I witnessed an interaction at the pharmacy today:
Pharmacist: Did your insurance change?
Patient: Yes.
Pharmacist: Can I have the card?
Patient: I’ve been coming here for 20 years, you can’t look it up?
Pharmacist: Nope, sorry
At first glance, well of course he needs the second card. But at second glance, the patient is right. We have the Internet. We spend way more money than anyone else on healthcare. And we can’t figure out how to notify his pharmacy of new insurance without resorting to plastic cards with numbers on them? Really?
Cause you know what makes something official: plastic cards.
A long overdue return to technical stuff…
If you use Google Analytics and actually look at your visitor data, you will be familiar with this phenomenon, which is the reported Safari browser version in GA:
Those are in fact, not Safari version numbers, but WebKit version numbers. Now, you might just be saying, “oh, stop whining, you can just correlate those!”
But, in fact, you would be wrong: For example, the WebKit version 533.17.8 is used in both Safari 4.1 and 5.0.1. For my purposes, this is not the end of the world as I tend to care more about the WebKit version than the browser version.
However, I do occasionally need to explain these numbers to like… clients, in which case, the above sucks. And it’s been broken for awhile. People have posted up various filters and such that you can use to improve the situation, but seriously, that’s an epic waste of time, so I’m whining about it on teh interwebs.
Per my earlier tweet:
Law of Unintended Consequences: western news becomes shitty and sold out, inspires wikileaks and social media, which free the middle east
Not only is there not a single mention of the word “Egypt” above the fold on the current cnn.com homepage, but even the SOTU headline is embarrassing.
And really, are you kidding me, there’s actually four dead white girls in the secondary story? It’s like CNN has become a bad parody of itself.
Compare this to the BBC homepage from the same time stamp. I left my clock in the screenshots so it was clear they were from the same time.
American news media has become such a disgraceful joke.
Floyd Norris’ has a great quip
New York has long been competitive with California, which replaced it as the most populated state. Now they are in a tight race to see which state has the least functional government. It is too soon to declare a winner.
