Ancestry.com, bad practice or just shrewd?
May 24th, 2005 by Sarah KingI’ve got no idea about how good the actual service provided by Ancestry.com is – I never got that far. I was puddling about doing some research recently when I stumbled across the site. There’s a free trial so I thought I’d take a look. Read the rest of this entry »
Emergency Sex
May 23rd, 2005 by Sarah KingAs my kids would say: “Made you look, made you stare, made you lose your underwear!”
Emergency Sex
May 2006: well, it’s a year since I read this book and it was fantastic. And relevant. And has shaped how I view the news and the events that I’ve read about since.
The book follows the fortunes of the three authors as they work with the United Nations, first in Vietnam and then to other hot spots. Heidi comes across as flaky but you know that a) she was probably very good at her job and b) they still needed people working at her level. Ken seems solid, reliable and nice while Andrew is just a marvel and how any person could hold it together after what he had to do in Europe and Africa is amazing. We need people like him, and we need them to know just how much we appreciate what they do.
Towards the end the grittiness turned from fascinating to unpleasant and then back to fascinating. If I could just get the mental images out of my head…
This is, however, a recommended read.
Zapping your margins on day 1 of development
May 23rd, 2005 by Sarah KingI was just cruising through my morning newsfeeds and found 2 articles on managing CSS files. I use TopStyle so that makes it easier but you can still end up with large files to scroll through. Read the rest of this entry »
Good Luck Kylie
May 18th, 2005 by Sarah KingWe’ve heard over last 24 hours that Aussie pop star Kylie Minogue has breast cancer. Showing the ignorance of probably a great many people is my DH with “but she’s got little boobs” – if only it were that simple. Little boobs often means earlier detection but there are no guarantees, even men get breast cancer! Read the rest of this entry »
Love the sinner not the sin!
May 18th, 2005 by Sarah KingThere have been two high profile sex offenders in the news this weekend Read the rest of this entry »
Probation Service Monitoring
May 18th, 2005 by Sarah KingAccording to the NZ Herald the Probation Service was monitoring the paedophile who tried to move to the small town of Blackball recently. Read the rest of this entry »
Racist Spam
May 17th, 2005 by Sarah KingDireland’s blog claims to have info on the racist spam plaguing our inboxes this week. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Net baffled’ parents
May 16th, 2005 by Sarah KingAccording to a London School of Economics report ‘Net baffled’ parents may reduce children’s job and education prospects. However you’d have to think that using the net today becomes just another “life skill” among many. If the net baffles you then perhaps a score of other basic skills also baffles you. Read the rest of this entry »
