Archive for March 20th, 2008

20
Mar

Mother fears

   Posted by: Caprica    in health

2860622-lg1.jpgI’m having mother fears in re: my 15-y.o. son and the route we’ve embarked on for the treatment of acute acne on his face and torso. There is now “permanent scarring” on his back and shoulders according to the dermatologist, and he is to be taken in for a blood test to check that his liver function is normal. If it is he’s to go on a oral prescription which for “90%” of the people who take it clears their acne in 4-5 months. Permanently.  Downside is monthly blood tests and the risk inherent with taking a strong medication like this, including permanent organ damage. Also the stuff costs up wards of $400 bucks a month a that’s with the insurance paying part of the cost. Spouse is going to look further into it.

Meanwhile, I plan on taking him in tomorrow for the blood test and then next week we’ll go from there. I feel badly for him. His father has scars all over his face form his adolescent acne, which the dermo keeps offering to “sand” off–no insurance coverage though so no cosmetic procedure for him. Genetically, he’s the reason my son has acne. Since he doesn’t talk about his feelings I have no idea how or even if he feels anything about it. For my part, I know I’d feel badly if I passed on an icky gene like that.

What we are doing isn’t working though–this is rather a last-ditch effort.

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20
Mar

Trepidation and Dire Predictions in re: The WordPress 2.5 Release

   Posted by: Caprica    in coding, me, widgets

Is anyone else experiencing both trepidation and excitement about the WordPress 2.5 release?

The expectation of the built-in galleries (what took so long?!) is enough to get me very interested. Faster loading sounds very enticing, too.  Gravatars–well, I know they are the cool thing now but they don’t really rock my world–fine, if other folks have wanted and are now getting them, tho’. Part of social networking, which depending who you talk to, is  very “now” or yesterday’s news.

It’s always good to hear more than just the opinion of the developers and they in fact state that they welcome input prior to the official release so possibly minor modifications can be done.

Still, I was surprised when I stumbled across some dire predictions about the coming release, specifically that because it won’t play nicely with many of the add on’s or widgets or whatever you like to call them, they will effectively be rendered null upon installation of WordPress 2.5 sending their creators into nervous breakdown mode. Not only that and this is my concern, because well, it affects me: Will my treasured theme still work with the release of WordPress 2.5? Possibly not.

I don’t of course yet have a solid opinion on the big changes soon in our future.

I can say for certain though that as someone for if “coding is art” is still at the crayon stage, I hope that the changes won’t be too difficult and time-consuming for users like me to implement. After all change is good–but not always.

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