Friday - December 23, 2011
Might be light on the posting but check anyway.
Busy and getting ready with things to take to friend’s house on Christmas day. Trad. English dinner, been there every Christmas since we got here, and for almost 30 years the mil went there too. My worry at the moment is, will this darn dry and scratchy throat get worse in the next 24 hours. Great time to start feeling like I should be on a diet of toast and tea and chicken broth. Grumble.
Here’s wishing all of you the best and a good New Year too. There’s always hope if nothing else.
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Permalink • Thursday - December 22, 2011
getting into the Christmas spirit
too cute not to share ...
and how well I know this. once had a kitty who knocked over a small tree. tree had it coming tho. I witnessed the whole thing and the tree started it.
Still miss that cat. Miss all the ones we’ve had actually. And an Akita we were especially fond of named Moto. Funny what I start to remember at this time of year.
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Permalink • Wednesday - December 21, 2011
tomorrow
A very long day planned tomorrow .....
So good evening all cos right now, this is me.
Cheers.
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Permalink • Friday - December 16, 2011
quote of the day?
Sometimes when you’ve got a cold or the flue or are suffering from terrible allergies and your nose is blocked up like a brick, the only thing that can open it up is a hose. Well, almost a hose. That’s what a Neti pot is for. They’re these little watering can things you pour up your nose, and the mild saline solution rinses out the mess and let’s you breathe again.
Yeah, they’re kinda gross. Not the sort of thing you’d want to use in public. But they will give you a few hours of relief, and the folks who use them daily think they’re the greatest thing ever.
I’ve got the dangerous modern version, Dr. Mehta’s NeilMed Sinus Rinse. Instead of having to contort yourself into some odd Yoga position known as the reciprocating mongoose to get the water to flow up your nose, the NeilMed device uses a squeeze bottle. For all you old stoners out there who remember the power hitters in the 70s made from plastic mustard bottles, it’s a very similar design. I say that the thing is dangerous because it reguires a gentle hand to use safely. You’re jamming a squirt bottle up your nose, m’kay? Squeeze too hard and you’ll blast out your ears. So go easy.
I don’t use mine every day. Actually, I only use it a few times a year. You get a bunch of little packets to mix into the water that contain salt and baking soda, which helps dry you out and reduces that old sea water up the nose burn. I really should find the thing and start using it again. We have electric heat at our place and it gets so terribly dry here in the winter months. I use distilled water, boiled on the stove, and then left to cool in a covered pan.
Anyway, Darwin claims two more, who should have known better. Always boil the water first ... and [this is VERY important:] then let it cool off before pouring it up your nose. Words to the wise, right?
Two deaths from brain-eating amoeba linked to sinus remedy for colds
A sinus-flushing device used to relieve colds and allergies has been linked to a deadly brain-eating amoeba.
Louisiana’s state health department issued a warning about neti pots - which look like mini watering cans, that are used by pouring salty water through one nostril.
It follows two recent deaths - a 51-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man from the ‘brain-eating amoeba’ Naegleria fowleri.
It is thought the amoeba entered their brains when they used the devices.
Both victims are thought to have used tap water, instead of distilled or sterilised water as recommended by the manufacturers.
Dr Raoult Ratard, Louisiana State Epidemiologist, said: ‘If you are irrigating, flushing, or rinsing your sinuses, for example, by using a neti pot, use distilled, sterile or previously boiled water to make up the irrigation solution.
‘Tap water is safe for drinking, but not for irrigating your nose.’
According to The Department of Health and Hospitals in Louisiana, the amoeba causes the disease primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a brain infection that leads to the destruction of brain tissue.
In its early stages, symptoms may be similar to symptoms of bacterial meningitis and can include headache, fever, nausea, vomiting and stiff neck. Later symptoms include confusion, loss of balance, seizures and hallucinations.
After the start of symptoms, the disease progresses rapidly and usually causes death within one to 12 days.
