Rants and Raves of Dr. Timothy Hain

This is a newer picture of Dr. Hain after he removed his beard Professor of Neurology, Otolaryngology, and Physical Therapy/Human Movement Science, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago IL, USA.

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EMAIL ADDRESS: t-hain@northwestern.edu

This space holds helpful information about various things that Dr. Hain has discovered by trial and error, or just felt strongly enough to need to vent.

Rants

Elsevier exploits authors. Actually most publishers exploit authors. I will add more companies as I publish more chapters.
Software
- Asterisk telephony-- not ready for the big time yet.
- efax -- a telephone tech company that doesn't answer their phone.
- Efilmlite radiology reviewing program (too lite)
- Microsoft Active-Sync -- avoid devices that use this (like the Blackjack-II) too.

So-so (or suboptimal perhaps)

Ad blocking using the "hosts" file -- much faster browsing and less annoyance! sometimes gets in the way.

Brother MFC-8820D multifunction printer, built like a tank, but has many major software problems. There are workarounds. Dr. Hain has many of these in his clinic.
Hotel Reviews (Dr. Hain likes his morning coffee).
- Biltmore Resort in Phoenix, AZ -- no coffee here
- Flamingo hotel in Las Vegas -- no coffee here either -- because of terrorists (?!)
- Hotel 140 in Boston -- shouldn't it be "Hotel 'Y' ? (Coffee is OK).
- New Hankyu hotel in Osaka -- lack of coffee is the least of this hotel's problems.
Concert that are suboptimal
- Mariochi Vargas de Tecalitian -- bring your ear plugs -- as you can't get away from the overloaded speakers inside.
- Tangastic (Chicago event) -- you better really like Tango.

Raves

Irfanview -- awesome little program to display and downsize graphic files
Electric Sheep Screensaver -- this is an awesome and free piece of fluff !
Foxit pdf reader/writer -- very fast and better feature set than Adobe Reader (it doesn't work with Microsoft Vista 64 bit very well -- but what does ?).
Kyoto, Japan -- beautiful and expensive
Roboform -- online password manager -- very useful for those of us with 1000's of passwords.
Thomas Glass
Concerts
- Billy Joel/Elton John
- Too Hot to Handel(jazz-soul-classical-opera fusion)