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A seven year old wonders where her mother is.
Finally, due to the efforts of some folks in Philly, this is getting some attention.
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Dental surgery today. The periodontist removed the roots of my left front tooth (I was surprised at the size of it), packed the socket full of bone chips (provenance not specified), and sealed the whole schmutz with a collagen membrane and some sutures. Took an hour or so, most of the time being spent on filling the socket with osseous goodness.
Surprisingly painless: the anesthetic wore off as the stitching was going on, so I could feel that, and that’s really all I have felt. They have me taking ibuprofen regularly, whether I need it or not, and that seems to work.
So eating and talking are discouraged for today, especially the latter: the vibration/movement/whatever makes the whole mess bleed and that’s messy
The surgeon said I could have copies of the before and after pictures she took: if I post them, I’ll put them below the fold.
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Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel?:
Trusted Computing in the kernel is like a rifle on the mantelpiece: if it’s present in act one, it’ll go off by act three.
Cory Doctorow gives a brief but illuminating overview of what ‘features’ we may find in new Mac hardware. Given we don’t even know what chips will be in the new Intel Macs and that the issues raised could be artifacts of the Pentium4 chips used for the Rosetta tools. it still bears watching.
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