My astute BMEWS readers will surely see what the LA DoHH isn’t telling us ... that the zombie amoeba is living in their drinking water. D’oh!!! ("D’ohh"??)
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Permalink • Friday - December 09, 2011
i seriously screwed up a setting and have to trace and fix.
so until i can fix the damn problem, because i just had to try out the newer IE like a damn fool, i’m gonna be busy.
for some damn reason i can yet figure, photos are suddenly being downloaded via IE which is nothing intended. and IE freezes and hangs and is crap anyway.
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PEDAL POWER
I couldn’t make it up. But no surprise either.
This year, Milan citizens are being encouraged to pedal on bicycle generators set up in front of the famous opera house to provide green power for the theater.
It’s difficult to imagine the privileged owners of tickets to tonight’s event taking part in the echo-initiative in their Valentino dresses, furs and tuxedos.
It is the most exclusive night in Italy’s social calendar, it is, for aristocrats and celebs who can afford the $2,400 for a ticket.
(source, iNewspaper)
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Permalink • Saturday - December 03, 2011
Speaking of Germany
When they say “It’s the bomb” I think they’ve got something else in mind ...
For more than 200 years, the myth of the Lorelei rock, named after a mythical mermaid who lured fisherman to their deaths by singing the most beautiful song ever heard and causing them to crash into the rocks, put fear into the hearts of captains of boats plying the Rhine River. Historically low water levels this November are presenting a new threat: World War II bombs.
Sinking water levels have exposed much more of the river bed than normal, and it turns out the bottom of one of Europe’s busiest waterways is still littered with World War II leftovers. Over the weekend, passers-by alerted the authorities to the presence of one incendiary bomb near Cologne, two barrels in Koblenz filled with a chemical used during the war to create smoke screens and one large bomb, also in Koblenz, that is still lying in 40 centimeters (16 inches) of water, waiting to be defused.
Indeed, the dangers of finding additional World War II detritus are so great that officials are now reminding people to immediately report any suspicious objects they might spot.
The munitions are now coming to light due to an unusually dry autumn in Germany, resulting in the lowest November water levels seen along the Rhine in decades. With no rain in sight, it is likely to continue to drop.
This weekend, a large section of the German city of Koblenz will come to a standstill as bomb experts gingerly defuse a massive World War II bomb that recently emerged from the Rhine River due to low water levels. Almost half of the residents will be evacuated, the largest such operation in the city’s history.
Unexploded ordnance from World War II frequently turns up in German communities, and sometimes authorities are forced to evacuate small areas to dispose of the dangerous explosives. But a large bomb that recently surfaced in the Rhine River has sparked security measures of historic proportions in the central German city of Koblenz.
Three meters (10 feet) long and weighing 1.8 tons, the aerial bomb was recently spotted after a particularly dry November lowered water levels along the busy river. Now preparations are underway for a massive evacuation set for Sunday.
Some 45,000 residents—nearly half of the city’s total population of 106,000—will be forced to leave the area. That includes two hospitals, seven retirement homes and the jail. To aid in the operation, the city has organized some 900 people and 350 vehicles to ferry residents to safety.
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Around 45,000 people will be evacuated from a 1.8 kilometer radius around the bomb site in what is Germany’s biggest evacuation since the end of World War II.
The 1.8 tonne bomb - dropped by the Royal Air Force (RAF) - was uncovered after water levels in the Rhine fell significantly as a result of a prolonged dry spell.
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Experts will defuse the bomb on Sunday. It is the biggest bomb-related evacuation in Germany’s post-war history. Nearly half the population of Koblenz is affected.
The bomb was found last week alongside a 275lb bomb dropped there by US forces during the war, after the Rhine’s water level fell due to lack of rain.
Authorities this week built a temporary dam of some 350 sandbags around the bomb which is covered by just 16 inches of water.
The plan is then for bomb disposal teams to pump the water out and get to the bomb proper to begin the delicate job of removing the detonator.
Koblenz was a German operations centre during the Second World War and was hit repeatedly by air raids carried out by RAF and US bombers says the report.
