There Are Crazies Out There

 General  1 Response »
Mar 262007
 

I’ve had my share of inter­net cra­zies, but noth­ing like this. Kathy Sierra has had death threats pos­ted on her blog and oth­er blogs. Whatever any­one may think of her (or oth­ers’) opin­ions, threats of this nature are not the answer.

HotMetaL

 General, Technology  6 Responses »
Mar 232007
 

When I first came to Canada I worked at SoftQuad. SoftQuad was one of the first SGML com­pan­ies, well known (in some circles, any­way) for its Pres­id­ent, Yuri Rub­in­sky. And well known in many oth­er circles for its HTML edit­or, HoT­Met­aL. The Sur­rey office did most of the devel­op­ment work on HoT­Met­aL and it was my main focus for quite some time. So it was with a cer­tain amount of nos­tal­gia that I saw HoT­Met­aL lis­ted on eWeek’s Jim Rapoza Picks the Top Web Tech­no­lo­gies of All Time — gone but not for­got­ten, as they say. Thanks to Kim for send­ing me the link.

Flu Survival Kit

 Family, Vancouver  No Responses »
Mar 012007
 

The Moose Fever that befell what seems to be half the North­ern­Voice attendees (although to be fair, lots of oth­er people I know in Van­couver are down with the flu as well, it seems par­tic­u­larly vir­u­lent this year) is slowly loosen­ing its grip. It’s more than a little dis­con­cert­ing when you go through the list of symp­toms in the BC Health Guide and real­ize you have all of them, plus a few more (what’s with the tin­nit­us?). So now, the res­ol­u­tions for next time, aka the flu sur­viv­al kit:

  • get the flu shot; even if it does­n’t always work, it prob­ably does often enough to be worthwhile
  • make sure the medi­cine cup­board always has the basics: ibupro­fen, phlegm loosen­er (pure Guaifen­es­in works best for me), decon­gest­ant (pseudoep­hedrine for when the cough no longer brings up phlegm but the ears are still plugged and I have a sinus head­ache), cough sup­press­ant, acetaminophen/paracetamol (in case the fever responds bet­ter to that than with ibuprofen)
  • herb­al teas help a lot: ginger and lem­on, cam­o­mile, mint
  • get lots of tissues
  • keep a few days worth of easy-to-pre­pare food around. Cook­ing from scratch is nice, but not when you can­’t stand up for very long.

Now all I have to do is remem­ber to read this list before the next flu sea­son starts!

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