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Free
Computers For Developing Countries
If you have any IT equipment that you no longer need you might wish to donate
it to Computer Aid International, a registered charity that has set up a service
to provide computers for use in schools and communities in developing countries.
Obviously, the equipment must be in reasonable condition and not obsolete —
though, of course, people do not need a powerful, modern machine for getting
to grips with the basics of word processing, spreadsheets and databases.
Have you recently upgraded your computer system (or printers etc) and don't
know what to do with the older stuff? Computer Aid International will be delighted
to hear from you.
Contact them on 020 7281 0091 or visit their website at http://www.computer-aid.org/index.htm
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Lux
Aeterna
For those of you who went to The Priory you may like to know that the Winchester
Cathedral Choir have issued a CD of delightful sacred music.
Here is a list of pieces that are
included :
- Barber : Agnus Dei
- Hill : Dominus illuminatio
- Wood : Hail, gladdening light
- Mozart : Ave verum
- Holst : Nunc dimittis
- Taverner : As one who has slept
- Duruflé : Tota pulchra
es
- Duruflé : Ubi caritas
- Tallis : O nata lux de lumine
- Pärt : Magnificat
- Taverner : Song for Athene
- Duruflé : Tantum ergo
- Duruflé : Tu Es Petrus
- Victoria : O sacrum convivium
- Poulenc : Salve Regina
- Poulenc : Exultate Deo
David Hill is the conductor
Note : Item No. 4 was 'Ted Heath's'
favourite when I was at The Priory.
I'm thinking of booking the church for 2 hours and having the whole CD played
at my funeral.
I got my copy from Britannic Music (www.britanniamusic.co.uk)
but the label says 'Virgin Classics Ltd' (1998)
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The
Road Less Travelled
The Road Less Travelled is one of a series of books by Dr M Scott Peck, an American
psychiatrist. It's a self-help book, sub-titled as "A new psychology of
love, traditional values and spiritual growth".
You're groaning. Just stop it and hear me out. Scott Peck is a genius. This
book is a stunner, replete with ideas he should written when I was young and
still had wings.
" Confronting and solving problems is a painful process, which most of
us attempt to avoid. This avoidance results in pain and the hampered ability
to grow both mentally and spiritually. Drawing heavily on his own professional
psychiatric experience, Peck suggests ways in which confronting and resolving
our problems, and suffering through the changes, can enable us to reach a higher
level of self-understanding. Dr. Peck discusses the nature of loving relationships:
how to recognize true compatibility, how to distinguish dependency from love,
how to become one's own person, how to be a more sensitive parent.
Peck's first book, it has sold over 7 million copies and remained on the New
York Times Best Seller List longer than any other paperback book."
If you come across it, do read it
and let me know what you think. (Paul
West)
My copy cost £6.99 and its ISBN is 0 7126 1819 8
Scott Peck's website : http://www.mscottpeck.com
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Low
Cost Computers for Schools
(Source : Tools for Schools
website)
Are you involved
with your local school — as a parent / grandparent, teacher or Governor?
And does your school badly need computers but can't afford them?
An organisation called "Tools For Schools" is offering an excellent
'refurbished' deal to schools, supplying reasonably up-to-date equipment at
a fraction of the price of new machines. (Such as £100.00!)
These computers are donated by industry, then refurbished and upgraded by skilled
technicians at TFS.
The machines are not old, as such, but they are no longer required by the donor
companies — who have a policy of upgrading their equipment on a regular
basis. All computers which TFS re-sell to schools are Pentiums with multi
media facilities and internet capability. Importantly, all equipment is
guaranteed to meet the technical standards recommended by the National Association
of Advisers for Computers in Education (NAACE).
Contact details :
Tools for Schools 12-14 Berry Street London EC1V 0AQ
Tel : 020 7689 1990 Fax : 020 7689 1991
Email : schools@tfs.org.uk
Website : http://www.tfs.org.uk
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Two
Tricks when using Google
GOOGLE
is a very popular means of searching for things on the internet, of course,
so forgive me for repeating anything that you may already know :
- If you call up GOOGLE by typing
www.google.com you have access to a very powerful
search engine. Give it the minimum of details and it will quickly supply
you with the addresses of dozens of websites that may be related to your requirements.
All you have to do is type in a keyword or phrase and it will dash off to
find information for you.
- If you type www.google.com/ie
instead, Google's response is much faster.
You get the same information but it saves time by not giving you lengthy descriptions
of each site that it finds.
