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Sprout Test

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7 May 2008

I’m playing with Sprout and needed to publish something to see how the reports work. You can safely ignore this silliness.

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Floris
May 8, 2008 4:22 AM

Nice stuff sproutbuilder. Now try making a nonsense widget ones, and take a stand against Too many useless widgets. Just like I did. http://www.maakmewakker.com/2008/05/widget-jones-diary_07.html http://liftlab.com/think/floris/2008/05/07/this-is-not-a-widget/

Carson
September 3, 2008 2:19 PM

I love sprouts, but my clicks always trigger the pop up blocker in IE7 so I can't use them. If they could fix that one problem they would be everywhere by now,

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