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Monthly Archives: September 2006

playing scrabble

I’m trying to get better at scrabble by playing online.
I’ve got my two-letter wordlist, and my wordfinder program at hand. Each game takes about half an hour – so four games later, i’m sitting here with the sun going down.
This post will be full of random things because I can’t [...]

Protected: the missing post from friday

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marriage

With engagement a lot of women feel there’s enormous pressure to show their worth.

I read this article today. Getting married is a crazy process – I changed my name, invited my estranged father (who didn’t show up) and my biological father, (who stole the show) and was witness to my mother’s first meeting with [...]

descended from basques?

Myths of British Ancestry
I’ve never been interested in geneology – the kind where you do research and visit large libraries containing long, long lists of dead people. But digging out clues about ancient people from mitochondria in currently living people is amazing. That ancient Britons came from Basque country, and that scientists figured [...]