My life with dialysis and kidney disease
blogging
Just Kidding
Apr 27th
Ok, things are back to where they were yesterday – not working quite right.
Please bare with me the next few days as I try to get things up and running correctly.
While you’re waiting, why not head over to our forums and start up a conversation there? We would love to have some new contributors!
Working Now … Well Sorta
Apr 26th
Ok, Archives and Categories are now working – enjoy.
You’re welcome…
I’ve had to change a few things though, so PLEASE let me know if anything’s not working correctly, like the RSS/ATOM feeds or anything like that.
Thanks
Archives and Categories Not Working
Apr 26th
I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to realize this – but the archives and categories aren’t working properly.
Of course I would know things like this much much sooner if people actually commented and let me know.
Anyway, it seem to have something to do with how I have things installed right now – I am working on it, and should have it working (in some capacity) momentarily.
WordPress, Typepad, or Drupal
Mar 29th
So I’m finding significant limitations with the blogger.com service. First and foremost is that the IT Goons from DaVita block lots of traffic – including my access to blogger.com. This means that I can’t login to post to my blog, and limits me to sending posts in via email.
So what?
Well, I like to put images in my posts, and can’t when I’m posting from dialysis.
This stinks ….
So I’m trying to find something that is full of features, can be run server-side, and is in all other ways awesome.
Jake Braly mentioned drupal, and I’m pretty much hooked on it. It would allow me to house forums, the blog, the web site, and everything else I might want to do, in one easy to configure option.
One appealing thing about something like WordPress is that it seems simpler in its scope, and therefore might be within my ability to use properly.
Both drupal and WordPress are open source, and we all know how cool that is.
Any recommendations from any of you, my loyal readers? Nobody’s really using the forums, so one option is to due away with them until new ones can be created in drupal. First and foremost though is for me to find a new way to blog.
Any suggestions would be great – remember, I’m behind an evil websense-equivalent firewall, and would prefer to access something on my own server rather than theirs.
New Friends
Feb 1st
There are a couple of dialysis related blogs I have stumbled upon recently, and I thought they deserved mentioning here.
Nephronurse was kind enough to mention me in her blog a few days back, and I’d like to return the favor. I’d like more than anything to post a comment on her blog and thank her for the “shout” (as we say in the industry) – but since DaVita seems to see the need to block my access to blogger.com I can’t. Sorry … I have been able to finally proxy around most of their protections though, and can finally receive email.
The other blog is one I’ve been reading for several months – it’s a nice guy in Texas named Nathan. Unfortunately Nathan’s kidneys failed due to Polycystic Kidney Disease (aka: PKD). I’ve “spoken” with Nathan a few times via email, and he’s a nice enough guy. Shame he’s having to deal with all of this. He blogged this week that he’s finally listed for transplant. Good for him. Let’s hope the wait is short.
Nathan, if you’re reading this, I know you have questions about self cannulation – and you’re welcome to email privately or comment here, or better yet, start a thread in the forum. I’m happy to help in any way I can with encouragement or information.
Best to both of you, and thanks again for mentioning me in your respective blogs.
