The Bloglines post notifier / reader / thingamajig, which Dr Dork opens even before his email nowadays when cranking up Old RustyTM , his venerable PC, is temperamental at best.
Oftentimes, little red exclamation points appear next to various blogs Dr Dork subscribes to. Usually, this is a transient software glitch. Going directly to a blog / site address bypasses such RSS or similar problems.
Today, Barbados Butterfly (link now inactive) was “flagged” in this manner.
Dr Dork had some trouble accessing the site, and presumed a glitch or gremlin was at play until just now reading this.
Dr Dork is very sad tonight.
As he has mentioned elsewhere, Dr Dork has been reading weblogs of non-medical nature for years, but only really began to appreciate the burgeoning of medical blogging in late 2005, not long before dipping his own toe sporadically into this great ocean of data.
Although the *cough* “honour” was never requested, this dork has long considered Dr Barb as one of his “blogparents”…whatever that means. If nothing else – it is a token of respect and admiration.
Dr Dork is hoping against hope this heralds a necessary pupation, and that Dr Barb will one day return.
89 comments:
I miss her already
You're right, Dr. Dork. It's a sad day:-(
MJ
This is too bad. She wasn't sounding very happy in her new job, was she? I'm sorry she took the blog down but it also sounds as if pressure was put upon her in some way. I hope that everything goes well for her and that she can come back some time.
Regards
jmb
Dr Dork,
You are in receipt of this dubious award, ignore it as you will, no offence will be taken. A mark of my esteem. If the link doesn't work hop over anyway and don't forget to check out the cricket post while you're there as well as the award one.
Regards
jmb
Oh, this IS sad.
Miss you, butterfly! Hang in there, things always get better.
What an EXCELLENT blog you have here Dr.Dork
You're now in top place in my favs. I'll be one of your daily readers.
Cheers!
Dr. Dork, you've become one of my daily reads, as well. I find your blog amusing, informative and quite simply wonderful.
How unfortunate...
Crap. It sounds like the bosses made her take it down. But now it's available as an invite blog, so I guess she's still at it, if more subversively. Doh!
:)
Dr. Dork - I received an email from her this morning. She is neither working nor blogging but assured me all is well. She said she would return in a week.
It's a shame. Hopefully she will return as suggested.
I've clicked on her link several times in the last few days, hoping that she'd have changed her mind.
I'm going to miss her an awful lot. Thank you for posting about it.
Hullo peoples.
Sorry so long in replying.
Major loss. One can but hope Dr Barb will return someday.
JMB, thank you, and see my post on the topic. Flattered !
Merys, Mother Jones, Moof, HP, cholerajoe, MSILF, Dr A, Scalpel, Dr Deb...I can do naught but agree.
V%ME, CP, my ego thanks you, sad we have all lost one of the premier medbloggers.
Anon....
Hmm. Your voice sounds familiar...
Kind regards,
Dork
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