I had so much to do today but a million things came up including this meeting where we talk about If Disney Ran Out Hospital. The best part was I got to have a lot of fun playing with some networked controlled cameras. I really like programming involving some sort of extra hardware and the web. Maybe I should work so NASA or Deep Sea Exploration of something.
So it's my birthday coming up so soon. On the 22nd I will officially be 31 years closer to dying than I started.
I want to want some electronic but there is nothing left that I want. Last year I got the Nokia N800 I kind of wanted the Nokia N810 but really the only difference between that than the N800 is the keyboard and GPS which my new phone already has. Not to mention no store has it right now. What I really want its the Nokia N810 but with phone line, not just voice over IP and that doesn't exist.
I want a totally open, totally accessible, linux based cellular phone with all the hardware capabilities of the nokia 810. So basically, that with a phone in it. Supposedly they will have a wimax version someday.
I wish it would just happen now as a GSM phone. Its so weird because the Nokia 7710 was almost there and I loved it but I wanted linux and then came the Nokia 770 and 800 but lacked phone. None of those had GOS or keyboard and now the 810 has GPS and keyboard but lacks phone. Its like they alway get so close to getting it right. Maybe I need to just hack it so that I can pull the gsm parts out of the Nokia 7710 and put them in the Nokia 800. That way I could have the best of both worlds. Oh ya, but minus the GPS, argh.
If only the iphone had a real keyboard and was more open. So back to where I was at there is nothing I want, short of a computer controlled microscope which I know I am not allowed to have yet. Imagine how crazy I could go then.
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01/18/2008 22:55 #42944
Crazy DayCategory: technology
01/17/2008 19:37 #42933
Quest Diagnostics: Bleeding for wheat?Category: health
I went to go give blood for so many tests this morning by Quest Diagnostics
over at 191 North street. They have the best web site ever. It isn't super pretty or anything but you make appointments online and then they give you a google map to your appointment. not only that if you put in your google acct data, they add it to you google calendar. It is so nice to be able to arrange it all online and I applaud them as the best meical website I have dealt with so far.
I will finally see if I have any food allergies to things like wheat and corn and I think it is a little more accurate than the hold the glass jar with flour in it technique at the naturopath, lol.
When I first got there, the phlebotomist could not read the prescription sheet and told me I would have to come back. I was so angry I stormed out and knocked some shit over by accident but I was so angry I didn't pick it up - which mad it look like it was on purpose.
It was a tense moment but once I was outside I realized I needed to get this done now and that I was not going to fast again and I wanted the test now - so I called the doctors cell phone and got her to talk to him. He had refused to call himself because he said the doctors are really mean when he calls and they yell at him. Luckily, my doctor is really nice.
In the end, it worked out great because he ws the best plebotomist I ever had. I didn't even feel the needle go in my arm or notice as they filled five tubes with blood. I wonder what I will find out, maybe that it is bad to eat 2 eggs for breakfast everyday?
It was amazing compared to the nurse in the hospital that I think stabbed through my vein it hurt so bad and swelled up.

I will finally see if I have any food allergies to things like wheat and corn and I think it is a little more accurate than the hold the glass jar with flour in it technique at the naturopath, lol.
When I first got there, the phlebotomist could not read the prescription sheet and told me I would have to come back. I was so angry I stormed out and knocked some shit over by accident but I was so angry I didn't pick it up - which mad it look like it was on purpose.
It was a tense moment but once I was outside I realized I needed to get this done now and that I was not going to fast again and I wanted the test now - so I called the doctors cell phone and got her to talk to him. He had refused to call himself because he said the doctors are really mean when he calls and they yell at him. Luckily, my doctor is really nice.
In the end, it worked out great because he ws the best plebotomist I ever had. I didn't even feel the needle go in my arm or notice as they filled five tubes with blood. I wonder what I will find out, maybe that it is bad to eat 2 eggs for breakfast everyday?
It was amazing compared to the nurse in the hospital that I think stabbed through my vein it hurt so bad and swelled up.
01/17/2008 19:16 #42932
Many Buffalo web site's vulnerableCategory: web
A very prominent local technology firm had a flaw in their web based authoring system that put many local buffalo websites at risk. I am not giving any names or details because the flaw is still out here and I don't want to compromise anyones servers and websites, it is amazing if they haven't already been considering the simplicity of this hack.
