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Look what showed up in the mail today!
They made a good choice - I’ll probably use both the cookbook and the apron.
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While I’ve been silent a lot lately, I haven’t been idle. My most recent project has been helping a former client sell some equipment on eBay. Yes, eBay - I haven’t used them in a few years, but their audience *is* massive, and he wants to clean out his storage unit, so I agreed to […]

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I’ve been keeping an eye on Scott Eric Kaufman’s meme experiment. It seems it took on legs:
Posts that contain "Acephalous" Meme per day for the last 30 days.Get your own chart!
While you can see a huge spike of blogs linking in during the first 2 days, it quickly trails off, illustrating again the “long tail” […]

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This will be the 12th Christmas since my mother passed. Although I miss her keenly throughout the year, the first holidays were brutal. One of the ways I cope is to embrace some of the traditions I miss so much and find new ways to share them.
One of the first things I remember learning […]

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Our washer and dryer recently broke, necessitating replacement. For most people, this wouldn’t be a big deal - they’d go out, buy what they needed or wanted and be done with it. However, the entry to our basement is narrower than most - instead of a 32″ opening, we have 25.5″. With 4 folks here, […]

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Since October we have been testing Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress on Jen Burke’s Transcending Gender. The results have been so significant that I requested permission to share them with my readers.
As you can see, there has been a dramatic increase in visitors and page views:

Google really likes the new service - they spidered […]

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Acephalous is doing an interesting study on the speed and spread of memes for the upcoming MLA conference. He’s asking for help artificially spreading a meme so he can dissect and demystify the process.
This may just be a fascinating way to gather nifty links, but since I’m into research and he’s promised to share […]

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This year’s ballot measures to raise the minimum wage passed in six states: Montana, Ohio, Arizona, Colorado, Missouri and Nevada.
That means that ~1,561,000 million Americans are getting a raise, which is not only good for them, but also good for the businesses that serve working families.
As an added benefit, all of the new […]

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Four hundred and thirty one days have passed since Katrina wreaked havoc on the gulf coast. I’m lucky enough to have friends on the ground in New Orleans fighting to save their city - otherwise, I might not know about dire conditions that continue there.

Election day marks the 435th day since Katrina hit. This is […]

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