Our pastor spoke about Israel yesterday, including the fact that it came back into being as a separate nation in 1948. That got me to thinking that I don’t know much about the history of Israel, particularly from the time leading up to 1948. So I’m looking for a recommendation on a book to read [...]
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You know that poker is getting too popular when two paintings of dogs playing the game (c’mon, you know you’ve seen some of these before) sell at auction for $590,400. The winning bidder was a private collector from New York. Methinks the winning bidder ought to have his head examined!
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To borrow a writing style from Dave Barry, anytime someone asks me how to keep their banana from getting squished up in their lunch, I’m going to tell them all about the Banana Bunker®! Thanks to Gizmodo for cluing me in to this product.
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After updating my weblog software, I learned that the URLs of my RSS feeds have changed. The new links are as follows: Country Keepers Weblog Daily NASB Bible Study About Product Weblogs I see that the links on the bottom of the page here are incorrect. I don’t yet know where to change them, but [...]
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Today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day shows an iceberg the size of Long Island, New York breaking off of Antarctica, floating across 100km of sea, and slamming into another part of Antarctica. It’s hard for me to imagine a hunk of anything that big breaking off of a continent. Hat tip to Daryl Cobranchi for [...]
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Do you suppose that Matthew Lesko is really as happy as he always seems in his ads? Of course, if you were driving a Mini Cooper with question marks all over it, wouldn’t you have a smile on your face, too?
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I really liked this article on what makes a good business weblog by business coach John-Paul Micek because he used went point by point through the layout of a weblog to explain why the design was useful and of value to the company and its customers. Here’s how he introduced it. With the help of [...]
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What a great idea! Anil Adyanthaya suggests in a New York Times op/ed article that the trustees of the Stanley Cup, normally awarded to the winner of the NHL playoffs, should award it to the winner of the American Hockey League playoffs this year, seeing as the NHL has cancelled the entire 2004-2005 NHL season [...]
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I’ve just updated the WordPress software on which this weblog runs to version 1.5. I didn’t see any issues, though there are things I want to clean up, but please let me know if you find any problems.
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I’m in the process of upgrading my weblogs to WordPress v1.5. When I upgraded the first one, the display on the WordPress control panel was very strange, with the weblog title overlapping a WordPress logo. It turns out that the WordPress logo was from the old version, the weblog title from the new version, and [...]
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