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Archive for December, 2005 - חשון / כסלו תשס"ו

Birthday wishes …

By penny • December 31, 2005 - א' טבת תשס"ו • Category: misc

Happy Birthday Shanna and David. May 2006 be a year of health, happiness, and many good things.

(recent reads) lyra’s oxford, disability, red mars, inkheart

By penny • December 31, 2005 - א' טבת תשס"ו • Category: books

A very productive reading-shabbos, if I may say so. I finished the following:
Lyra’s Oxford by Philip Pullman. A cute little book that isn’t what it seems at first glance. I loved the map of Oxford. :)
Disability by Cris Mazza. Not what it seemed from the blurb on the back. Was still interesting however.
Red [...]

donate donate donate

By penny • December 30, 2005 - ל' כסלו תשס"ו • Category: misc

it’s the end of the tax year in the US and a good time to donate.
Last year Shanna had a nice post on how to calculate how much to give.
from the site she links, there’s a discussion on who you should focus on giving to.

To whom to give?
The highest priority is for redeeming captives [...]

(recent read) So You Want to be a Wizard?

By penny • December 30, 2005 - ל' כסלו תשס"ו • Category: books

So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane.
I was cleaning some of my stuff out of my mother’s house over this holiday break and found this book. I had never read it, I think I gave it to her for some present years ago because she likes fantasy children’s books. So I took [...]

new and improved!

By penny • December 29, 2005 - כ"ט כסלו תשס"ו • Category: misc

I’m now running wordpress 2.0 with the askimet spam plugin. I have 406 messages marked as spam that i now have to filter thru. Maybe 399 of them are spam. Please be paitent as I go through cleaning it up.
The upgrade was seamless. I like the new features… one of these days i’ll roll [...]