Nothing but cleaning things up and a bit of spying today.
Nice to see Marianne in poetic mood at belcatja (no "permalinks" there); Katja has been instead concerned with marking their teachers' performance this year.
Great stuff if you can understand both French and their French, the text message and Net shorthand of our times...
I've begun treatment.
Today. For Crohn's disease (speculated about enough already, with the main links on May 19).
We decided to stop hanging around for the conclusive tests to be done in a clinic on July 17. It's pretty clear, with virtually all other possibilities ruled out and something nasty still going busily in my guts.
"Blogs are not simply online diaries. They are not simply a new form of instant publishing and group-think. Many are written by people who have been to hell and back. (...)
Much of my early blogging was about my father's downward spiral into illness and finally his death last year on April 9th.
Am I saying you have to turn your blog into General Hospital to get readers? Not at all. I'm saying that many of us have been through personal crises that have given us new wisdom, new clarity about what matters and what doesn't. (...) It's a life and death thing. It's not casual. We have some skin in the game."
That's a savagely chopped excerpt from a 'Halley's Comment' entry well worth the read: 'Dying to tell you our stories'. With links, like a handful of mine, to people who "have been to hell and back".
Not that my probable Crohn's is at a critical phase yet; on the contrary, the ongoing diagnosis is beginning to explain a lot, while the treatment could help with a range of problematic symptoms I've enjoyed for more than a decade...
I saw Halley Suitt's thoughts via Dave Winer, whose telegraphic style is poles apart from my own, except when he waxes 'angry on 'Scripting News', a rare event (and insight into a technical row at one of the cores of the "blogosphere").
Behind the scenes here, a host of code changes were triggered when I noticed that my pages have stopped printing decently in the new Safari 1.0 browser. (They still don't, but that's another story and I've stopped blaming myself, for now...)
Sorry if the slightly altered looks irritate some who don't use fairly big screen resolutions (I usually work in 1152 x 864). However, to cater to the majority of two and a half of my three and a half readers, all those links down the side should now open in a new window -- or you obviously retain the "new tab" option. Whatever.
By request. As to the in-text links, that remains your call.
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