Today’s the first anniversary of the death of my mother, an event that did not pass by without that thought about that early morning when the phone rang. It was too short. As a matter of fact, upon returning to Canada exactly a week before her death, I expected it to be a longer battle. I lived in an ‘Oprah’ world too. Cancer kills.
News have been covering Turkey’s (and Romenia’s) struggle to contain the avian flu strain H5N1 (WHO updates). Wikipedia is on it too (note their traditional disclaimer for current events). It’s a question of when the virus will start sharing (and swapping) genes with the human flu variant. A fatality rate of 51%. Experts are worried about the stockpiling of Tamiflu, a drug that may not even provide sufficient protection against the avian flu.
Not so related, at work I ended up coding something amazingly brilliant, to discover that during all that coding, my mind was actually somewhere else. It’s like having one part of the brain doing overtime.