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Gmail users should go SSL

Why You Should Turn Gmail’s SSL Feature On Now Let’s talk security and why you should take advantage of Gmail’s recent SSL feature, and why you might want to be careful using other non-SSL webmail services. But first, make sure your connection is secured using SSL. How do you know a connection is secured by SSL? The handy “s” after “http” will tell you. For example, https://mail.google.com is encrypted while http://mail.

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Poppy: babbling, teething, and growing

Poppy is growing up way too quickly. Anita cried a couple nights ago watching her sleep, and I can certainly understand… She hasn’t technically doubled in size, but she seems like she is at least twice as big as she was at birth and many hundred fold more capable/developed/skilled/aware. She’s babbling a lot, starting this weekend and she has a second tooth just under the surface ready to come out.

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A great article on Jan Arnow’s work in Rwanda

Rwandans look to Louisville for interfaith model The Rwandans invited the center’s executive director, Jan Arnow, to visit their country, where in May, she conducted workshops and discussions with a group that included various faiths, from Muslims to Catholics to Quakers to Pentecostals. During that visit, she said, group members told her, “We want to do what your organization does” — leading to establishment of the center’s first branch outside Kentucky.

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Penelope Lou is movin and shaking (anything she can grasp)

Poppy is a feirce 6 months now. She is sitting and crawling and talking a lot (though still mostly in vowels only). What’s funny is to see her grab ahold of something (anything) and shake it. “What does this do? How about if I beat it against the floor for 5 minutes? hmmm… What about after another 5 minutes?” She is so much fun to watch and interact with… all she’s doing is sitting or crawling and violently shaking/beating/eating whatever is in her little hands… but that’s more than enough to keep us watching.

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Dell is now shipping computers with Ubuntu installed

Here’s a list of computers being shipped by Dell with Ubuntu… decent savings, good systems, and pro linux… makes me really happy.