The flaw was not even a technology flaw but just a very weak security flaw that is totally inexcusable for such a commercial high cost industry. Seriously, I can't freakin' believe it. I wish I could give you more details but it really isn't safe. All the companies involved are at pretty serious hack risk which could effect the integrity of their servers and data, and could infect user computers as well and snoop on data.
God, thinking about it makes me sick. I am so curious to see how they will handle it.
The flaw was not even a technology flaw but just a very weak security flaw that is totally inexcusable for such a commercial high cost industry. Seriously, I can't freakin' believe it. I wish I could give you more details but it really isn't safe. All the companies involved are at pretty serious hack risk which could effect the integrity of their servers and data, and could infect user computers as well and snoop on data.
God, thinking about it makes me sick. I am so curious to see how they will handle it.
zobar - 01/18/08 12:22
ZOMGWTFONOZ!!! Hmm...
Well it ain't Schneider Digital :::link::: because they aren't anymore... [ps. Zack totally got canned from Clevermethod.]
It ain't VertaSource :::link::: or else their CTO woulda been freaking out at the office instead of hanging from the ceiling of the roller rink playing with a fog machine...
It ain't HLM :::link::: because all they do is repackage MovableType and they haven't had a high severity security update since ... oh.
- Z
ZOMGWTFONOZ!!! Hmm...
Well it ain't Schneider Digital :::link::: because they aren't anymore... [ps. Zack totally got canned from Clevermethod.]
It ain't VertaSource :::link::: or else their CTO woulda been freaking out at the office instead of hanging from the ceiling of the roller rink playing with a fog machine...
It ain't HLM :::link::: because all they do is repackage MovableType and they haven't had a high severity security update since ... oh.
- Z
jason - 01/18/08 08:28
Haha, gee, "prominent Buffalo technology firm" who have an authoring system? That narrows it down to, oh, about one I'm sure.
Haha, gee, "prominent Buffalo technology firm" who have an authoring system? That narrows it down to, oh, about one I'm sure.
imk2 - 01/17/08 20:51
omg, is it who i think it is?
omg, is it who i think it is?
01/15/2008 22:30 #42903
This seems so fishyCategory: web
I am just full of journals tonight. Maybe I am going to go back to full time blogging now that I have a lot of time waiting while cooking. I don't care what side of the abortion fence you are on, this is not about that, but about companies lying.
In this information weekly magazine article
about Comcast blocking certain type of traffic they also mentioned Verizon was caught blocking people's text messages based on content but it was an accident.
I don't understand how you are supposed to read this.
1. They had some system that let a rogue employee gain access to some filtering system and stopped that accidental access.
2. They wrote a production level program and deployed it that filtered out text messages about abortion rights, but when then they deleted it, they discovered that they had accidentally programmed and deployed it.
3. They had a verbal policy that used to disallow discussion about abortion rights via text message but then when they realized that the policy was an accident, they had already developed and deployed a system that actively filtered abortions rights information out.
If it is a filtering list system, what other words were "accidentally" filtered and who came up with that list. What do you think?
In this information weekly magazine article

Verizon Wireless apologized for its blocking of an abortion rights group's messages, said the incident was isolated, and said it changed an outdated policy to ensure messages aren't blocked based on their content.
I don't understand how you are supposed to read this.
1. They had some system that let a rogue employee gain access to some filtering system and stopped that accidental access.
2. They wrote a production level program and deployed it that filtered out text messages about abortion rights, but when then they deleted it, they discovered that they had accidentally programmed and deployed it.
3. They had a verbal policy that used to disallow discussion about abortion rights via text message but then when they realized that the policy was an accident, they had already developed and deployed a system that actively filtered abortions rights information out.
If it is a filtering list system, what other words were "accidentally" filtered and who came up with that list. What do you think?
fellyconnelly - 01/16/08 07:01
hmmmmmm now if only they can filter out the damn spam messages that their customers keep getting...
hmmmmmm now if only they can filter out the damn spam messages that their customers keep getting...
james - 01/15/08 23:08
That sounds like a very poorly run on sentence.
