PHPMyGTD “bug free” (ha!)

My pet project is coming along well. Tonight I made a bunch of UI improvements, and eliminated every single bug from my to-fix list.

There are still some more UI things that really should be fixed (like chiding the user for incorrect date input rather than simply adding an item with no due date), but I think I’ll probably have a beta release to post as a downloadable package on SourceForge soon.

Along with that will come a document page showing and explaining the UI.

Device handles chest compression part of CPR

Thanks to my grandma Tice for sending me this article:

The Lucas system runs on high-pressure air from either a compressed air tank or an air wall outlet in a hospital. The device is indicated for treating adults who have acute circulatory arrest – meaning they lack spontaneous breathing and pulse – as well as loss of consciousness.

Mechanical compression allows medical personnel to provide other therapies, the company said. The machine also should provide quality chest compressions for a longer period of time than a human can.

A 1995 study found that fatigue makes it difficult for even well-trained medical personnel to provide more than one minute’s worth of effective chest compressions, said Anne Devine, a Medtronic spokeswoman.

“Clearly these devices do much better compressions than humans do,” said Dr. Charles Lick, medical director of Allina Medical Transportation in Minneapolis.

Sounds kind of difficult to use, but apparently the EMTs like them enough that they’re putting them in ambulances.

iChat and the Netgear WGR614v6

My sister recently purchased a new MacBook, and I’ve been trying to do a video iChat with her for the last few days. It worked once and mysteriously stopped. I know that my router works, because I use it with Amanda. I had to turn on UPnP for it to work reliably, but

I finally got things working today. I had turned on UPnP on her router, but things still weren’t working. It turns out that there was some “secure” vs. “open” NAT option in the WAN set-up. Turning that option to “open” fixed the problem.

Hopefully this post will help someone else with the same problem.