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---- Pablo Picasso

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---- Author Unknown

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---- George Orwell

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---- Thomas A. Edison

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---- Isaac Newton

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---- Thomas A. Edison

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---- Terry Pratchett

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---- Mitch Hedberg

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
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---- H. G. Wells

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost

As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal

Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

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 Thursday February 22 2007

Blogrolling Policy

I regularly get requests for me to link to sites. Usually these sites are commercial ESL or teaching sites but sometimes I get asked by a new blogger. I have always said no to commercial sites as well as sites that are unrelated to the content of this blog. However once or twice I have blogrolled a blogger after watching their RSS for a few weeks.

At this point I’ve decided to publicize my blogrolling and linking policy. I’ve copied this directly from The Big Hominid as it captures my feelings exactly, and for the record The Big Ho doesn’t link to me and that’s fine even though I link to him.

BLOGROLLING POLICY: I don’t do mutual linkage, and have no problem with asymmetrical linkage: I link to bloggers who don’t link back, and that’s fine by me. Please DO NOT ask to be linked. Please DO NOT expect linkage just because you’ve linked to me. Also, if I don’t link to you, please do not assume I think your blog sucks.


If you have a blog and you want to be linked by other bloggers the best way to do it is by linking to them and clicking the link regularly as most bloggers regularly check where their hits are coming from. If I like the blog I’ll subscribe and/or link to it. An even better way is to comment intelligently on various posts to create interest in you and your blog.

Good luck


Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Feb 22, 2007 at 11:30 PM
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bloglinx wrote 18 words  on  Friday Feb 23, 2007  at  03:35 AM United States

Nice menu you have here. Check out blogLinx at http://bloglinx.bravehost.com. It’s a great way to manage your blogroll.

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Mark wrote 33 words  on  Saturday Mar 31, 2007  at  11:05 PM Taiwan

Out of curiosity, what’s the difference between your “blogroll” and your “other blogs”?  At first, I thought that the first group was for mutual links, until I realized I was on the second.

Sean.

Sean. wrote 45 words  on  Sunday Apr 1, 2007  at  06:31 AM Korea (South)

The first group are blogs that are focosed on teaching or language in some way.  Other blogs may blog about teaching or not, but that is not the focus and are blogs that I enjoy reading. Both are part of the blogroll, just different categories.

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