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Have you ever read the list of ingredients on the back of your shampoo bottle and wondered what kind of impact those those long difficult to pronounce chemicals may have on your health, especially after decades of daily use?

Also, what are the effects on the environment when these chemicals come out of the sewage system and go into our rivers, lakes, and oceans? What if they end up in another city’s water supply downstream? And this post only covers shampoo! What about other products that end up in the water system like cosmetics, hair gel, shaving creme, and laundry detergent?

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In this post you will learn how to create, customize, and implement a custom Google search box in your Wordpress sidebar.

Building your own custom Google search box allows you to harness the power of Google’s search technology and apply it to your own blog. You’ll notice my custom search box positioned there at the top right of my site. Go ahead and give it a whirl to see how it works. You’ll notice that the results returned by Google are specific to only my domain and formatted to match the colors of my theme. The layout and coloring can be adjusted to match your blog, as you’ll see in the step-by-step guide below.

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After successfully installing the free Cobian backup software (version 9) on a friend’s computer, I was annoyingly greeted by a re-occurring Windows popup balloon every time Windows Vista would start. The popup balloon above the system tray would say:

“Windows has blocked some startup programs…”

Windows Vista’s UAC (User Account Control) was blocking cbInterface.exe, the user interface for Cobian, from starting automatically. This is because cbInterface.exe was recognized as needing to be run as an administrator. After doing some research it became apparent that for many people, the problem began after they upgraded to Vista SP2.

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