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Sadly some men and women don't have much time left to pursue their dreams.
The THRIVE community works with Dream Foundation to raise money and air miles to fulfill the dreams of a terminally ill adult. Please help support the dream we have currently adopted:
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Category Archives: Quirky Life Lessons
Wicked Widget Part 2
May 7, 2007 – 5:25 pm
So you might say I was over reacting a bit about the Amazon contextual link widget. (See Part 1) You’d be right, as the typepad support people got back to me promptly and instructed me how to remove the little demon (quite easily) to make the links disappear. HA! I gave myself away: I know [...]
The Wicked Widget, Part 1
May 1, 2007 – 12:50 pm
Help! I’ve been hijacked by contextual links!
Recently Amazon came out with nifty new tools for their affiliates: widgets (little applications) to painlessly incorporate contextually relevant links into our blogs. I’m a fan of relevant links that take me deep into juicy new territories of thought, so I jumped on this opportunity.
I downloaded the [...]
Complaints Are Disappointed Dreams
March 14, 2007 – 12:21 am
Do you have a topic that you can’t help complaining about? Something that comes up over and over and over again. A conversation your friends are sick of? A fight that keeps surfacing with your partner?
Try this on for size: A complaint is a disappointed dream.
The next time you have the urge to [...]
