I just successfully signed up for the new Google Health service.
It effortlessly linked up with my account at Walgreens, where they will now update each other. Google now knows slightly more about me than most of my family members.
Thank goodness.
There can be only one. The fight is over.
This seems like an opportunity to end a government program:
Kentucky Auditor Crit Luallen has released a performance audit of the state’s High-Tech Construction Pool and High-Tech Investment Pool, which are used to help technology businesses get started.
The pools are administered by the Department of Commercialization and Innovation within the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development.
Through April 2007, more than $104 million has been approved for use in 97 projects.
The audit reviewed a sample of 25 projects and found that, overall, the DCI is ensuring that the state is making investments as intended by law. However, there are areas where the department needs to provide greater transparency and accountability in its actions by documenting administrative processes and reporting on the outcomes of funded projects, the audit said.
Luallen said there are no regulations, internal policies or other formal written guidelines to document the criteria and process used in administering funds.
Why shouldn’t the General Assembly simply allow these kinds of “investments” to be made by the private sector instead of a public agency with few internal controls?
That kid who hacked his iPhone? He traded it for a new car and three more iPhones:
… seventeen-year-old George Hotz of Glen Rock, NJ has made the trade of the summer. Hotz traded his hacked iPhone for a new set of wheels (Nissan 350Z to be exact) and 3 more 8GB iPhones. “[Terry] Daidone, who’s the co-founder of Louisville, Kentucky-based CertiCell, has apparently also offered the young man a paid consulting job, but stresses the company doesn’t have ‘any plans on the table right now to commercialize Mr. Hotz’ discovery’.”
