Margarita Chicken

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When I can get it together, I will post my review of The Color Purple. I am too tired and foggy right now.

Instead, I placate you with a recipe of my own concoction — possibly the only one, since I’m not gourmet, as I have said before. I can follow a recipe, but this is pretty much the only one I’ve invented. That’s why you’ll have to forgive me for the lack of specifics regarding amounts of ingredients.

Margarita Chicken

Three large or four average boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Margarita mix (liquid works best, but powdered works okay)
Minced garlic
Fresh ground pepper or coarse ground pepper
Margarita salt

First of all, you need to marinate the chicken in the other ingredients. I pretty much use them to taste. I love garlic, so I use about two tablespoons. I pour the margarita mix into a 13X9 glass baking dish, add the garlic, and then put in the chicken. The reason I like liquid mix better is that it is undiluted. You can use the powder mix, but just don’t put as much water (or tequila) as the mix directions say. I use no water in this recipe. Then I grind pepper over the chicken on both sides. If you are using coarse ground pepper, I guess you’d sprinkle it over the chicken to taste. Now, since I bake the chicken, I just put the whole shebang in the oven at 350 degrees until it’s done, and it turns out very moist and flavorful. You will want to turn it over once or twice. However, if you plan to broil the chicken, you might not want to do that, since the marinade will boil away and become one with the pan. If you want to grill the chicken, you can baste it with the marinade. I prefer to bake it, because I think the flavor of the marinade settles into the chicken better. After the chicken is done, I sprinkle margarita salt on it.

That’s what we’re having tonight, if I have enough margarita mix. I don’t use any spirits in cooking this — tequila or otherwise. I don’t know if the chicken would be good that way or not. I’m kind of a teetotaler, and Steve is, too. Most of the time when I get a real margarita, I order a virgin. Tequila hurts my stomach sometimes.

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The Bean Trees

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I have been so fortunate to be on such a “good book” run right now. Truth be told, much of it is due to the fact that I’m going to be teaching some books I ought to have read already (shame on me). But like Nanci said, you just can’t be sorry you haven’t read all the good books, because there are just too many.

Of course, there are two other reasons why I’ve been reading so much and choosing such good material. Did you ever have an English teacher you wanted to impress with your choice for a book report? Mrs. Patzel was my 11th grade teacher. Right before I moved to Georgia, I went up to her and asked her to give me a list of books she’d recommend I read — you know, so I could get ready for college. After she picked her jaw off the floor, she said she’d definitely get me a list. I didn’t understand until I became a teacher just why Mrs. Patzel was so obviously pleased and taken aback by my request. Or why, instead of a list, she actually gave me a box of books, most of them classics. But now that I’m a teacher, I know the joy of having a student who truly loves to read in my English class. And kids like the one I used to be are pretty rare. I wouldn’t be afraid to say Mrs. Patzel still remembers the big-eyed, dark-haired girl who tucked that box of books under her arm and left the classroom. Who am I trying to impress now? Well, there’s All Consuming and BookCrossing. Okay, so I have some questionable reading material on my bookshelf alongside some better selections. Ignore that for a moment. I have been reading more this year than I have in… I can’t remember when. And it has been so enjoyable.

The last book I finished was The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver. I picked it up this morning and finished it by 11:00 P.M. I do not read fast. In fact, I’m a pretty slow reader. I think I learned to read slowly because I tend to savor the words. I can read more quickly, if I have to, but I prefer to take it at about the same speed as if I were reading it aloud, if that gives you an idea. So finishing a book all in one day doesn’t happen often for me. In fact, this was only the fourth time. The other three books I read like that were Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody, The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds, and Home is Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts. I have decided that what it comes down to is I love character-driven novels with a Southern flavor. With the exception of Not Without My Daughter, which is just extremely suspenseful, the others all fit that category.

