by Daniel Vreeman | Jan 15, 2025 | Featured, musing
In the United States, on the third Monday every January we honor American civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr. Of course it was Dr. King who invoked the lyrics from that well known American anthem My Country, ‘Tis of Thee to so...
by Daniel Vreeman | Dec 22, 2024 | Featured, musing, project secret weapon, research
During our recent trip with the Ugandan Water Project, we visited communities, schools, and health clinics for a close-up and hands-on learning experience of how clean water solutions in Uganda are helping people break free from the bondage of water-borne disease and...
by Daniel Vreeman | Mar 18, 2024 | digital life, Featured, musing
Dubbed “the ultimate instrument for the performing musician,” scores of reviews praise the Nord Stage lineup. When our family’s venerable Yamaha YDP-121 digital piano accumulated nearly as many stuck keys as working ones, I selected the Nord Stage 3...
by Daniel Vreeman | May 31, 2021 | LOINC, musing
The most powerful health data standards are openly developed public goods. In crafting the Manifesto for Open Terminology Development we selected openness and accessibility as guiding principles. Yet in my conversations with standards development organizations who...
by Daniel Vreeman | Jan 18, 2021 | digital life, Featured, musing
Many of us are working from home offices more than ever now. With a proper setup, your home office can stimulate your best work. Too often, our high tech digital lives create a tangled mess of cables, chargers, and adapters that distract and annoy. Plenty of other...
by Daniel Vreeman | Nov 16, 2019 | musing, project secret weapon
In the summer of 2018, we traveled to Uganda for the commissioning of the Building Tomorrow Primary School of Mwiguru, located in the Masindi District that we helped launch in Phase 1 of Project Secret Weapon. We are so pleased that it is now up and running! While...
