Dell to Linux Users: Not So Fast
February 28, 2007
A cure for e-mail attention disorder?
February 28, 2007
‘Spider’ boat spins through the waves
February 28, 2007
Applications that have earned the "Certified for W…
February 28, 2007
Run IT on a Virtual Hard Disk
February 28, 2007
Download or Order Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterpris…
February 28, 2007
Ease testing using Microsoft’s free VHD files for …
February 28, 2007
Turning off UAC for administrators in Windows Vist…
February 28, 2007
Beware of hard-coding issues in Vista user folders…
February 28, 2007
Cyber Career Killers
February 28, 2007
Are you partying too much?
February 28, 2007
Kardashian Sex Tape Still Under Cover Kids are dis…
February 28, 2007
Kardashian Sex Tape Still Under Cover Kids are disappointed!
Mummified body found in front of blaring TV That c…
February 28, 2007
Mummified body found in front of blaring TV That could be me, in the future.
Hiccups defy remedies - for weeks
February 28, 2007
"Between 90 percent and 95 percent of people in ba…
February 28, 2007
“Between 90 percent and 95 percent of people in bars and clubs on any given night have no idea what they’re supposed to do or how to meet people. Which is why most people go to bars and clubs with their friends, i.e., girls with packs of girls, guys with packs of guys. By going to bars and clubs with people you already know and like—your posse or your peeps or your entourage or whatever you wanna call the people you’ll never see again after you’re married—you’ll not only have a good time, FF, but more importantly, you’ll be seen having a good time. And that, my ex-Christian friend, is the secret to success in the bar and club scene. That and money. And blow. And looks. Good luck.” - Savage Love
Deleted 24 series recording option from my DVR tod…
February 28, 2007
Deleted 24 series recording option from my DVR today. Maybe series was all that when it started or people are just plain dumb or don’t know what REAL edgy stuff is. I’m new viewer this season, 24 is not exciting+edgy like The Shield, Nip/Tuck, Dexter or Prison Break in my opinion. Some say and I somewhat agree, I’ve been desensitized.
It Seems the Fertility Clock Ticks for Men, Too By…
February 28, 2007
Thinking like a machine helps me solve computer pr…
February 27, 2007
Thinking like a machine helps me solve computer problems better than most imo.
Top tips for Outlook 2003
February 27, 2007
Can Your PC Really Handle Vista?
February 27, 2007
Decided not to take Rozerem after reading potentia…
February 27, 2007
Decided not to take Rozerem after reading potential side affects…
A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is unlikely, but seek immediate medical attention if it occurs. Symptoms of a serious allergic reaction may include: rash, itching, swelling, severe dizziness, trouble breathing.
I cannot take any risk right now. I cannot die. I won’t die from hurting or being tired for few months.
Went to see doc this Sat. Had him try out B-12 sho…
February 27, 2007
Went to see doc this Sat. Had him try out B-12 shot on me, even though he said I didn’t need it. Also gave me sample of Rozerem. Will try out half a pill tomorrow, couldn’t risk oversleeping today and tomorrow, boss out of town. Will go to doc again next Thu to give blood to check Cholestorel. He said if sleeping pills don’t help, he wants to try low level happy pills. I’d like that BUT I can’t go on until I move back with mom. I must be supervised. Don’t trust myself. Anyway, I saw this girl @ docs. She looked 85% like Kate Beckinsale. She wasn’t tight, nose a tiny bit different and hair wasn’t dark, maybe was a bit short too.
Brooke Nevin My new crush. Saw her in Camp Hollywo…
February 26, 2007
Brooke Nevin My new crush. Saw her in Camp Hollywood this weekend.
DigDB Add-in Tools for Excel Elites
February 26, 2007
DigDB Add-in Tools for Excel Elites
Google Apps Upgrade Threatens Office
February 26, 2007
Google Apps: Should You Switch?
February 26, 2007
Happiness: A User’s Manual Money, when used to fe…
February 26, 2007
Money, when used to feel secure about your ability to shelter and feed yourself, can, in fact, buy happiness.
My Reply to Lessons in Life By Regina Brett The P…
February 26, 2007
My Reply to Lessons in Life By Regina Brett The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio
1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good. (If it is not fair, it cannot be good)
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step. (Take few steps back, re-evaluate situation)
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. (Life is too short, why not taste hating, go ahead, it feels good)
4. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does. (You should not care/think about what others are doing or thinking, do what you want)
5. Pay off your credit cards every month. (ONLY if you have enuff money, don’t starve yourself!)
6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree. (Try winning before giving up or giving in)
7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone. (Unless you want to feel awkward)
8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it. (Hell Yeah! Let it out people!)
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck. (I don’t think most fast food places offer 401k and most people who work there have checking or saving account when they first start working there)
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile. (Learn to control yourself, you can do it)
11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present. (Your past will screw you, one way or another!)
12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry. (Unless you want to feel awkward, do not show weakness!)
13. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about. (Don’t compare or let anyone compare anything or anyone, no matter how good or bad!)
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it. (Relationships suck, we all have secrets)
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks. (Worry, God won’t help you, he never does, he is an absentee landlord.)
16. Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying. (Get busy dying, you know it all ends anyway, don’t you want to die under your own terms?)
17. You can get through anything if you stay put in today. (Depends on situation)
18. A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write. (BUT writing doesn’t pay that good all the time)
19. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else. (Well, then ya’ll women won’t find any “mature” men.)
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer. (Be logical, think, love can cloud your judgement, you don’t want to rush into things/)
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special. (Assuming you have TONS of money!)
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow. (You can’t go with the flow when you over prepare because general population which usually controls the flow don’t over prepare!)
23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple. (As long as you don’t scare people to think you are wacko)
24. The most important sex organ is the brain. (BUT you still need private parts to go all the way)
25. No one is in charge of your happiness except you. (Happiness is a myth, it does not exist, you look for it all your life until you die.)
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: “In five years, will this matter?” (Yes, it matters. 911, Catrina still matters, it still will long after ya’ll are dead)
27. Always choose life. (Depends on situation)
28. Forgive everyone everything. (Depends on situation, there is no forgiveness in Siddmanland)
29. What other people think of you is none of your business. (Same goes for them, what I do is none of your biznez)
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time. (Depends on situation, doesn’t work for everyone)
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change. (Yes, it will change for the worse, your best times are behind you, old age and cruel world will make you suffer until you die)
32. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch. (Actually, job will if it comes with health care)
33. Believe in miracles. (Believe in yourself)
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do. (Love doesn’t pay bills)
35. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger. (Still, avoid unnecessary risks)
36. Growing old beats the alternative - dying young. (Dying young is the best way, who wants to be wrinkly, old, aching, dependant on various things, helpless?)
37. Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable. (You can keep giving until you die, it won’t be enuff, kids & women will screw you up!)
38. Read the Psalms. They cover every human emotion. (Sorry, no time to read old books)
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere. (Like getting hit by a bus or getting shit by a bird or slipping on sumthin‘ breakin‘ your bone)
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back. (Not necessarily, some of us have powers to solve other people’s problems, just can’t solves ours)
41. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now. (I’m here, it sucks!)
42. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful. (AND then? Who decides what is useful, beautiful or joyful? YOU?)
43. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved. (Love doesn’t pay bills, it all comes down to money)
44. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. (You can NEVER have enuff money!)
45. The best is yet to come. (Like death)
46. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up. (Because you must earn money, to pay bills, feed yourself, to entertain yourself)
47. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind. (Not when you have Asthma or someone just farted)
48. If you don’t ask, you don’t get. (Doesn’t work all the time, sometimes you have to take it)
49. Yield. (ONLY if situation works in your favor)
50. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift. (A gift that keeps on screwing you, full of false hopes, lies & delusions)
Dining Solo? Join the Crowd
February 24, 2007
Minibar Economics Why you should stay at hotels th…
February 24, 2007
Minibar Economics Why you should stay at hotels that overcharge for drinks and Wi-Fi access.
"Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your…
February 24, 2007
“Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.”
- F. Hawes
Some Dark Thoughts on Happiness “Imagination,” sa…
February 23, 2007
Some Dark Thoughts on Happiness
“Imagination,” says Gilbert, “is the poor man’s wormhole.” Our imagination has an odd knack for Photoshopping things in and airbrushing things out, which is why we think that getting back together with our exes is a good idea; it also tends to mistake our present feelings for future ones, which is why, when we decide to marry the right person, we find it unthinkable we’ll ever be tempted to sleep with anyone else.
From the point of view of the happiness literature, New Yorkers seem to have been mysteriously seduced into a way of life that conspires, in almost every way, against the most basic level of contentment.
The large points first: Most happiness researchers agree that being surrounded by friends and family is one of the most crucial determinants of our well-being. Yet New York, as surprisingly neighborly a city as it is, is still predicated on a certain principle of atomization. Being married would help in this instance, obviously. But New York City’s percentage of unmarried adults is nine points higher than the national average, at 52 percent.
Then there’s the question of the hedonic treadmill, such a demonic little term, so vivid, so apt. Isn’t that what New York, the city of 24-hour gyms, is? More charitably put, one could say that New York is a city of aspirants, the destination people come to to realize dreams. And of course we should feel indebted to the world’s dreamers (and I thank each and every one, for creating jet travel, indoor plumbing, The Simpsons), but there’s a line between heartfelt aspiration and a mindless state of yearning. Darrin McMahon, the author of Happiness: A History, shrewdly points out that the Big Apple is a perfect moniker for the city: “The apple is the cause of the fall of human happiness,” he says. “It’s the symbol of that desire for something more. Even though paradise was paradise, they were still restless.”
Which is where the subtle thesis of Barry Schwartz’s The Paradox of Choice comes in. He argues, with terrible persuasiveness, that a superabundance of options is not a blessing but a certain recipe for madness. Nowhere do people have more choices than in New York. “New Yorkers should probably be the most unhappy people on the planet,” says Schwartz, a psychology professor at Swarthmore. “On every block, there’s a lifetime’s worth of opportunities. And if I’m right, either they won’t be able to choose or they will choose, and they’ll be convinced they chose badly.”
