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Hello Mura

Matt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:27:31 +0000

This isn’t gonna be an overly informative post. Not that anything I post necessarily will be, I just wanted to mention that I am getting to know Mura, which is an Open Source ColdFusion CMS. Anyhow, I am a few days into playing with it so far, and am excited about the possibilities of using it at work. I still have a fair amount of evaluation to go, and a few people to convince, but it is promising to this point.

If you are looking for a ColdFusion CMS, I wold definately recommend that you take it for a spin.

When I come across things that help me out, I intend to blog about them.

Sinus problems go away

Matt — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:40:00 +0000

Ok, so I went about a month with a really crappy cough, congestion, and just overall not feeling well. Stuff was constantly draining, I never had a fever, but I am sure that I was making every one around me as miserable as I was. I finally broke down and visited the doctor (ok, it was a nurse practitioner, but in general I trust them more than doctors).

So, I head up to the local Walgreens and go see the nurse practitioner there, she asks questions and checks me over and tells me she just wants me to try to fix my sinuses. She did prescribe me something for my cough, if it got too bad. But recommended I stick with a nasal decongestant/expectorant and if I could stand it, to give a neti pot a try.

I’m sure I looked dumbfounded, and she explained to me what it was and how it worked. Basically its a gravity flow irrigation of the sinus cavity, ie a solution goes in one nostrel, makes its way through your sinuses and comes out the other nostrel. I was tired of feeling crappy, so I though what the heck, I’ll give it a shot.

As I’m waiting around for my prescription I peruse the allergy and sinus area, and find a NasaFlo neti pot (this site actually has a video of it in progress). It looked a bit odd, but the price wasn’t bad, so I went ahead and got it.

I went home and gave it a whirl, I actually did read the directions, but hadn’t seen the video yet. My impression… Holy cow, almost all of the pressure that was built up in my head was gone. Ok, not like gone gone. It built up again during the day still, but for the most part, I didn’t feel like my head was going to explode any longer.

As time has gone by, I have continued to use my Neti Pot daily, its kinda become part of my morning routine. I can’t believe that nobody had ever suggested I try this before, because I’ve had sinus problems forever.

Anyhow, I don’t really have much else to say, I just wanted to put my stamp of approval on nasal irrigation in general. Maybe this could help someone else who suffers through sinus related problems.

Returning

Matt — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:57:30 +0000

Starting over, yet again. Why? Because there are a few things I want to try out and accomplish. I will use this for those things if possible.

I think this time, I am going to just say that I will try to keep things updated, but that I am not necessarily going to stick to a certain topic.

Yes, this blog is wordpress/php, rather than my first love of web development languages ColdFusion, the reasons are actually pretty simple. 1. I needed to experience some PHP stuff, so went to it for hosting (actually free hosting). 2. Wordpress is a really nice weblog engine.