The other day I was tracking my diet for a couple of days, and discovered some big deficits of certain vitamins.

A friend of mine is a wellness doctor. I asked him for his opinion on vitamin supplements. Does he think vitamin supplements are useful, or are they a bunch of hype?

He said he feels they are very useful. The vitamins we have the most problem not getting enough of are:

• Vitamin A
• Vitamin D
• Vitamin E
• Vitamin C

I asked him what he thinks about the U.S. RDA numbers for vitamins. I've heard that they are set just above the minimum to keep you from getting diseases like scurvy, but not high enough to give real health. He agreed.

What about vitamin B-12? My doctor friend said that is very important for vegetarians and vegans to supplement.

I told him I had some trouble finding a vitamin supplement without extra iron. He asked if I cook with an iron skillet. Cooking with an iron skillet is a great way to end up with extra iron in the diet!

He takes 1000 mg. a day of Vitamin C, 1000 mg. of vitamin D. He said we have a problem with having enough vitamin D because we don't get enough sunlight.

My doctor friend said he had learned about the importance of vitamin supplements from watching a friend of ours, Dr. Merton Shelton who lived into his 90's and was a big believer in taking vitamin supplements.

Related pages:

• Problems with vitamins

Hmmm... Almost a year since my last blog posting in this space. That's the problem with having too many places to post things at.....

What have I been doing in the last year?

• Learning how to make beads and glasswork, lampworking, and when they don't turn out right, melting them down into marbles!
• Doing further development on the Hivewiki software. It's now running on another server also, with a more up to do date version, Webmill.us.
• Reading books:
  • Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich - Working on cliff notes and a wiki version of it
  • Journey Round My Skull - Story of survivor of one of the earliest open brain surgeries
  • Do Cats Think? - Delightful book that answers "Of course they do!"
  • Health Power - Health By Choice, Not Chance

Think I've finished some others recently too, have to come back here and update the list.

In a search on Amazon using AWS or the Amazon website itself, for

    web site content

Link #13 is:

The Longing (2003) Plot Synopsis: Cyrus, Tim and Erik were high school buddies and meet again ten years later. They spend the summer together in Brazil. All of them are occupied in dealing with experiences from their past but new developments make them face their inner conflicts and their friendship with each other. Plot Keywords: Male Frontal Nud?ty | Homos??ual | Murder | Nud??y | Redemption | S?x | G?y | G?y Interest | G?y S?x | Cybers?x | Search For Parent | S?x On The Beach

What in the blazes does this have to do with website content? How did this happen?

I am very disgusted that AWS would return such an obviously out of place piece of garbage in the middle of a site about web design! What do I need to do to filter such trash out of the results I am getting from Amazon? I am trying to run sites that are family and child friendly, not sites that push this kind of stuff in people's faces when they aren't looking for it.

Even more stupid, this garbage outranks Net nanny. Here is the AWS descriptions in order for this search:

The Longing Jürgen Brüning $19.99(USD) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ready for an admittedly tawdry but s?xy melodramatic romp through sun-drenched Brazil with two h0t men? Does Saved by the Bell s A.C. and Zack locking l??? and l???? on a white-sanded beach turn you on? (Editor's note: Yes I obscured a couple of words. The actual description is about twice as long and much more graphic.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net Nanny 5 Web Site Filtering Blocks Adult Content $39.95(USD) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filters allow you to block objectionable material on the Web, while enabling access to everything else. For parents, this means you can reliably manage what Web sites your children see. Kids need to be able to access much of the Web for its informational, educational and entertainment content. However, a lot of sites out there are inappropriate and potentially damaging for children, featuring illicit content or promoting hate and violence. Get a monthly updated block list of inappropriate Web sites. Know exactly what your kids can and cannot see. Fully view and edit block lists. Create a "whitelist" of certain Web sites so that only those sites, and no others, may be visited or viewed. Create keyword lists to filter out inappropriate, vulgar or sexual terms on Web pages, in chat rooms and in emails. Use pop-up blockers to keep your screen from filling up with advertisements from adult sites and other over-zealous advertisers.

Maybe someone has an idea how I can run AWS search results through Net Nanny to keep my sites from displaying this trash and getting banned.....

Today a telemarketer called me from "Doctors Group", (732)242-6502, trying to schedule me for a Chiropractic screening. After having fun with the telemarketer asking her what movie was he screening, I asked her where was the doctor located, since I didn't recognize the 732 area code. I learned a lot about geography today, including new states I didn't previously know about (like Cincinnati), cities like Petaluma being moved to those new states, and more?...

