Two technology fanboys exhaustively cover the history of Epic Systems. The video kicks in at the spot that’s relevant to me.
Note: I’m busy with a family function. Maybe I’ll be able to put something here between now and next week, but don’t count on it.
Conservative Harvard economist Greg Mankiw is one of the signatories of this petition. Will liberal economist Paul Krugman join them?
We’re coming up on the 80th anniversary of Hitler doing what he should have done years before.
“Defeated” from The Documentary Podcast by BBC World Service. Released: 2025 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0l3nk2s
The Oklahoma City Bombing was thirty years ago today. April 19, 1995 was also the day when I started my new job at work. Following almost 15 years of working in System* Installation, a group that I supervised for most of that time, I switched to being a System Development consultant. It was a needed and appreciated change. With a young son at home, my frequent traveling for business was taking a toll on my wife, who also worked.
The opportunity to move from installation to development was presented to me because of Microsoft Windows and the Internet. By 1995, I had been online from home for a year with TIAC, The Internet Access Company. (My address was dograt at tiac dot net. The domain is still registered, but it doesn’t reply to a PING request.)
With a 14.4 kbps modem, most of my time online was spent working with UNIX Shell on ProComm for DOS. But with Windows 3.1/3.11, a SLIP connection over Trumpet Winsock, the Mosaic Netscape 0.9 browser, and a lot of patience, the few graphical Web sites that were available to be seen on my generic 14″ SVGA CRT monitor were a revelation to me. “This is it!” was my immediate reaction. Clearly, this was the future. It was the direction the company should take, and I wasn’t shy about saying so at work.
Everything we did up to that time was on minicomputers from DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) and DG (Data General). Throughout 1994, at the office I was proclaiming the glories of personal computers and their ultimate purpose, the online world. (I never bothered with CompuServe or AOL.) I stopped spouting when told by my boss (who agreed with me about the future) that his VP boss didn’t appreciate it, and that I needed to shut up. (The same VP later said that an employee who, on their own, earned Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification would be looked upon negatively. Huh?)
Then I was approached by a different VP, who I had previously reported to, and he said, “I hear you’ve been spouting off about PCs and the Internet. How about working for me?” The system development group was working on new software, running on Windows servers and clients with IP as the communication protocol. Perfect.
The job change also came with an office relocation, returning me to Cambridge. I talked about some of this a year ago.
* “System” as in operating system.
Shirley Jones. Wow. She’s still with us.
It’s my view that the HITECH Act of 2009 helped to kick hospital mergers and acquisitions into high gear. The software company Epic Systems of Verona, Wisconsin, was well positioned to take advantage of that trend and facilitate the acquisition of physician practices by hospitals.
A Massachusetts attorney, a U.S. citizen born in Massachusetts, was ordered by the Department of Homeland Security to leave the country immediately.
An administrative error, like the deportation of Kilmar Ábrego García? Not if it happens again to an American-born citizen, which it has.
(Video cannot be embedded.)
https://youtu.be/E2NJ2ER2fBw
So it’s no surprise that a foreign-born citizen, also a woman, has also been a victim of this obvious intimidation tactic by the Trump administration.
Here’s an example of how to apologize for administrative errors.
