The best thing about it from a web designer point of view is that it doesn’t use any tables. While reading through many forums and blogs, it seemed that the old way of using tables was going out the window because Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) was so much for flexible and artistic. So other than the WordPress environment and the plugins (granted that’s most of the site), it is all CSS. Pretty cool stuff, eh?

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An incident occurred in a supermarket recently:

A Muslim woman dressed in a Burkha (a black gown & face mask) was standing with her shopping in a queue at the checkout.

When it was her turn to be served, and as she reached the cashier, she made a loud remark about the English Flag lapel pin, which the female cashier was wearing on her blouse.

The cashier reached up and touched the pin and said, “Yes, I always wear it proudly. My son serves abroad with the forces and I wear it for him.”

The Muslim woman then asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing and killing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi.

At that point, a Gentleman standing in the queue stepped forward, and interrupted with a calm and gentle voice, and said to the Iraqi woman:

“Excuse me, but hundreds of thousands of men and women, just like this ladies son have fought and sacrificed their lives so that people just like YOU can stand here, in England, which is MY country and allow you to blatantly accuse an innocent check-out cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen.

“It is my belief that if you were allowed to be as outspoken as that in Iraq, which you claim to be YOUR country, then we wouldn’t need to be fighting there today.

“However, now that you have learned how to speak out and criticize the English people who have afforded you the protection of MY country, I will gladly pay the cost of a ticket to help you pay your way back to Iraq.

“When you get there, and if you manage to survive for being as outspoken as what you are here in England, then you should be able to help straighten out the mess which YOUR Iraqi countrymen have got you into in the first place, which appears to be the reason that you have come to MY country to avoid.”

Apparently the queue cheered and applauded.

• Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
• Turn to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post that sentence AS YOUR STATUS on Facebook and/or Twitter.
• AND THEN POST these instructions in a comment to this status.

Note: Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book.

This is mine:

These solutions may not feel comfortable or make logical sense initially, but I encourage you to use them and experience the results.

This came from If How-To’s Were Enough We Would All Be SKINNY, RICH & HAPPY by Brian Klemmer.

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But that is not the only reason. I also like bamboo because it is so useful a plant. It is used for everything from food to construction. I like the idea of being resourceful and I have had the opportunity to be resourceful many times in my life and I can say without hesitation that those times prove to be some of the most memorable times in my life as well as the times in my life when I grew the most, personally, professionally and spiritually.

Yet there is still more. I like the colour of bamboo. That is to say that I like the colour green. I like the modern concept of “green living” and continue to make efforts to improve in that respect. And I am not ashamed to say that I like green in the monetary sense. I like money. I like to make money. I like to manage money. I like to spend money.

Money is a very important part of our lives, not in the sense that money itself is important, but what money can do. Used wisely, money can do amazing things for the people who hold it. Used generously, money can do amazing things for the people around the people who hold it.

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