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According to “this recent article”:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/national/31religion.html?incamp=article_popular in the New York times, I quote: “In all, 64 percent said they were open to the idea of teaching creationism in addition to evolution, while 38 percent favored replacing evolution with creationism.” I double-checked. 64+38 = 102. I know what they meant of course. Still, it’s interesting the slant. Also not surprising, but interestingly phrased: “More of those who believe in creationism said they were “very certain” of their views (63 percent), compared with those who believe in evolution (32 percent).

We met today with the local Bradley Method instructor. We were originally going to be attending a Bradley class, but she needed 3 couples to hold the course. So, instead we were going to have a little mini-tutorial. But then another couple contacted her (today?!?) and signed up. It’s a 12 week course. We have only about 5 weeks left before the due date (assuming the baby is neither tardy nor hasty.

I know, not very interesting for an actual entry. I just wanted to set up and test making blog entries from my phone. I suspect it will be my input method from the LDRP room.

This is not a press release; Amazon.com’s “operating agreement”:http://associates.amazon.com/gp/associates/agreement/103-7418193-3929441 specifically forbids my issuing a press release. But, this is a blog entry that mentions that I’ve become an amazon “affiliate.” This just means that the links that I make to amazon have some remote chance of earning me a little bit of money. Actually, I’m set up so they’ll earn me amazon gift certificate instead of money. That I became an Amazon affiliate, I probably wouldn’t mention except that I was amused by the automatically-chosen associate ID.

We started the hunt for pediatric care today. Actually, we started a while ago, but we met our first potential pediatrician today — a Dr. Delbaggio with “Blair Medial Associates”:http://www.blairmedicalassociates.com/peds.html. She seemed friendly and competent, but Blair Medial Associates is one of those large medical-industrial complex places. During the course of the interview we learned that we’d be among the 10,000 patients that they currently service. How can you have a personal, caring relationship with 10,000 people?

OK. I’m declaring my blog “done enough” at this point. I’ve re-introduced the Google “AdSense” ads. Which, as I’m sure you know is important to my revenue plans for this site. I’ve earned an average of a little over 43 cents every month since I started Adsense. Of course, they don’t cut a check until you’ve accumulcated a credit of $100. At this rate, I’ll get my first check in 19.

I spent far too much of today copying the old blogger entries into wordpress. I suspect it was still faster than writing a parser to scan previous entries and dump them into the mysql database that wordpress uses, though I’m not sure. The main thing that I’ve not done is to move over the image-only posts. Oh, and figure out comments. There were several nice and interesting comments that elaborated on entries that will be lost with the current transition.

Last weekend we spent in West Townshend, VT at the Windham Hill Inn. The occasion was the wedding of my brother-in-law John Fay to Rika Suzuki. There is a lifestyle that I am impressed with when I get these fleeting glimpses of it. I saw it in a couple of the Newscorp politicos that I worked with when Kesmai was a Newscorp entity. I caught several glimpses of it last weekend.

I’d been thinking about switching blog tools for a while. I liked blogger, but I wasn’t completely satisfied with it. Mainly, I was missing having categories. Then, I started installing a new machine to act as the primary server for accapehart.com. I got it serving web pages no problem. However, because it has a different SSH host identity, but the same username/password/IP Address, blogger failed to connect to it. So, I wrote to blogger support.

When the web was infantile, there was no real way to know what was new. During its toddler stage, information about new websites was passed around via email or on USENET. Eventually, there became too many sites being created for this to be a reasonable way to keep up. (A similar issue plagued the single /etc/hosts file, but that’s a different story.) Finally, there came Yahoo. Now, there was a directory for the web.