I absolutely loved the characters in this book. Taylor Greer is smart-mouthed and tough. I would like to be like her. She kind of reminds me of Anne. I’d like to say it’s deeper than the fact that both Anne and Taylor are Native American. Well, Anne is. Taylor’s Cherokee pedigree is that negligible 1/8 that so many people claim. But I think it’s because they’re both so sassy and strong. I really get the impression that Anne could do just about anything, and Taylor made me think of that quality of hers. Taylor eschews glamor in favor of down-to-earth practicality, and Anne kind of seems like that to me. Then there’s Turtle, who is so smart. Had I not had a Maggie running around, I wouldn’t have thought a three-year-old as smart as Turtle could have existed. I just ached for her — she was so tough. I also loved Lou Ann. She was a bit like me. She worries constantly. I’m thinking Barbara Kingsolver nailed a typical OCDer. I wonder if she realized that? I wanted to see what would happen to everyone. I had to keep on reading. I think one of my litmus tests is does a character seem real enough and likable enough that I start feeling like he/she is a friend and I want to follow him/her to see what happens? If the answer is yes, the book always winds up a favorite.

The “accidental” ways the characters seemed to meet each other just when they needed to meet someone special to fulfill their needs reminded me very much of Where the Heart Is. Some people might say that’s contrived. I don’t. I think God hands us sychronicity just like those instances in these books.

Besides the well drawn characters, the writing was so fresh and funny. How can you fail to appreciate this:

She got off at the Roosevelt Park stop, which was a half block from the park itself. Sprawled over the large corner lot was a place called Jesus Is Lord Used Tires. You couldn’t make a mistake about the name — it was painted in big, cramped blue letters over the door, with periods inserted between the words: JESUS.IS.LORD.USED.TIRES. On the side of the pleated tin building there was a large picture of Jesus with outstretched hands and yellow streamers of light emanating from His head. There was also a whitewall tire, perhaps added to the mural as an afterthought and probably meant to have no direct connection with the Lord, but it hung in the air below His left hand very much like a large yoyo. Jesus appeared to be on the verge of performing Around the World or some other fancy trick.

Top-heavy, chin-high stacks of Firestones and Michelins at the edge of the paved lot formed a wall between Jesus Is Lord and a combination night club and pornography shop next door called Fanny Heaven. There was no mistaking this place either. The front windows were whitewashed, and large signs painted over them declared GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS on one side of the door and TOTAL NUDITY on the other. On the front door of Fanny Heaven was a life-size likeness of a woman with long red hair and a leopard-skin bikini. Public art of various types was popular on this block.

I mean. Come on. How can you not love that? I laughed out loud. I must have read it three times before I could move on. I had to read it to Steve.

Another favorite passage ties in the theme and title of the book. Turtle is something of a savant with plants. She’s fascinated by them. Lou Ann points out some dead looking vines in Roosevelt Park and declares that they are wisteria. Taylor is doubtful, but sure enough, they bloom. Probably looking something like this:

Later, the flowers turn into beans:

When Taylor and Turtle are in the library, they find a horticulture encyclopedia. Turtle recognizes a black-and-white picture of wisteria — bean trees. Taylor reads the article about wisteria to Turtle.

But this is the most interesting part: wisteria vines, like other legumes, often thrive in poor soil, the book said. Their secret is something called rhizobia. These are microscopic bugs that live underground in little knots on the roots. They suck nitrogen gas right out of the soil and turn it into fertilizer for the plant.

The rhizobia are not actually part of the plant, they are separate creatures, but they always live with legumes: a kind of underground railroad moving secretly up and down the roots.

“It’s like this,” I told Turtle. “There’s a whole invisible system for helping out the plant that you’d never guess was there.” I loved the idea. “It’s just the same with people. The way Edna has Virgie, and Virgie has Edna, and Sandi has Kid Central Station, and everybody has Mattie. And on and on.”

The wisteria vines on their own would just barely get by, is how I explained it to Turtle, but put them together with rhizobia and they make miracles.

There’s nothing I can really add to that. The people in this novel are all bean trees. And they’re all rhizobia, too. I really loved the symbolism of that image. I can’t recommend this book highly enough. It’s now on my favorites shelf. I am excited to teach it.

