First of all, apologies that my site was down for a few hours this afternoon. Apparently my host was having problems. So if you weren’t able to get your daily/semi-daily/hourly(?!) Being Amber Rhea fix, take it up with them, not me! </delusion type=”grandeur”>*
I concur with Tony Simon in hatred of reading about other people being sick - but that’s not going to stop me from subjecting you to it here, since this is my blog, ghatdammit. I think I must have either a UTI or some kind of kidney infection - that’s what my symptoms would suggest, anyway, according to a reputable health site with which I have no affiliation. I called my doctor this afternoon and spoke with her nurse; Doc was supposed to call me back, but she hasn’t yet. Hopefully she’ll call tomorrow morning and I can pop in for a prescription of antibiotics or something. Anyway, whatever it is I have, the point is that I’m feeling kind of crappy and I’ve become a Excedrin-poppping junky so as not to be in constant pain. Excedrin: it’s not just for headaches anymore!
* Ed. Note: Yes, I am aware that’s not proper HTML syntax. But it wouldn’t have been as funny to have a proper opening tag with the attribute and value on it. So suck it up, Captain Anal Retentive.
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13 Responses to "What Ails Me"
And it looks like Dreamhost is still in Nightmare Mode for me, since my site can’t connect to MySQL.
Which Excedrin do you use? I prefer Excedrin Migraine because it has lots of caffeine, which seems to help.
Extra Strength Excedrin is my drug of choice. Funny - looks like they are exactly the same thing! Ah, that’s marketing for you!
I agree, though - for headaches, caffeine is key.
You need to drink gallons of cranberry juice.
http://my.webmd.com/medical_information/condition_centers/pain_management/default.htm?z=3074_00000_1010_00_03
Thanks, Bhoooze. What would I do without you?
And just for the record, everyone else - this is not, in fact, spam. :P
No, if it were spam, it’d be a random link to somebody’s pharmaceuticals site, in a comment from 2003 about New York. Have you thought about using a captcha or a ref=nofollow tag, or both?
I already use ref=”nofollow”. What is a captcha? Or should I just fucking Google it? (Which will have to wait, since I’m working at the moment.) Anyway, I need to just put in some session-based checking thing that prevents people from spamming the form, but I’ve been too lazy to sit down and do it.
Mac uses Captchas.
Anyway, yeah, I don’t see nofollow tags anywhere, but maybe that’s a good thing. I like the idea, but I also think we shouldn’t penalize everyone for spammers’ asshattery. A lot of people find your blog via Google, and I wouldn’t want you to lose that.
I’ve also seen somewhere (I forget where now) an extra field in the comments stuff where you have to answer a question (like “what are letters #4-10 in my email address?”) in order to post a comment, and the site owner just changes the question randomly, or every week or two. If the commenter doesn’t type “ertange” as the answer, the blog doesn’t post his comment.
And here are some PHP captchas that may work for you.
Thanks for the info. I tend to find captchas annoying - and I feel that anything that causes the user to expend more energy than necessary is indicative of a bad UI - but we’ll see. If my session-based idea that I have swimming around in my head doesn’t work, I may give it a shot. I may just do something like, the first time a person comments they have to pass my “are you human?” test, and from then on out they’re allowed to post unrestricted. I can create a database table of “known users” or something.
Oh, and as to
nofollow… WTF? I thought I’d coded it in there. Gah. Oh well.