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April 10, 2006
The Pituitary Disclaimer
Thrice.
Man, I wish I could work with that and sort of give this entry a John Kerry feel. But I can't. So, we'll go with this:
I can think of three oddball problems I've had that I've found solutions for on the Internet. Now, I freely admit I find solutions to problems almost daily via the Internet, but the three problems I'm thinking of were problems most people would never have.
One solution involved setting up Ray's Mail Filter for Sendmail. It was one of my first Linux projects and it was wearing me down. I found a HowTo page at a university that some guy had put up just in case someone else could use it. It was a detailed step-by-step walk through of what I needed.
Another solution involved ... what was it? ... something to do with IRIX 6.2. This was about seven yeas ago. Anyway, I found a kick-ass HowTo tucked away in one of the dark corners of someone's website. (A trip to Achive.org and a look at one of my old pages reveals that I had found a page detailing how to set up SAMBA shares on a SGI box running IRIX 6.2.)
Hmmm. The trip to Archive.org suggests that the third problem I thought I'd solved by finding an obscure web page may have actually been a solution I'd posted in an obscure page I used to keep. Way back ... among the 1999-era stories about my kids on the original www.delmer.com.
The point of this whole entry is that sometimes people put up web pages that they know will get little viewership. Most people won't need the info shared in those pages. The pages never get updated and they aren't pretty. But, once in a while someone will stumble across one of those pages and find it to be the thing that solves an immediate problem -- the thing that saves the reader hours of time -- the thing that points them in the right direction -- the thing that answers a bothersome question.
This week we will start discussing my pituitary tumor a little more often. I have answers to some questions I couldn't find answers to before I started treatment and I'm putting them up for the one or two people who might find them useful; the rest of you will have to suffer. I'll try to make it up to you by posting another story about me, the thugs, and the man sometime this week.
Posted by delmer at April 10, 2006 9:14 PM
Comments
I have my blog and podcasts archived as well. I had to join archive.org when I joined Ourmedia. I think it's so great to be able to find the answer to a tough question via the internet.
Pituitary tumor...sounds serious. That can't be a good place for a tumor.
Posted by: The Phoenix at April 11, 2006 1:19 PM