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Last Saturday I was browsing through the local Borders Bookstore and came across at title I had been considering during a recent Amazon.com visit. I didn’t purchase it from Amazon because I really wanted to look at this book in person before committing to the purchase. I was pleased to see it on the shelf.

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I’ve been making homemade soap, shampoo, creams, salves & balms and powder for more than a decade - is it 12 years now? It’s really quite impossible to use anything from a store shelf, once you’ve experienced the real thing. Continue Reading »

• 46% - Internet Explorer
• 43% - Firefox
• 7% - Safari
• 3% - Opera
• 1% - Apple Web Kit - iPhone and iPod Touch?
• <1% - OmniWeb
• <1% - Mozilla
• <1% - Epiphany
• <1% - Konqueror
• <1% - Camino

That adds up to 54% + browsers that are not Internet Explorer. I wonder how that number will change now that IE 8 Beta has been released? I’ll post weekly stats to see how the numbers change.

April 8, 2008 Browser Stats

• 51% - Internet Explorer UP 5%
• 40% - Firefox DOWN 3%
• 7% - Safari
• 1% - Opera DOWN 2%
• <1% - OmniWeb
• <1% - AppleWebKit (Generic)
• <1% - Mozilla
• <1% - Camino
• <1% - Crawler/Search Engine
• <1% - Epiphany
• <1% - Konqueror
• <1% - Netscape

As you can see, IE gained some ground this time.

What I am reading this week:

Nightshade Free Pain Free
Author: Michael Fowler

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: Grass Fire Media (August 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097977280X

An overview of how nightshades plants (potato, tomato, eggplant, etc) in the diet may be a leading cause of many “incurable” diseases, such as arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome, migraines memory loss, chronic fatigue, and more. (Thyroid/Grave’s Disease symptom trigger too)

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