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Entries from August 2007

You Can Update Your Dreams

August 31st, 2007 · 8 Comments

My Dreams
When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? For me, it was a doctor. Actually for a brief time, I wanted to be a worm doctor, whatever that is, but mostly I wanted to be a medical doctor. Then again, to a 5 year […]

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Tags: A. Ed's Articles · Personal Growth

DoFollow bug

August 30th, 2007 · 3 Comments

For some reason, the DoFollow plugin wasn’t working for me. I discovered yesterday that despite installing and enabling the plugin, nofollow tags were still being added to comment links.
I had to hack a root file on my server and manually remove the <rel=nofollow> occurences from the code of the file comment-template.php. After […]

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Tags: D. Site News

Is your husband or wife an idiot?

August 25th, 2007 · 4 Comments

My father was a great man. Actually, he still is as far as I know. I learned a lot of invaluable lessons from him and from my mother.
To this day, a full 20 years after moving out of his home, I am certain that I could survive pretty well in almost any environment […]

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Tags: A. Ed's Articles · Family/Parenting · Personal Growth

More about My Reasons to Homeschool

August 19th, 2007 · 207 Comments

My friend Obsteve has been encouraging me for more than a few weeks to elaborate on my previous post, 5 Reasons Why You Should Homeschool:
Hi Ed, I still believe that this article is misleading, both about teachers and about teaching.Essentially, I feel that 5 different reasons to homeschool could and should be proffered; I do […]

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Tags: A. Ed's Articles · Family/Parenting · Homeschooling / Education · Political

A Word on “Surrender”

August 9th, 2007 · 6 Comments

From the Wikipedia entry on surrender:
Surrender is when soldiers, nations or other combatants stop fighting and become prisoners of war, either as individuals or when ordered to by their officers. A white flag is often used to surrender, as is the gesture of raising one’s hands empty and open above one’s head.
Surrender may be conditional, […]

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Tags: A. Ed's Articles · Political