Tales of Hoffman

SARS on "Medscape Live!"

We're going to try something new (at least for Medscape) next week and my blog readers are invited. On Wednesday, June 11 at 7pm Eastern, feel free to stop by Medscape for our first interactive and live webcast. This one is going to be about SARS (what else?). We'll have Larry Anderson, MD, Chief, Respiratory and Enteric Viruses Branch at the CDC, and Georges Benjamin, MD, FACP, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association.

Each speaker will give a short presentation and then we'll open up the webcast for questions from the audience. If you want to attend, you'll have to register for Medscape (if you're not already). I should have a URL for you sometime today or Monday. Mark your calendars now. If this works well, I think you'll be seeing a lot more of these on Medscape as time goes on...

Not as Bleak as it Seems

OK, I'm back. It appears that my postings from the start of this blog through May are still extant on the Internet and I'll have to take some time to figure out how to wrangle them back into the blog. In the meantime, let's just continue with the Internet and Medicine fun, shall we?

Tales of Hoffman...A Tragedy of Operatic Proportions

Things are extemely ugly here in "Tales of Hoffman"-land. Any help from you Radio Userland jockies out there is appreciated... I booted up my brand new work laptop (a very nice Thinkpad T30, by the way) and went right to the "Backup" program provided by Win2000. I had set this program to back up my Radio Userland folder each and every night, so I figure, I'm golden in restoring this blog (for the 2nd time!) even though my old HD was completely fried.

Here's the problem...When I go to restore my nice backup of the Radio Userland folder (using Win2000's "Backup" program), there seems to be absolutely no "radio.root" file in the backup! Huh? Is there some unknown (at least to me) limitation in Window's Backup program that keeps it from backing up radio.root even though it's in the folder with everything else that's backed up? Is there any hope for me? If not, today becomes day one for Tales of Hoffman all over again. Sigh. Someone please help...