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Busy, Busy, Busy

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I have spent the last two days working hard with Nanci and my new colleague, Sparker. Her first name is actually Sarah, but I can’t call her that here, because I already have a Sarah. I think this might be the first time someone ever asked me to help design rather than simply implement a curriculum. It is rewarding to feel like I have so much input into what I’ll be doing, as well as ownership over the whole deal. I’m worn out. Nanci is so energetic. She makes me feel tired. In a good way.

My task over the weekend is to scope out the bookstore for any books I’d like to get either as novel selections or supplemental materials (oh, twist my arm). I have never had the luxury of actually getting everything I really want for my students. In fact, I’ve rarely had the luxury of getting everything they need. I feel like I’ve died and gone to heaven.

I also need to do a draft of the CP 2 curriculum. Daunting. But I have some examples of the regular CP and Honors curriculum as well as the ones Randal wrote.

I am supposed to finalize a list of novel selections, plays, anthologies, and supplementary materials. So far, this is what I’ve decided I would like:

9th Grade Novels

10th Grade Novels (American Lit.)

Supplementary Texts, Professional Literature, Teacher Guides

I have also decided which plays we’re doing in each grade. They’re all in their text books, except The Crucible, Arthur Miller. The other two plays not included in their texts are required summer reading, so I didn’t bother counting them here. I’m doing Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare, and Antigone, Sophocles with 9th and The Little Foxes, Lillian Helman and The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams for 10th.

My brain hurts. I need a bath.

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MT, Spam, and Why I’m Up at 3:30 on a Work Night

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I have been playing around with MT tags — that would be Movable Type for those of you unfamiliar with the acronym. I decided to see how I like doing without the Blogrolling blogroll and found out how to create a simple one using a template module. Good instructions can be found here and here. The only thing is I had a graphic — — that was appended to links of blogs that had recently updated, pinging one of the sites Blogrolling takes data from (including its own). I searched, but couldn’t find out how to do that with my MT blogroll. Anyone out there know? I guess it isn’t a big deal. Half the blogs I read didn’t ever ping anyway, but I admit I thought it was cool. Don’t you know I spent a bit of time working on that graphic to make it match my site. But the main reason I wanted to ditch the Blogroll is that I couldn’t figure out how to make it work with the XHTML Friends Network, which I found on Nighthawk and rather liked. Go check it out and see if you might be interested.

My free email service provider said that the account I use for all my blog-related activities has been reported to their abuse entity because I have allegedly been spamming folks. As much as I hate spam, I can only imagine I ticked someone off, and they decided to mess with me and try to get me in trouble. May even be the person who hijacked my identity to get a bank account recently. I have said a couple of times that I’m not sure how they got their information. Maybe they know I’m linked to that email address. Of course, it could be a mistake, too.

I think Maggie has finally fallen asleep. I actually have to work tomorrow. Curriculum and planning. So I’m going to bed. Just as soon as I get that sweater I need to wear tomorrow in the dryer.

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Eleven Educators Will Lose State Licenses

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I searched through my entries, and I cannot find a reference to the Georgia teachers who will lose their licenses because they bought bogus advanced degrees online (free registration required). How could I have been so remiss in not telling you, gentle reader, all about this unbelievable example of a severe dearth of ethics in my profession?

What basically happened is that these teachers, who were mostly middle school teachers, many of whom worked in my former system, bought masters and doctorates from a diploma mill known as St. Regis University located in Liberia. None of the teachers was known to me, nor did they work at my former school. The Georgia Professional Standards Commission voted nearly unanimously (11-1) to revoke their teaching certificates. Without a teaching certificate, no public school is able to hire them to teach. I would be very surprised if a private school did, either, considering the circumstances. I doubt they would be able to move elsewhere and be certified. Should they lie, I am unsure what recourse the injured school would have. I have been told that someone who lies on a job application for a public school system can have action taken against their certificate. If you have no certificate, though, perhaps some sort of criminal charge of fraud or something of the sort could be made.

