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twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2010.11.08

I've added a banner from Amazon across the top of most of the emuu.net website.

If someone follows the link to Amazon and buys something, I get a small "store credit" as it were. They'd be feeding my book habit. And they might even let me save up for a Kindle. Mmmmm, free Kindle.

Overall, it's something that suits me more than does Google's "adsense". Moreover, I decided that I'd rather go with Amazon this than work with Google because they did something recently involving my baby business that left a bad taste in my mouth. So much so that I've decided to remove them from my life wherever possible. For several months I've been using DuckDuckGo for high-speed, feature-rich, and anonymous web searching. I'm preparing to free myself of Google's mail service and "Google docs". I don't think I'll use one of their crummy iPhone knockoffs.

rand()m quote

The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.

—Richard Feynman