It was also the home of Army Group B which oversaw the conquest of France. Later in the war the city was the hub for defensive operations for German forces following D-Day. Eighty-seven per cent of Koblenz was eventually destroyed in more than two dozen air raids. German newspaper The National reports ‘an estimated 2,000 tonnes of American and British aerial bombs and other munitions are still found every year.’
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Permalink • Friday - December 02, 2011
3rd Ring Added To DC Circus
DC Elites Allowed To Do Insider Trades, Make Millions
Guess Who Will Run The Show Trial Investigations?
Yeah yeah, the article is mostly a push for the author’s book. But the truth behind it remains: Senators, Congressweasels, and top elected and appointed slimeballs in DC have their own special law that allows them to do insider trading, and these people are about as “insider” as it gets. Result is that they make millions doing the same exact thing that would land your backside in the slammer. And now that the word is out and the hue and cry is rising, they’re going to have an investigatory panel. Run by several people who are the top insider traders in the town.
Show trial much? This is more bogus than the “investigation” that the climate scientists did that cleared Hansen and those ass clowns in the UK of all wrongdoing. It’s a total crock, and you know what the outcome will be before they’ve even wasted the first million dollars of taxpayer money on it.
As a result of the stock transactions revealed in my new book “Throw Them All Out” and featured on “60 Minutes,” both the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the House Financial Services Committee have been pushed to hold hearings on the subject of congressional insider trading.
Some of the individuals I have cited in the book as having engaged in stock deals serve on the very committees that will be conducting the hearings. That’s a little like asking a defendant to also be a juror at their own trial — an absurdity that could only happen in Washington.
There’s no shortage of those who have tried to game the system on Wall Street.
Still, these hearings will give citizens and journalists a rare opportunity to see just how serious members of Congress truly are about cleaning up the cronyism and corruption rampant in Washington. It’s a pivotal moment that will hold electoral consequences.
Early indications are that both Congressional committees have stacked the decks with witnesses who will diminish the need to make members of Congress follow the same insider trading laws that citizens are bound by.
Observers therefore should pay close attention to the witnesses called.
In “Throw Them All Out,” I pointed out that during the 2008 TARP debate, eight members of the House Financial Services Committee were actively and aggressively trading financial and banks stocks before the bailout vote.
As the Wall Street Journal has also reported, senior staff members who work for members of this committee have also made very lucrative stock trades on banks, showing some remarkable timing. Will the hearings investigate these trades? And if not, why not?
Given Congress’s all-time low approval ratings, many citizens may not be terribly sanguine about the prospects for either of these hearings to produce serious results. However, members of Congress have a unique opportunity to respond directly to the will of the people by making it clear that the insider trading laws that apply to us also extend to members of Congress.
The eyes of the nation will be watching. And the voters stand ready to render their final verdict come next November.
I think we are getting to the point where serving in the government will have to be akin to going to jail. Maybe we should just save time and have them all serve FROM jail to begin with. Elected officials and the top 3 layers beneath them, including all appointees, will have all their assets put in a lockbox for their time at the job. They’ll be paid minimum wage, and housed in dormitories. No exceptions. Provide them with 10 changes of clothing to wear and give them a car and driver. All meals are to be taken in the workhouse cafeteria. Severe term limits, and a special law that makes it a major felony to work as a lobbyist or for a lobbyist or for a lobbyist’s law or accounting firm for 10 years after their time in government. And another “one shot” law that says that once they’ve played in the Bigs, they can’t work for any other government in any job at all, ever again. And while on the job, they don’t get benes any better than the average American. Sure, on the way out they get the rest of the salary, and, assuming they haven’t been convicted of a felony during their tenure, the government pads their assets by 15% per every 3 years served. And then they have to pay lump sum distribution taxes on both of those.
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Permalink • Sunday - November 27, 2011
still alive
Just about no posts from me this weekend, and not for the next couple days either. Busy making money. After being busy spending it.
