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My Oursourced Brain
http://www.myoutsourcedbrain.com
Articles about topics ranging from technology and software to scientific research. Occasional book reviews. Topics of general interest such as lifestyle, and nutrition. Exploration of blogs and the technical side of blogging.
Recent Posts
The Importance of Comments for a Blog
Comments are an important part of blogs. In this post I summarize several scientific studies on blogging and commenting. Two conclusions are that comments are important for feedback and self-expression and to build social links. Furthermore they are ...
A Thanks to November\'s Top Visitors
My Outsourced Brain has made a great improvement in visitor statistics last month. Thanks to everybody who visits and comments here. Thanks especially to people from entrecard who drop here as often as possible. Hopefully we've been able to give you ...
How Plant Science Can Help to Fight World Hunger
Along human history, more than 7000 plant species have been collected or cultivated by humans, but according to Food and Ariculture Organization from the U.N. (F.A.O.) about a 95% of human caloric needs is provided by only 30 crops plants, and four o...
Special Pages in Blogger
Special pages are pages such as contact, feedback, or information for advertisers. The standard way to create such special pages on blogger is to create a new post. This means that readers will see date and time, labels, the post author, maybe even a...
A Custom Search Engine for Blogger
When I or other people search on this blog they often don't find what they are looking for, because the standard blogger search doesn't index all pages. This is annoying and either people leave or they are forced to go through the article archive in ...
Firefox in Parallel - A Pre-Release Version
If you run Firefox and look at the system resources, you will see the use of one processor go up until 100 percent when you load several pages at once. Most personal computers today have at least two processors, if not more, and not using them is a w...