- If you
want to search the contents of a particular (single) website - such as ours
- Google will find every instance of a keyword or phrase within that site.
This how you could use it to search our website for every occurrence of the
word "Broome", for example :
a) Call up Google (by typing www.google.com
or www.google.com/ie)
b) Once Google 'arrives', type the following into the box provided :
"broome" site :www.thepelicans.co.uk
c) Google will then provide you with a list of pages within the site on which
the word "Broome" is mentioned. You can click on any of these page
references and go immediately to the item.
Note : Search engines such as Google take 'snapshots' of a website
on a particular day and then don't update them very often — unless the
site gets a huge number of visitors. So this is not a perfect solution
for us. It doesn't seem to have visited www.thepelicans.co.uk
lately, but this is likely to improve as we gather in more visitors.
If you know of a better solution (or a variation on the above) please let
me know. Google provides facilities to PC Users (only) for speeding
up and enhancing searches, so it is worth visiting their site to find out
about their toolbar facility. (Mac and Linux users can't take advantage
of this provision at present , so I can't tell you about them).
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Instant
Maps
I've included this map of St Boswell's just in case you are unaware
of the excellent facility provided by http://www.multimap.com
.
(source : www.multimap.com)
Simply type in the street / road/ town of where you want to go and within
seconds you are given
a map of how to get there (as above) - plus many other facts about the area
if you want them.
You can also ask for a more detailed (street level) map if you require it
:
(source : www.multimap.com)
Amongst other uses, it's a handy way of making a map to send to people who are
about to visit you.
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Broadband
(for the uninitiated only)
If you have only experienced a 'dial-up' system for using the internet
so far, then you won't believe your first 'broadband' demonstration. It gives
you almost instant access to any web page that you request. It's so fast that
newcomers tend to sit waiting for things that have already been delivered to
their screens !
So, if you're used to hanging about endlessly for pages to load — watching
your phone bill and hoping that it comes up with the goods before the system
cuts you off — then you ought to think hard about upgrading to a broadband
service.
OK — so how much ?
It's not cheap—but it's getting cheaper. At the time of writing,
lots of providers are offering a basic service for under £20.00 a month.
There's also an initial investment in new kit and a connection charge, so you'd
need to budget for about £100 to set the system up.
Why spend all that money just to get a faster service ?
With broadband, the internet is now functioning at the speed the Almighty intended
and it's far less likely to break down. After all, wasn't your first
experience on the web just a little bit disappointing. Didn't you secretly wonder
what all the hype was about but were afraid to say so ? And how many times since
then have you had to be restrained from wrenching the socket from the wall out
of sheer frustration?
The speed of broadband changes how you use the internet. You turn it on,
you leave it on; you use it when you want to; you leave your email program on
all day and it let's you know when an email has arrived. You start to relax
about it—it's not costing you a penny extra if it's 'on' all day without
being used. Your browser (such as Internet Explorer) works at the speed of light
and you tend to do things that were too much of a hassle before, such as listening
to local radio from the States while you're doing something else on the computer.
You can now download 'free' music to your heart's content, knowing, now, that
it's basically a fast and stable process to do so.You can research things of
interest in a way that you never did before because the faster speed means that
you can afford the time to follow up leads as you never did before. Suddenly,
the internet turns out to be the thing that they always said it was—a huge
library of resources at your fingertips.
My own experience
The Pelicans' website is about to be moved to a new home : I need more space
to cope with the way that the website is expanding AND I badly need to up-and-download
large files (of photos etc) much faster and more reliably. A friend gave me
a demonstration of his broadband service and I immediately felt that this was
the way in which all internet connections will be made in the future. He advised
me to look at the website where you can learn about what is involved and read
independent views on the various services on offer (http://www.adslguide.org.uk
) I opted for PLUSNET, which was also his own choice, and signed up for
a 1-year contract for £23.00 a month.
PLUSNET got BT to test my telephone line to see if it was suitable for a broadband
connection, and after confirmation of the go-ahead, the 'ethernet router' and
'splitters' arrived.
IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO GET THE SYSTEM SET UP AND RUNNING — mostly because
I couldn't believe that it was so simple. I had to make many phone calls
to the PLUSNET helpline and, reluctantly, I also got my friend to help me out.
He'd had a similarly difficult start and was as baffled as I was as to why it
wouldn't work. (We are both experienced computer users, by the way). We eventually
spotted one tiny mistake in the information that we had given to the program
in the 'router' . . . We corrected this, and then, quite magically, the whole
thing took off at speed! It was wonderful to see the wepages flying in from
all corners of the world—and the Pelicans' website was incredible to behold.