When teachers complete an approved education plan at an approved/accredited university, like I did, and have passed a certification test (or two, as is now required), we are eligible to apply to the GAPSC for a teaching certificate. Every five years, we must submit proof that we have taken college coursework or professional development courses as required to keep our knowledge of the art of teaching and our subject matter current. When we complete advanced degrees, we submit the information in much the same way, although we are not required to take further tests. The GAPSC then decides whether or not to grant us a certificate at a higher level. Mine is, for example, a T-4, which means I have a bachelor’s degree. Someone with a master’s degree might hold a T-5 certificate. Someone with a specialist’s degree would hold a T-6. A person with a doctorate would have a T-7. Leadership degrees are the same, but they are listed as L-6 or L-7. I’m not sure if you can have an L-5. Pay goes up as your degree level advances.

Basically what these people did was to sacrifice their careers in education for monetary gain. I guess we all get into teaching for the big bucks, don’t we? Granted, I believe teachers are not paid enough, but I find it appalling that my colleagues would feel it is okay to defraud their school system, their students, their students’ parents, and the state of Georgia into thinking they had earned an advanced degree. Advanced degrees are a badge of honor. They represent hard work. They represent specialist knowledge. I’m happy that this case demonstrated that those things cannot be bought.

You can still work in private schools in Georgia without a certificate. And you can work in other industries, too. But I can’t think of an employer who would, in good conscience, hire someone who had done this. I’m sure it was tempting. It looked so easy. And why do the work if you can get away with not doing it? What a lesson to teach one’s students.

Even though this effectively ends the careers of these educators, and might seriously damage their prospects in another field, I think it was important that the GAPSC took the hard line and did not allow this travesty to be punished lightly. I agree with their finding that purchasing these degrees “and using them to obtain raises violated ethics rules on misrepresentation or falsification, misuse of public funds and property, criminal acts and professional conduct.”

A Ben Hill County parent said of David Mims, a principal who bought a phony degree from St. Regis: “‘The stars get doctorates for not even going to college, stuff they have not done. If he has been doing fine with our children let him be,’ says parent Elaine Hubbert.” It is much more complicated than that. This parent clearly doesn’t understand the difference between an honorary doctorate and a real one. Lots of people with no degree at all might have all the makings of being an excellent teacher and a way with kids, but you learn things to further your expertise when you get a degree. Ultimately, the measure of it is this: do you want a liar and a fraud teaching your child? I would hope the answer is “no.” It’s a pity that these eleven educators didn’t ask themselves that question before they bought those phony degrees.

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To Do

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Expanding upon my last entry, The National Review examines the data in the “Reading at Risk” survey. Is blogging drawing people away from reading literature? Or is the news not as bad as we thought? Why was Internet reading excluded from the survey?

To Do:

  • Put link to Amazon Wish List in About section.
  • Change radio blog to a bunch of songs I like that have no cohesion or theme aside from that.
  • Write something for The Pensieve. *Sigh* That will be on the list for some time, I think.
  • Get a Fulton County library card.
  • Try and finalize which novels and plays I’m going to teach this year.
  • Ask everyone if there is any interest in a page at this site for my recipes. Well, is there? I’m not a gourmet, but I don’t suck either, and I’ll all about quick and easy.

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Reading

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If you were not aware, the Patriot Act gives federal agents the right to search your library records. The ALA would like to do something about that. If you are interesting in seeing section 215 of the Patriot Act amended, visit the Campaign for Reader Privacy.

Then again, maybe the government need not worry that we’re reading subversive material. A recent survey, “Reading at Risk,” found that “fewer than half of Americans over 18 now read novels, short stories, plays or poetry; that the consumer pool for books of all kinds has diminished; and that the pace at which the nation is losing readers, especially young readers, is quickening.” This may not be a surprise to many teachers. Should we be alarmed by this? Since it impacts my livelihood, I have to say yes, but I know not everyone might agree. “In fact, the study has already produced conflicting reactions.” From an article in the New York Times:

“It’s not just unfortunate, it’s real cause for concern,” said James Shapiro, a professor of English at Columbia University. “A culture gets what it pays for, and if we think democracy depends on people who read, write, think and reflect — which is what literature advances — then we have to invest in what it takes to promote that.”

On the other hand Kevin Starr, librarian emeritus for the state of California and a professor of history at the University of Southern California, said that if close to 50 percent of Americans are reading literature, “that’s not bad, actually.”

