You think you might be pregnant? Here, have a frog.

The things you find out while browing Wikipedia.

Did you know that one way of detecting pregnancies until the 1940s was through the use of a frog called Xenopus laevis, called Apothekerfrosch or "apothecaries' frog" in German?

Apparently what you'd do was bring a sample of your morning urine to the apothecary, who'd inject it into this frog. If the woman was pregnant, the frog would react to the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in the woman's urine and lay eggs within 48 hours; if it did so, this was a sign that the woman was indeed pregnant.

My poor PDA

Fragma! My PDA fell down.

The cover came slightly apart at ore corner, but Stella managed to straighten that out.

However, the "chassis" also has a dent that won't be fixed so easily.

It's slowly falling apart... and we can't really afford a new one. Ick.

Every Language Fixes Something

(From scribot_feed)

Every Language Fixes Something

(Which computer language inherits from which, and why they made a new language instead of using the original one)

Birth preparation course

Yesterday evening (Wednesday), Stella and I went to the first session of a birth preparation course.

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Spring cleaning

I deleted some users from my friends list.

This is not because I don't trust you to read my entries; rather, it's because I've found that in general, I tend to skip over your entries. It's nothing personal about you, just about how much time I've spent reading your journal.

If you'd prefer to be able to read my friends-only entries, comment here and I'll add you back but leave you off my Default View (at least for now), if you don't mind reading my journal when I don't read yours. (Though as you've seen, I tend to post mostly public entries.)

Feel free to keep me as a friend and/or comment in my journal if you want or to defriend me.

The same goes for all others: if you wanted to defriend me but weren't sure how I'd feel, please go ahead now.

In general, if I have you friended, I'd like to read your journal, so if it's mostly friends-only, I won't be able to any more, so I'd prefer to stay. But it's your friends list.