That sounds like a very poorly run on sentence.
01/15/2008 22:00 #42902
Crohn's begoneCategory: health
So I called the Dr. Visco's office for like the fifth time today trying to get my biopsy results. I knew he probably deals with it everyday but for me I don't and I was really anxious waiting a week to find out. So then when the secretary read it to me she didn't mentions Crohn's and so I said, "Doesn't you mean to say Crohn's somewhere?" and she said it didn't say it anywhere on there. Needless to say I asked the doctor to call me back as I am so sick of talking to secretaries at this point. I think this is the same woman that said IBS when she meant IBD originally and caused the whole unbelievability factor with my former primary care physician.
So Dr. Visco calls me back like 4 hours later to say that the biopsy was consistent with their findings that I had ulcerative colitis but I am sure that he told me Crohn's before, (e:terry) remembers it too. He wants to see me again in four weeks. Seriously, even though Ulcerative Colitis can be life long and really bad, and you can lose you large intestine - it stops there - unlike Crohns which can kind of go anywhere from you mouth to your butt and can wreck you small intestine.
He also said I had crytptitis or something like that where the cells in my intestine that mature into normal intestine cells where messed or inflamed. I wish I understood it better. Frankly, I just wish he described it better.
Is this good news? I wish I knew.
So Dr. Visco calls me back like 4 hours later to say that the biopsy was consistent with their findings that I had ulcerative colitis but I am sure that he told me Crohn's before, (e:terry) remembers it too. He wants to see me again in four weeks. Seriously, even though Ulcerative Colitis can be life long and really bad, and you can lose you large intestine - it stops there - unlike Crohns which can kind of go anywhere from you mouth to your butt and can wreck you small intestine.
He also said I had crytptitis or something like that where the cells in my intestine that mature into normal intestine cells where messed or inflamed. I wish I understood it better. Frankly, I just wish he described it better.
Is this good news? I wish I knew.
jenks - 01/16/08 10:26
haha, oops. I am so full of stupid abbreviations that I forget they are not all standard. Yeah, f/u is follow-up.
haha, oops. I am so full of stupid abbreviations that I forget they are not all standard. Yeah, f/u is follow-up.
paul - 01/16/08 09:02
Yes, thank god they are the same mostly at the level I am at - so no mis-medication
Yes, thank god they are the same mostly at the level I am at - so no mis-medication
fellyconnelly - 01/16/08 07:04
are the drugs and diet that are associated with crohns the same as with ulcerative colitis?
are the drugs and diet that are associated with crohns the same as with ulcerative colitis?
jbeatty - 01/15/08 23:01
Maybe not to paul, but its slightly amusing that you refer to follow up as f/u.
Maybe not to paul, but its slightly amusing that you refer to follow up as f/u.
jenks - 01/15/08 22:50
he definitely said crohn's to terry. and to me.
Ask him about it at your follow up.
they're not HUGELY different in my book.
Yes, you CAN get small bowel crohn's, but it's really rare. They're both pretty much colon disease.
I totally understand you wanting to know, and I hate that path always takes so long.
But aside from your sanity (not to say that doesn't count for anything), it probably won't make a huge difference- in your treatment- at least for right now. i.e. until you go back to see him. So just pin him down at f/u.
he definitely said crohn's to terry. and to me.
Ask him about it at your follow up.
they're not HUGELY different in my book.
Yes, you CAN get small bowel crohn's, but it's really rare. They're both pretty much colon disease.
I totally understand you wanting to know, and I hate that path always takes so long.
But aside from your sanity (not to say that doesn't count for anything), it probably won't make a huge difference- in your treatment- at least for right now. i.e. until you go back to see him. So just pin him down at f/u.
jim - 01/15/08 22:14
Seems like good news! Unless they're still telling you wrong things.
Seems like good news! Unless they're still telling you wrong things.
i like getting blood drawn, is that strange?
our phlebotomists at roswell are awesome.
I've been going to 191 North every 6-8 weeks for the past 3 and a half years now. It can be hit or miss based on whatever phlebotomist is on duty but more often than not the folks that work there are pretty adept at their profession. I've only run into one or two butchers so far. Glad to hear you had a pleasant experience! :)