Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Monday, August 15th, 2011
"If he was not the laziest, he would have became the greatest" - Sergey Lukanenko, False MIrrors
There is a quote that often gets thrown around about mediocrity being the enemy of greatness but it is not mediocrity itself but the laziness and complacency that it causes. When we settle for ...
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
I ran across recently a blog post which references an interesting lifehack concept called morning pages. According to Julia Cameron who mentions this concept in her book, morning pages is a habit of writing out three pages of prose every morning about anything currently on your mind. What is interesting ...
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
I have been reading Zen Habits recently when I ran across his post about simplicity hacks. One of the recurring themes in personal development and personal finance blogs is the concept of simplicity - simplifying your personal life and possessions, by getting rid of things you don't need.
I was reminded ...
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Earlier today I pulled out the first vegetable that was ready from our garden. It is a small turnip, about 6" long and 1.5" wide, but it is perfectly sized for our chicken soup. There are 7 more out there which I will be pulling out very soon and putting ...
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Monday, July 4th, 2011
While housecleaning recently, I went through a shelf full of my old computers books. After price checking them against several online services, as well as seeing as what they were selling for, I ended up with .., nothing. This shelf-ful of books, worth at list price over $500, which I ...
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Monday, June 27th, 2011
According to Wikipedia, life hack means:
In more recent times, the same phrase has expanded to any sort of trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity and efficiency, in all walks of life. Or, in other words, anything that solves an everyday problem in a clever or non-obvious way ...
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Sunday, June 26th, 2011
There is a large body of medical research out there that shows that veggies and fruits have a lot of benefits. However, for many working people there simply isn't enough time to go and buy fresh fruit/veggies and then cook them. Especially, since they tend to spoil pretty quickly.
A quick ...
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Sunday, June 26th, 2011
About 6 weeks ago, I wrote a post about an interesting local story - a local councilwoman is suing a blogger for $21 million after he alleged that she does not resided in the city proper. Now it looks like this blogger, Adam Meister, has retained pro-bono services of a ...
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Sunday, June 26th, 2011
(followup to parts I, II and III)
I ended up getting rid of my Samsung Intercept and getting a new LG Optimus V. The difference is striking - everything I have thrown at the Optimus, it had no problems running, even at the same time as other apps. On the Intercept, ...
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Sunday, June 19th, 2011
(followup to part I and part II)
Well it has been over three months since I switched from Sprint as my cellphone carrier of over 10 years to their prepaid subsidiary, Virgin Mobile USA. Overall, I am satisfied with the service itself and payment, especially with reduced taxes and ability to buy refill cards ...
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