New article about adult-onset diabetes:
Adult Diabetes Symptoms - How To Spot Diabetes In Adults
Summary: Adult diabetes, often called adult-onset diabetes, is a growing problem in the Western world. As obesity increases, more and more adults are developing diabetes. Quick diagnosis of diabetes is the best way to avoid complications, so here are some signs to watch out for.
Read other articles by Eric Giguere.
Last month, burning smells were emanating from our electric dryer, which is not a good thing. No one wants to risk a fire, after all. We do a fair bit of washing and drying, so I we had to decide quickly what to do about the dryer. The washer still seemed to be in great shape.
My wife decided that this was an opportunity to upgrade our washer/dryer combo. Perhaps she was influenced by LG’s clever appliance commercials, because what we ended up getting was a front-loading LG washer and dryer combo in candy apple red, pictured here to the left. She’d had her eye on them for a while, actually, but couldn’t justify their purchase while the existing machines were still working.
I can’t say I find laundry machines too exciting, but my wife’s been very pleased with the new machines. She is very finnicky about her laundry and a front-loading washer (which is supposed to be gentler on clothes) was a welcome addition to our set of appliances.
What do I like the best about these machines? The timer! Both the washer and the dryer have an LED display that shows you exactly how many minutes are left to complete the current operation. You don’t have to listen for the buzzer or wonder when the wash/dry will be done, you just check the current time when you start and that’s all you need to know. A small thing, perhaps, but a great feature in my mind.
Speaking of hitting perfectly good appliances with a train, I was going to donate the washer to a worthy cause, so I left it out at the end of my driveway for them to pick up… don’t you know it but some fool drunk driver (OK, that’s a guess) actually went and turned it to scrap metal by plowing into it with their car. This is the winter for accidents, it seems, a few weeks before that someone hit some black ice and fishtailed into our wooden fence. Again. Sigh.
Anyhow, the LG front-loading washer works well and looks great.
At the end of February, 2008, Google started requiring AdSense publishers to display a privacy policy on all sites that displayed AdSense ads or search boxes. Since many WordPress blogs are monetized with AdSense, I decided to write a plugin that would automate the creation of AdSense-compliant privacy policies for WordPress users. Thus the Privacy Policy Plugin for WordPress was born.
Self-hosted WordPress 2.0 or higher. You don’t actually need to be displaying AdSense ads, the privacy policy is generic enough to be used with most sites. If you collect any kind of personal information via a squeeze page, however, you’ll have to wait for an update to the plugin to handle those situations.
Installation is simple, as with most WordPress plugins. Download the privacy-policy-1.0.zip file and extract its contents into your blog’s wp-content/plugins folder. This will create a new privacy-policy subfolder containing the plugin. (The plugin doesn’t actually need to be in its own subfolder, but it’s recommended you place it there.) Go to the Plugins tab in your WordPress administration console and activate the plugin.
Once the plugin has been activated, go to the Options tag and click on Privacy Policy. Reasonable defaults will be selected for the privacy policy, but change them as appropriate and press the Update Options button to store the new settings.
Now create the privacy policy page for your site. The easiest way to do this is to press the Create Page button at the bottom of the options page. This creates a static page with the given title and slug (path) that displays a privacy policy based on the current settings.
Alternatively, you can simply insert a privacy policy onto an existing page using the special trigger text:
<!-- privacy-policy -->
anywhere on the page. When the page is displayed, the trigger is replaced with the current privacy policy.
That’s it! Short and simple.
If there’s enough interest, I will add features to this plugin such as:
Just leave a comment here and we can discuss it.
As identity theft and other privacy issues become a concern to members of the general public, it’s important to understand how personal information is handled by web browsers and how users can effectively manage web browser privacy.
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On the Web, a privacy policy is a legal notice on a website describing how personal information is collected and used by the owners of the website.
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Not everyone who reads my other blogs and sites realizes that it’s a Canadian doing all that writing. After all, I use American, not Canadian, spellings in most of my writing.This is a deliberate decision I made long ago (25 years now!) when I started writing articles for computer magazines, since the vast majority of my audience (and the publications themselves) consisted of American readers. And I’ve done this in my books, too, since they’re published by American publishers. Look, if the paycheque (er, sorry, I guess that would be paycheck) is denominated in US dollars, I guess it makes sense for me to write for American sensibilities.
But in this blog I’ve decided to expose my Canadian roots. You can tell so from the first post, which is in the Humour category and not the Humor category.
Now those of you without any Canadian friends might be wondering what makes Canadian English different from American English? If you think Canadian English is the same as British English, you’re wrong. Neither is it the same as American English. It borrows from both variants and introduces its own unique Canadianisms as well.
Rather than try to list the differences here, I’ll just refer you to Cornerstone’s Canadian English Page, a wonderful article that explains how Canadian English is different.
So when you see me use words like colour and cheque, please don’t write to tell me I’ve misspelled them. At least not on this blog, eh?
So I’ve finally gotten around to putting up a personal blog… what better way to start than with a tongue-in-cheek entry for the Top 5 Group Writing Project. So, without further ado, here are the Top 5 Reasons to Marry a Geek:
P.S.: Ladies, let me let you in on a little secret… you don’t actually have to marry a geek to get these benefits… Just provide regular (rest of post deleted)