Here we go, another blog in the profundities of the world wide web.
What is this all about?
Well, sometimes I have thoughts I want to share. This won`t be a blog everyone wants to read every morning, dying to read the latest article. But I hope it will become a blog where once in a while, someone searches the net and stumbles across one of my articles, glad to see what`s written.
That`s fine, but who are you?
I am a 30 year old MD-PhD currently doing a postdoc at CHIP, the Children's Hospital Informatics Program in Boston. There are three big areas I`m interested in:
Medicine,
Computers and
Snowboarding.
Concerning my medicine branch, I`m really into
Medical Informatics, which is what my job is all about. I did my PhD in
Immunology and
Bioinformatics but have since shifted areas a little.
The biggest part of this blog will be dedicated to all the computer-related stuff. I do a lot of Webprogramming and equally much Objective-C/Cocoa coding. Since 2008 I am creating
medical iOS applications, especially
MedCalc but also
Eponyms and
KidneyCalc. Back in the days, when Dashboard Widgets were so 2000, together with my good friend
Sebastian I ran a small "company" called the
Widgetschmiede, which is german for "Widget-smithy" and we created some widgets which are still available and may or may not work.
Ah yes, I use the
Dvorak Keyboard Layout since spring 2005, and it`s great. In that I use a Laptop, I`ve never actually used a real Dvorak keyboard, looking forward to Apple offering a Dvorak keyboard for its laptops...
As for snowboarding, check the
www.hillrippers.ch website, that`s the place for that.
That`s all for now, enjoy my blogs and don`t hesitate to comment on everything. Actually, wait, I had to disable the comments because of spammers getting past my Captchas. You can
get to me over at Twitter, though.
"Do, or do not. There is no try"
Yoda
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."
Robert M. Pirsig
Rafael: Thank you very much, I was having a huge headache to solve the very same problem!