All those photos and all that text instantly appearing on the screen.
One month later, and a few more phone calls, I think that I've sorted out an
irritating glitch associated with the router hardware (only). There's no
turning back now. This is only way to access the internet, I've decided.
I've had to revert to my dial-up service once or twice in this last month and
it seems incredibly crude and unreliable now. As long as I can keep finding
the money each month, it's "sorted" now.
HOW ABOUT YOU ?
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Births,
Deaths and Marriages
If you are asked to speak on these occasions and you're stuck for something
that might appeal to a very 'mixed' / 'secular' / 'agnostic' audience, you may
find some of the following useful. Apologies, in advance, if they are not to
your taste or if you are over-familiar with the items presented.
(These items are in a form that is easily cut-and-pasted, of course).
HAVE YOU ANY FAVOURITES OF YOUR OWN THAT COULD BE ADDED TO THIS LIST
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Subject: Parting
Source : Poem by Joyce Grenfell
If I should go before the rest of you
Break not a flower, nor inscribe a stone
Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice
But be the usual selves that I have known
Weep if you must
Parting is hell
But life goes on
So sing as well
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Subject:
Gone from my sight
Source : Poem by Henry
Van Dyke
I am standing upon that
foreshore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning
breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white
cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!!"
"Gone where?"
Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull
and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear
her load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when
someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!" there are other
eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout:
"Here she comes!"
And that is dying.
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Subject: Death
Source : Steven Cummins, a
soldier killed on active service in Northern Ireland, left in an envelope
to be opened by his parents in the event of death
Do not stand at my grave and weep; I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there. I did not die.
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Subject:
Death is nothing at all
Source : Poem by Henry
Scott Holland
Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
I am I , you are you.
Whatever we were to each other, that we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name,
speak to me in the easy way you always used to.
Put no difference in your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Let my name be ever the household word it always was,
let it be spoken without effort,
without the trace of a shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval,
somewhere very near, just round the corner.
All is well.
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Subject: Children
Source : "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran
AND a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children.
And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of to-morrow, which you cannot visit,
not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you
with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness ;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He
loves also the bow that is stable.
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Subject:
A simple philosophy for life, but full of wisdom
(sometimes entitled "Desiderata")
Source : Found in Old St Paul's
Church, Baltimore. dated 1692
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste and remember what peace
there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull
and ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself to others you
may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser
persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested
in your career however humble; it is a real possession in the changing
fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full
of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many
persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself, especially
do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face
of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take
kindly the councel of the years gracefully surrendering to the things
of youth.
Nurture the strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue
and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars:
you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no
doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be;
and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace with your soul. With all its shams, drudgery and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be careful. Strive to be happy.
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Subject:
My time has come —
for those who believe
Source : Unknown
I’m
Free
Don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free
I’m following the path God has laid you see.
I took His hand when I heard him call
I turned my back and left it all.
I could not stay another day
To laugh, to love, to work, to play.
Tasks left undone must stay that way
I found that peace at the close of day.
If my parting has left a void
Then fill it with remembered joy.
A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss
O yes, these things I too will miss.
Be not burdened with times of sorrow
I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.
My life’s been full, I savoured much
Good friends, good times, a loved one’s touch.
Perhaps my time seemed all too brief
Don’t lengthen it now with undue grief.
Lift up your hearts and peace to thee
God wanted me now; He set me free.
Author Unknown
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Subject: Death
Source : The
Mystery of the Cross by Cardinal George Basil Hume
The
human mind cannot understand death.
We face it with fear and uncertainty, revulsion even ; or we turn away
from the thought for it is too hard for us to bear.
But faith gives answers when reason fails.
The strong instinct to live points to immortality.
Faith admits us into death's secrets.
Death is not the end of the road, but a gateway to a better place.
It is in this place that our noblest aspirations will be realised.
It is here that we will understand how our experiences of goodness, love,
beauty and joy are realities which exist perfectly in God.
It is in heaven that we shall rest in him and our hearts will be restless
until they rest in God.
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Subject:
She is gone
Source : Poem by Anonymous
(to whom we owe so much)
You can shed tears
that she is gone
Or you can smile because she has lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back
Or you can open your eyes and see all she has left.
Your heart can be empty because you can't see her
Or you can be full of the love you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.
You can remember her and only that she's gone
Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back
Or you can do what she'd want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.
