September 2009
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By Sara on September 19, 2009
It’s nice that there are three brands of cochlear implants. The competition keeps everyone moving forward. Cochlear just had a new implant and processor approved, the Cochlear 5. Here’s an example comparison posted to one of the mailing lists I’m on that shows how one brand is catching up with another. With the advent of the [...]
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By Sara on September 12, 2009
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com I love the talks at TED.com. Not only do they have subtitles in multiple languages on I think ALL videos, they are recorded in such a perfectly clear and high quality way that I can understand them without the subtitles. Even on my tiny [...]
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By Sara on September 12, 2009
This is a very long presentation about work policies at Netflix but you can skim through it pretty fast. I’d love it if I could get my company to adopt some of the freedoms seen here. 80% of my job is done on the computer (reports, CAD, reports, planning tests) and I can work on it [...]
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By Sara on September 11, 2009
Let’s see how I do with my last post’s list. I’m going to take CI/hearing topics today. 1. 4 months with CI That’s right. I was activated way back on May 4th. I’ve been in for just 3 mappings since then at 2 weeks, 1 month and 3 months (though all were a bit late). My audiogram has [...]
Posted in Hearing, Music, Work
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By Sara on September 11, 2009
This is a blog post to document and hopefully help people who find themselves with the problem I had today. You’ll also get to hear a little about my job. Part of my job is to witness, photograph and take video of shock testing that we do for the Navy. We have a medium weight shock [...]
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| Tagged excel, macros, run time error 4198, scripting, vba, word
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By Sara on September 2, 2009
I want to write! But there are so many things that I want to write about that I draw a blank when I open this window to start. Maybe a list will help… 4 months with CI CI #2? 2 CIs versus 1 CI and 1 HA versus bilateral EAS Music lately (wish I’d remembered to bring headphones [...]
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