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I started using Splenda in my coffee about 2 or 3 weeks ago because I thought the shit was more better for you than natural sugar. For the last 2 or 3 fucking weeks I’ve been bloated as hell and what I believe is my liver or kidney has been sore as a bitch. I tried thinking about what I was doing different and the only thing was fucking Splenda. I didn’t use any of that shit today and my bloating has gone down and I feel way better. Splenda is chemical warfare. That shit altered my mood. I felt like shit the whole time. All tired and irritated all the time.

I started reading about how Splenda came about. I don’t know if what I read was correct or not, but supposedly a scientist or some shit was trying to create a pesticide and the result was Splenda. Awesome! Let’s sell it as sugar. I can’t believe the FDA actually approves of this shit. They have approved of some other straight bullshit too. I’m not trying to say I’m the healthiest mother fucker in the world or anything, but if it makes me feel like straight up shit I’m not fucking with it. Fuck you Splenda.

Lately, I’ve been tinkering with Django, which is a web framework for Python. I’ve been messing with the database API stuff for a few days now and created a small polling app with the tutorials on the Django site. I kind of like this shit and think this is something I can actually get into. Not only am I learning more about Python and Django in the process, but it’s also giving me a chance to understand what goes on behind the scenes with databases. I am using MySQL on a linux box for the database back-end. I will probably play around with the tutorials a little more and then start on a long awaited project. I’ve always wanted to work on a simple CMS type web app, but just couldn’t figure out what platform I wanted to develop on. It seems like there are a few modules for Django that I can build off of. I’ve always thought python would be somewhat useful for me and this will give me a chance to learn some more about it.

If you have any tips or tutorials on anything Django, let me know what’s up.

I attempted to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 last Thursday night. The upgrade using synaptic seemed like it was going fine. Then it said it must remove about 288 packages that are obsolete and then it removed them. It then installed 4 packages to upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 and asked for a reboot. Unsurprisingly, it didn’t boot. That shit pretty much pissed me off and ruined my night. I started downloading the 8.10 iso on another machine and brewed a pot of coffee. I re-installed from CD and all was good. I keep /home on a separate partition so I didn’t lose anything except all my apps. I re-installed my apps and all my preferences and settings were still there so I was happy. I have a feeling that because the Ubuntu servers were being hammered my install was fucked. Oh well, all is good and make sure you keep /home on a different partition. This is still not an excuse to not backup your data often.