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Subject:
Remember
Source : Poem by Christina
Rossetti
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far that you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
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Free
Recordings : from the BBC
Have you discovered the delights of listening to radio on the web, yet
?
If not, may I recommend that you dash off to http://www.bbc.co.uk/
and find out for yourself ?
You'll be delighted with what you see that's on offer. It's a superb and
unique service — you can listen to programmes that are currently
being broadcast or to items that you have recently missed.
You will need a copy of the free Real Player
software that can be downloaded from the BBC site.
Just make sure that you ignore any offers for a so-called 'pro' version
(or whatever), which will cost you money. (There's no need : I've fallen
into that trap myself and can assure you that it's just not necessary
to pay for the service).
There's a very large catalogue of 'old' broadcasts
that you can download for listening at your leisure. But take care
: recordings of weekly programmes usually get replaced at the end of the
week, leaving you stranded if you miss this deadline.
However, some programmes are still available to you long after they
were first broadcast. You can download these on to your hard disk and
build up a collection if you wish. The Beyond
Belief series is an example of this. It's part of the
BBC's Religion and Ethics output — in this
case, a weekly discussion programme that covers religious affairs and
moral issues.
Below, I have made a list of topics that have been debated over the
past 3 years — and beneath each year's listing there is a link that
will take you straight to the programme's 'mini website'.
To whet your appetite, I've downloaded
an extract for you and converted it to mp3 format so that you can just
click-and-listen. Click here
to hear a clip from a programme in which all sorts of 'experts' are talking
about the papacy, which was first broadcast on January 19th 2004.
Below, I've listed all the titles of the Beyond Belief archived programmes,
just in case they are of interest to anyone. For example, some of these
might provide a stimulating input for a discussion group or a Religious
Studies class.
Personally, I find them interesting enough to want to record a lot of
them and have them on cd to listen to at my leisure. Drop me a line
if you'd be interested in a copy.
| Year : 2004 |
| HEAVEN |
| ABRAHAM |
| BLASPHEMY |
| SIGNIFICANCE
OF JESUS' DEATH |
| RELIGIOUS
EDUCATION |
| ASTROLOGY |
| CAPITALISM &
CHRISTIANITY |
| MORAL QUESTIONS
OF TREATING INFERTILITY |
| RELIGION WITHOUT
GOD ? |
| STATUS AND THE
USE OF ANIMALS |
| ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY |
| RELIGION AND ART |
| PURITY |
| THE PAPACY |
| BEGGING |
| REINCARNATION |
| http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/beyond_belief/index.shtml
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| Year : 2003 |
| HOMOSEXUALITY
AND THE CHURCH |
| THE
INTERNET AND WORSHIP |
| WHO
ARE SAINTS ? |
| CAN
ONE BE SECULAR AND MUSLIM ? |
| EVIL |
| IDENTITY |
| MARRIAGE,
DIVORCE AND POLYGAMY |
| ZIONISM |
| WHAT
IS HAPPINESS ? |
| CAN
HUMANS BE INFALLIBLE |
| ARE
WOMEN MORE RELIGIOUS THAN MEN |
| EXTREME
PHYSICAL PAIN IN THE NAME OF GOD |
| JUDGEMENT |
| ANGELS |
| MARRIAGE
RITES |
| CREATIONISM
vs EVOLUTION |
| HOLOCAUST
MEMORIAL DAY |
| RELIGIOUS
PACIFISM |
| EUTHANASIA
AND ASSISTED SUICIDE |
| IS
MISSION APPROPRIATE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY? |
| http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/beyond_belief/index.shtml
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| Year : 2002 |
| BEING
RELIGIOUS |
| PROPHECY |
| LIFE
AFTER DEATH |
| FORGIVENESS |
| THE
ROLE OF RELIGION IN CURRENT CONFLICTS |
| PILGRIMAGE |
| ENVIRONMENT |
| INTEGRATION
OR ASSIMILATION ? |
| THE
VIRGIN MARY |
| CELIBACY |
| WHAT
DOES IT MEAN TO BE HUMAN |
| THE
ROLE OF WOMEN IN CHRISTIANITY ANDJUDAISM |
| ATTITUDES
TOWARDS DISABILITY |
| BIBLICAL
TEXTS CONCERNING THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS |
| EXCORCISM |
| PAGANISM |
| RELIGIOUS
ATTITUDES TO POVERTY |
| DOES
PRAYER WORK ? |
| SELF-DENIAL
AND ASCETISM |
| WHY
IS MARRIAGE ON THE INCREASE ? |
| CONVERTING
TO ISLAM |
| DEATH
RITUALS AND CEREMONIES |
| CHRISTIAN
UNITY |
| http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/beyond_belief/index.shtml
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Bubbles
Dear Ruby
When you open the box of presents that we sent, you will find that there
is a small bottle of glycerine for Mummy.
