This is my first vermicomposter. Here’s my how-to instructions on how I built my worm bin.
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Do you find it annoying that WordPress removes all of the <br /> tags from your post? Me too, so I did some research on how to fix this. I found a lot of wonky solutions, but I did find two worth mentioning.

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A couple of days ago, I was looking for a way to add a pause after an animation was triggered. This was before jQuery 1.4 was released. I found a couple of solutions including using the javascript function setTimeout or some people would imitate a delay by setting an animation for the desired number of seconds that doesn’t change anything. Something like this…

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While re-designing my site, I had to extract some bonzai from their backgrounds. I thought the Extract filter in Photoshop would be perfect for this. But when I fired up Photoshop and went to the Filters menu, I didn’t see the Extract filter. Photoshop CS4 has been out for a while now, but this was the first time I tried to use the Extract filter. After some research on the Internet, I found out the Extract filter along with other features were removed from CS4.

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Here’s a way to get the following fonts for free:

• Cambria
• Calibri
• Candara
• Consolas
• Constantia
• Corbel

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Cooking with Amanda

Putting up my Xmas tree

Here are a couple of ways that Opera makes it easier to search the Internet and to search for text on a website…

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