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Jan. 16th, 2008 12:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chickenfeet1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
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1) There are a lot of changes happening in the field of healthcare IT, in this country. What's changing in Canada? Do you think things are going in the right direction?
Lots! People have written books on it. In summary, federal seed money is starting to generate provincial level initiatives around a more or less common e-health blueprint. I'm still less than fully convinced that overarching grand designs are a good way forward. I prefer local, limited scope initiatives that have user support. I tyhink too much effort is going into creating electronic replications of traditional medical charts and not enough into what 'ehealth practice' should look like.
2) Your journal title promises kittens: where are they? (I gather you foster them - how does that work, and what's happening at the moment?)
From time to time we foster kittens for the Humane Society until they are big enough to go to 'normal' long term homes. Currently our schedules don't allow us to do it so we have to make do with the three permanent residents.
3) What has made you happiest, this week?
It's not been a very happy week so far. I hope I made the most of the last few days with my daughter.
4) What is the book that pleases you most? (As an object and/or as reading matter)
As an object, my copy of Gide's Thesee with the Krol woodcuts. I lust after a copy of Corneille's Le Cid with the Aizpiri engravings or, if I was being silly, the Chagall Daphnis and Chloe. There are pictures of some of my more interesting books at http://ca.geocities.com/jgilks@rogers.com/books.html
As reading matter, there are many books I admire greatly. I'm currently rereading Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time for the umpteenth time. In the non fiction world I have a soft spot for Marc Bloch and Roger Penrose.
5) If I came to dinner, what would you cook?
I don't think I know you well enough to answer that. I try and cook things my guests will enjoy!
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sam_t1) There are a lot of changes happening in the field of healthcare IT, in this country. What's changing in Canada? Do you think things are going in the right direction?
Lots! People have written books on it. In summary, federal seed money is starting to generate provincial level initiatives around a more or less common e-health blueprint. I'm still less than fully convinced that overarching grand designs are a good way forward. I prefer local, limited scope initiatives that have user support. I tyhink too much effort is going into creating electronic replications of traditional medical charts and not enough into what 'ehealth practice' should look like.
2) Your journal title promises kittens: where are they? (I gather you foster them - how does that work, and what's happening at the moment?)
From time to time we foster kittens for the Humane Society until they are big enough to go to 'normal' long term homes. Currently our schedules don't allow us to do it so we have to make do with the three permanent residents.
3) What has made you happiest, this week?
It's not been a very happy week so far. I hope I made the most of the last few days with my daughter.
4) What is the book that pleases you most? (As an object and/or as reading matter)
As an object, my copy of Gide's Thesee with the Krol woodcuts. I lust after a copy of Corneille's Le Cid with the Aizpiri engravings or, if I was being silly, the Chagall Daphnis and Chloe. There are pictures of some of my more interesting books at http://ca.geocities.com/jgilks@rogers.com/books.html
As reading matter, there are many books I admire greatly. I'm currently rereading Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time for the umpteenth time. In the non fiction world I have a soft spot for Marc Bloch and Roger Penrose.
5) If I came to dinner, what would you cook?
I don't think I know you well enough to answer that. I try and cook things my guests will enjoy!
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Date: 2008-01-16 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-16 06:13 pm (UTC)2. I just don't get the appeal of Dr. Who. Enlighten me!
3. If the lemur and I were to visit SE Europe where should we go?
4. You have travelled more than most. Given a free choice where would you choose to live and why?
5. Tou describe yourself as a 'lapsed medievalist'. Who among medievalists do you most admire?
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Date: 2008-01-16 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-16 09:55 pm (UTC)2. What did the bunnies ever do to you?
3. What did the Romans ever do for us?
4. Is haggis a weapon of mass destruction?
5. If you ended up like the unfortunate victm in Barbarian Invasions, which end would be in Ontario, which in Quebec? Give reasons.
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Date: 2008-01-16 10:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-16 10:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-16 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-16 09:52 pm (UTC)2. Best and worst things about living in London
3. What are your religious views?
4. What do you read for fun?
5. Favourite flavour of icecream?
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Date: 2008-01-16 10:28 pm (UTC)My answers are here
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Date: 2008-01-16 09:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-16 10:00 pm (UTC)2. Pirates or vampires?
3. What's the best place to visit in New Jersey?
4. Is there any difference between brands of vodka?
5. Is there any food you absolutely wouldn't eat?
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Date: 2008-01-17 09:48 am (UTC)I agree with you about the limited use of overarching grand designs (although there's obviously somewhere between that and allowing fifteen hundred incompatible systems to spring up at once), particularly in an area where there are so many different organisations, often wanting completely different things, with a stake in what happens. There are so many possibilities for misunderstanding (a)what's needed and (b)how difficult it is (if we've got this new computer system, it should be easy to get a report showing this data, right? Well, no, not necessarily, particularly if no-one's actually recording it...).
For the record, I haven't yet found a food I really couldn't enjoy if cooked well!
Could I have some questions, too?
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Date: 2008-01-17 11:16 am (UTC)2. Climbing ambitions beyond the gym?
3. Travel plans? Travel ambitions?
4. Favourite places to go hiking?
5. Why the 18th century?
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Date: 2008-01-17 10:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-18 12:47 pm (UTC)2. Where's next on the list of exciting foreign adventures?
3. What do you see your life being like in 20 years time?
4. Dogs or cats?
5. Tips on how to survive working for a Telco?
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Date: 2008-01-20 02:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-20 02:32 pm (UTC)2. I really don't get the adults reading kids' books thing. Enlighten me.
3. Can 'knowledge' be 'managed'?
4. Which feels longest; Branagh's four hour Hamlet, Lohengrim or the 14th century?
5. What style advice would you give to a terminally unstylish slob like me?
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Date: 2008-01-20 02:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-20 02:41 pm (UTC)That conjured up a highly inappropriate image for the Sabbath...
Is there some essentially trivial skill or knowledge that you really wish you had? Wanting to know the 'nature of God' doesn't count. 'Being able to play the kazoo' does.
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Date: 2008-01-20 02:44 pm (UTC)Somehow I get the feeling you're not thinking about Oliver Twist here.