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National Donate Life Month
Published on 29 Apr 2007 at 12:03 am.
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Well, here it is the end of April. A friend recently told me that April is National Donate Life Month and asked if I’d mind mentioning that in my blog. So, even though it isn’t one of my usual topics of discussion, I am going to mention it because this is an important […]
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60 years ago.
Published on 16 Apr 2007 at 2:24 pm.
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April 16, 1947.
This isn’t an astronomical post, but rather a historical one. I grew up in Houston. The events of that date were well before my time, buy plenty of people around remembered them, and growing up in Houston in the 60’s and 70’s, people still talked about what happened. On that […]
Tough week
Published on 15 Apr 2007 at 12:36 am.
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For all my regular readers, I am sorry for not posting regularly this past week. It has been one nightmare of a week … on all fronts. There’s been a lot going on, and a lot of things that I wanted to do, like blogging, got pushed aside. I hope that this next week might […]
No energy savings?
Published on 3 Apr 2007 at 10:37 pm.
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This year, here in the US, we started Daylight Saving Time three weeks early. This was supposed to be saving energy. The reasoning was that people would get up earlier, so they wouldn’t be sleeping past sunrise, and they would go to be earlier, and not burn as many lights. Well, I heard that at […]
Internet Explorer 7 Problems?
Published on 25 Jan 2007 at 1:03 pm.
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Hmm. Maybe someone out there knows more about this than I do. However, I suspect that Internet Explorer 7 does not work well with Astroprof’s Page. Actually, it seems to have a number of issues that I’ve found. And, I suspect that IE7 is seizing up my web site sometimes.
Personally, […]
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The five things meme
Published on 27 Dec 2006 at 7:56 pm.
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Hmm. Mary Jo tagged me with this meme. I am supposed to tell five things that people probably didn’t know about me.
1) I don’t know how to swim. My Mom was terrified of water, and never let my Dad teach me how to swim when I was a child, and I […]
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Published on 25 Dec 2006 at 12:08 am.
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Merry Christmas, everyone. Peace on Earth, and good will to all mankind. Let’s take time to remember what this season is all about, and it isn’t shopping …
-Astroprof
