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Need to know of alternatives to feedburner that can block bots and certains ip addresses...anyone??

These are pictures from our recent field trip to Biltmore Estates. Such a lovely place and such beautiful gardens.

These are pictures from our recent field trip to Biltmore Estates. Such a lovely place and such beautiful gardens.

These are pictures from our recent field trip to Biltmore Estates. Such a lovely place and such beautiful gardens.

......................................................................................................... my assistive technology cognate comes in quite handy still today, though it was obtained almost two decades ago... here's the deal - a feedscraper is reprinting my content without permission. i have asked my content to be deleted. it is always done so for only a short bit, then it reappears. so if you are reading this, please stay with me and follow long for a short update... an ip might scrape your content or a bot might do so. companies create bots to scrape content as well. so...watch where your feed is burning to and try several things.  if a company is scraping your feed, they can "delete" your blog feed content all day long. but, if the rss feed is not cut from the scraper, the content will reappear. someone might tell you it is a "bug" or some other technical issue...but it is not...the issue is the company that is scraping did not remove the ...

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Finished product:          I got the instructions for this baby beanie hat here .   I can take credit for crocheting the hat, but the credit for the instructions goes to the lady whom wrote these. They were downloadable. The directions say it will take about 30 minutes to crochet this. It took me about an hour or a little more. I did not do a "magic circle" as it calls for in the directions. I used a technique my great-great aunt taught me when she taught me to crochet as a child - the beginning of a granny square.   

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz   I crocheted this hat for my grandson who will arrive soon. This was done with no pattern. I crocheted a rectangle and sight measured what I thought would be a suitable head circumference for a baby by looping the rectangle sides together. The hat was side stitched with a single stitch and the a string was ran through the top and tied off.   The hat was turned right side out and is finished...very easy and very quick...less than an hour from start to finish.   The bottom can be turned up for a trim. :)

It's a  grandbaby!!

  I wonder if TechCrunch or Gizmodo would be interested in hearing of complaints about things? I wonder if TechCrunch or Gizmodo would be interested in copies of correspondence?

  This is my edited post for today: Anuj, of FeedSpot, emailed me to tell that he has deleted my blog from FeedSpot. I went and looked yesterday and indeed it was not there. I wondered when I wrote the post below yesterday if it would reappear. When I went and checked today, it had (reappeared). The FeedSpot link says it is deleted, but it is not. It may be in faint gray font, but the last blog post is still there. Look closely, you can see it...right there behind the big pale yellow block. So, there is my NOT DELETED blog entry, behind the block that says it is deleted...but it is not. What this also indicates to me, is that the ability to block my blog feed is available and can be done...and was done for a temporary measure only. Anuj had stated one thing in email correspondence to me, although this is not what occurred. I began this blog for my own enjoyment and am saddened now that it has become something that I feel someone is trying to take away from me. I began t...

A Plain Disappearance: An Appleseed Creek Mystery By: Amanda Flower Amanda Flower does well with this novel. First of all, let me just say that I love to read novels about the Amish and Mennonite. The simplicity of their lives and the devotion to the Lord is unique in this world today. It is obvious that Flower has a personal knowledge of the Amish way of life. A Plain Disappearance is part of a new series by Flower which continues to demonstrate why she was nominated for an Agatha Award.   A Plain Disappearance is the third novel of the Appleseed Creek mystery series. I did not get to read the first two in the series. I will definitely be going back to read these after reading A Plain Disappearance for this review . I can say that though this novel is part of a series, the story stands alone on its merit. The story centers mainly on the life of Chloe Humphrey. Chloe faced some childhood tragedies with the death of her mother, her father remarrying to a stepmoth...

by Analisa                     Posting your stuff where FeedSpot cannot get the feed!!  :) If you want to read this blog or follow this blog - go to www.biguniversesmallworld.blogspot.com . Sick of FeedPost taking my stuff...so... This should stop your blog text posts from going to FeedSpot. 1. Go to settings. 2. Click other. 3. Use drop down for "allow blog feed" to drop to none. 4. save.  Take that!