One adoptees' attempt to explore the conflicting feelings of having been adopted, and the impact this has had on her life, her choices and her experiences. Welcome to "The Adoption Void."

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I am a female adoptee born in May of 1971. I initially began this journey to explore my feelings about my adoption and to decide if I wanted to seek out my birth family. I have since been happily reunited with my birth siblings! I do have more than one blog on blogger.com - one for adoption, one for everything else. Unless adoption has touched your life, you'll probably find the "everything else" much more fun to read!

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

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Blogger Lisa said...

I was never adopted, but as an advocate for people in and from foster care, I care deeply about this issue.

Have you heard about this new resource?

http://www.adoptedonline.com/home.php

As a former foster who was never adopted, I can't contribute myself, but I plan to read and learn!

Lisa
http://sunshinegirlonarainyday.blogspot.com/

July 29, 2007 10:23 AM  
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Monday, April 03, 2006

I'm moving!

I am such a follower. LOL  I’ve decided to move my blog onto the new WordPress server. Don’t forget to update your bookmarks.  You don’t want to miss anything. 

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Sunday, April 02, 2006

Are you bored? Take a stumble!

About 8 months ago, maybe a little more, I discovered this neat little piece of software you can (SAFELY!!! I promise!) install – it is called “Stumble Upon”.  What this is, is something called a  “browser extension.”  Your browser is what you view websites in – you’re probably using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, most people do.  If you have any significant amount of computer expertise, you’ve probably thrown Internet Explorer out for the trash it is and installed Firefox as your browser.  Guess which one I use?

Stumble Upon is something you install as an add-on to your browser.  Fortunately, those of you running Internet Exploiter (my poor, misguided friends, I love you anyway) need not fret.  The wonderful programmers at SU have taken pity on you and have created a version which works with Internet Exploiter. 

I promise – the Stumble Upon software is 100% safe.  It won’t crash your computer, it isn’t spyware, there are no viruses.  (But seriously, do yourself a favor – install Firefox and leave Internet Exploiter alone.  Internet Exploiter WILL crash your computer, it IS spyware, and it allows more viruses through to your computer than anything else ever will.  Internet Explorer SUCKS!!!!!)

Sorry, I can’t help it.  Anyway.  What is Stumble Upon?  Well…I’ll give you the description from their site.

“StumbleUpon is an intelligent browsing tool for sharing and discovering great websites. As you click Stumble!, you'll get high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended (rated I like it) by friends and other SU members with similar interests. Rating these sites shares them with your friends and peers – you will automatically 'stumble upon' each others favorites sites.

StumbleUpon uses / ratings to form collaborative opinions on website quality. When you stumble, you will only see pages which friends and like-minded stumblers () have liked. Unlike search engines or static directories, this allows for a true "democracy of the web" – all SU members have a say ( or ) as to whether a page should be passed on.

 In effect, StumbleUpon's members collectively share the best sites on the web. You can share any site by simply clicking I like it. This passes the page on to friends and like-minded people – letting them "stumble upon" all the great sites you discover.”

 

Seriously, if you enjoy finding new sites, checking out some of the coolest places on the net, and having endless hours of entertainment handed to you on a silver platter, just by pushing a button – all customized to your own interests, install Stumble Upon. 

And no, I don’t “get” anything for telling you about this.  You all know what a techie geek I am – this just happens to be one of my favorite toys.  I put off mentioning it because I was trying to focus this blog on adoption.  If you decide to become a Stumbler, drop me an email and I’ll give you my Stumble Upon user name so we can “be friends.” 

If you’re worried, I should mention, I have never ever, not even once, gotten even the tiniest bit of spam as a result of Stumbling. 

Ok, real quick – about Firefox – if you want to completely eliminate pop-ups; if you do not want to be subjected to those god-awful “GIVE US YOUR BABY” ads on a “certain commercial adoption-related website;” if you want to avoid those stupid in-line text ads on that same “certain commercial adoption-related website;” if you want most advertising banners, period, to disappear from your view; if you want worry-free browsing; if you want to stop spyware (or viruses) from being installed on your computer while you’re browsing websites; if you want total control over browsing – including only having to open one browser window while being able to view 10+ web pages at the same time; if you just want to enjoy surfing the web and stop worrying about all the bullshit – go install Firefox right this minute.  Once it is installed, you can also install AdBlock and the AdBlock Filterset – and be done with banner ads, popups and the rest of that crap.  Even if you’re viewing porn sites. -smirk-

Go on, get going – what are you waiting for?

 

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Blogger Marie said...

Yessss Firefox absolutely rules. Had it now for two years. Adore it. Agree with you about IExploiter. Didn't know about Stumble, but I'm gonna get on it cuz I like the concept. Thanks for the tip. I'll spread the news. Anyway, here's a question: how did you get your cute gifs to animate on blogspot? I upload them, but they don't animate...waaaaah (they used to on my old blog!).

April 02, 2006 7:33 PM  

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