is a serious issue as personal data in the internet grow exponentially. I have just recently completed a paper on informed consent in medical studies but think now it will not go far enough. In accordance with recent proposals at the Internet Governance Forum of the United Nations we might need a system that allows a personal digital right management where a server runs a checksum or does a reverse lookup before transmitting personal data – otherwise data tranfer should be aborted. See more at the EU funded project PRIME – I fear that people will no more participate in our studies if we can´t guarantee them confidentiality.

Did you ever move a windows system to another computer? Reinstalling Office and R libraries, ODBC data sources, paths, skins, shortcuts? All your emails and other data? It takes me 2 days … Fortunately there is some software that can help.

Thousands and millions of talks start with the “first slide please” although there is no “slide” at all. This post, however, is more about my problems to manage the 300 slide shows here while making a new one. I found some nice software, that can re-index my old PP slides, and let me drag and drop to a new slide show. Costs for Slide Executive are ~79€. Is there any alternative? Continue reading The first slide please →