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• What's so hard about covering up to breastfeed?
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• How do I "think in AngularJS" if I have a jQuery background?
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• The Amazing Truth About Saint Valentine!
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• The French way of cancer treatment
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• I am very tempted by one of these new SSD cache drives, next time I have some cash.
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• A fantastic, funny, FAQ on the Apple/Samsung case.
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• What it's like when your partner deploys to Afghanistan
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Over here there's a discussion wherein I say I was surprised to note how adult we all look. And both Kirsty and Marianne conflate that with "old", whereas what I meant was "We're now looking about the same as my parents looked when I was a kid. Or the majority of my teachers. i.e. we're in our mid 30s ( Read more... )

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