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Once again, a blog for your reading pleasure that is technical though not on the usual subjects. If iBOT crap bores you, then please skip gracefully! Prior blogs in the series here and here and here and here and here . It was actually in a response to that last one that regular reader and long-time ...

Warning: although slightly technical, this blog is mostly non-technical, and/or technical about stuff related to the iBOT. If the technical issues related to SQL Server and/or PASS interest you then they will probably show up in future blogs... Prior blogs in the series here and here and here and he...

Last week, I could stand briefly unassisted, walk with forearm crutches for short distances, dress myself, roll over in bed, and do 5K in under 35 minutes. This week, not so much. Last weekend I went up to the YMCA of the Rockies with my choir. We do this every year - we goof around, go on hikes, ea...

Way back when, it was kindly pointed out to me that it’s hard to have MS, a full time job, and an exercise program. Well, I don’t have a full time job any more, so it’s time to get cracking. I’ve been either pushing the wheelchair or hand cycling several times a week for almo...

Biotech, Multiple Sclerosis, Drugs Luke Timmerman wrote: If Genzyme gets its way, it will be eating Biogen Idec’s lunch in a few more years. The two Cambridge, MA-based companies, the largest independent biotechs in the state, could be duking it out with competing multiple sclerosis treatments...

Not every blog can be technical, and this one isn't -- if that sort of thing bothers you, then please skip... It was July 4th. I came into the day with plans, which is good. And they were actually good plans, that I was looking forward to. It was basically a good long day on a boat. In the back of m...

This blog represents an arid squallor of non-technical associative linkage, written by somebody who may as well have been stoned the whole time (or at least some part of it) though in reality he (by which I mean I) wasn't, an it wouldn't have actually changed any of it anyway . You have be...

"You know.....all hypochondriac's die from something they are worried about..." said the good doctor to me last week.  Gotta love that primary care physician o'mine.   He's the only one willing and able to take on my health care drama...the only one that says "Have her ...

"You know.....all hypochondriac's die from something they are worried about..." said the good doctor to me last week.  Gotta love that primary care physician o'mine.   He's the only one willing and able to take on my health care drama...the only one that says "Have her ...