Author Archives: Dennis

So, not only is my mother seriously ill, my father’s liver, due to an infection, has shut down on him, and he’s been admitted to the hospital yesterday. At this rate, regardless of the fact that my (mother’s side of the) family is very large, I’ll have run out of family members by the end of the year.

Played around with RSS for work today, and created an RSS feed for my journal. (Talk about an over-inflated sense of self-importance.) Just checking to see if works properly.

.: Mother
On friday I had the day off and I took my mother to another hospital to get a PET (Positron Emission Tomography) done on her lungs to determine if there were cancer-cells in her lungs that were easier to reach than the main tumor there, which is way in the back, close to her spine, and hard to reach for a biopsy. The scan didn’t take so long, but it took a long time for the radiology department to get to her, and for the radio-active contrast fluid (FDG, fluorodeoxyglucose) to settle. It took pretty much all day, but a lot of people came along, so it was relatively fun.

.: Nooooo!
Schools drop Holocaust lessons to avoid offence
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.: Gaming
I have had the chance to do some primo-gaming this weekend; I got my Warcraft on, and had a good time. I’m glad that TBC caused the game to become less raid-focused. On the other hand, the shake-up it has caused among well-established guilds is a shame.

Sadly, I haven’t been to do any RPG’ing over the last few weeks, and I miss it quite a bit. Hopefully we’ll be able to game upcoming weekend, though it’ll be Dennis’ birthday, so perhaps it’ll get canceled again.

.: Warhammer 40,000
I can’t wait to get Flight of the Eisenstein in the mail this week. I’ve been reading Sons of Fenris, which is the latest installment in the Space Wolf series, but it’s just not as well-written as the entire Horus Heresy series has been so far. Also, the installment after Flight of the Eisenstein, Fulgrim is almost out, so I better get to readin’!

Horus Heresy

False Gods

Galaxy in Flames

Flight of the Eisenstein

According to this article, the US is no longer at the forefront of technological development, so says the World Economic Forum. Nowadays, it’s Denmark. I’m sure that the fragile US economy, as well as the redistribution of funds due to the war has something to do with it. (Though I can’t support that claim.) Interesting enough is that the Netherlands scores spot number 6, just before the US (7) and after Switzerland (5). I would’ve thought we were traders, not innovators.