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Coming straight out of my Google Reader… [links]

My last “reading” post failed to publish (apparently), so this is a double-dose of reading from across the Internet that I’ve found interesting.
This included a new social networking site for kids, the Olympics and social networking, and brushing up on

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In case you missed it [tech stuff]

For those who don’t follow my tech musings at mrmerlot.com, here’s some of my recent posts I’ve written over there:

Cleaning up your Friends and Fans in Facebook [tutorial]
Firefox 3.5 Cheat Sheet [tech help]
Facebook “privacy” settings [tutorial]
Apple’s iPad is “not the

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What I’ve been reading… [links]

Some things I’ve read recently:
[recreading]

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What I’ve found interesting lately…

I’m attempting to use a new WordPress plugin that will publish articles I “share” from my Google Reader RSS feeds. If that last sentence sounds like Greek, click on the second link to learn more!
Since this is the

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If only I had been able to learn history like this…

Do you remember anything from your high school history classes? How about college history courses? No, I don’t mean how boring they were (sorry, history fans), I mean actually remember content from those classes?
I’m one of those who dreaded history

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Giving thanks & feeding alpacas (?!)

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, we went up to Pennsylvania to visit family. As the weather was cold, windy, and wet, we spent most of our time indoors. But we did get one short window where the clouds parted and our

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New “semi-pro” blog at mrmerlot.com

I wanted to let you all know that I’ve started a semi-professional blog at mrmerlot.com. I’ll be using that site to post technology and other articles that are not family-related. That way, I can keep theroades.com clutter-free from all my

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Posted in links, reviews, technology, website