Server Set Up in a Day (plus Holiday Activities)

Success at the End of the Day, Webserver Running

On the one hand, I’m on holiday. On the other hand, as I said, that often involves fiddling with computers, which I enjoy. So, I decided to set up a server.

Haiku to an Apple Program

Oh be consistent
Dear migration assistant
The bar must progress

Reeder for iPad, a DOM RSS Reader

Reeder for iPad is my favorite RSS reader on the iPad already though it came out only this morning. Not to hijack an acronym, but the main difference to other RSS readers is in the underlying model. Reeder for iPad is a document object model reader.
Let me explain that.

All Play And No Work …

… would make the iPad a rather dull computer. But I’m happy to report that I found a serious application for it. This week, I’m at the WOC 2010 in Berlin, the World Ophthalmic Conference. It started with a few computer hiccups on the side of the event managers and no one could register and print out their schedules and identity badges. Eventually, the hostesses gave up and let us in anyway.
Unfazed, the iPad served me well as a note taking device in the lectures. I used Pages to jot down interesting points in a bullet point list under a professional looking title and subtitle.
Back home in ground level ophthalmology, we often work through these conferences in our local MD’s circle. I suspect these notes won’t need much work to change them into a passable Keynote presentation. After each lecture, I emailed the resulting Pages document to my Gmail account, so it’s safe (?) in the cloud.
The lectures weren’t dull, either. Pictured below is Prof. U. Schiefer (at right) in a hands-on demonstration of perimetry parameters with some shanghaied colleagues.

iPad Ta-da and To-do

After a few days with the device, I’d like to chime in with a few points where the iPad shines and a few deficiencies.

iPad First Impressions

The iPad WiFi + 3G I ordered came one day early (courtesy of an overloaded UPS system, I suppose) yesterday. First impressions