Thanksgiving was fine, we did a brined turkey which came out great. Plenty to eat, and my boozy sweet potatoes (this year soaked in Johnny Walker Red) were the bomb.
I made the Peas & Rice and I have to say that a full tiny can of tomato paste and a 14oz can of diced tomatoes is too much. Oh, it was fine, but it was more Spanish Rice than it should have been. Stick with the 1 full tiny can of paste. 2 cans of beans may have been slight overkill too; a can and a half would have been best, and drained perhaps too: there is a full cup of juice in each can. A bit of extra thyme was not a problem.
Morning after T-day we gave in and did Black Friday at the 6th biggest mall in America. Nearly a square mile of retail space, 255 stores. Heck, they have an indoor skating rink and an indoor Ferris wheel in addition to the usual food court, multi-plex, and community center stuff. And it was packed. We lasted about 3 hours and ran away.
Got home to work. More work on the tile project, and I’ve got 3 customers who want to take advantage of this late November heat wave to get clean windows in before Winter. Plus my usual weekend work. And running down to care for the MIL, who is almost confined to a bed at this point. She ain’t doing so good no more, but it’s going to be a long, long, slow decline.
Ok, I have to go move the car, unload the cleaning gear, bring in all the window rags, towels, pads, and tarps, and get them cleaned up. Got a whole house to do, starting in the AM.
PS - I got a belated b-day present over the weekend, the final book in the series by Stegi Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest. Yeah, yeah, I know, everybody else read these 3 books 3-4 years ago, so I’m really late to the party. But wow. OMG. Most captivating, suck you in, you ain’t sleeping until you’ve finished the book, magnetic writing I’ve run across in a dog’s age and then some. Murder mystery/detective drama/psycho thriller all rolled into one, set in the social democracy of Sweden. Plus spies and sex. The first two are great but start slowly. The third book begins at 100mph and accelerates to a double climax ending. Outstanding. Too bad Larsson died shortly after publication. What a talent. Just wow.
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Permalink • Monday - November 21, 2011
Once Upon A Time Or Four
Once upon a time I could find an oddball picture like this online and send it off to McGoo, and in a few days he’d post it with a really imaginative and snarky story attached, possibly implicating Nancy Pelosi and disproving quantum as it relates to Obamacare and origami. Alas, Sir Steamy merely lurks now and then, and his once wondrous blog, a refuge of the endangered jabberwocky in the barren wastes of reasonless mimsy that is the intertubes - plus Science!! - has been taken over by another, who merely rants against everything by finding slightly inventive ways to regurgitate a single base expression. Sigh. No more steampunk stuff either. Or teeth.
But as you can see in the picture above, ‘tis nearly brillig, so that means it’s time to get cooking. And fie on you if you conclude, for the obvious reasons, that this is a picture of the new Iranian Tomcat missile. The real truth is just as strange.
The same guy who built the thing above, which I think was to remind you either that a) time flies, or b) it’s time to get up, also built this bullet proof iron baby carriage, a Tim Burton bit of welded Goth-ness suitable for perambulating around your bullet proof iron baby.
I can report, I can write, I can find all kinds of pictures, and a few times a year I have a good rant in me or a decent pun, but when it comes my turn to actually be pan narrans, which is our purpose here on earth, right?, I’m just a chimp.
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Permalink • Sunday - November 13, 2011
In The InBox
Christmas 2011—Birth of a New Tradition
As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high gear to provide Americans with monstrous piles of cheaply produced goods—merchandise that has been produced at the expense of American labor. This year will be different. This year Americans will give the gift of genuine concern for other Americans. There is no longer an excuse that, at gift giving time, nothing can be found that is produced by American hands. Yes there is!It’s time to think outside the box, people. Who says a gift needs to fit in a shirt box, wrapped in Chinese produced wrapping paper?
Everyone—yes EVERYONE gets their hair cut. How about gift certificates from your local American hair salon or barber?
Gym membership? It’s appropriate for all ages who are thinking about some health improvement.
