<story><title>So Far, So Good</title><url>http://hintjens.com/blog:119</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Backstory:  Pieter Hintjens, Belgian software developer and Free Software advocate, diagnosed with terminal cancer, continues to muse on chemo, technology, life, and what odd stray bits of writing do or don&amp;#x27;t go viral.&lt;p&gt;And he&amp;#x27;s chanced upon a Chinese manufacturing practice, Shanzhai, which incorporates the anti-patent concepts he&amp;#x27;s long fought for.&lt;p&gt;(My Pocket entry for this blog post has a curious set of associated tags.)</text></comment>
<story><title>So Far, So Good</title><url>http://hintjens.com/blog:119</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xgbi</author><text>I remember the chemo and it was exactly like this. 5 days of shit every 2 weeks, and a slow tumble up the next 9 days, waiting for the new round.&lt;p&gt;I got the luck to have a &amp;quot;gentle&amp;quot; lymphoma, but the chemo is hard nonetheless. My 2 last rounds, I couldn&amp;#x27;t bend down to grab a pan without sweating, starting to tremble and having difficulty breathing.&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s hope that he gets all the love he needs to pass through gently.</text></comment>