe that all of the health care providers’ systems are connected and talking to each other. That is simply not true. This explains why patients are repeatedly asked to fill out the same information on a clipboard each time they interact with a health care provider. This is why the patient has the most complete picture of their health care and can update their personal health record with this picture.