I've had a cold for the past week that just seems to linger. The first night was a painful sore throat that started to fizzle by the second night, but was replaced by having to get up every two hours to blow my nose. After a couple nights of that it turned into a cough that just won't go away. It is accompanied by very mild congestion, but the coughing is hideous. I slept on a couch in the next room in an attempt to allow Emilie a little bit of sleep. The coughing subsided by about 2:00a, I think.

In related news, I tried Zicam Cold Remedy RapidMelts (Cherry) when I first felt the cold coming on. I have to say that these were possibly the nastiest things I have ever put in my mouth. Although the flavor isn't horrible, the texture is vile. It can easily give you the dry heaves. The worst part is that instructions say not to drink or eat anything for 15 minutes after dissolving in your mouth. I found this request to be unreasonable. My first sympton was a sore throat, which the product claims to treat, but when you have a sore throat it really stinks to not be able to drink anything after sucking on a pill that has the consistency of a highly compressed wad of toilet paper. Still, I pushed forward and used them as much as I could per the directions (one tablet every three hours). I did not see any benefit from using this product. The symptoms were not noticeably lessened and I doubt the cold was shortened, as advertised on the box. It's interesting to note that the product is so bad that they don't even advertise it on the Zicam web page.

It's clear that Richard has something against non-IE browsers. I won't argue on a security level because every product has it's problems. I use Firefox because I like the look, feel and functionality better than IE. Also, spyware seems to take advantage of IE users almost exclusively. This could quickly lead to the argument about IE being targeted because it is the most widely used. This is probably true, but right now IE is the most targeted, which makes Firefox a better choice.