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screening for mental health risk factors for our kids

THE RED­MOND RE­PORTER is our local paper here in Red­mond, Wash­ington. It’s a typ­ical smalltown paper: twenty pages with local news and ad­ver­tise­ments. Un­for­tu­nately, I rarely pay any at­ten­tion to it, but yes­terday it was brought to my at­ten­tion by an ar­ticle on the front page of the Sep­tember 7, 2108, edition. [Read more] “screening for mental health risk factors for our kids”

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wordpress publish button is like a gun with the safety off

FOR THOSE READERS who have their own Word­Press sites, I as­sume you oc­ca­sion­ally do what I (alas) con­sis­tently do: mis­tak­enly click the Pub­lish button on the right side of your Edit Post work page when you meant to click the Save Draft button. To over­state the sit­u­a­tion: leaving the Pub­lish button ex­posed is like leaving a gun lying around with the safety off. [Read more] “wordpress publish button is like a gun with the safety off”

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those fabulous furless geek brothers (rendered unimportant by recent events)

THE BIG BANG THEORY is an end­lessly re­watch­able show: aside from the fab­u­lous char­ac­ters and the in­ter­twining of their per­sonal lives, the di­alog is chock-a-block full of humor of all sorts, from the zany to the kind that re­quires the viewer ei­ther have a rea­son­able IQ or ac­cess to the In­ternet to look things up. [Read more] “those fabulous furless geek brothers (rendered unimportant by recent events)”

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a glossary of terms for understanding wordpress

WORD­PRESS. I don’t write about it be­cause I am not tech­ni­cally qual­i­fied to say much. All my sites were built by me using Word­Press and are main­tained by me. I was able to follow most di­rec­tions, even though many were poorly written. It took too much time and was un­nec­es­sarily dif­fi­cult and frustrating—five years and five blogs later and I am still a novice who is con­tin­u­ally confounded! [Read more] “a glossary of terms for understanding wordpress”

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and, lo, a bodhisattva savant rose in the west

I SPEND SO MUCH TIME re­searching the var­ious topics that I write about, I re­ally don’t have much time left to read others’ blogs—which is a shame, be­cause we are living through some kind of golden age of freedom of ex­pres­sion of what­ever the hell you wanna say and have the ac­tual pos­si­bility of having mil­lions of people pay attention! [Read more] “and, lo, a bodhisattva savant rose in the west”