If I'm allowed to be a tad personal here for a second, many of my greatest achievements have not come from my professional career, but rather my private life. It has been getting married to my gorgeous wife. It has been being blessed with two beautiful children, a boy and a girl. And, most of all, it has been making the most precious of memories in our daily lives together.

Preparing for the wedding, and later also both children's baptisms, it came quite natural for me to take on the designs myself. I early on decided to craft an organic skeuomorphic design that would translate well to both paper and screen. This allowed me to quickly create a wealth of custom designs, for everything from seating charts and wall-size banners through wine labels and place cards to invitations and web site, all with very little effort.

The color scheme of the wedding design proved particularly challenging though, as it needed to overpower the iridescent green and dark peach marble of the ballroom venue while still remaining easy on the eye. After a lot of trial and error, I finally arrived at a color fundament of Prussian blue and gold with Baroque undertones. Conversely, both baptism designs were blissfully smooth sailing, primarily consisting of softer and lighter pallet swaps of the original wedding design.

As the years have gone by, I've slowly had to let go of the domain names for the web sites of these events. As such, I am now relocating these three web sites to Mednotes.net for them to remain indefinitely available on the greater internet.

So feel free to visit Celina-Celeste.com, Alexander-Arian.com, or Katalin-Brynjar.com to see how we chose to celebrate these most important of moments. And for all of you who originally attended one or more of these gatherings, I wish you a wonderful trip back down memory lane together with us...

And with the final ad revenue payment received, I have stripped this web site for all Google-specific code. I have also removed the visitor counter, and even that pesky invisible 'tracking pixel' on the PayPal donation button (yeah, you probably didn't know about that one, now did you?).

This web site should now be pure unadulterated code, 100% free of any profiling, tracking, and advertisement!

But now that Mednotes.net has been completely demonetized, any help I can get counts more than ever! So please consider supporting this web site if you have a couple of bucks to spare!

And just like that, my old server space on the old server is alive and kicking once again! Not that I have any definite real world use for it now that Mednotes.net officially has moved to the new server, but a pleasant surprise to have a potential fallback server on hand in case my new server by any chance temporarily goes offline at any point in the future.

My web hosting service never stops to amaze me, so, once again, a big shout-out to Drávanet!

There are few things that scare me more than the thought of factual fallacies potentially having affected my perception of reality. This concern was the primary catalyst of proofreading every single last fact in my lecture notes against 5-9 different sources back in the day, and has kept me in pursuit of the objective truth ever since.

But, as Google and Facebook in particular keeps on fingerprinting our personalities, our core beliefs, and our deepest desires, more and more of our understanding of the world around us is in danger of being defined by the highest bidder rather than anything even remotely resembling the greater truth.

If these two tech giants had stuck to convincing us to buy a somewhat poorer vacuum cleaner, their sins might have been excused. However, their intimate knowledge of who each of us truly are is increasingly being used to manipulate our belief systems, our ethical compass, and our political views, and polarize us as a society...

...and that is INEXCUSABLE!

I have in recent years all but completely phased out both Google and Facebook from my personal life, and today I am happy to announce that I am starting to phase out every last bit of code used for profiling, tracking, and advertisement here at this web site as well. I have already stripped all Facebook-specific code, and all Google-specific code will follow as soon as the next ad revenue payment has been effectuated.

This will, of course, make the full economic burden of maintaining Mednotes.net fall on my own shoulders, so I hope you consider throwing me a bone if you have enjoyed the fruits of my labor throughout the years.

When Mednotes.net was first coded closer to 2 decades ago, the internet was a much simpler place. One of the quirks back then was that most mainstream web browsers didn't understand foreign language accents, symbols, and punctuation. I therefore had to use specific codes to force these web browsers to display such characters.

However, as the web has evolved, these codes are mostly no longer needed. A side effect of this is that several browsers now display these codes in clear view, making text in best case untidy and in worst case plain unreadable.

So, while I've been at it, I've sifted through every last corner of this web site correcting all those pesky typographical errors as well as a plethora of other minor code slip-ups.

Now let's hope the web site will hang in there for the next couple of decades as well!

Seven years ago my web hosting service kindly informed me that the old server which Mednotes.net was located on was about to be retired. A fresh server space had already been set up for me on their brand new server, and the only thing I had to do was to move the web site there.

However, the old server kept on churning one more year, and two more years, and three more years, and slowly the urgency of moving servers faded into obscurity. That is, until the old server finally took a bow earlier this fall.

I've been blissfully unaware of this for some time now until I recently discovered that the web site had lost top rank on Google for the first time in almost 10 years!

I now have done what I should have done many many years ago, and the web site has finally found its permanent new home on the new server. Now l can only pray that Google has mercy on my soul!

And a MASSIVE thank you to Drávanet for keeping their old server online for a full 7 years past its due date!

This fall marks 20 years since I put the first words of my lecture notes down on paper. If you would have told the 20 year old me that those very notes would still be put to good use 20 years later, I would have assumed you to be delusional. And, to be honest, I still find this fact hard to comprehend to this very day.

To put it into perspective, some of you medical students studying from my lecture notes at this very moment were not born when they first were written, and that is just plain absurd to think about!

So thank you from the bottom of my heart to all of you who have used my notes in the past or are currently putting my notes to good use, to all of you who have re-written my notes by hand or by computer, and to all of you who have made my notes your own or keep on updating my lecture notes with the most recent advances in the field of medicine...

...Thank you for proving the 20 year younger me wrong!

Since time continues to be a sparse commodity for me, I've decided to release the icon design template for Yosemite Disks to the public. I'm therefore relieved to release version 1.3 of Yosemite Disks, adding the base Photoshop PSD-file for you to design any custom hard disk icon you need for your particular storage setup.

The power is yours!

New in Yosemite Disks 1.3:
- Added the base icon design Photoshop PSD-file for making your very own Yosemite Disks custom icons.

And as the paradox of my specialization in general medicine is starting to sink in, I've updated my business card and my CV to reflect these recent professional milestones. The updates are now available for download at the very bottom of the on-site CV here at Mednotes.net.

Man, this new business card is making me feel ancient! I might as well just start planning my tombstone while I'm at it

On a fundamental personal level, I've always despised the idea of having to specialize my medical degree. To me, and only to me, specializing never felt like further academic ascension, but rather a descent into a deep dark proverbial valley from which I would lose sight of the collective medical sciences as a whole.

Considering my adequate manual dexterity, I dabbled with the thought of specializing within the field of surgery more than a dozen times both during my studies and after graduating. But somehow I never really could seem to shake the feeling of loosing more than I potentially would gain from such a venture.

As such, I'm grateful to announce that I've finally obtained my specialty title in the broadest and most ubiquitous field available to us medical doctors:

Specialist in Clinical Family Medicine!