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Thanks. I really like the lamp too. Way cool!

What ever happened with the carbon monoxide alarm? :o

So I have a story myself about special alarm systems for hearing impaired individuals. When I lived in the dorms my first year of college, they had these specially equipped rooms, some different than others, each set up specifically to work best with different types of disabilities. In most dorms halls it was 1 out of every 5 rooms or so that were equipped this way. These rooms had alarms for deaf in case of fire, but my favorite were that each of these rooms also had what looked like doorbells, I suppose, on the outside, except they made these lights go off inside the room, intensely brightly and whatnot. I guess in case they can't hear you knocking or something? Not sure. My freshman year the dorm hall I lived in was on the first floor, and so all of the rooms were equipped this way. I assume that because it was the first floor, that is just the most likely place to put someone who was disabled, especially if they were in a wheelchair or something.

So anyways, I'm sure you can imagine a bunch of rowdy college freshmen in the wee hours morning, in the beginnings of what would become an epic prank war, and these loud and very bright lights equipped in every room in our hall... There is nothing better to do at 2 in the morning than to stand there at your friends door and hold that doorbell type thing down until you hear them wake up...and then you bolt back to your own room :D Fun times.

There was another time a friend and I were the only ones left in our dorm hall over a holiday weekend and we decided we were going to learn Morse Code since no one was around to be annoyed by the lights and buzzing. Equipped with Morse Code alphabets, we opened the doors to our room so we could hear the buzzing that went off alongside the bright flashing lights and attempted to communicate using those 'doorbell thingies' (as I have dubbed them). We had a lot of fun for quite a while until campus safety showed up to let us know that others outside our dorm hall could, in fact, hear what we were up to. >.> LOL (With that fun ruined for the night we then proceeded to make flyers about our missing pet snake and hung them up all over campus.)

I will not likely ever be an internet blogger but I'll certainly be prepared if that ever happens...lookit all these nifty tricks of the trade you keep teaching me :D (its not going to happen. >.>)

I love handbags and shoes! I have way too many but keep on buying one if it catches my eye. I really like the white and red ruffle bag AND the oversized cool tote. Nice.

This is fascinating. I can't wait to share this with my two older children for a bit of education on deep sea creatures. Thanks for sharing your knowledge on this. I look forward to more of your articles.

kajohu - thanks for stopping by. It is pretty amazing to think that so many creatures may do this and so very little is known about the mechanism and why. It's very cool!

Glad I could help! Yes, I used to second guess my approach as well, especially the no keyword research part. Now, I am convinced that what I am doing works, so I just keep on doing it.

That's such a great idea, Terri!

Scary reading, indeed. Lately, I've wondered whether the witches in Macbeth were an attempt to flatter or perhaps an opportunity to have a crafty little mock. Dangerous territory, I know, but it's possible, given the general feeling about witches in London.

@Janet21 - yes I remember you posting about that a while back, and about not doing keyword research. It made me more willing to go with my own approach rather than feeling that I ought to be doing what the experts said. So thank you for that!

The majority of my traffic is from long tail searches as well. I have some pages that get 200 visits/day from 100+ different searches! :)

Sooo wrong Lissie! Nothing better than a piece of roasted bread with garlic and tomato rubbed on it and then dunked in olive oil! Delicious ;-) Glad not everybody likes like - the more is left for me ;-)

Thanks for the lovely comments folks. I thought I must be doing it all wrong when I started (despite good results.) Now I've decided that even if I could make more money by doing things differently, I like the way I do things, and that's worth more.

@ Andrew, thanks for reading!

James was still secretly obsessed with witches, until his death. Good, old Shakespeare sussed that one big time. Hence he wrote plays like Macbeth, with its emphasis on three witches, just to impress the new king.

I've got the Daemonologie here. It makes for very scary reading, especially since it's known that the author believed every word!