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Sorry for the downtime folks.  Sure, it may not look any different than version 2.0 (except for some small glitches), but it’s now running on wordpress 2.5 (up from wordpress 2.0.11), mysql 3.4 (up from 3.1), and now broadcasts in stereo sound (up from monaural)!  Your enjoyment of forgetful.ca should improve by 13.6% on average,...

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My sister-in law Jen bought me a wallet for Christmas.  And not just any wallet, but a beautiful, very functional yet very stylish wallet.  It is quite possibly the nicest wallet I’ve ever seen and though I fell in love with it immediately, it sat untouched on my shelf until this morning. After the ‘lost...

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Genius. There’s nothing worse than opening up a new jar, putting a knife or spatula in to mix, and getting oil all over you, the jar and the counter.

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I can’t believe I’ve been blogging blind for so long.  I had no idea how many visitors we had every day, or what they looked at when they visited.  We seemed to get a few comments on every post, so that was enough, right? Well, there’s a whole lot more information available than that!  I...

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Hotsling! An adorable and functional gift from Aunt Kris and Uncle Kurt. This little gadget, designed to be incredibly simple, stumped me until this morning… …now I just have to figure out how to wriggle us out of it.

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… have been resolved. Kinda. I now know that the problem was our server was full. Not over our limit, but full. So our host didn’t fix the problem. Instead, I just deleted some things. But that’s what WordPress Error 28 is, if it ever comes up in a game of Trivial Pursuit. Incidentally, our...

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It’s the new and improved leash.  For parents who once found it necessary to literally attach their kid to their hip (or wrist) with the velcroed harness…some new devices have been developed to enable these overly protective parents to keep their eyes on their slightly older kids. Disney mobile (is it that surprising that Disney...

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I wholeheartedly agree with that statement. If you can buy something, or pay to see it, you should not pirate it. However, there are also circumstances when downloading makes sense. Like when you missed last night’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy, and you wouldn’t be able to legally buy it until the season came out on...

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I like booking travel. I like digging around online, playing with options to find the absolute best deal. I book my own business travel – partially because we’re short on admin support at work, but also because I enjoy it. I started way back in 1998 living in Calgary scoping out the cheapest flights back...

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