Welcome to Are we “Making you Think”, a website dedicated to exploring life, technology and its influences on the everyday Joe. I originally built this website to explore how technology is changing the world aroud us daily, MP3 players are as popular as cellular telephones, and traditional photography (we are talking about film) is becoming a past time for traditionalist. We are certainly into the digital era. But how do we best utalize the digital era and more importantly how do we protect ourselves from it? How can you protect those digital memories, what do I do with 50,000 digital family photographs?
Life with Crohns Disease
Today my role has shifted, although technology is important, so is a persons lifestyle, their health, and family. In late 2005, I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. For those that share this illness or have family members who have experienced the joys of frequent trips to the “personal space”, it is my hope this site will give you some peace knowing that you are not alone. After three weeks of battling my latest flareup, I was discharged from our local hospital only a few days ago (May 2010). For as much as a sanity check for others, this site will serve as one for me. Being able to vent, and discuss, medications, treatments, will hopefully help me focus my thoughts towards a not so distant remission.
About the Author
My name is Mark Hanlon and I live about an hour north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada near the shores of Lake Simcoe. If you asked anyone that thinks they know me, family members include, what I do for a living, they would reply “something computer related”, which is a half-truth, the other half is that I am a urban planner. I have a degree in Environmental Resource Studies where I spent four years forcussed in policy review and program development, however another large component of my studies included Information Systems, computer programming (Visual Basic, C/C++, and Cobol) and economics.
On the computer side of things, I run a small Website Design and Publishing company (www.ithink.ca) that works with small business and website publishers to enhance their web presence and broaden their marketplace. In addition, I am the owner of several popular websites, so some which have been in existance for over 10 years.
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