Here is an incredible story of a homeless fellow trying to go from living in a cave he created to living in an apartment.... Old habits die hard, it's impossible to take someone farther than they can see.... I can identify with parts of the story. I escaped California's sky high rental market for a few years by living in an RV. It was a fun time, nice to save $1000 or more a month. However, I still have a habit of scanning for good places to pull over for the night, or looking for electrical outlets in parking garages that I might plug into..... For someone suffering from mental illness, and drug addictions, they may have lost the higher brain functions that would allow them to override the animal like tendency to live according to instinctual responses.

Al-Qaida cited in persecution of 200 million Christians

A report by Britain's intelligence service MI6 reveals for the first time an estimated 200 million Christians in 60 countries are now facing persecution orchestrated, in part, by al-Qaida.

By Michael Rush Monday, June 4, 2007

The report has been sent to the pope and church leaders. It is the first time the secret intelligence service has shared its information with religious leaders.

"We do so because we believe the situation is extremely serious," said an MI6 source.

The report is based on details from MI6 agents stationed in the countries. North Korea is identified as the world's worst repressor of Christians. More than 50,000 Christians are incarcerated in work camps because they refuse to submit to the extreme views rigorously enforced by the country's dictator, Kim Jong-il.

An estimated 40,000 Christians are imprisoned in China for their beliefs. The MI6 analysis calculates there are some 70 million "active Christians" in the People's Republic, all living in a climate of fear because of their beliefs.

The woman in question, Ms Lina Joy, 43, was born Azlina Jailani to Malay parents and brought up a Muslim. In 1998, she converted to Christianity and changed her name.

But the National Registration Department here refused to reflect her change of religion in her identity card.

Here appeal went all the way to the Malaysian Federal Supreme Court 3 judge tribunal ruled along religious lines, 2 to 1 against her, saying that she must go to the Syariah Courts for this issue. More on Malaysia's Civil Federal Supreme Court Hands Over Non-Muslim to the Religious Syariah Courts.... Malaysian Lina Joy and the Malaysian Federal Supreme Court Decision and the issue of Jurisdiction...

I watched as our new tomcat Braveheart jumped up on the bathroom sink, and was staring very intently at the mirror image of his sisters eating at the food bowl in the hallway outside the bathroom. His own reflection was much closer to him, and bigger, but he ignored that, and was obviously very interested in watching his new sisters via the reflection in the mirror. Was this cat demonstrating that cats are self aware? I research this more and posted a survey of Mirror tests, self awareness, and cats...

Very interesting to see M from the ames Bond movies (Judi Dench) playing an old maid history teacher, with her dairy she is always writing in. "I'm just a battle axe, not popular, but they respect me" she says. And Cate Blanchett as a new art teacher named Shiva. The accents in the dialogue are sometimes hard to catch. "After lunch, a mortifying family tradition" is how M describes Cate and family dancing. The movie told as narrative from M's point of view. "She spoke of her vile mother, her grief over the death of her father, glory days when when Richard scooped her up, and then jetisoned the wife and children for what she called a nonstop f!fest. It's a peculiar trait of the privileged, immediate incautious intimacy. But Shiva went well beyond the tendencies of her class. She was utterly candid. A novice confessing to the mother superior." Movie - Notes on a Scandal...

Favorite quotes:
Heard at a dental conference from a presenter holding up a small vial of Novocaine anesthetic to the audience: "This is why you have a practice."

I tried calling Sprint Customer Support today (*2), to get support for Windows Vista drivers for the Samsung ip-830w phone and their PCS connection manager software. I tried using the Windows XP PCS connection manager Sprint_PCS_CM_v035, but it failed with some kind of unspecified error.

I dialed *2 to call Sprint Customer service. After navigating past their robot into queue, it said the wait time would be 20 minutes. 35 minutes later, I still had not spoken to a human. When I finally got to someone he pretended he couldn't hear me, and started giving me some 888 phone number to call. I ran around my room trying to find a spot with better reception, and even outside, but all this idiot would say is that he couldn't hear me, and then he hung up. What a clever way to trim their customer support queue. More about the Samsung ip-830W and phone as modem with Windows Vista...

and probably also for a slipped schedule...

• 318-foot hull, which is 30 percent longer than that of the submarines now in use.
• 62 miles of cabling
• 23,000 pipes
• Over 5 million lines of software code.

HMS Astute was scheduled to enter service June 2005, but in 2002 the British government Defense ministry pushed the date to 2006, then in 2005 they pushed the date to 2009.

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