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Another Reason to Switch to Chrome

I understand that web publishers want to get people to click on over to their sites. I also can empathize with those who want to know more details about their traffic. But as someone who subscribes to over 1,000 sites on Google Reader, I hate, hate, HATE truncated RSS feeds with a passion. Luckily, there is an easy way around truncated feeds if you are using Google Chrome as your web browser. Just download and install the Super Google Reader extension and that's it! With just a click of a button (the "Readable" tab on the top right of the feed box), you can go from this...

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AP Article on Bin Laden’s Death

A couple of days ago, a reporter from the AP contacted me (having read my thoughts on the issue here on this blog) and asked if I would like to be interviewed for a story she was doing on America's reaction to the death of Bin Laden. Unfortunately, my comments were edited out of that article. But later that day, another AP reporter — this time, a national reporter — contacted me for the same reason. And the article was published tonight. You can see it on Yahoo! News and other internet news sites. Although Ms. Noveck made my experience a bit more dramatic than I believed it to be, I do not regret giving the interview and I am happy that my...

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Tradeoffs

J and I are both sick. I only slept two hours last night from raging migraines (years down the road, I think I may remember this pregnancy as "the eternal headache"), dizziness, and nausea. J seems to be coming down with a cold. We have been taking turns napping while the other watches Claire. I feel bad that both her parents are feeling so crappy and cranky today, and as I put her down for her afternoon nap just now, I couldn't help but be thankful that she seems to be taking our less-than-stellar attitudes well. How she keeps me humble by reminding me that there's always someone more important than me. But most of all, I am thankful for her health. At 7 months...

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