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This is just wrong.

My designs are not the most skilled or, are they the prettiest. I sure hope that my stuff looks better than this guy’s. Yuck.

The posts from yesterday are as my boss would say, “Titso!”

I tried to upgrade to the latest verison of Nucleus and somewhere along the line my database got completely farked. Argh! I was up really late trying to recover from error after error with no luck. So I downloaded and installed b2 which turned out to be another great blogging program. I did a little (I mean little) debugging and had that up and running. I didn’t sleep very well though thinking all of my content was gonzo.

However, I got to work this morning and found backups of my database and the older version of nucleus. So, we’re back to the same old thing. But hey, it’s the devil you know and I do like nucleus.

You may want to buy this book.

Interesting reading at MSNBC: The human cloning dilemma

I was reading the online edition to the Bridgewater Bulletin, the newspaper from NS that I’m subscribed to, and found an interesting article. An old friend of mine, Richard Corkum, suffers from a rare disease (only 4000 cases worldwide) called Fabry’s Disease. He has become quite active in clinical studies and drug trials through a company in the US. He also built a website, fabrysociety.org. As the disease is genetic, other members of his family also suffer the disease to varying degrees.

From his site:

“What are the symptoms of Fabry’s disease?



Boys with Fabry disease usually have discomfort of the hands and feet with abnormal sensation (paresthesia) or burning pain by adolescence. Red raised lesions known as angiokeratomas occur on the skin and within the mouth. The ability to sweat is decreased. The cornea and lens of the eye become clouded.There may be painful abdominal crises. Renal impairment may require dialysis or kidney transplant. The kidney failure may cause hypertension. Heart function can be impaired.

Females with partial enzyme activity may not show any symptoms or only late in life. Impaired heart function may be their primary problem.”

Richard and his nephew, Jamie Hirtle, also suffering from Fabry’s, have been traveling to the US to participate in research. The drug companies and the American government have been footing the bill for them to take part. However, the Nova Scotian and Canadian governments do not cover treatment of this sort as it is rare and still experimental. Of late the two have been receiving bi-weekly transufusions of enzymes that have helped to reduce the symptoms of the disease.

Hopefully, once the trials are over, either the Canadian and Nova Scotian governments, or the drug companies themselves, will pony up the dough to keep Richard and Jamie going with treatment.

Good luck Richard. Activism for such a positive cause gives you nothing but good karma.

According to The Register the people who own the rights to Godzilla have had their lawyers bully blogger Davezilla about his use of a little dragon for his logo and the name ending in -zilla. Everyone’s guess is that Mozilla is next.

Wow! It’s pretty neat to be involved in such a new medium. We get to see laws developed to handle something that was so small 10 years ago that it didn’t require laws. Hopefully the good guys (the little guys like us) will win. I don’t think Davezilla is going to hurt Godzilla’s rep. There’s a string of terrible films that have already taken care of that.

Go get ’em Davezilla. Call me Lunchzilla!

HAHA! SuperGuy is just a guy!