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Life : Sinusitis Sucks
Posted by Compubomb On Sep 27, 2008 @ 10:25 pm | Visited ( 111 )
Once again, I've been spited by the ole mighty of wicked black fairy dust--sarcasm. I've recently
come down with a horribly nasty unpleasant sinus infection, the second this year thus far which also
happened last March. Money is tight and I'm fortunate to have had some spare kflex antibiotics. Only
have halve the dosage-time but I've used it for just this event on numerous occasions. Roughly every
year or every 6 months basically twice a year I get these dreadful infections. They suck.
Essentially at least with the flue, you get it, and you know within 2 weeks if you are healthy it
will go away, Sinusitis on the other hand is one of those things which lingers on and on and on
until you get either a combination of steroids plus antibiotics or just antibiotics. My head hurts,
my cheeks hurt, my bones ache and I have a temperature north of 100F less than 102F. The worst part
about all of this is I have my Course work to work on, and something in my world always comes up to
try to stab me in the back when I'm just moving up the latter so to speak.
Tech News : New Invention!!!
Posted by Compubomb On Sep 01, 2008 @ 6:51 pm | Visited ( 132 )
I just invented the word or so I think I did. Twitterific Fritter Freak! so all
those of you who are twitter whoring yourself out, you get to say, so what, I'm a TFF'er
Life : I Hate Drugs
Posted by Compubomb On Aug 06, 2008 @ 6:32 pm | Visited ( 157 )
So, now that I'm over this kidney stone, after having taken some order of magnitude i think 10+ or
so pills of vicodin in a 50 hour period i seem to have developed some kind of acetaminophen
tolerance. Herein lies the problem, I normally take Tylenol Arthritis for my ankle during the day to
help alleviate pain in my ankle and use Ibuprofen to work down the swelling as an anti-inflammatory.
Now Tylenol is no longer working, and i fear it's because the dosage of the vicodin from the
acetaminophen. I normally take only 1 to 2 doses per day, totaling like 700mg of acetaminophen, and
roughly the same of ibuprofen. So.. Who knows, maybe I'm just in a bit more pain than normal. Drug
abuse is one of those things i don't take lightly which is something i avoid as much as humanly
possible. I'd rather push through it then numb it.
Life : Kidney Stones are fun!
Posted by Compubomb On Aug 04, 2008 @ 2:38 am | Visited ( 126 )
So, earlier today, I passed a kidney stone the size of a small pebble. You wouldn't imagine
something so small would wreak havoc on your kidney but your kidney is designed to excrete fluids,
not solids. The process took me a whopping 50 or so hours during which I was mostly medicated on
5mg/500mg Vicodin. And no, I only took 1 at a time, totaling 10 pills during 50 hours, so roughly 1
pill every 5 hours or so. Vicodin sure does have a way of making you constipated, that is definately
for sure. Anyways, that was fun, now I'm hopping the next time it happens is when I'm in a grave. At
least then, I probably won't feel it.
Site Updates : REST & Jquery
Posted by Compubomb On Jul 19, 2008 @ 7:43 am | Visited ( 168 )
So, I've implemented REST urls & implemented a Jquery menu for Links, Category, and Archive. All
the urls now look like so url.com/controller/arg1/val1/arg2/val2 It's pretty nifty.
Correction: I guess i didn't actually implement REST, i only made my urls friendly. Either way, i
find it nifty.
Personal : After School & Summer
Posted by Compubomb On Jun 13, 2008 @ 5:31 pm | Visited ( 174 )
So, I've finished school for the semester, now already out of class for almost 2 weeks and getting
bored. I finished the semester with 3 A's and 1 B: Differential Equations 4th Semester Calculus [A],
Physics 202 Electricity & Magnetism [B], Java2 [A], Data Structures & Algorithms [A]. I felt
pretty good about the semester. I did however feel as though I learned nothing though in my software
courses as my Math & Physics class I believed were quite demanding on my brain. I guess when you
have to deal with complicated subjects your brain puts to the side other complicated subjects and
you start to realize you cannot enjoy them all with the same enthusiasm. Now all I have to do is
take Linear Algebra to transfer to 4 year university.
I've decided that I will
try to attempt to learn the programing language Python, and while I'm at it, I installed Ubuntu 8.04
64bit as to keep me more focused on my objectives. When I run windows, I don't know, it keeps me
from programing as much as I'd like to. It's as if windows XP is distracting me so much that I don't
want to do anything. Who knows, maybe the whole OS stifles innovation in how much it keeps you from
doing things. So now I'm running Ubuntu and I've figured out how to configure most of the things I
want.
As of late, I've been playing around with Komodo Edit 4.2--I couldn't find
a 64bit 4.3 version--and I have to say that I'm quite happy with it. I love how it has amazing
auto-complete functionality for not only php and python, but also for Javascript. It is rather
light-weight as compared to say Aptana, which runs on top of Eclipse and we all know that Eclipse is
a beast compared to the gecko engine that Komodo runs on.
Politics : Amen to that!
Posted by Compubomb On Apr 07, 2008 @ 1:23 am | Visited ( 238 )
This article over at the site The
National Expositor. I just can't get enough of his last paragraph which states
There is no one in the Bush administration with enough integrity to resign. It is
a government devoid of truth, morality, decency and honor. The Bush administration is a blight upon
America and upon the world.
I Say Amen Brother! I consider myself a patriot, but
these people are fascists. Mussolini the dictator of Italy during WWII supposedly from somewhere i
read online tried to rename fascism to Corporatism. If
you have kept up with your current events, you will notice one key event during the bush
administration, that being lobbyists get what they want. Lobbyists work for corporations, they have
the deepest of pockets, and their pockets circumvent the obligations of the Democratic Republic to
serve their constituency--that is the people of this great nation.
One of the
primary reasons this country had a revolutionary war was because the British Colonies experienced a
disbanding of their own governing institution and the saying resignates even today, "Taxation
without representation" and in our current government status, it is rampant. The most frightening
thing about all of this is they no longer conspire behind closed doors, but you hear about it in the
newspaper the next day they publish how the captured government entities have sided with corporate
interests over civilian interests.
Politics : Disappointment
Posted by Compubomb On Jan 09, 2008 @ 9:52 am | Visited ( 219 )
I'm extremely interested in politics lately. My new found hero is Ron Paul.
Unfortunately the people in New Hampshire the state which the saying goes, "Live Free or Die" seems
to not understand that the current running Republicans and Democrats other than Ron
Paul and Dennis Kucinich are all Warmongering Lunatics. Not to mention
that they think we can sustain a war and add public funded health care system at the same time. I'm
praying--and i'm not a religious person--that our country in the other 48 states have some reason
and will eventually give Ron Paul the support he needs to get elected.