From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 8 February 2005<P>

Kirk,<BR>
I'm using a computer at work. It's weird....links show up in poems and at the Board. Like the word "friend" in my earlier post...I click on it and it takes me to a personals site. Very odd. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 8 February 2005<P>

You definately have someone's adware installed on your machine. That stuff is infuriating...it's nothing that the website itself gives you, it's a way of "enhancing" your web experience because, you know, maybe the word "friends" makes you think of a personals site but you're not clever enough to find one for yourself.<BR>
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Essentially, it's like Google AdWords (which I like) except the site gets nothing for it, the makers of the little virus program get all the credit.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 8 February 2005<P>

those assholes. Yeah, and the connection is really sloooow and ads are always popping up. Blech!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=74">Echolocation</a><BR>
Date: 8 February 2005<P>

Gala - just heard via roundabout means that you're actually being published!!!  Congratulations, that is SO wonderful.  The cover looks great, love the title, and I hope Kirk will put a link to Amazon or wherever we can buy it from (prominently displayed on the Blender Front Page) because I for one will do so immediately.<BR>
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Congratulations again :)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 8 February 2005<P>

I just read this from Lisas xanga site thought you all might like to see it. <BR>
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<a href="http://www.packetonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13890848&BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=425728&rfi=6">http://www.packetonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13890848&BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=425728&rfi=6</a><BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 8 February 2005<P>

Gaggin', I deleted your post here and moved it over to the politics board (soapbox). 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 8 February 2005<P>

Lisa,<BR>
Congratulations! That is awesome! Hope your third novel gets published, too. I wrote two different novels awhile back and trashed them both. They were horrendous. Right now I'm working on going to Kinko's and publishing Mnemosyne, my first chapbook. It's roughly fifty pages. I hope to get published for real someday, too.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 8 February 2005<P>

Congrats to the Front Pagers!!!<BR>
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Excellent work, as usual, everyone!! :)<BR>
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Love and forgotten silence, Ali
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