“In an age where there’s no canon, where there are so many other forms of information, and where we’re returning to medieval-like oral culture based on television,” he said, “I think that’s pretty impressive, quite frankly.” Mr. Starr continued: “We should be alarmed, I suppose, but the horse has long since run out of the barn. There are two distinct cultures that have evolved, and by far the smaller is the one that’s tied up with book and high culture. You can get through American life and be very successful without anybody ever asking you whether Shylock is an anti-Semitic character or whether ‘Death in Venice’ is better than ‘The Magic Mountain.'”

You can read the entire article here (free registration required): http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/08/books/08READ.html. I know registering is a pain, but I really think you should read the article if this issue concerns you. If you are no longer able to access the article for free, please let me know.

Andrew Solomon wrote an excellent editorial explaining why reading and literature are vital, but the New York Times will not allow you to view it for free. However, you are fortunate that I found Roger Darlington was good enough to reproduce it in his weblog. Please visit his blog, read the editorial, and thank him for reproducing such an important piece of writing.

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The Bluest Eye

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I have finished The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. I have had it on my bookshelf for some time — one of those things I just hadn’t got around to reading. I finally read it because it is one of our novel choices for ninth graders. If you have read this book, I think that revelation might just astonish you. Nanci was not kidding when she said that the school is liberal. There is no way in hell I would even be able to consider teaching this book at any other school where I have previously taught. To be quite honest, I think it is a very good thing that this sort of freedom exists. I despise book banning, but the school system/library system of the county where I most recently worked is rather notorious for it. I think it will be refreshing not to have so many restrictions on what books I can or can’t teach. I can’t recall if I told you or not, but at an interview with another public school system, I expressed astonishment when another teacher mentioned teaching The Catcher in the Rye. It isn’t that I don’t approve — I wholeheartedly do approve of teaching that novel in high school. However, I have never lived nor taught anywhere that didn’t feel it necessary to shelter students from books with the tiniest bit of controversy. So while teachers could enthusiastically recommend that I could read those dangerous books, and I could do the same with my students, I could not ask that a class read the book. I shouldn’t completely misrepresent the public school system. I did teach such books as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which is arguably one of the most banned books in history (and this was something I always discussed with my students). However, I cannot imagine a public school setting that would allow me to teach The Bluest Eye. With all of that said, I don’t think I can teach this book.

This is an ugly book. It exposes the ugliest parts of humanity. The predominant theme of the book is that whiteness is beauty, and beauty makes you lovable. Most of the black female characters learn “racial self-loathing;” they learn to equate their dark skin with ugliness. I cannot claim to experience what it is like to live as a black woman in a society that prizes white beauty (still, even 30 years after the publication of this book). Even black stars our society acknowledges as “beautiful” have “whiter” features of some sort: Halle Berry, Vanessa Williams, Denzel Washington. Everyone talks about how our narrow standards of beauty damage people who do not fit them, but no one does anything about it. Once, one of my black students wrote an essay about what her life would be like as she grew older. Part of her happiness in the future was predicated on the fact that her skin became lighter with the passage of time. I cried for her when I read it, but I felt utterly helpless. I could tell her I thought she was wrong, but the entire society she lives in would argue with me. How can you fight that kind of power?

I felt pity for the characters as they each, in their way, discovered and either accepted or rejected their “ugliness” in our society. I think Cholly sees it as a legacy of his parents: they were “no account,” so he is too. I think Polly sees it as inevitable. Her foot broke when she was two. After her tooth fell out, there was no hope for being beautiful again, so why bother with hair and makeup? She rejected her own husband and children in favor of keeping house for a white family. She rejected her life in order to be a part of theirs. Little Claudia seems to be the only character who questions these notions. She alone is able to imagine Pecola’s baby is beautiful in its blackness. She hopes it will live, when everyone else hopes it will die. Pecola’s child, after all, is the result of incest and rape.

