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Over at The Happiness Project, there’s seven tips for defusing a child’s tantrums. Mostly they have to do with acknowledging how your child feels. Link.

There’s a new search engine, in alpha, that instantly pays it’s human guides. Looks like you could make a little bit of extra money this way, if you wanted to. Probably more profitable than blogging.

Link.

Steve Pavlina says news is addictive and harmful.

The need my news addiction filled was that it gave me a sense of groundedness by connecting me with what was going on in the world.  But the negative side effect was that it was conditioning me to become more negative and fear-based in my thinking.

Not surprisingly, since I make my living writing news, I disagree with his main point. But there’s some truth to some of what he says, particularly about the shallowness of a lot of news coverage.

Moved the site to a new host and am doing some other stuff, hence the disappearance of my old posts and the old look and everything else. I’m still around, though, so stay tuned.