My article on the 2008 housing relief bill was recently republished at Seeking Alpha and based on the first response, it elicited some very strong and interesting follow-up comments. Here is the original comment from destroyed by divorce that got the ball rolling.(From Destroyed by divorce) I have a comment to this ignorant person who thinks anyone in this situation is lower income lower class and
I have compiled a list of good links in the blogosphere for this past week. These are from other tech blogs that I read regularly. Do give them a read if they look interesting to you.
Roll Your Own Custom Google Search Engine from Shankrila
How to Surf Websites in Office from Madhur
7 Beautiful Themes (Visual [...]
Just in from the bookstore, and found 2 great books that deal with cancer and nutrition. I have been contemplating lately about changing a lot of things about my diet, but I’m not sure which way to go. These are pretty good guides. Seems one of the main points is eating food in its most [...]
EB received 2 fabulous new books from Early Start the other day to test drive. Simply put, he loved them. LOVED them. The books:And a little more about Early Start:Raymond Levy, one of the founders of Educational Publishing LLC, developed THE EARLY START™ ACTIVE READING™ METHOD based on dialogic reading, a proven technique of literacy and language development. Receiving positive feedback f
I am a lover of reading books. From the very early age, I always dreamed about having a library of books, on variety of topics. I still love reading books and it helped me a lot with my teaching career also.
Even searching at the net doesn’t stops me from reading, I still read a lot [...]
Thirteen Things Books I love to read (and re-read)
1. Rue the Day (Book 1: The Undercover Heir) by Cat Muldoon. I just finished re-reading this book. I love the tale of treachery and deceit in the land of Faerie. I was privileged to not only review this book at my writing blog, but then get [...]
I’ve joined a new site by the name of Goodreads whose purpose is to provide a home for a pile of book reviewers to store and share information. (Note to self: there must be a better collective noun for book reviewers. Maybe ‘column’? A column of book reviewers).The chore, which is where I am at the moment is entering all the books, or at least a good whack of the books, you’ve read. (Hm is ‘a good whack of’ a proper collective noun?) As a writer you might imagine I’ve read a ton of books (and would that be Avoirdupois or Troy) but I don’t own many of them. (Actually, if I’ve read a ton of books I probably own about 7 or 8 hundredweight of what I’ve read – I still have quite a lot of books).The thing I’m finding is that there are books on my shelves that I know I’ve read and yet I can’t remember a damn thing about them. I even remember enjoying them at the time. Now, the question is, does this reflect badly on me or the author? I suppose a bit of both. The th
I’ve joined a new site by the name of Goodreads whose purpose is to provide a home for a pile of book reviewers to store and share information. (Note to self: there must be a better collective noun for book reviewers. Maybe ‘column’? A column of book reviewers).The chore, which is where I am at the moment is entering all the books, or at least a good whack of the books, you’ve read. (Hm is ‘a good whack of’ a proper collective noun?) As a writer you might imagine I’ve read a ton of books (and would that be Avoirdupois or Troy) but I don’t own many of them. (Actually, if I’ve read a ton of books I probably own about 7 or 8 hundredweight of what I’ve read – I still have quite a lot of books).The thing I’m finding is that there are books on my shelves that I know I’ve read and yet I can’t remember a damn thing about them. I even remember enjoying them at the time. Now, the question is, does this reflect badly on me or the author? I suppose a bit of both. The th
We’ve just had a nice dinner out, and we, being the conservative and proper people we are; began talking about books. You know, right after the conversation about using your mobile phone for sex services and WAP porn. And apparently I’ve been missing out (on the books and the porn).
I’m no big reader, in the last five years I’ve probably only read four or five books that weren’t required as part of my classes. I’m really fussy, and a book has to be really fantastic for me to get through it… If I lose my place in a book, I’ll probably never pick it up again. But the last book I read was about a year ago, The Day After Tomorrow by Allan Folsom (completely unrelated to that movie about the rain and the snow and the buildings). Which was great, but I’m supposedly going to give these ones a try next:
Tully - by Paulina Simons
The Girl in Time Square - by Paulina Simons
My Sister’s Keeper - by Jodi Picoult
To be 100% honest,
The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!Here is how you matched up against all the levels:LevelScorePurgatory (Repenting Believers)Very HighLevel 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)LowLevel 2 (Lustful)HighLevel 3 (Gluttonous)ModerateLevel 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)Very LowLevel 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)LowLevel 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)Very LowLevel 7 (Violent)LowLevel 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)ModerateLevel 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)LowTake the Dante's Inferno Test Purgatory You have escaped damnation and made it to Purgatory, a place where the dew of repentance washes off the stain of sin and girds the spirit with humility. Through contrition, confession, and satisfaction by works of righteousness, you must make your way up the mountain. As the sins are cleansed from your soul, you will be illuminated by the Sun of Divine Grace, and you will join other souls, smiling and happy, upon the summit of this mountain. Before long you will know the joy
