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| Comments (0) After months of a security lockdown (confession: totally unintentional ID10T operator error), comments have been re-enabled here at Spare Change with no authentication necessary. Sorry about the frustration this may have caused you, Bryan. That's okay...I forgive you....
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| Comments (0) Indexed is another new find. simple. consistent. informative. interesting. funny (mostly). I'd create an index card graph to honor it, but i'm not that inspired....
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| Comments (0) Faces in Places has captured my imagination. I'm regularly seeing faces in things inanimate and otherwise. Just the other day at the baseball fields, I said to Kelli, "There! That looks like there's a face on that pitching machine." "That's...
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| Comments (0) I'm at one of our denominational retreats this week, enjoying a mostly refreshening week of conferences (perhaps exceptions will be detailed later...so far there is only one). Tonight, as I am wont to do from time to time, I checked...
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| Comments (1) Many thanks to Justin, for the assist takeover of the move of Spare Change to the new address, accompanied by the new install of Movable Type...I had been on version 2.661 for forever, and now am on 3.1416 or whatever...
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| Comments (0) You may have noticed a new look here, or you may not have been able to get here at all recently. I'm taking some advice and transferring the blog over to the new domain of http://bryanmcanally.com. I'll be tweaking it...
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| Comments (1) I just converted my bloglet subscribers to Feedblitz. It'll improve delivery, seeming that its a feeder that is manned by someone who is actively interested in this widget. I weeded out a lot of addresses that were either suspicious or...
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| Comments (1) I wrote this...gratis...for a magazine a while ago....I don't know if it ever ran or not: Online journals, or weblogs (“blogs”), are a dynamically growing phenomenon on the Internet. Individuals, businesses, and even churches are daily starting blogs to communicate...
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| Comments (6) I created a map of SBC bloggers. If you are one, please add yourself to it. I think you may get an extra reward in heaven if you do....
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| Comments (3) Petty Theft is the name of the Tom Petty tribute band that gets a lot of free pub by the local sports talk station, due to the fact that one of its talking heads is part of the band. And...
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| Comments (0) Over to the right, you'll notice a Tag cloud. I'm a little late to the game, but loving the technology nonetheless. It offers a top-20 cloud of timely topics, gathered from some of my favorite sites. I tried to include...
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| Comments (1) Sorry for being offline the past couple days...apparently, Web Hosting providers don't like it when they try to bill a closed account in Georgia to pay for current billing in Texas. I think we have things fixed...we'll see. They told...
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I closed comments because of "Cynthia Reyes" who has nothing better to do in the Christmas season than fill my site with poker spam. I have far better things to do than spend my time on it. Merry Christmas....
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| Comments (0) Ganns at Superblessed has again nominated Spare Change for one of his end-of-the-year weblog awards. Spare Change won this category last year, So we got that going for us , but whether we defend the title or if the crown...
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| Comments (0) I'm honored some folks have made SC a home for sharing words of love and concern for soldiers serving in Iraq through Camp Anaconda. Not so much about the folks who have also made this blog their home for letting...
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| Comments (5) Reasons for the new look: 1. To quote the mystic troubadours Little River Band, It's time for a cool change. 2. I wanted a Denver Broncos Football-esque homage. 3. I needed to explore the boundaries of my HTML skills to...
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| Comments (0) Rare-but-sometimes SC contributor (is there any kind anymore, including myself?!?) Kyle and bride Rebecca are the proud parents of a brand-new baby girl. We rejoice with them as they work through the international adoption process. If'n you want to read...
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| Comments (0) Due to another spate of trackback spam, I'm deleting entries of little significance....anything that is little more than a link and some witty banter. If you find yourself hunting unsuccessfully for a link to a game or an interesting site...
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| Comments (0) I just saw the adware removal ad on the link2blogs spot here. Cya link2blogs. I have lots to tell you, but no time to do it. Busy days, much transition. VBS starting, new ministry, freelance assignments...much good stuff...very little time....
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| Comments (0) I've changed my blog summary at Blog Exchange to read the following... Title: I See What You Mean Description: See the ironic insights of a dyslexic, sight-impaired person with no opposable thumbs. To the BE surfers, please excuse this indulgence...I'm...
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| Comments (0) I added a bunch of web images I've saved over time to my flicker album, as you can tell at the zeitgeist box on the right... Funny (to me, anyway), strange, or interesting... Take a look, if you'd like (and...
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| Comments (1) So I read & blogrolled Tim, just because he stopped here (through Blog Explosion, perchance?) and commented on the most useless blog entry I've ever submitted, and because we have similar tastes in blogrollings. I found this quiz there, and...
