I have now had the flu twice in one month. In previous generations, I would probably have died from this. I got it last time on 5/10 according to the last time I posted something about being sick, and I caught a light case of it yesterday from Rachel who was in extremely bad shape from Sunday night until this morning. I was out of work yesterday because of it, but now I'm basically fine. Usual stomach problems, headache, chills and all that bullshit, of course. I drank a lot of liquids the moment it started, including some organic fruit juice which has enough nutrients in it to jump start the immune system of a dead person. That stuff is potent, and I mean potent. One 12oz bottle of that stuff is like dropping a MoaB on the flu.
I've been having to clean up a lot of spam on my blog lately. The pattern I have noticed is that they use a blank link as the body of the comment or trackback ping and then put the spam link in the field that goes in with their name into the header for the comment/ping. I think I'm going to be left with little choice but to create a content filter that automatically moderates any comment with a blank link in there in order to shut these people down.
Stories like this are one of the best reasons I can think of to host your own blog. LiveJournal has admitted that they didn't even really review most of the journals before flushing them down the digital toilet for reasons that LiveJournal admits were probably neither illegal nor a violation of their terms of service. That's why it's important to host your own blog; you have control over the data so even if your host dumps you, you can easily move to a new one since you have the data for your blog in your possession.
Apparently a bunch of American Indians want to get compensated because cell phone signals pass through their land. That's a great idea. While we're at it, they can compensate the United States for the clean air that flows from Alaska into their territories, that was filtered by American trees. Come on, let's be fair here. They're tangentially benefiting from our excess clean air here.
Shrek 4 and Shrek 5? How much longer can they drag out the Shrek series before it implodes the way that the Matrix did? I haven't seen Shrek 3 yet, but apparently it's not as good as the previous two movies. Can't Hollywood let good series finish off before they ruin the public's perception of them with horrible sequels?
I am all for this new novel airspace idea. I think I am going to start suing for my small airspace. But now way am I stopping at cell phone signals. Those pesky radio waves are all over the place. AND those little people being beamed across to TVs might be spying on me. And those ham operators aren't going to get off easy, nor are the CB users (cops especially)
Can't forget DirectTV either.
Did I miss anyone?
Shrek is ALWAYS good :)
The flu, eeew. Don't you guys have the flu shot down inthose parts of North America?
Mmmm spam sandwhiches!
Hope you and the miss feel better berry berry soon!
Can't forget DirectTV either.
Hey now; some of us own shares. At least wait 'til I sell before you sue 'em. ;)
Don't you guys have the flu shot down inthose parts of North America?
I think the flu shot actually increases your odds of getting the flu. I seem to recall reading that somewhere (probably on one of Vox's myriad posts on vaccination).
Anyway, hope you get to feeling better, Mike.