overstated

a weblog by cameron marlow

Month: December, 2003

Blogdex, the pimp

I enjoy checking my junk box. Now that all of my email is spam-filtered (with about 95% accuracy I might add), I get great satisfaction out of reading the titles of rogue messages and then squashing them all in one fell swoop.
Is blogdex your ULTIMATE fantasy?
And then there are those priceless gems, like the one [...]

Syndromic surveillance

After 9/11/01, the CDC Division of Public Health Surveillance with help from Homeland Security implemented a new program for tracking possible bioterrorist threats, known as syndromic surveillance. Instead of relying on medical diagnosis of individual doctors, the system looks for statistical anomalies across the symptoms reported in recent emergency room visits and notifies epidemiologists when [...]

12 days of Ludacrismas

This week I was down in the ATL at a CDC-related meeting, and had the wonderful opportunity to fall in love with the south all over again. Eating collards and fried chicken, talking about STDs, and of course listening to 107.9. If you haven’t noticed, Atlanta hip hop (Ludacris, T.I., Youngbloodz, Bonecrusher, Lil’ Jon, Outkast, [...]

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