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| Comments (0) Visited Post Secret today, while surfing... wow. People sending in the femurs and tibias of their closet's skeletons. On a postcard...artistically, you know, because that makes it more interesting. Tell you what, though, it's effective. Powerful even. Some of this...
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| Comments (5) Mad props to SC contributor Matt for my new banner. Thank you my friend...I appreciate you! Even if some of you are teasing me about my turquoise sky blue header background. I think its purdy....
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| Comments (2) I've always dismissed it as bothersome and annoying, but today I took a second and visited the SPAM that has been snared by my junk email folder. To my surprise, I found a deep, deep message conveyed by the so-profound-it-can't-be-accidental...
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| Comments (0) Over at Emily Zasada's Web site, she details by photograph the process of painting a really good work of art. I'm super duper impressed, but then again, I'ma guy who can't even doodle well. A link to her gallery is...
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| Comments (1) I've added Grace and the News to the blogroll. Good compendium of headlines, with politely snarky headlines about the bad headlines they reference.* *This very well may be the worst blog entry I've ever written....and to Grace's Res Ipsa, I...
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| Comments (0) I've written and contributed on the discussion on emerging leadership discussion on the Southern Baptist Convention. Two new blogs have emerged from the emerging discussion on emergence. I'm neither recommending nor denouncing them at this point...merely pointing out their existence...
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| Comments (1) Just an observation, but I feel a twinge of apologetic dismay when surfing via Blog Explosion, I am visited by the banner of someone I already have blogrolled or visit regularly. I feel as though their banner imprint was wasted...
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| Comments (1) I'm a little concerned. I don't know if I have room in my life for two talented, inherently funny bloggers. Yet, apparently unconcerned about this, Ramble Strip has joined Fluid Pudding on the blogroll for her skill at making me...
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| Comments (0) A couple of quick hits: Tony asks the simple question...Is Dean good for Dems? Christopher's name is more popular than mine. I'm going to share this link with Shelvin, the new mom I recently outed at work. Jon offers an...
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| Comments (0) The jerk of a spammer who keeps lacing my trackbacks with links to gambling sites has decided that there's no good cause to pause for the Super Bowl. I'm back up to 235 of these annoying messages. May he receive...
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| Comments (2) Oh happy moment! I've just discovered the shortcut on the Mac that allows me to increase the viewable font on my Web browser! Now I don't have to strain any longer. I'm aging every single day, in case you didn't...
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| Comments (2) yesterday was our semi-annual Spiritual Focus Day at work. A good word I'll share later. Come home to a computer bogged down with popups. I ran a spyware eliminator and it eliminated my ability to access my modem! Ah technology....
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| Comments (5) I just wanted to pause for a moment to state the obvious. Blog Explosion works. I've seen my traffic increase significantly since hitching my caboose to this nifty wagon train. For me, it's not so much that I get to...
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| Comments (0) The Best of Blogs 2004 award nominations are available. I'm not soliciting a nomination. Really. I just think these things are good ways to find other good blogs you might not have known previously. Still, if you are so compelled,...
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| Comments (5) After just a few days of being part of Blog Explosion, I've learned the following... The increase in traffic will come. It's sporadic, but inevitable. The profanity filter doesn't function correctly. When you're supposed to click on the little number...
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| Comments (1) Joshua Michael has joined the blogroll. Again, led to him via blog explosion. He serves in ministry to yourth, links to Pressed, and has refreshingly wholesome content. Two journeys, two finds. I'm digging on this so far!...
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| Comments (1) I don't pretend to fully, or really even partially understand this. But Christopher did it, and he's my blogging guru, so I followed his link: If you follow this referral link and sign your site up through it, an angel...
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| Comments (4) Another change in the commenting system for you. You can now post without previewing, however, you must now also include the mystery letter in the field at the bottom of the comment page. Right below the smilies, right above the...
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| Comments (1) To avoid my own problems at my blog, I thought I would come over here and mess around. In an effort to reduce the amount of comment spam here at Spare Change and since I can't get the other solution...
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| Comments (0) SuperBlessed listed our fine squad of contributors here at Spare Change as a nominee for his annual Blogging Awards, in the best online discussion category. This quite the honor and we're all very appreciative*, but I do want to take...
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| Comments (3) A spammer named bob has been vigilant in trying to use Spare Change to promote an online casino. I've removed at least 15 comment spams from him just this morning. I also took a few minutes to update the color...
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| Comments (0) In a deleted and blacklisted spam for "party poker," someone posted the following content within stripped hyperlinks to its site: What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like,...
