...and the debate rages on, RangelMD vs. CodeBlue, for example. The pictures are interesting, even though I don't have nearly enough years of the right kind of school to referee the discussion. Hopefully the courts had access to physicians who had actually seen the patient in person.

Am I the only one troubled by the patient privacy issues here, HIPAA and all that? I haven't heard about that very much. Do dead people still have a right to privacy? (A serious question, I don't know!) Or the spectre of physicians offering judgements about a patient they have never seen, something that's happened a lot to Terri? Several Canadian doctors recently had their licenses permanently revoked for this. (You were wondering how Internet pharmacies operated, perhaps?)

Had a failure yesterday. It's convenient if the battery box is easy to remove, so that you can charge it elsewhere, but also resistant to tampering by curious passers-by. The Currie solution is to attach it to the bike with a security bolt. This consists of a thin bolt with a funny rounded triangular hole which fits its special key (that's the "security" part), and instead of threads, there's a tee which rotates a quarter turn into a locked position with a bit of a soft click. That's the "quick release" part. It's not a great system, and in fact the battery fell off the bike the very first time I tried to install it, but it did seem to work okay.

Well yesterday, I headed out for actual transportation (instead of collecting data), and as soon as I hit the road, the battery box dropped out of the frame, skittering across the asphalt being dragged by the power wires. Right in front of neighbors, too, who helpfully offered me sympathy and a ride. What happened is that the rounded triangular head had progressively stripped, enough so that it could no longer torque the bolt tight, but not so much that the key slipping in the head didn't feel like the soft click of the bolt engaging.

It's a bad design, and I'll have to do some surgery to replace it, but the bike won't work without the battery (well it will, actually, but that kinda misses the point), and the battery needs to come with the bike, which requires the battery case actually remain attached to the frame. Details, details...