30 hour call is a fascinating thing (fortunately it wasn't quite a full 30!).  It does weird things to your head.  I walk into the unit in the morning, talk to the nurses who are approaching the end of their 12 hour shift.  They leave and a new batch comes on.  You then spend the next 12 hours working with them.  That is not an insignificant amount of time.  But then they go home. And you are still there.  Wearing the same scrubs you had on 15 hours ago....

-Writing so Dis Con Nec Ted. . . A great song, by the way.  Understated, incredibly thunderous bass, and almost uncomfortably restrained vocals, it is one of my Rychian favorites. -Back from Houston.  What an incredible experience.  It was life altering.  Okay, so I am full of crap.  It was awful.  Not in a really bad sort of awful way, just in a "I spent $1000, plus $500 in airfare, $160 in hotel and $35 for a car just so I could take this idiotic test?"...

Is anybody else having problems with JU RSS feeds not updating? I am using BlogNavigator for my RSS feeds and it is picking up other feeds just fine. However, it doesn't have any JU articles more recent than 3/17/2006. Using the RSS aggregator in Maxthon gives the same results, no updates since March 17th.

This shouldn't really come as a surprise, but I enjoy blogging.  I enjoy writing blogs and I really enjoy reading the blogs of others.  When I have the time, I enjoy surfing random blogs using such services as Blog Explosion or BlogMad .  I also avail myself of the traffic generating features of those services as well, but to be quite honest, that matters less to me than it used to. For those unfamiliar with those services, you surf the blogs of people who have signed up and...

I sometimes find these little net goodies amusing.  I enjoyed this one: > WARNING BlueDev is radioactive. Wear protective clothing at all times. Username: From Go-Quiz.com

*Note: Le me start off by saying this is not intended as a "suck-up" article.  I hope it doesn't appear that way, it is simply a comment on an observation I recently made and thought others who blog here may find interesting. I am sure that we have all heard about how the auto-syndication of JoeUser is a benefit to us, the bloggers.  But I wonder if we really appreciate just how much that syndication throughout the community actually accomplishes.  I know I didn't until r...

Far too often I sit down to compose a blog entry and then. . . Nothing. Just nothing.  My mind cramps, then freezes, then just goes to sleep.  It always seems that my best ideas come at the worst time to try to actually write them down.  But today I think I may have solved that.  I went for a walk.  Yep, a walk.  With a pen and a notebook in my pocket. It was amazing.  Suddenly I had extra blood feeding my brain cells.  Suddenly they could functi...

So, I am longing to blog. JoeUser will certainly be my main blog (just too many great people here for me to leave), but I have set up a Blogger one to use in times when JU is, er, indisposed. Hope to see you all here soon. Congrats to Stardock on the overwhelming (literally it appears) success of the game!

In the past week or so (since JU came back online), I have started getting incomprehensible replies.  No, not just so weird and out there that you can't follow them.  These are truly incomprehensible.  They are gibberish posts by anonymous users.  I cannot fathom the point of them, as they aren't even links for VIAGRA or CIALIS or VICODIN!! Is anyone else getting these?  Here is a prime example.  I guess I could be grateful they bump my articles back into view ...

Whew, almost a week without JoeUser, thanks to that darn Galactic Civilizations II game. (said in jest!) It was interesting just how much I missed the interaction here. When I have the time, I really enjoy stopping by and reading the thoughts of others. I found myself, in my spare time, trying to figure out where I should go and read. Did plenty of lurking and reading on the WC forums, and lots of reading on the Gal Civ II forums (trying to figure out things I am still learning), and...

While not to the exact day, it just hit me that I created this blog just over 2 years ago. Wow. That actually astonishes me. I haven't been a regular at any internet site for that long of a time. I usually find some reason to wander off and find new electric playgrounds. And while there have been times I have left for a while, I actually find myself feeling more 'at home' here than ever. I suppose it all boils down to one thing: The community. I am convinced it is that interacti...

A long while back Dharma had a really fun article entitled "Show and Tell" in which many of us posted photos of ourselves or our families. Something personal and fun. It was a great thread that allowed a lot of us to place a face to the nick name and the writing voice. Well, it has been a while and there are lots of new, pretty regular folks who blog here so I thought it might be fun to start up a similar thread. I will give it a go, with one of my current favorite pictures: Me ...

Well, as some know, my brother and I have been working on a music blog together called "Progged" . It has been a lot of fun, but to be 100% honest, not too many people stop by, as it can be tough to get much traffic on Blogger blogs unless you have already built up a following. However, I figure that, thank to the system over here at JU, we may get a bit more traffic and interest if we also blog here. So, I have decided that I will revive my old blog group "The Prog Geek" and we can...

Just a quick question, but is the sidebar not updating for anyone else? The most recent article showing up for me is Gid's "For Conservatives Only", with everything else seeming to be frozen for the past few hours. Wondering if this is a site issue, or just something special for me (I am suspecting the former, since I get the same error after cleaning the cache and with other browsers).

I am sure many of us are familiar with the numerous tools out there to generate blog traffic. Gratefully, here at JU we have excellent methods built right into the blogging system. But I know that some blogs at other sites don't get nearly the traffic, and so we break down and use other methods. BlogExplosion is one of the oldest I know of, and I have been signed up there for a while. A good choice. But there are others worth checking out. BlogMad is a new one that is still...