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Beautiful Life Diary To Cultivate Happiness
From the book 59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman, this is a list of writing topics that you can do over the course of a week – spending just 59 seconds each day – to cultivate happiness. And …
Christmas Car Break In
Ugh. Came out this morning to my car in my driveway to go downtown and found both right-side windows rolled down. Hmmm… I didn’t do that. Go around to the driver’s side and both of …
Abc News Poll On Tsa Scanners Misleading
So, ABC news polled 514 people by telephone to try to find out if people support the new backscatter x-ray machines. They are reporting now that people support them “2 to 1” over those …
Skepticblog » Get Fed Up: Report Medical Quackery to the FDA
Medical practice quackery has to be reported to the FTC, https://www.ftc.gov/ftc/contact.shtm as I just did to a chiropractor that claimed they could help with “ADHD”, …
Google Voice Chat Qos
I’ve been looking for QoS pointers for Google Voice Chat. I’ve found that it works great on my DSL until I also am attending a web conference over Webex at the same time. Then I can still …
Understanding Atheists/Agnostics
Came across this quote today that is more cerebral than the quip about “We’re all atheists – I just go one god further than you” “when you understand why you reject the …
Favorite New Android Apps
Call Block Unlimited: https://www.appbrain.com/app/com.mrnumber.blocker Highly configurable app that lets you set policies for how to handle incoming calls. I used this when on vacation to send all …
Rooting And Optimizing The Sprint Htc Hero Cdma-
I have been meaning to write up instructions on how I updated my ROM and kernel on my CDMA HTC Hero to fix some annoying performance issues and overcome the internal memory limitation to be able to …
Taxonomy of Blue Angels Haters: What kind of hater are you?
The Blue Angels were recently in town and I couldn’t believe the kinds of Facebook rants or other kinds of rants I heard from people complaining about The Blue Angels. I’ve heard it every …
Stupid Android market bug STILL affects 2.1 OS
I can’t believe this hasn’t been fixed yet. I was not about to reset back to factory defaults and I had been meaning to root my phone anyhow so went this route. It was difficult to find a …