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Entries from April 2006

The DivaCup offers safer, eco-friendly time-of-the-month

April 30th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Should a guy write a post about a uniquely female matter? I don’t know but I’m going to do it. You know why? Because the subject of this post is something that, until today, was something completely unknown to me. I was fascinated to read about it and thought it would make for a great [...]

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Are you affected by ‘plausible denial’?

April 29th, 2006 · No Comments

I ‘bumped into’ the following quote a couple days ago:
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.”   -Eleanor Roosevelt US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962)
It wasn’t the first time I’d encountered this quote. I believe I was a teenager the last time I encountered it. Being 43-years old as [...]

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Comment spam countermeasures

April 26th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Hello, Dear Readers.
For some reason this blog has suddenly become very popular with comment-spammers. I had been managing such things manually until they got too numerous for my available time and attention.
Because this blog runs on the WordPress blogging engine, I chose to implement the Akismet comment-spam fighter. This has virtually eliminated the [...]

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Mental cobwebs are more powerful than bombs and bullets

April 22nd, 2006 · 3 Comments

Will you take just a moment to think about the most recent piece of news that you regarded as important? Please do that now, then continue reading when you’ve a story firmly in mind.
Got it? Okay, good; thank you for cooperating with my request.
As you review in your mind what you think about [...]

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This blog now supports GRAvatar

April 22nd, 2006 · 1 Comment

I’ve added GRAvatar support to the comments functionality of this blog. If you don’t have one and don’t want one, no worries—you don’t need them. If you already have one, or want one, they’re free!
Basically it works like this: if you leave a comment on my site and do not use Gravatars, a [...]

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