Morrison told this story in a very disjointed way. She says in her Afterword that she broke “the narrative into parts that had to be reassembled by the reader.” She says that this approach does not “satisy [her] now,” adding that “many readers remain touched but not moved.” I have to say that I fall into that category. I didn’t ever become anything more than a dispassionate observer of the events in the novel. I was repulsed and horrified. I didn’t internalize, or “love” any of the characters. I pitied them. When Pecola believes she has achieved the blue eyes she desired, she has actually achieved madness. Most of the time, with books, the writer somehow enables you to care for the characters so that when terrible things happen to them, you cry. I couldn’t cry over these characters, and it seemed that nothing but terrible things happened to them. This book was utterly depressing. I think it is important that we examine our standards and beliefs about beauty. I think it is important that abuse is exposed. Maybe I’m selling them short, but my experience with 9th graders is that this isn’t the kind of reading they are developmentally ready for. I do not feel comfortable with discussing much of the book with a class. Maybe that will change someday.

Nanci was kind enough to say that we should not teach something we’re not passionate about. I may not be able to find a book that explores the same theme, but I certainly think I’ll be able to find something that doesn’t make me queasy.

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Bookcrossing and Updates

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I received The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures in the mail today from Q-Cow all the way over in the Philippines. This reminded me how lax I have been. I owe my copy of Beloved to Zoe1971 and The Lady and the Unicorn to Huakai. I am such a slacker. On Saturday! I promise! It shall be done. It is so cool to see your books going to or coming from foreign countries, I must say.

In other news, I have done everything I can about the identity theft. I have closed the account they broke into, filed a police report, filed a claim with the FTC, and notified the credit bureaus. Now I sit and wait for the proper authorities to do their work.

I’m still really happy with Firefox, and I’ve told everyone I know about it. My dad downloaded it. He felt the only downside to it was not having ActiveX. Actually, Firefox doesn’t recommend using ActiveX. My dad plays some games that rely on it. I figure just use IE to do that, but nothing else. ActiveX is most of IE’s problem: it allows hackers to hijack your computer. Also makes it easy for them to install spyware. I’m going to monitor the amount of spyware I get since using Firefox using my Ad-aware and Spybot Search and Destroy programs. I bet I’ll find less. Firefox has a built-in pop-up blocker that works better than the one in either Google Toolbar or Yahoo Toolbar (which is only supported in IE). Both of those programs always let some pop-ups through when I used them (although they do work pretty well and are better than nothing). I haven’t had one single pop-up using Firefox. Sometimes, I noticed that pages with pop-ups loaded slowly in IE as the toobars tried to block the pop-ups. Not the case with Firefox. I found this article interesting, as well. I have to agree with the author: “I have been using it [Firefox] for a week now and I’ve all but forgotten about Explorer.” Keep in mind that Slate is owned by Microsoft, if “MSN” in the URL and the butterly logo didn’t alert you to that fact already.

I like the large number of extensions available. I got the Dictionary Search extension, which allows you to highlight a word, right-click on your mouse, and look it up in the dictionary. I have configured mine so that I can look up words in Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus and Wikipedia. There are other online dictionaries and references you can configure it to use, including foreign language dictionaries. I’ve already used this feature so much that I don’t know how I got along without it. I will convert all of you yet. Oh yes, or bore you to death trying.

Is Wikipedia the best thing since sliced bread or what? Seems like you can look up anything in there. You can spend a long time there, just jumping from link to link.

One more thing before I go. I have stopped using the target=”_blank” attribute in my links. I used to like it, because I would forget to right-click on links and open them in new windows. I like to be able to switch back and forth between pages, and I don’t like using the back button, because I lose my place. I guess that was my way of forcing everyone who followed my links to surf like I do. No one ever complained (thank you!), but I figure if you want to open a new window, you can do that by right-clicking. I have discovered that W3C no longer supports the target attribute. Also, I have read that a lot of users don’t like it, so now I am allowing you to control whether you want links to open in a new window or not. I myself have been taking advantage of using the multiple-tabs available in Firefox. I love that. Opera offers that, too. I is going to take some time to remove it from all the links on my blog. I don’t plan on going through my archives. That’s too much work. If you read something written pre-July 14, 2004, and click on a link, just know it will open in a new window unless you right-click on the link and force it not to.

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