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If you're reading this, you probably clicked on a link in my sig at homebrewtalk.com.

I'm consolidating my blogging to my 'other' blog at http://morrisonblogback.blogspot.com/ Please have a look there!

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jds

jds

So I gave in to peer pressure yesterday afternoon, and joined Twitter. Wow, there's a lot of people on there, and even some fairly famous ones.

I've never been a "social networking" kind of person. As far as I can see, MySpace is just a wasteland, and was from the very start. Ditto for facebook and all those other online popularity contests. So far, twitter seems a bit different.

So, how does one separate personal from professional life with all the new...

jds

I've seen a lot of people (well, a few anyhow) and been told by others that iodophor is an inferior sanitizer, because it can leave off flavors. I don't think so. I think the reason Iodophor has got a bad reputation over the years is because people use way, way, too much of it.

Iodophor's been around for a long time. Growing up on a farm (of sorts), I used it daily for dairy goats. A strong solution for teat dip, and a mild solution for milk buckets and pans. So, once I started...

jds

I'm glad this presedential election is over. It's been a long time coming, and I'm glad to see the campaign ads off the TV.

For years now, I've said that John McCain was the type of person I wanted to see in the White House.

I voted for Barack Obama. It wasn't an easy choice. In fact, I waffled until the week before the election. There were a lot of things about Obama that I liked, and disliked. Same thing for McCain.

In the end, it came down to...

jds

Wow, GABF was a ton of fun. I had a blast meeting up HBT'ers, drinking good beer, and generally walking around a rainy downtown Denver. Hope to see more HBT'ers next year. Now, I need to get brewing. Summer's over and the fall/winter brewing season is upon us.

jds