She never posts anymore,
Jan. 14th, 2008 02:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bronwynrhand when she does, she asks us to do her a favor! Sheesh!
So... if I've gotta gif that needs changing, can I change it or do I need the file from which that gif was made?
I ask because I'm still charged with "fixing" errors on our website and, well, I can't get to everything. Or I can get to everything, but I've no idea what to do with a gif - particularly one that says I'm a postdoctoral fellow when it should say that I'm the Manager of Technology Development. This is nuts. There are a handful of people who've had their hands on various aspects of the website, and it's a chaotic mess. I'm losing more of my time in finding crap than in fixing it.
The good news is, although I have not convinced TPTB that our website needs overhaulin', my report of an 80% bounce rate from our homepage has convinced them that our front door has got to go. They're not ready to make more than baby steps yet, until I get a quote on how much a new homepage will cost (Shredder, I'm ready to talk when you are!), so I have to poke around the site and see if I can't find a page that we can tolerate as a landing page for a while, until we get that new front door. I'm thinking this will do, but I'm not sure.
In other news, Samuel's doing very well although he's been very shrieky these past few days. Kid's forgotten all his consonants and is back to testing his vocal range. He'll squeal at higher and higher pitches until all you hear is a faintly whistling hiss.
In related news, my tinnitus is worse.
In completely unrelated news, I was on the Glenn Beck show today, just before noon. I doubt any of you were listening but if you were, please don't tell me how incoherent I was. At least I got my foot in the door and he's interested. Long story short, we may be genotyping Beck to help him understand why he suffered such a bad reaction to the medication he was given in the hospital. I hope we are given the chance to do this... I've suffered similar bad reactions to pain medication and any of you who know me know that I've dealt with my share of pain medications. I'm finally in a position to help others who've had similar problems, and I intend to take every advantage. The more people know, the more empowered they'll be. Who better than a popular radio and television personality to help spread the word?
Related to that, there was a piece in Parenting magazine about codeine and breastfeeding moms that said "there's no reliable test" to determine whether a woman is a rapid metabolizer of codeine and if she is therefore at risk of causing morphine overdose in her nursing infant. ACK! That's so untrue! We do the test in our laboratory every single day! So I wrote a letter to the editor, left a voicemail for the physician who's quoted in the piece, and our marketing VP is going to follow up.
Spreading the good word of pharmacogenetics and personalized medicine. Boo-yah!
Yep. She asks us a favor and then rambles about a bunch of unrelated crap. *bounce*
So... if I've gotta gif that needs changing, can I change it or do I need the file from which that gif was made?
I ask because I'm still charged with "fixing" errors on our website and, well, I can't get to everything. Or I can get to everything, but I've no idea what to do with a gif - particularly one that says I'm a postdoctoral fellow when it should say that I'm the Manager of Technology Development. This is nuts. There are a handful of people who've had their hands on various aspects of the website, and it's a chaotic mess. I'm losing more of my time in finding crap than in fixing it.
The good news is, although I have not convinced TPTB that our website needs overhaulin', my report of an 80% bounce rate from our homepage has convinced them that our front door has got to go. They're not ready to make more than baby steps yet, until I get a quote on how much a new homepage will cost (Shredder, I'm ready to talk when you are!), so I have to poke around the site and see if I can't find a page that we can tolerate as a landing page for a while, until we get that new front door. I'm thinking this will do, but I'm not sure.
In other news, Samuel's doing very well although he's been very shrieky these past few days. Kid's forgotten all his consonants and is back to testing his vocal range. He'll squeal at higher and higher pitches until all you hear is a faintly whistling hiss.
In related news, my tinnitus is worse.
In completely unrelated news, I was on the Glenn Beck show today, just before noon. I doubt any of you were listening but if you were, please don't tell me how incoherent I was. At least I got my foot in the door and he's interested. Long story short, we may be genotyping Beck to help him understand why he suffered such a bad reaction to the medication he was given in the hospital. I hope we are given the chance to do this... I've suffered similar bad reactions to pain medication and any of you who know me know that I've dealt with my share of pain medications. I'm finally in a position to help others who've had similar problems, and I intend to take every advantage. The more people know, the more empowered they'll be. Who better than a popular radio and television personality to help spread the word?
Related to that, there was a piece in Parenting magazine about codeine and breastfeeding moms that said "there's no reliable test" to determine whether a woman is a rapid metabolizer of codeine and if she is therefore at risk of causing morphine overdose in her nursing infant. ACK! That's so untrue! We do the test in our laboratory every single day! So I wrote a letter to the editor, left a voicemail for the physician who's quoted in the piece, and our marketing VP is going to follow up.
Spreading the good word of pharmacogenetics and personalized medicine. Boo-yah!
Yep. She asks us a favor and then rambles about a bunch of unrelated crap. *bounce*
