Random Fusion

Ok, so I didnt really die. But I tell you I sure did want to a couple of times there.

Monday morning I woke up with a bit of a stuffed up nose and a cough. As the day wore on, I started feeling more and more run down, more and more stuffed up and my throat got more and more closed. That night I was coughing really, really bad and some of the stuff I coughed up was red. Needless to say, I wasnt going to work on Tuesday.

Tuesday was spent passed out on the couch, waiting for shauna to get home from work. The cough got a lot worse and I was getting kinda feverish. At about 8ish, a really bad coughing fit, ended with me choking/gagging in the bathroom, trying really hard to get what was in my throat out.

Flash forward three hours later and Shauna and I are coming home from the hospital with a prescription for me. Strept throat for me. Yay! Shauna got my antibiotics the next day and I have been on the mend since then.

Look for more interesting posts as early as later tonight!

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No posts for the next couple of days. I am very sick with some sort of throat thing and its making my life hell. When I am well enough, I will post again.

Update: I got better

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With the previous entries statement about concentrating more on content rather then look and feel, I thought I would take some time to look into some things. First and foremost. Blogging ethics.

Doing a search on Google found a lot of pages with the two words "Blog" and "Ethics" in them. The first one (linked at the bottom of the page) I went to had what I was looking for. Now common sense dictates a lot. If you have even some common sense, you wont do certain things on your blog and you will stay away from certain practices. You wont edit or doctor information and/or photographs for the purpose of distorting information. You wont plagarize someone elses work and claim it as your own. You wont blur the lines between factual information and advertising. You will make sure that you are sensitive and compassionate when dealing with situations of tragedy and grief. All these things are mostly common sense to folks, however, that doesnt mean that all bloggers abide by them.

Note: There is no blogging commision or international law committee making rules and regulations for blogging. Following a guideline common sense rules and ethical guidelines is purely voluntary. There is no punishment for breaking any of these rules.

Breaking these rules can mostly result in one thing. Your readers will disappear and never come back. End of story. In other forms of journalism (such as newspapers and television) acts of lying and falsifying information can result in loss of job and career.

How does a set of non-enforceable ethics apply to me (not just me in general, but me Random Fusion). I see guideline as something to not only bring credibility to blogging as a whole, but to individual authors. If you say, "I follow this list of ethics for this site." It can lend a little more importance to your words. For me, Random Fusion, it means that I now am going to balance every word. Look at everything I saw and make sure that I believe what I am saying and that everything I say is true. If I dont think that something is 100% true, then you will know it and I will make the effort to prove or disprove the information I've presented.

How I Feel
I have, only by accident, never really blogged that often about anything that hard hitting. By nature I am non-confrontational and quiet. I dont say that much and usually tend to just follow the crowd. That being said, I like to think that my morals and ethics are on fairly strong ground. I believe that a ethical standard is required for bloggers. I think that if you want to write about anything at all and have it posted on the web, you should be willing to adhere to something. Namely, tell the truth; dont use others grief or tragedy for your own gain; and dont distort information for your own benefit. These are all things we learn as we grow up: Dont lie. Dont cheat. Dont steal. These things are pretty easy to follow and there are no real reasons why you shouldnt. End of story.

Link to Orginal Article

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Almost Done. Maybe later tonight or tomorrow night.

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This is the last change for the blog for this year. I promise. This year is going to be about content. This year I am going to do all that I can to make what I write interesting and enjoyable. I admit now I did not make the CSS here on my own, but I felt it was more important to concentrate on the the content. The life of any blog is how well its written and I want to do my best to make this blog well written and well read. I have come to realize now that it isnt how many people come, but how many come back.

Please come back over the next few days as I finnish up tweaking the css and the adjoining pages for my site.

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The day has pretty much gone by and there hasnt been any evil spammers (knock on wood) so far. I am still not sure if this was something I did or it was something that just happened. At the moment everything is staying off until I can get a better handle on things.

The work day is wrapping up and seems to have been an ok day, nothing really to comment on. The general malaise I felt earlier in the week has subsided slightly but its still there. I think I know what is causing it. The weather always plays a big part in how we all feel and that attached with the way that most of our customers have treated us lately, led me to feel very down and not very happy about my work. But this week has been a little better and things arent looking too bad.

Lately I have been seriously considering greatly altering how and what I eat. I have noticed that lately I have no energy and no strength, something that desperately needs to be changed. I am still thinking about the best route to take. I think that the best thing to do is have a low calorie intake with a high calorie output. Which is basically eat less and exercise more. I think I will try and find what a good low level of calorie intake is and stick to that and then find ways of increasing my calorie burn during the day.

The weather lately has been dangerously cold and I have been hating it VERY much. Last night I went out to catch the bus home, the wait was supposed to be about 5 minutes or less and it turned out to be almost half an hour. It was so cold I was almost crying. I am so lucky that I didnt loose any body parts. I was thinking about that this morning on the way to work

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No attacks over night. Which is a good thing. The unfortunate part is that I am not sure if it was something I did or if the attackers went somewhere else. For the time being, I have completely removed the ability for anyone but me to do anything to this site (I hope). All comments are turned off and there is no ability to use trackbacks on me.

I hope that today goes a little more smoothly.

Posted by Random Fusion at 6:27 AM | Permalink

Ok, after about a 4 and half hour spam assult, it appears over, for the moment. The last few times I have looked, there havent been any new spam trackbacks.

I have to admit that it was so frustrating that the idea of killing this blog and starting a new one wasnt that far fetched. I know that most people who have blogs are either used to it or accept the spam as a fact of having a blog, but for me, a small time blogger with an audience I can count on one hand, its really aggrivating.

More to come later, changes are still afoot and will be coming soon.

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I was going to spend today working on the site, adding some entries about some stuff and then trying to do a little more layout work.

However this has been all for naught. Today I am getting completely overwhelmed with p_o_r_n spam trackback pings. Dozens of them every ten minutes or so, all from different IP addresses. And I have to admit that its gone beyond infuriating to insane rage.

If the pings dont stop. The site will come down for a undefinate time until I get things sorted out.

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You will have to excuse the look of the site at the moment as I am doing a little work around the house. Things will be messed up for the time being and I will no doubt forget to fix a few things, BUT, I am hoping to work on it bit by bit as the week goes on.

There wont be anything fancy and I hope that when I am done with it I can leave it up for a few months.

But we all know how I am, so lets hope for a few days and take it from there.

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Happy New Year.

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