You can use this for making very large bubbles. The glycerine makes
the bubbles stronger — so they can be MUCH larger.
If you enjoy making bubbles (as I do) then you could follow the instructions
that I have copied below.
We hope that you enjoy your Christmas presents.
Lots of love from Grandpa & Grandma
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INSTRUCTIONS
for making HUGE BUBBLES
• Make a soap solution with washing up liquid (10%), water (89%)
and glycerine (1%).
• Mix the solution carefully – and don’t whisk it hard
or you’ll get lots of small bubbles appearing that make blowing larger
ones difficult.
• Use a simple hoop of wire to test out your bubble mixture.
• Now design different hoops to make a square bubble – can you
do it? (Six bubbles together will make a square bubble in the centre).
If not, make one huge bubble.
Different Dippers :
Take a short piece of pipecleaner and form a loop in it about 4 cm in
diameter.
Dip into the bubble solution and gently blow.
Drinking straws make fairly good bubble
blowers.
They will hold more bubble juice if 4 short slits (about 5cm) are cut
at the bubble end.
The big bubble loop :
Slide two drinking straws onto a piece of string about 1m long.
Tie off the ends to form a loop.
Hold the straws apart to form a big rectangle.
Bring the straws together to close the rectangle and dunk it into a bucket
of bubble juice.
Pull it out again and slowly separate the two straws.
A film should form around the loop. If it doesn't break, pull the loop
through the air to form a giant bubble.
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CREATING YOUR OWN SEARCH ENGINE
You may already know that there are several free web broswers available,
each offering a slightly different layout or facilities. Perhaps you have
already tested some alternatives to Microsoft's Internet Explorer
— and therefore know that it's quite safe to do so and doesn't stop
you from switching back to your normal browser, which remains unaffected
on your computer's hard disk.
The FIREFOX web browser is considered to be one of the best, though
you may not understand why until you have tested some of its 'add-ons'.
It is very easy to get hold of these extra facilities : FIREFOX provides
a convenient box on the top righthand corner through which you can get
immediate access to 'engines' such as GOOGLE, YAHOO and
eBAY.
It also invites you to add umpteem extra engines of your choice. For example,
if you live in the States you might wish to have weather reports at your
finger tips (from weather.com). And once you have selected your choices
these powerful tools are available to you at the click of a button.
For your convenience, here's a list of extra engines that are currently
on offer :
| A9 |
Amazon's A9 search engine. |
| Ask.com |
Better search results with keywords or questions. |
| BBC News |
Search for the latest news on BBC. |
| del.icio.us |
Search through most bookmarked sites. |
| ESPN |
Get the latest sports news, scores, and highlights. |
| Expedia |
Search for hotels by destination with Expedia's Best
Price Guarantee. |
| Flickr Tags |
Search for photos on Flickr. |
Food Network Recipes
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Find recipes from your favorite chefs. |
| Hollywood |
Search for movies and movie listings |
| IMDB |
The Internet Movie Database. |
| LinkedIn |
Search your LinkedIn network for the people you need
when you are on any Web site. |
| Lonely Planet Online |
Search through Lonely Planet's travel guides. |
| MarketWatch |
Stock quote look-up and financial information. |
| Merriam-Webster |
English dictionary search. |
MSN
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MSN search engine. |
Technorati
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A real-time search engine that keeps track of what is
going on in the blogosphere |
Weather Channel
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Enter city, state or zip code to find your weather information. |
Wikipedia
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The incredible free encyclopedia. |
Yahooligans
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Search engine for kids and teens. |
Yahoo! Answers
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Search real answers to real questions from real people. |
One further option is ' ROLLYO ' ,
which offers you the ability to search the content of a list of specified
websites. Think about this one : if, for example, you wanted to see
if there is any mention of a particular White Father on any of the following
sites, this option would do an immediate search of each site for you:
To create this powerful option all you have to do is itemise the sites
you wish to search (on a regular basis or whenever the whim takes you)
and give your search engine a name.
That's it. There's nothing more to do. Any time that you want to use it,
just click on your search engine's name and type in the 'search word/s'
— just as you do when using Google.
And it's free. If you've ever wondered what Heaven is really
like, this should give you a feel for it.
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