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Tell An American To Vote (.com)

I was intrigued by a banner on a web site and clicked it, to find Tell An American To Vote. Most of the 7.1 million Americans living overseas do not vote. Now is your chance to tell them to! Just fill in your personal message below and we’ll send your American friends all the information Tell An American To Vote (.com)

Blogger

I’ve been submerged in work for the last few days and haven’t been reading my usual blogs, yesterday however I clicked through to catch up on Maggi Dawn’s Blog and immediately spotted her sharp new design using one of the new Blogger templates. This is old news, but the new Blogger templates – designed by Blogger

Should I be offended?

Bruce rants, people who give their kids place-names as first names, like ‘Chester’, ‘Paris’, ‘Bethany‘ or – especially irritating – ‘India’ or ‘Asia’. They should be forced to change their own name to ‘Thorngumbald’, ‘Pratts Bottom’, or ‘Swinket Mease Rigg’ I shall henceforth be known as Ms. Swinket Mease Rigg, thankyouverymuch … do you think Should I be offended?

Geeks

Simon asks, “What makes a geek?”, the answer so far appears to involve lego. In other news, some people have way to much time on their hands (requires Quicktime and sound – via Bruce Lawson).

My mother blogs …

I’ve been wanting my mother to start blogging for ages as she has plenty of interesting things to say and finds some excellent web sites. She has just made her first ‘real’ post to Just Thinking about Theology and Society and I think it only right to officially welcome her to the blogosphere.

I am a car owner

Despite the fact that I haven’t passed (or even attempted) my driving test yet, I am now the proud owner of a shiny red Ford KA. Learning to drive without having a car to practice in was making the process lengthy and expensive as the only driving experience I was getting was with my instructor. I am a car owner

Geocaching

We went geocaching today to try out my GPS device and found two caches! They both contained travel bugs, which are items with dog tags that have a unique tracking number attached, and we now need to move these items on in their journeys by placing them in a new cache.

Yay for birthdays!

Today marks the start of my last year of being twenty-something … Drew gave me a handheld GPS device so we can go geocaching, which sounds like the perfect geek outdoor activity. I also got a Thinkgeek gift certificate from my parents, woo!

Piano

I recently bought a piano … not a real one with strings that need tuning (we’d never get an upright piano up our stairs) but a decent Kawai digital piano. When I was growing up we always had a piano in the house, but despite my best efforts I never managed to learn to play. Piano