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| Comments (1) I don't know if I've ever reported in depth on the search strings that bring people here...but I am now. Bear with me amidst this self-indulgence. Recent searches bringing you here include: "nudist colony dahlonega" -- yikes! "playing church" --...
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| Comments (2) I love that this smiley's file name is "howyoudoin.gif" That cracks me up for some reason. Is it "smilie" or "smiley?" I use both interchangeably and inconsistently. For some reason, the "autofill" feature of this computer places "September McAnally"...
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| Comments (0) Prompted by the direct-and-while-at-the-same-time-not-at-all-gentle encouragement of LaShawn, I've updated my blogroll, which includes up-to-date links to her fine site, as well as to my friend and fellow denominational servant Matt. I got to see Matt while at the Colorado event...
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| Comments (7) This this 999 entry made here a Spare Change. (That of course is including the entries that were imported from Clarity.) That is quite a milestone or almost a milestone (and there was a temptation there to wait for the...
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| Comments (4) And because I've been a little inward-focused lately, here's what's new around the established 'hood: It's Wednesday. Must be time for Tony to try a new look! Jen continues to be the most ardent Amazing Race fan I know. But...
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| Comments (0) Wizbang is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Bonfire of the Vanities. To do so, he's holding a contest of the best of the worst, or the worst of the best of the worst, or something like that. To be...
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| Comments (2) So, I tried to destroy Spare Change last night. Unintentionally, of course. I thought it would be a good time to start developing the Two Sents Website. New templates, new copy...starting to put feet to the vision and all that....
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| Comments (2) Trying to help Bryan out with a technical glitch. Let me know if you can see the blog in the comments. If you can't see the blog, leave a note the in the comments for that as well. Bryan can't...
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| Comments (0) Apparently, Google can not only stop pop-ups, translate languages, walk your dog, figure your taxes, and -oh yeah- provide search engine functionality. It can also measure your fame, or lack thereof. Mine is obviously a case of the latter. I...
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| Comments (0) Blogging *may* be light this weekend, because my home PC jumped from the Cessna and forgot to pull the ripcord. Yesterday morning, I ran the spyware eliminator (I knew we had a problem when i got a pop-up for a...
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| Comments (0) Well...the carnivals are up...and rather than add yet another link to them, I'll instead direct you to Memeblog, which I'm adding to mine own blogroll, which in essence saves me time and effort from ever having to post this post...
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| Comments (5) I've just read that the new version of Movable Type is pricey . I don't pretend to understand much about this, but from what I can tell, it will cost me a good chunk o' change to keep on doing...
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| Comments (0) Such Small Hands pointed me to Terry Mattingly's blog GetReligion, which I have blogrolled. I remember reading Terry's column in the Rocky Mountain News when I was a teen, long before I was saved, but curious about religion because the...
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| Comments (1) Via Absinthe & Cookies: 1. Grab the nearest CD 2. Put it in your CD-Player 3. Skip to Song 3 4. Post the first verse along with these instructions. Don’t name the band, nor the album-title You're wondering who I...
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| Comments (3) Okay, I know I've ranted on this earlier, but I'm kicking this pony one more time, just because I have such an excellent example. In my inbox: It is good to have something to think about. - Spencer What if...
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| Comments (0) Just a quick question...has anyone ever received a forwarded email, only to have seen that their own email is listed in an earlier generation of its transmittal? I got one of those this morning....a "smile chain." I noticed that an...
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| Comments (0) If you build it, they will come. or something like that. A couple posts ago, I wondered aloud (or onscreen), how many blogs were both on the Blogs for Bush and Blogdom of God blogrolls. Shortdaddy picked up my fumble...
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| Comments (4) I missed last week's Blogger Idol topic, which was "Birds of A Feather." I attempted a feeble entry about Larry Bird, Robin Williams, and Bob Crane, but to tell the truth, I laid an egg. So, we've flown that...
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| Comments (0) Why is SPAM so hard to eliminate? One reason, by way of example, is that there are over 1.3 sextillion ways to spell the brand name of the most popular Spamulated product. How do you create something to recognize that...
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| Comments (3) We're introducing a new category at Spare Change. It's called Marginal Theology. Here's how you play the game. From time to time, our contributors will provide a reference from the Scripture, and then add the commentary to it that he...
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| Comments (0) Just discovered via Wizbang that Larry & Jean Elliot, two of the four missionaries killed in Iraq recently while serving and loving the Iraqis for the sake of God's name, are parents to blogger Scott #Elliot, proprietor of the very...
