Don't Back Down

Adding another 100mg pill to my nightly dose of Zonegran. Nearly a full dose at this point.

Strangely, I think I'm actually feeling better, even with the additional medication, than I had been on Dilantin alone. Perhaps it is just the relief of a potental end in site.

I heard that America was founded for the people. I don't think that's true now, and I don't think it's been true for a long, long time.

We have odds on American Idol. We have groups of people who band together every week to buy lottery tickets in the hopes that they are the ones who will strike it rich. Yet gambling is bad, says our leaders. Don't they work for us?

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Scientists have allegedly found a crater in Egypt. A really big one. 19 miles big, if their figures are correct. I've seen the picture. What I don't see is the crater.

The article talks about the untrained eye, and I'm rather certain that it would be difficult to be more untrained than my eye (or eyes, as the case may be). But still. Shouldn't it look something like a circle? I mean, sure, those dotted white lines are circular, but if you take them out of the picture, you get something like this (or this).

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In 1984, AT&T (Ma Bell) was split up into 8 Regional Bell Operating Operating Companies (RBOCs, also called Baby Bells).

In 2001, two of these Baby Bells, Southwestern Bell (by then, SBC Communications - it sounds so much nicer) and Southern Bell (by then, Bellsouth) joined forces to create Cingular Wireless - actually a federation of 11 wireless carriers (via).

Then it gets confusing. In 2004, Cingular purchased the AT&T Wireless brand for a measly $41 billion, creating the largest wireless phone provider in the US. Then in 2005, SBC acquired whatever was left of AT&T for another $16 billion. Yesterday, the rebranded company, now once again called AT&T, announced its intention to acquire Bellsouth.

In other words, roughly twenty years and well over $120 billion dollars later, 1/4 of the original AT&T is, well, AT&T. Got it? Good.

I went today for an MRI on my head. They do this periodically to see what's going on in there. I can only assume they think that they will find something interesting.

The last time that I did one (2002), I decided I really don't want to do this again. I've never thought of myself as claustrophobic, but something about being in there sure did it to me. I really didn't want to do it again.

So when I got to the desk, I inquired about a sedative or something, whereby I was promptly informed that if I needed a sedative, I should have arrived earlier so that it had time to work - and someone should have asked me. They didn't, I didn't, so I was out of luck. We left.

In this latest round of strange pictures, the image purports to show massive shock waves as galaxies collide. Am I the only one who sees the smiley face instead? Maybe it was the Breakfast Jack this morning.

Tonight the Zonegran dose will be at full-strength (400mg), so I am taking the first steps to reduce my Dilantin dosage. The first change is to take only one Dilantin pill (100mg) in the morning. I'll still take 3 pills (300mg) in the evening.

Though actually my medication has been changing for a couple of weeks now, it's taken on a new direction. To recap. For roughly 20 years I've been on Dilantin. With a few notable exceptions, we've been able to get along just fine. So switching medicines has been a bit of a nervous option for me. Frankly, I haven't wanted to do so. I know a lot of people don't like Dilantin, but for a drug first synthesized nearly 100 years ago, I'm okay with a few potential side effects. At least they are well known. For a newer drug that perhaps only has been around for 10 years, the answers just aren't there.

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Seriously. I've had this little itch to reorganize things around here for a while, and once I get the server move completed, I think I probably will do so. One of the things on my mind is the archives. I know that I rarely read the archives of anyone else's site. So why do we have archives?

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Tonight marks a full dose of Zonegran, at 400mg. I've been feeling a bit drowsy, but I think it's from the high level of drugs in me right now. Hopefully with the Dilantin starting to taper off, that will be better soon.

While moving a customer's Exchange installation, one of the users told me that she manages another user's mailbox. This means that she needs to open their mailbox from time to time. In actuality, we typically open them through the 'Advanced' tab of the Exchange settings.

But I went to check it out through the Other User's Folder option on the 'File' menu - only to find that it was grayed out! How in the world did that happen - and more importantly, what to do about it?

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I've installed the server version (0.6.0), but I haven't had a chance to install the new Firefox extension just yet. Looks cool. Anyone?

Oh, if you're upgrading, check out the upgrade documentation on the wiki. Not for the faint-of-heart, but it isn't bad, either. Just make sure you skip the 0.7.0 stuff at the top if you're following the advice of sticking to the 'stable' version (which is 0.6.0).

Update: Want to try Scuttle, but this all sounds like too much work? Use the hosted version. It's free.