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I understand that losing 20.000 pounds in about 30 years is really an achievement, but do you need to do that in a talkshow too, Oprah?!

Nutricia/Numico, a big company for baby and clinical nutriction did find glass in it’s baby food a few days ago. This is not okay. But to the opinion of the food and health authorities there is no health risk.
The company has done its best to get the jar’s back from the supermarkets and the consumers.

But what you see now is that people squirrel baby food because of the holidays that are on its way.

There is only one small something I do not understand. The mothers and fathers are so dependent on what is in the supermarkets.
How did people get babyfood before? From manna HaShem provided them? Yeah, right!

NO! They made it themselves. Get good quality ingredients, take a food processor or even a hand blender and blend the night away… (free to: Neil Diamond’s September Morn: “…dance the night away” )

The wife of my buddybacteria does understand that and makes her own baby/toddler food. Once a week she makes all different sorts of meals and chills or freeses it. Great job!

I have no kids of my own, but try give the children of my girlfriend the best food possible.

I know the jar food isn’t bad, but to my opinion fresh is better (if only for the taste)…

Why are people taking the difficult way?

Based on this

People that buy books are not attracted by the synopsis on the cover of the book. It is the title of the book that sells, whatever what is in the book. Okay, I exaggerate.

But still, the title of a book does more than you would think. It sells the book!

“The crab : walking sideways instead of straight” has ‘a 59.3% chance of being a bestseller title’ according to the Lulu.com title-scorer.

Who knows?!

I wanted to know how my “Survive Christmas for Clevers” book would score. Not much I am affraid, only 26,3 percent.

I know enough…

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I had the idea to write a DIY-book (Do It Yourself-book) on surviving the coming days. Let’s say a Survive Christmas for Clevers (not for Dummies). But I have been busy.

- shopping for some small gifts
- shopping for (veggie!) food
- trying to save energy to get through the christmas weekend
- plugging my ears against muzak (before I had time to do the next)
- locking up all the muzak dj’s and shutting down their computer jukeboxes

The food was not much more then the normal weekend but whole hordes of people were thinking that the IIIrd World War will start coming weekend… Think again!!!

Wishing my brothers and sisters in arms (metaphorically speaking) a peaceful and lazy christmas! Grab a book and lock everyone outside!

There have been some discussions about the accuracy of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, just because some idiots (yes, like you Adam Curry!) did change information on it.

To my idea it can’t be that by altering just a few articles the most important and for all free online encyclopedia Wikipedia would be corrupt.

I am so glad I was/am right. The scientific magazine Nature compared 42 articles of two online encyclopedia, Wikipedia and Britannica, and did find out that Wikipedia was very much okay.

I had discussions about this before. My opinion was that there are high level hobbyist that have a lot of knowledge of particular subject and can have a high level discussion with so called specialists.
I know a guy who is a first class welder, but if you put a dismantled television in front of him, he will fix it…

Just to say knowledge isn’t only for the guys (and girls) that really studied it specifically.

Britannica didn’t have the guts to react concerning content. They went from a vended paper version (I saw them everywhere: computer- and vacation fairs) to a payed online version. A wise decision. But as their spokesman says, Wikipedia is more fun because they treat subjects as extreme ironing.

So Wikipedia isn’t only accurate, but officialy fun now!

People almost never write each other cards. The contact that they have now is by mobile phone or through Instant Messengers. I understand, because I was an early ICQ user (7 digit range) and use several of them, except that one of MickeySoft.
People only write with a pen when scribbling down their shopping list now. I am like that. (okay, I put notes next to the print out from my Palm Treo 650 calender.)

But now I see people running to shops for Christmas cards and sharpening their pens like madmen.

But why depend on Valentine’s Day, Easter, Rosh Hashana or whatever holiday to send greeting cards?

I don’t send card with holidays, so don’t be offended if you don’t get one.

But you are right when telling me I should write more cards with my nice fountain pen.

Between the holidays…

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