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My Testicular Cancer Story – Update 3

June 8th, 2010

Well went to the appointment on Monday and basically heard everything about my options that I had already found answers for by doing research. My pathology report was updated and apparently less than 1% of Teratoma was also found. While it’s less than 1%, teratoma is not one that you want to have because it doesn’t respond to chemo and is only curred through removal. Good thing I’m doing the RPLND then. I am a perfect candidate for it because of my staging. There is a possibility that chemo not cure me and that the cancer will come back. Chemo will also put me out for 3-4 months depending on the type of treatment, well more like zombify me for that long. I don’t think I could do school like that. RPLND will suck for the first few weeks of recovery but after that I’m done (hopefully).

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My Testicular Cancer Story – Chapter 2

June 2nd, 2010

Well I had the orchiectomy on May 20th. Everything went well, although it did take me an extra hour to fully awaken. Liz(Kim aka my wife), was stuck in the waiting room for 3 hours, 1 hour surgery 2 hour wake up time. They told her in the beginning someone will come get her when I’m out but no one did. Kinda lame. When I could finally get up and into a wheel chair they wheeled me out to her and I remember how happy she was to finally see me.

So they didn’t prescribe me any anti-nausea medicine, and taking the lortab didn’t help relieve any pain and made me so nauseas that I felt even worse with pain. So I stopped taking it because I have an appointment on the 21st which was originally scheduled for the checkup for after I would have been with antibiotics BUT I figured I’d use it to get some new pain med’s.

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My Testicular Cancer Story - Chapter 1

May 17th, 2010

I was diagnosed with Testicular Cancer on May 4th 2010. I’ve only told some people and didn’t tell others. If you are just finding out about this, I’m sorry and it’s not that I was trying to keep this from anyone but I really wanted to be able to inform people and answer questions that anyone might have but I can’t do that when I’m asking those very same questions.

Today was an important day because the ball is finally rolling. I met with my Urologist today and he answered some of my fears with “More than likely it’s not” type of answers, which is very good. The tumor is located on my right testi and has attached itself to my bloodstream. What this means is that my right testi must be removed and then sent to a lab to see what type of cancer it is. Depending on the type will determine the type of treatment I will receive afterwards.

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Google Adsense Summary 1.0.3

April 21st, 2010

Fixed a few bugs and changed a temp file location. Updating is highly recommend. The prior versions were making a ton of temp files in your temp directory that weren’t getting deleted out. Please search your web hosting server for files that begin like “adsense_” and delete them all.

Temp files are now created in the google adsense summary plugin directory for easier troubleshooting should the event arise that we might not want to delete the cookie so we can troubleshoot the problem at hand.

XKCD Rules!

April 6th, 2010

One of the email lists I am apart of started bitching about how XKCD sucks. Two predominate people stood out, one against XKCD and the other Pro XKCD. It was such a worthless argument, almost as worthless as this post. I did spend some time making fun of them though using a XKCD comic!

Enjoy! Referenced Comic

HTML5 + Quake2 = AWESOME!

April 2nd, 2010

HTML5 is still a work in progress and some browsers can’t do what others can at the moment. List for geeks: Comparison_of_layout_engines: HTML5. An example for the not so geeky: Chrome and Safari allows HTML5 video streaming on Youtube while Firefox does not. While this will all change in good time, a great show of HTML5′s potential has been shown. A port of a classic game, Quake II, has been made available to play via your web browser! Freaking awesome!!

It’s all still very beta. Depending on which browser you try(ATM only Chrome and Safari) and it’s version you may experience slow FPS, no sound and screen flickering.

To help minimize fail, before you start to follow the instructions on installing quake2-gwt-port make sure you have the following installed before hand.

vorbis-tools
lame
jdk

Installing JKD before trying to run “./build-dedicated-server” is important. I thought I had it still installed on my system, and when that failed to build I went, “DUH” and installed it.

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Site is back up!

March 28th, 2010

Yey, everything is back up and working. I’ve been working on improving the performance of the site. I was using suPHP before, which doesn’t server php very well or fast. The site is now working with apache+suexec+fastcgi+php-fpm+apc. I’ve already seen a huge gain from doing this already. Site takes a quarter of the time to load now than what it did before.

The next couple of days i will be writing a how-to on how I did this and explaining things in more detail.

Site upgrades/updates

March 26th, 2010

So I’ve been working on some updates/upgrades to the site to speed some things up. The unfortunately and ironic twiest is that, it makes the site run slow as shit.

Sorry…

We are experiencing technical difficulties at the moment

Slackware64, Multi-lib and upgrading to -current

March 20th, 2010

Some of you may read this and go, “DUH you fucking idiot”…., and for others might go… “Oh SHIT, thanks for the reminder!”.

A couple weeks ago I decided to upgrade to -current. One thing I forgot about was what I did when I first installed all the multi-lib packages. I blacklisted all the glibc and gcc packages. So during the upgrade, none of them got upgraded to currents version and I was running into weird problems when trying to compile some of the programs I make SlackBuilds for.

So, if you are upgrading to -current and have multi-lib packages DON’T FORGET to also grab the -current multi-lib packages before dropping to telinit 1 to update or just remove the blacklisting from slackpkg if you use that to update/upgrade between versions like I did.

Parody - Cisco CRS-3

March 12th, 2010

Some friends and I saw the original video (link in the video) for the new cisco crs-3 and there was one part in particular that just didn’t fit. Overall the video was just kind of fluffy and so I took it upon myself to speak the truth through the video. If AT&T are using these, well they there’s no freaking excuse for how shitty their 3G service is and has been lately. Especially for those in New York.

For those wondering what I used to make the video, I used Openshot. This is one awesome program, and if you are a Linux user and want a easy video authoring tool, I highly recommend it!

Enjoy, and tell me what you think!

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