Error: I'm afraid this is the first I've heard of a "trackback" flavoured Blosxom. Try dropping the "/+trackback" bit from the end of the URL.

Fri, 29 May 2009

Charity of the Month(s) April/May 2009

The Habitat for Humanity folks called because they were having a matching-fund drive, so I made a donation. (I've apparently been donating to them for 10 years.) This is prime building season so the money does more good now than waiting until later inthe year.

I also made a donation to Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres, since there was a recent earthquake and we are coming up on hurricane season. Their donation page doesn't work with the Konqueror browser -- they use one of those CAPTCHA things, which Konqueror blocks (It's picky about Flash apps) -- but I was able to make the donation by switching to Firefox.

This puts me just about exactly on track for my goal of making charitable donations equal to 10% of my net pay for the year. I'm really trying to get out of the bad habit of doing most of my giving in the 4th quarter when Christmas shopping is also happening.

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