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One advantage to this out-of-time posting thing is that I can post things on days that I'm sure to be competely unable to post things this way. Of course my chances of saying things that aren't wrong by nature of being guesses based on what's supposed to happen, as opposed to what really will happen, are maybe not that great.

So in case things go relatively according to plan: Happy 0th birthday, my new son!

I haven't been keeping up. I'm nearly caught up with myself. That won't do at all.

I have a post in mind but I'm pretty sure it'd be irresponsible to take any time to write it.

Now that last one I'm SURE I correctly set the date stuff on, and it still posted at first immediately to the current date, and then I had to edit it and reset the time stamp to make it go out to the future.

something is hose.

Sounds like a plan, huh?

Natasha Demkina has an extraordinary gift that means she can quite literally see right through people. Her story sounds like it has come straight from the pages of a science fiction comic book, but doctors have yet to disprove her amazing abilities. Natasha is able to look into people’s bodies and correctly diagnose their medical problems, without any help from ultra-sound or x-ray equipment.

(found via There He Is... (link in sidebar))

So this girl can see peoples' organs and make out details about what's wrong with the organs. This article is on DiscoveryChannel.co.uk, which gives it an air of legit-ness. But then there's this bit...

Natasha was brought to England by a national newspaper and she successfully spotted all of the fractures and metal pins in a woman who had recently been in a car crash. The woman was fully clothed and had no visible signs of how or where she had been injured.

Which is either a poorly written piece of reporting or just plain old suspicious. They brought her all the way to England and then that's the only test they did on her? We know we can't trust the Russians (joke with no punchline.) The initial statement that "doctors have yet to disprove her amazing abilities" is pretty meaningless. The story itself reads a bit like we're talking about pseudo-science, people coming to the girl eager for her to diagnose them, her mother bragging about what an exceptional child she was. Then the end bit:

Natasha wants to go to medical school in Moscow, so she can continue helping people. But the only way her family could afford to send her to university was to charge 400 roubles (£8) for each consultation she gave. Natasha often has headaches after these sessions and finds it emotionally exhausting because of the illnesses she diagnoses.

REALLY sounds off.

So there's something here on wikipedia.

Maybe I shouldn'ta bothered posting this. More later? Doubt it.

Still happily plowing on into the futures!!!!

I've never successfully used Twitter.

To My Readers that use an RSS Feed:

You poor, poor people. This place is very much NOT intended for that. For one thing, I don't use those things and so test that even less than I test the general workingness of this place as a blog. For another, I've been lately playing with blogging in a different way than the one I'm used to. I'm posting things to the future regularly. The interface for doing this is just a little screwy. There is a field for changing the date and time at which the post will appear; this date/time fills in by default to the current date and time when I start a post. There is a second field for selecting whether to post in the future or to post immediately. This is bad interface design: when I change that date, it should automatically assume I want to post on the date I've indicated. In fact there is no need for this to be two different data items. If the date/time is going to default anyway, then the thing should just always post on the date that's in that field.

My point there is that I regularly change the date but don't select the radio button to post on that date, so that posts are posting immediately, then I see that that's happened and I edit the post to change when it appears. I assume that for RSS people this means posts occasionally showing up and then vanishing or something.

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I need a way to easily reference my tags so that I don't duplicate tags without really duplicating them.
I need to fix the thing that displays all my tags; it worked when I first modified it so that the more often a tag occurred the darker it was. Somewhere along the line it spontaneously changed so that the more frequently used a tag is the more likely it is to be white, thus being invisible on the white background.
I need to check something off of some list.
I need to fix the sidebar bloglist thing, which I talked about before, if I haven't already by the time I don't do anything with this list.

I hate twitter.