As the title says, my Internet holiday is complete. It was as fun as being in the cloud, to be sure. I’ll be back to regular publishing now, and comments and pings are turned back on.

Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative, Washington, DC

I’m resuming life in the cloud by attending the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative Stakeholders Working Meeting, here in Washington, DC. I hope to post updates throughout the day - we are all fortunate that this group operates with an impressive level of openness and interest in collaboration (just as its name implies). The agenda and materials are online for others to peruse.

By the way, here’s what an Internet Holiday looks like.

It’s time again for an Internet Holiday. You can read about the philosophy behind this from past holidays. Once, maybe twice a year is a good idea.

Comments and trackbacks will be locked in the meantime.

I’ll leave things with a nice summer photograph, the Washington Nationals Baseball Park, Washington Monument in the distance.

I am going on a planned Internet holiday (more information is here), which will reduce the publishing schedule for this blog. Comments on previous posts are closed, but these will reopen in about a week. Thanks for reading!

My second planned Internet Holiday begins tomorrow. The idea came to me from Author Timothy Ferriss, as did the parable that I posted shortly before my last Internet Holiday.

It’s still a useful read. I will be freezing comments in the meantime. Be back in touch in about a week.

I am back from my Internet holiday, and the picture below shows what an Internet holiday looks like. Not bad!

Continuing on my “own CIO” thread, I am facing a total system upgrade this week when Apple releases the Leopard operating system. I’m not really an early adopter when it comes to things like this, so I’ll wait a few days. I am most interested in the changes coming to iCal, the scheduling program that comes with Leopard. I read that Apple the company has adopted the use of iCal across its own enterprise - this bodes well for the improvements that I’ll see when I upgrade.

My return also brings the launch of the official blog for my main sabbatical project, “Patient Centered Health Information Technology” or PCHIT for short. I’ll be operating this blog with Josh Seidman, Ph.D., the President of the Center for Information Therapy, as well as clinicians who I will be working with over the six months. It’s useful to note that the blog is the kind of thing that you start small and then grow - you don’t release it as a finished Web site. This is the spirit of Web 2.0! Some of the things I mention here I’ll instead mention there, where this blog will be more about my sabbatical experience and items that I work on outside that project.