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Abstinence education in place of Sex education won’t work August 15, 2006 4:35 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Politics, Sex, Touchy Subjects , add a comment

Just say no! to naive school boards that try to do away with sex education in favor of abstinence education.

An Ohio school board is expanding sex education following the revelation that 13 percent of one high school’s female students were pregnant last year.

There were 490 female students at Timken High School in 2005, and 65 were pregnant, WEWS-TV in Cleveland reported. [Source]

I wonder how many guys were involved in this?!

Oh, the school board’s response in Ohio?

…the new curriculum moves beyond the "Just Say No" approach…

No kidding!

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Living on the head of a pin August 15, 2006 4:24 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Science, Technology , add a comment

See! Our whole universe is inside someone’s head!

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IP Tools August 15, 2006 12:45 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Network, Technology , 1 comment so far

I frequently use DNS Stuff and DNS Report. You can also use Sam Spade for things like finding out who owns your ip address.

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Test your speed. August 15, 2006 11:08 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Network, Technology , add a comment

On August 9 I asked How fast are you? C|Net brings a new speed test service to our attention. Speedtest.net uses a snazzy graphical interface and records results. Other than making it look like the icon of the person is taking a whiz on the servers, the interface really brings this one home. I question the accuracy as it is the first service to truly rank my connection at the 6.5Mbit/s that it is supposed to be.

C|Net also offers their own meter similar to http://www.testmy.net/ and http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/.

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August Challenge - Tommy Turns 16 August 15, 2006 8:01 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : August Challenge, Daily Life, Tommy , add a comment

Happy Birthday Tommy! (jumped the gun yesterday_ I am thrilled with his progress and love seeing his joy at the thought of getting a driver’s license. Loved his excitement over his new phone. Overall he is a happy, fun person.

Can you meet The August Challenge?

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