Spa gift certificates - who doesn’t want & need a massage?Who wouldn’t appreciate getting their car detailed? Small, American owned detail shops and car washes would love to sell you a gift certificate or a book of gift certificates.
Are you one of those extravagant givers who think nothing of plunking down the Benjamins on a Chinese made flat-screen? Perhaps that grateful gift receiver would like his driveway sealed, or lawn mowed for the summer, or driveway plowed all winter, or games at the local golf course.There are a bazillion owner-run restaurants—all offering gift certificates. And, if your intended isn’t the fancy eatery sort, what about a half dozen breakfasts at the local breakfast joint. Remember, folks this isn’t about big National chains—this is about supporting your home town Americans with their financial lives on the line to keep their doors open.
How many people couldn’t use an oil change for their car, truck or motorcycle, done at a shop run by the American working guy?
Thinking about a heartfelt gift for mom? Mom would LOVE the services of a local cleaning lady for a day.
Maybe a family member’s computer could use a tune-up, and I KNOW I can find some young guy who is struggling to get his repair business up and running.
OK, you were looking for something more personal. Local crafts people spin their own wool and knit them into scarves. They make jewelry, and pottery and beautiful wooden boxes.
Plan your holiday outings at local, owner operated restaurants and leave your server a nice tip. And, how about going out to see a play or ballet at your hometown theater?
Musicians need love too, so find a venue showcasing local bands.
Honestly, people, do you REALLY need to buy another ten thousand Asian made lights for the house? When you buy a five dollar string of light, about fifty cents stays in the community. If you have those kinds of bucks to burn, leave the mailman, trash guy or babysitter a nice BIG tip.You see, Christmas is no longer about draining American pockets so that other countries can build another glittering city. Christmas is now about caring about US, encouraging American small businesses to keep plugging away to follow their dreams. And, when we care about other Americans, we care about our communities, and the benefits come back to us in ways we couldn’t imagine.
THIS is the new American Christmas tradition.Forward this to everyone on your mailing list—post it to discussion groups—throw up a post on Craigslist in the Rants and Raves section in your city—send it to the editor of your local paper and radio stations, and TV news departments.
This is a revolution of caring about each other, and isn’t that what Christmas is about?
Ooh, I like it. And Santa? I could use a nice new, American made, non-government owned, Mustang GT. Although a US made mid-size pickup would be nice too, six and a stick, extended cab?
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Permalink • Saturday - November 12, 2011
Crowder Gets Occupied
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Permalink • Friday - November 11, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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Drew’s been away soaking up the sun while some of us are chilled to the bone. However ... on the chance that he’s looking in or already back and looking in,
Times are hard
Here’s your friggin birthday card
H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y
D R E W
OK Pal ... not that we’re having problems ya understand .... things are cool but ....
Look forward to your return .... Cheers and good wishes from all.
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Permalink • Saturday - November 05, 2011
a rant on music in stores and some other news
Some news from old blighty that strikes me as odd. A few items that frankly defy logic.
As Will Rogers famously said, “I only know what I read in the papers.” Or in my case, the radio too. I happen to hear or read the following.
This fellow’s 4 year old daughter was refused a place at a nearby school. The article didn’t say why. It also makes no mention of a wife so we don’t know if he’s just a single dad, a widow, divorced er what.
The little girl was assigned to a school more then 3 miles away ( no mention of bus) that she doesn’t want to attend. Also, there’s a problem in that daddy does not drive and so can’t take her there anyway. The article seemed to me to be leaving out things but the one thing that really stood out was the following.
Dad met with his local conservative MP and explained his problem and also doesn’t know why his daughter can’t attend the local school near home.
The advice he got seems weird to me, even as a non parent.
His MP suggested that daddy should buy his girl a bike and let her bike the three miles or so to the other school.
Is it just me because I have no experience as a parent? Would any of you feel safe letting a four year old bike three plus miles to school? I wouldn’t feel good about one mile, never mind three.
