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	<description>My experiences with vertigo, disequilibrium, balance, dizziness and anxiety.</description>
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		<title>Thanks for all the comments!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vertigo Guy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted here in quite a while, since I&#8217;ve been busy with a bunch of life changes (bought a new home and changed jobs, which have both kept me quite busy). First off though, I wanted to thank everyone that has left a comment here over the past little while &#8212; I think it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t posted here in quite a while, since I&#8217;ve been busy with a bunch of life changes (bought a new home and changed jobs, which have both kept me quite busy). First off though, I wanted to thank everyone that has left a comment here over the past little while &#8212; I think it&#8217;s great to see that we&#8217;re not alone in feeling this way.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there hasn&#8217;t really been much progress for me in the past half a year however. I&#8217;ve been feeling pretty much the same (except for a few months after my doctor had prescribed a migraine medication which I had a bad reaction to &#8212; which was pretty much hell).</p>
<p>Yet another visit to my neurotologist suggested that something called &#8216;overbreathing syndrome&#8217; might be worsening my already-existing balance issues, and although I&#8217;m not entirely sure about that. It seems to me sometimes like the doctors are grasping at straws to explain away how I feel.</p>
<p><span id="more-76"></span>I&#8217;ve got another appointment this Wedsnesday, but to be honest I dont&#8217; really have much hope that there&#8217;s going to be much they can do at this point. It&#8217;s been 4 years already, and I despite managing my dizziness a bit better, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve really actually felt any better.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m hoping that things will improve as time goes by, but it&#8217;s often difficult to keep up hope after such a long time dealing with this. Just wanted to provide everyone an update on where things are with me &#8212; and remember, you&#8217;re not alone in how you feel with your balance problems.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Site problems, but I&#8217;m back (hopefully).</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vertigo Guy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I use a shared hosting account provided by BlueHost, which allows me to keep costs down for running this site. The downside of this is, however, that there was a pretty major denial-of-service attack against the server where I host my site. Fortunately, my site&#8217;s structure seems to have survived the attack, even though I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I use a shared hosting account provided by BlueHost, which allows me to keep costs down for running this site. The downside of this is, however, that there was a pretty major <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack">denial-of-service attack</a> against the server where I host my site.</p>
<p>Fortunately, my site&#8217;s structure seems to have survived the attack, even though I was getting all kinds of errors for the past 4 days (which kept me from posting anything, unfortunately &#8212; I was only able to comment on posts).</p>
<p>The site also got flooded with comment spam, some of which was actually getting through the various safeguards I put in place to prevent it. I&#8217;ve now installed some new protection measures which will hopefully keep things from getting too spammy any time soon.</p>
<p>So if you noticed any weird site behaviour over the past few days, that would be the explanation. Thanks for you patience with the site problems, and thanks again for stopping by Vertigo Guy.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Now showing: most comments.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vertigo Guy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As another small reward to the people who decide to leave a comment here, I&#8217;ve decided to implement another WordPress plugin (Show Top Commentators) that shows the most comments left here by users. If you have you&#8217;re own website, you&#8217;ll also get another nice link back to your own site from here as well. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As another small reward to the people who decide to leave a comment here, I&#8217;ve decided to implement another WordPress plugin (<a href="http://www.pfadvice.com/wordpress-plugins/show-top-commentators/">Show Top Commentators</a>) that shows the most comments left here by users.</p>
<p>If you have you&#8217;re own website, you&#8217;ll also get another nice link back to your own site from here as well. It&#8217;s just one additional reward for anyone who decides to leave a comment.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be working on some other new features for the site in the next little while, so look for more new features soon. Thanks again for reading Vertigo Guy and good health to everyone.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>All comments get a &#8216;dofollow&#8217; link.</title>
		<link>http://vertigoguy.com/all-comments-get-a-dofollow-link/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 02:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vertigo Guy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve implemented &#8216;dofollow&#8217; as a bit of a reward system for people who leave a comment here and have a website &#8212; if you you&#8217;re kind enough to leave a comment, you&#8217;ll get a real live link back to the site you leave in the URL field. To accomplish this, I&#8217;ve used the WordPress Do [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve implemented &#8216;dofollow&#8217; as a bit of a reward system for people who leave a comment here and have a website &#8212; if you you&#8217;re kind enough to leave a comment, you&#8217;ll get a real live link back to the site you leave in the URL field.</p>
<p>To accomplish this, I&#8217;ve used the WordPress <a href="http://www.semiologic.com/software/wp-tweaks/dofollow/">Do Follow plugin</a>, which basically removes the &#8216;no follow&#8217; attribute that Google and other search engines use to determine what to index and what not to index (funny enough, I&#8217;ve noticed that Google seems to index links marked even with &#8216;nofollow&#8217; however).</p>
<p>For more on the controversy of whether to follow or not to follow, I&#8217;d suggest starting with <a href="http://www.semiologic.com/2005/02/05/prepare-for-more-comment-spam-not-less/">the plugin maker&#8217;s own argument as to why the whole &#8216;rel=nofollow&#8217; thing isn&#8217;t going to work</a>.</p>
<p>So anyway, to make a long story short, leave a comment here with a URL, and you&#8217;ll get a nice link back to your own site. Just my way of saying thanks for your comment.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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