Jared really likes "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" - whenever the 'sunbeam!' part happens he throws up his hands and starts laughing. It's great. He's also got some more teeth starting to come in now, so his cute little grin is looking a little more toothy (but not toothsome).

I really like Biotène mouthwash, it doesn't burn your mouth like all the rest. Plus, it contains Xylitol, so I'm all for it. (Just don't drink too much of it - ha!)

So much of spam today could've been prevented if when we were children we were properly taught the difference between letters and numbers. For instance, it should've been made abundantly clear that a number one is not just a vertical line (which looks like a lower-case letter 'L'), but that it is incomplete (and therefore unacceptable and unrecognizable) without the little tail on top and the horizontal line at the base: '1'. If everyone only saw a vertical line as a lower-case 'L' instead of the number one, then a lot of spam messages would be easier for the average person to recognize as garbage; indeed, most of the spam we currently see would not even exist because spammers wouldn't even be able to read what they were writing! If no one could read this: "cIa1is", then how effective could the message be? (Spammers spam because it's effective - they 'earn' lots of money doing it, plain and simple.)

Of course, aside from the public education system falling short, the real reason spam is so lucrative is because the human brain is clever. It can recognize a pattern (i.e., a word: a pattern of letters) even when the pattern is corrupted (misspelled or purposefully camouflaged). The average person will be able to read all these variations of the same word (and many more) with little problem: Viagra, vIaGra, v1agRa, Vi@grA, vlagra, v|agra, \/iaGr@, v!aGra, v(agra, V Iagr a, VIa gra, viA Gra, etc.