Economists have a term for those who seek out the best options in life. They call them maximizers. And maximizers, in practically every study one can find, are far more miserable than people who are willing to make do (economists call these people satisficers). “My suspicion,” says Schwartz, “is that all this choice creates maximizers.” If that’s the case, New York doesn’t just attract ambitious neurotics; it creates them. It also creates desires for things we don’t need—which, not coincidentally, is the business of Madison Avenue—and, as a corollary, pointless regrets, turning us all into a city of counterfactual historians, men and women who obsessively imagine different and better outcomes for ourselves.
New York, on the other hand, is the most varied, most heterogeneous place on earth. No matter how hard you try, you really can’t avoid walking by restaurants where people drop your monthly rent on a bottle of wine and store windows where shoes sit like museum pieces on gold pedestals. You can’t help but feel trumped. As it were.
Yet most of us insist that New York is the only place we’d be happy, just as parents insist their children are their greatest sources of joy. Maybe the same phenomenon is at work: New York creates moments of transcendence, and that’s all that matters. Or maybe the belief that New York is the best place on earth is what Gilbert calls a super-replicator—a myth necessary to the flourishing of a culture, just as certain genes are necessary to the flourishing of the species. Gilbert theorized that our beliefs that money and children will make us happy are super-replicators—without them, civilization wouldn’t survive. Modern civilization wouldn’t survive without its large cities, either. (Take that, red states.)
I’m convinced that if I didn’t work for my luck, I wouldn’t have any at all, and would instead be borne backward on a conveyor belt, the sort who always watched her candy bars get stuck in the vending machine and got Canadian pennies for change. It is entirely irrational, this feeling, one that flies in the face of every objective data point in my life. Yet I’ve felt this way for as long as I can remember. How small we are when our minds develop minds of their own.
“Happiness is fine as a side effect,” says Adam Phillips, the British psychoanalyst and lay philosopher whose latest work, Going Sane, examines functionality and well-being, but from a much more literary and ruminative perspective. “It’s something you may or may not acquire, in terms of luck. But I think it’s a cruel demand. It may even be a covert form of sadism.
“It seems to me,” says Adam Phillips, that “anyone who could maintain a state of happiness, given the state of the world, is living in a delusion.”
…in books about happiness is a study that shows depressives are far more likely to be realists, while happy people are more likely to walk around in a mild state of delusion.
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I’m die hard New Yorker. This city was made for me.
We hope you’re enjoying the convenience and select…
February 23, 2007
We hope you’re enjoying the convenience and selection of Netflix. Our goal has always been to offer a great service at a great value. Well, the great value just got better!
We are lowering the price of your current 1 at-a-time (2 per month) plan to $4.99 a month plus applicable taxes.Your membership will automatically move to the lower price for your next billing period and be reflected in your Membership Terms and Details.
The lower price will appear on your next bill on or after February 23, 2007. You will still get the same great service and convenience. So please sit back, relax and enjoy your movies!
-The Netflix Team
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I’m on this plan now.
The Pants Whisperer
February 23, 2007
You might have nostalgic longings for the good old…
February 23, 2007
You might have nostalgic longings for the good old days when everything seemed simple and easy. Still, life is not so bad now, even if you are dealing with higher levels of stress. You can get away without doing much today, but keep in mind that the pressure will not go away until you make the necessary commitment to overcoming your own resistance to healthy change.
That’s what Google homepage horoscope tells me today.
Lena Headey
February 22, 2007
300 Brings History to Bloody Life
February 22, 2007
The 5 women you must date…
February 22, 2007
5 guys you’ve got to date
February 22, 2007
Windows Sysinternals
February 22, 2007
Esquire’s Eighth Annual Alternative Oscars
February 22, 2007
Dialed In: Samsung BlackJack Plays a Good Game Thi…
February 22, 2007
Dialed In: Samsung BlackJack Plays a Good Game This one could be my next phone once I get tired of Razr or see a better one or jump ship to Sprint.
Sleek BlackBerry 8800 Lacks Some Features
February 22, 2007
Acronyms Explained GSM: Global System for Mobile …
February 22, 2007
Acronyms Explained
GSM: Global System for Mobile Communications
HDMI: high-definition multimedia interface
HSDPA: high-speed downlink packet access
LCD: liquid crystal display
SMS: Short Message Service
WCDMA: Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
Michael Rosenbaum (aka Lex Luthor) Leaving Smallvi…
February 21, 2007
Had to change template for my old blog to get all …
February 21, 2007
Had to change template for my old blog to get all old posts/archives to show up again. Could be side affect of recent blogger upgrade/getting out of beta. I guess I should thank ETA ’cause I found out about the problem as I was showing it to her BUT I won’t thank her because she flagged my old blog. If anything happens to it, I will personally hold her responsible! This is NOT FUN & GAMES! Someday you will realize kiddo. Someday…
Your screening results are consistent with moderat…
February 21, 2007
Your screening results are consistent with moderately severe depression.
Your answers also show you might be at risk for harming yourself.
That’s what they tell me.
I HATE Symantec!
February 21, 2007
I HATE Symantec!
