you're not the boss of me!
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
self diagnosis
Recently I have diagnosed myself with Dermotagrophia. For years now I have had this skin issue where every time I scratch, my skin becomes raised and it almost looks like I have hives. Gross. It's not the worst condition to have but it can get quite irritating. People sometimes look at me like I'm crazy when I have these huge scratch marks along my arms.
This condition also gets worse with the heat. I am also easily susceptible to heat rashes. Sometimes if it is too hot my clothes will irritate my skin and I will get itchy and blotchy all over. Double gross.
But here we go - I have a name for this 'problem' of mine: Dermotagrophia. Apparently Dermotagrophia is a condition in which lightly scratching your skin causes raised, red lines where you've scratched. In dermatographia, the skin cells are overly sensitive to minor injury, such as scratching.
Apparently there is no real cure for this and it only affects 5% of the population. See, I'm special :)
This condition also gets worse with the heat. I am also easily susceptible to heat rashes. Sometimes if it is too hot my clothes will irritate my skin and I will get itchy and blotchy all over. Double gross.
But here we go - I have a name for this 'problem' of mine: Dermotagrophia. Apparently Dermotagrophia is a condition in which lightly scratching your skin causes raised, red lines where you've scratched. In dermatographia, the skin cells are overly sensitive to minor injury, such as scratching.
Apparently there is no real cure for this and it only affects 5% of the population. See, I'm special :)
All things Google
I'm a sucker for Google. For no reason I love all things Google. I don't think their products are really revolutionary - I mean other companies have been offering the same services for years now. But when Google's name is on it - I am immediately drawn to it.
One thing that I think Google does provide is simplicity. You want to blog? Join blogger. You want email, join Gmail. It's a unified theme so visually its very appealing. There isn't too much clutter so things seem a lot simpler and a lot easier to use.
Recently I decided to join Gmail. I had a great personal email that I have been using since I graduated from college but all of a sudden one day I had a change of heart. So welcome to Gmail. It really isn't that wonderful of an email system. It has some cool features that I haven't seen, but overall its not really everything that I want. But, for some reason, this new shiny toy that they have is exactly what I need to have. So I have given up a couple of hours of my life this week to learn all about Gmail and it's cool functionalities and write people new emails so that I can get new emails in my new email account.
Sucker I tell you.
One thing that I think Google does provide is simplicity. You want to blog? Join blogger. You want email, join Gmail. It's a unified theme so visually its very appealing. There isn't too much clutter so things seem a lot simpler and a lot easier to use.
Recently I decided to join Gmail. I had a great personal email that I have been using since I graduated from college but all of a sudden one day I had a change of heart. So welcome to Gmail. It really isn't that wonderful of an email system. It has some cool features that I haven't seen, but overall its not really everything that I want. But, for some reason, this new shiny toy that they have is exactly what I need to have. So I have given up a couple of hours of my life this week to learn all about Gmail and it's cool functionalities and write people new emails so that I can get new emails in my new email account.
Sucker I tell you.
