Living Without HepC

What a wonderful day it’s been – sunshine and heat all day. What an energiser! Of course it’s too warm to move quickly and everyone is feeling lazy – suits me as I’m like this most of the time anyhow at the moment. So I’ve been soaking up the sun in the garden and enjoying it all. Carol has joined in and we’ve spent a great day. Sudoku’s, coffee and Danish pastries, a bit of computing, drinking loads of water (managed over 2 litres so far I reckon) and a bit of eating.

Yesterday Ben helped me transfer my blog software over to WordPress and I’ve been trying to tidy up the loose ends and rearrange the side-bar. Haven’t got the Blog Highlights section up and running yet – or corrected some typos which came across in the migration – so there are some funny characters in the earlier entries.

Ben also added a new ‘gadget’ near the bottom of the side-bar. Under the heading ‘Latest From The HepCForum’ is a list of the most recent entries members have made on the Forum. Clicking on them takes you to that comment in the Forum. Very smooth.

Good thing he was helping me out with all this. I have just come across a recent entry on his blog – My Dad’s Pissed Off. He reproduced the list of things I wrote about in a blog last weekend. All of these items were minor life situations but I found them very irritating and said so. Here I am, ill with a chronic disease, on a heavy treatment with serious side-effects - and he thinks it’s funny that I’m irritable. Interestingly, he sees it as a case of age – “I’ll probably be just like it when I’m his age too” and goes on to refer to an incident I remember from my father in his dotage (he was at least 25 years older than I am now).

Looking back at both that blog entry, as well as the events themselves, it is funny. And several other people have said so too. Perhaps the combo treatment is helping me to explore and express my ‘old man’ self – whereas, of course, I see myself as, well maybe, middle-aged.

I also discovered he has written an interesting item on RSS and provides a useful link to a BBC article on RSS which he helped to craft. RSS allows you to identify the content you like and have it delivered directly to you, showing you the very latest information that you are interested in.

The ‘gadget’ on the side bar (I referred to above) is an RSS feed which Ben was writing about. So you can see what it does. (And there’s a heading ‘Syndicate This Blog’ on the sidebar too, giving you two methods to link my blog as a RSS feed.) This is the sort of feed which enables lots of sites to carry the ‘latest news’ from the BBC on their web page - and now everyone can do the same with other websites of their choice.

I’m off to find some more water and checkout the garden as the sun begins to set. I hope others in the UK have also enjoyed what has been our first taste of summer days.

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