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| Comments (0) Bloggar Idol Finalists for Week 11: Miss Understood Miss Interpretation Miss Ogeny Miss Construal And as an honorable mention, I link to this guy, who is clearly younger than me (from the picture), but uses a lot more words as...
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| Comments (0) Huh. Came across a blogshares referral in my list. I haven't been there forever. My blogspot addy has devalued a bit, but still has surprisingly decent value for being inactive for almost a month now. And still no shares available...
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| Comments (0) I noticed the TTLB rankings are fixed...sorta. I'm still listed as a microbe, but my rank is 656, which should have me as a marsupial, and my inbound #s cause further havoc. At least there's no error message any more....
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| Comments (0) There has been an issue with commenting. When a comment is submitted it is returning an error 500. We are not sure what the cause is but we are looking into it. If you do get the error, it is...
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| Comments (11) My church started using projectors and PowerPoint quite some time ago. When we did, no one really had an idea about how to implement it in the worship service. We had been to some other churches using it but we...
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| Comments (2) The following (edited) was in my office inbox, offering sick and twisted fare for every flavor of deviant: You've just purchased set of Maibach brand earthenware on web site (deleted) Easy to use, Maibach kitchenware is also famous for its...
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| Comments (0) Isn't it ironic that the best week of Blogger Idol is the very same week I provide my worst entry yet. Wow, I guess this is further evidence that I am not the center of the universe. Anyway, here's a...
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| Comments (6) In my spare time (I found some today!) I have done some tweaking here at Spare Change. - You no longer have to input an e-mail address when making a comment. - The Scripturizer plug-in has bee installed. Scripturizer will...
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| Comments (0) I clicked on This post over at Thinklings because it caught my attention by the header "what was the Jesus' last name?" but the comments are equally interesting, albeit completely unrelated, due to an accusation of blog plagiarism. I always...
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| Comments (0) Captain Ed's Caption Contest is up. He's upping the ante and offering a prize this week. I've entered mine... now it's your turn....
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| Comments (2) How have I managed not to add Belief Seeking Understanding to the blogroll by now? Well, I've compensated for that transgression by omission through addition. Ditto for Gator Bites, who I think I actually blogrolled once before, but mistakenly de-rolled,...
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| Comments (4) Carnivals for your reading: -- Christian -- Bonfire (where I win the distinction of having the worst post ever). -- Vanities (It's not up yet, but it will be)...
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| Comments (5) I love my new banner. Tony (note his new location and update your links accordingly) gets all credit for it's design, and Christopher gets all credit for its presentation on the blog. I tell you this is the truth, without...
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| Comments (0) A couple of observations from bringing the old files over: My writing will never be labeled as 'inerrant.' I had a hard time counting my proverbs (duplicates for 21, 106,107, and omission of #72 -- all corrected) I really liked...
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| Comments (4) That the entries have jumped suddenly. I am working on the import now. I kept only the cream of Clarity -- the best according to me, whether it was poignant or personally important for one reason or another. Take some...
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| Comments (13) The thing that I like most about blogs is that they help create a sense of community among the people who write and visit a blog. In order for that community feeling to grow, we need to get to know...
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| Comments (0) This is the final entry for Clarity Amidst Chaos. Everything from here on will be posted over at Spare Change. Thanks for coming, and I look forward to the next stage of the adventure.I thank God upon every remembrance of...
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| Comments (1) Thanks for coming to Spare Change. You'll find much of the same type of content from Clarity Amidst Chaos, but with more offerings specifically written to the Christ-follower. The Spare Change Team represents expertise in virtually every facet of church...
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| Comments (0) Aaron created a castigatory blogopoly gamepiece for me.I wasn't being derisive of the effort, I promise. In fact I thought it to be quite cool and clever. I just estimated myself to be unworthy of being included.So in that regard,...
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| Comments (0) Okay, the proverbial cat is out of the proverbial bag.......here kitty kitty kitty....I'm soon making the leap off Blogspot. Christopher, who has already earned top-line perpetual permalink gratuities for his efforts, is assisting me in the transition.I need your opinion...
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| Comments (0) one year ago, an unknown writer/pastor started a little online journal called clarity amidst chaos.plans for the off-broadway one man show are now in development, with a subsequent film project in the works as well. Negotiations between producers and Russell...
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| Comments (0) I'm big on not ending a sentence in a preposition.but i'm just as much an advocate for not going to nauseating lengths to avoid prepositional challenges.for example, one may be tempted to write:I didn't want to go out. I was...
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| Comments (0) What a day...got a crash course on HTML by putting together this page. No doubt, if I were in college, I'd be guilty of code plagiarism. I'm not trying to steal others' content, just their functionality. Isn't that all Microsoft...