Finally, the usual statement from the office of his local MP.
“We’re sorry if Mr. Johnson did not find the discussion helpful.”
No they aren’t.
Complaints, complaints and nothin’ new.
In this case it’s a number for the health service (NHS) for non emergency help.
They’ve been testing a pilot scheme and apparently the wait times are running fairly long. Like as much as 35 minutes for some folks. A report said that 12 percent of 33,000 calls across four areas, went unanswered.
Seems like some work needs to be done. Gee, and I thought the wait time when calling our local pharmacy was longish at 8 or 9 minutes. Sometimes they get tired I suppose of the ringing and disconnect us. Doh, it’s a major pharmacy chain. Boots.
What would it cost them to install a hold on the line?
Of course the downside to that would mean god awful music being pumped down a distorted copper line and being forced to listen to rap or some other equally awful uninspired un musical garbage.
Finally …. an article in today’s Daily Mail proves conclusively that the ppl responsible for forcing loud background music on us in stores, restaurants and even public toilets, don’t listen and don’t care when they do. And the background really isn’t background at all in too many places. But the generation that has grown up with things LOUD, have lost much of their hearing and so now they’ve grown up and are in charge of what we must listen to in public places they control.
How half of us have left a shop because of its muzak
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Presumably, a little background muzak is designed to make you stay in the shop longer so you buy more.But half of shoppers have become so irritated by it that they have walked out.
A survey found that three-quarters of shoppers notice the songs played in a store.
(of course we notice. how can we not when the level is so high you can’t think.)
When they liked it, 49 per cent said they had stayed longer as a result. But overall, 50 per cent of shoppers had left because they didn’t like what was playing or they found it annoying.
And 23 per cent said they would be less likely to return to a retailer if they didn’t like its choice of soundtrack.
This shows the danger that stores face by not developing a suitable ‘sound’ for their brand, according to Immedia Plc, which carried out the survey of 1,000 shoppers.
(and why do they think they need a “suitable sound” to begin with? Does Sainsbury or Waitrose or Tesco need a suitable sound? Don’t think so. And thank heaven our local Tesco does not have a music track running.)Audio is the single most effective way to capture the attention and imagination of people who are on the move inside your shop or restaurant,’ he said.
(Really? If I’m already in your damn restaurant, I’m there for a meal. Not a loud concert. And what sort of attention does the manager expect of me? I want to see the menu. I’m already there. But restaurants like Palm Desert’s Elephant Bar, which otherwise has an outstanding menu, and they aren’t alone, just simply do not give a damn. So we took our money on last month’s trip to other places. They got our attention alright.)
‘This is supported by numerous scientific studies that demonstrate how an effective music strategy does everything from improve staff morale to enhance the customer experience, to crucially increase sales.
‘Especially given the challenging economic environment, it is important to optimise every element of a customer’s sensory experience.’
Immedia’s scientific adviser Dr Vicky Williamson added: ‘Music can profoundly affect our mood, emotions and energy levels. Studies have shown that we naturally exploit these effects every day by using music to optimise our state of mind.
‘This survey demonstrates how similarly important “background music” is to our shopping experiences.
TAKE A LOOK THE COMMENTS LEFT BY 218 PPL SO FAR.
Here’s mine among the many.
This article proves without doubt that the folks who force feed us what they say is background music (it isn’t, it’s foreground more like), do not much care what we think as a general rule. I’ve been in places and requested what passes for music be turned down only to be lied to and told that the music volume is controlled by computer in another state. (in the USA) And even here you can’t get away from it. Not even in a public loo in some places. And please tell me why any brand must have any sound at all. This line shows how out of touch they are. ‘This survey demonstrates how similarly important “background music” is to our shopping experiences.’ No it isn’t. It’s always too loud, and because of that it is distracting and annoying. We can’t get out fast enough. And forget impulse buying. Stores lose out on folks like my wife and I who simply walk out as soon as our list is complete. No hanging about to look. But they count on many of you who will put up with the noise.
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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