My illness: Emphysema

What Is Emphysema? Emphysema is a degenerative disease that usually develops after many years of assault on lung tissues from cigarette smoke or other toxins that pollute the air. These toxins destroy the small air sacs in the lungs, called alveoli, that stretch as they transport oxygen from the air to the blood and then shrink as they force out carbon dioxide. As a result, the lungs lose their elasticity, and exhaling becomes difficult as the damaged lungs trap air and cannot effectively exchange it with fresh air. As the damage progresses, the effort needed to breathe increases and, ultimately, each breath becomes labored. (Illustration provided by the American Medical Association.) Emphysema is one of a group of lung diseases referred to as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that can interfere with normal breathing. Other diseases that come under COPD include asthma and chronic bronchitis. According to the American Lung Association (ALA), nearly 16 million Americans are estimated to suffer from some form of COPD, and COPD is the fourth-ranking cause of death just behind heart ailments, cancers, and stroke.

Sunday 14 December 2008

Oh boy...

Just when I thought some years have been crappy to me, this year has been quite a bitch.
I mean so far I've been stuck in a flood at my cousin's wedding.
Had some lady smash her mercedes into the bus I were on days after my birthday.
And as I were on my way to the bus station from my mate's the road had been blocked off by police as someone had either died on the street or had been killed.

On the positive note, you Playstation 3 owners need the following in your life:
LittleBigPlanet & Playstation Home.
Playstation Home IS out, for those who didn't know...however it's at it's early stages, so not much clothes or decent furniture have been released yet.
However I have made my own Club (which is like a guild), called DMC (Devil's May Cry), I had to make a club asap as I didn't want the best tag's to be taken.
It cost me £3.99 but after so long I'll be charged a fee every 30 days (I can live with that), and in good time when a better club house is for sale I'll go and buy a better club house, and when Pool Table's, TV's & Stereo's are released I'll be putting them into the Club House too.
So when TV's are released I'll be able to watch with my online friends on the TV, videos stored onto my Playstation 3's hard drive.

About Mugen...

Mugen is a fighting game for the PC where you can download & add ANY fighters you want, whether they're from Streetfighter, Mortal Kombat, Marvel, DC, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Dragon Ball Z and various Anime's and more, you can even add stages and theme music for that stage.I currently have a tool that allows me to edit colours of any character I want, I also know how to change the character's name's and the sizes of the characters, I also have a tool that'll let me create my own Mugen character which I hope to do at some point, what you'll need is the Mugen Character Maker, a sprite sheet for the character you want to create and sounds for the moves they do (like "HADOUKEN/SHO-RYU-KEN" for Ryu/Ken for instance).

Many people have made their own Mugen's available to download so you can either choose to make your own from scratch or download a pre-made one by someone else.
You can find several pre-made Mugen's at www.caiman.us

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