Like it or not I spend a lot of my time traveling.  And not every trip is pleasure.  There are a lot of business trips on the horizon for me.  I already have my maps laid out for my upcoming business trips including a map of Montana, a map of Ontario, a map of Panama.

I like to take a map along with me on my travels.  I make notes on it before hand of the places I want to visit and things I want to do.  That way I have everything in one place.

I’m also taking a trip to Europe this summer and have already got my map of Poland and map of Russia.  It should be a great trip as I’ve always been fascinated with Eastern Europe and the Cold War.  I’m looking forward to a complete change of culture and an opportunity to visit places I’ve always wanted go to.

Google and the Cleveland Clinic are beginning a pilot project to link the health information for some of clinic’s patients with Google personal health records. The pilot project will last six to eight weeks, and involve less than 10,000 patients.

The Cleveland Clinic has more than 100,000 patients and many of those are retirees who spend some of the year elsewhere such as Arizona and Florida. And when they go, their medical records don’t follow says Dr. C. Martin Harris, the clinic’s chief information officer. Read more

The conviction of Steve Wright for the murder of five prostitutes in Suffolk has again thrown the light on prostitution. The debate about its legal and social status is as current as ever, but what do the men who visit prostitutes think about what they do?

Patrick, Pete and Mark have some things in common.

They are all successful, professional men, who work long hours and have to travel away from home. But what really unites them is that they all use prostitutes and are utterly unashamed about it.

Patrick, an IT worker in his 50s, dislikes the coverage of the issue. He dislikes the pieces written by feminists like Julie Bindel in the Guardian, who describes prostitution as “abuse”. Patrick also dislikes the tabloids.   Read more