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Local food outside your door | Health & Fitness | Reuters 

"TORONTO (Reuters) – Eating locally means different things to different people, but to urban foragers it can literally mean eating close to home. You may not realize it, but a wealth of healthy — and free — food may be growing just outside your front door."

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(910 Words) Like the first article in this series suggested, good writing greatly benefits from good technique. Here’s insight into a largely mechanical aspect of writing that is a truly useful tool. Even when used haphazardly, this tool can all but prevent writers block. Used diligently, it essentially guarantees that you will always have more inspiration than time to write about it!

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With a tip of the hat to the memory of Groucho Marx.

It’s amazing how many things I simply forget in the course of a week. Phone numbers, appointments, recipes – you name it – I can’t. I suppose it’s possible that I could forget just one more thing.

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(1,019 Words, two links, December 9. 2007 postscript)

First, to put things in context, watch this BBC News Player video about a Canadian pig farmer / alleged murderer. Watch the video a couple of times. Pay attention to EVERYTHING.

Click your browsers back button if you need to.

The evidence, even skipping over the confession, looks pretty damning. Body parts in the freezer, DNA all over the farm, loose talk by the accused, Indians beating drums outside the courthouse. Oh yeah … he’s guilty all right.

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(210 Words) Over on A List Apart, Roel Van Gils has an excellent article on hiding your email address from automated software. (I’m sure most of us already have a long list of sources for ‘performance enhancement’ pills).…

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(350 Words) Over on A List Apart, Roel Van Gils has an excellent article on hiding your email address from automated software. (I’m sure most of us already have a long list of sources for chemical solutions to libido lag).

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(203 Words) Just thought I’d mention to anyone who reads these words of wit that writing a blog is, at first, a lot like wetting yourself in a dark suit. It will give you a nice, warm, feeling, but it may be a while before anyone notices. Click here to read on, my friend.

(931 Words) Responding to a question regarding free advertising, one of the folks posting to the Google ad-sense blog stated that DMOZ had lost its credibility. Here’s my response to that, and to the original post: …

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(1894 Words) Much of this post started out as an e-mail to my Dad. I cut them from that letter because this is not something I want my Dad to see … not right away. His health isn’t all that good and I don’t want to plague him with my troubles. I can probably post here quite freely. Click here to read on, my friend.

(932 Words) Responding to a question regarding free advertising, one of the folks posting to the Google ad-sense blog stated that DMOZ had lost its credibility. Here’s my response to that, and to the original post:

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