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NPR's Morning Edition corespondent Joanne Silberner posted (7/28/08) a news article entitled "Why Do Sick People Go To Work? Unhealthy Fear"

Basically, she reports that more people are coming into work sick, according to a new poll conducted by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health. The article goes on to explain that they arrive at work ill because of increased financial press… Continue

I have FohBoh to thank for this, my first foray into blogging. It's a culmination of a few things actually.

I love technology. I grew up with it. My first real computer was a time-sharing system. Dial up? Yes, but the "keyboard and monitor" were a clunky teletype system. On a good day you might even hear me tell some stories about DARPAnet. I've played with mainframes, minicomputers and PC’s starting with DOS 1.0.

I’d giggle inside my head when visiting friends and I saw their VCR’s blinking 1… Continue