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At least the Iraqis are civilized

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:38:28 GMT

Seriously, it is encouraging to see how modernized those people are. Does it seem to anybody else that they are just a haircut and some 20th (or 21st) century clothes away from being savages?

Politicians, tribal and religious leaders and soldiers watched displays of military prowess and one demonstration, hailed as a display of courage, in which five soldiers stopped before the grandstand to bite the heads off frogs.

A sixth holding a live rabbit slit open its stomach and ate its heart before tossing the carcass to his comrades to chew on.

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Nevada: We need MORE guns in schools

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:05:39 GMT

Nevada state senator Bob Beers has a hair-brained idea that allowing teachers to carry guns in schools might somehow act as a deterrent to school violence.

I love guns, I have several, so I am not at all anti-gun. But, the idea that putting more guns in school, in the hands of teachers no less, could somehow help the situation is asinine.

There has to be a smarter solution to this problem.

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Robots and main page accessibility

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT

On my quest towards e-stardom (aka a relevant and content-rich website), I realized that the navigation towards my older "news items" was somewhat lacking. My solution for this problem was to create a side bar menu that would contain all of the news item titles in descending date order (aka newest first).

A day or two after this change, I began to notice a positive side-effect to including all of these titles as links on the main page...The robots (spiders) were crawling all through my site! I'm not 100% sure, but I can't imagine how this increased indexing would hurt my chances of being returned in some search results.

In a possibly related subject, a Google search for 'Aaron Lynch' now returns this page in the top 10 search results (#6 as of this entry) and an MSN search returns www.AaronJLynch.com as #3!

Does anybody want my autograph?

UPDATE 1/25/06: Either Google has changed my ranking somehow, or my switch to BlogCFC has harmed my accessibility somehow. I now turn up on like page 5 or something terrible. Back to the drawing board!