Looking to lose weight?  Those Japanese people are always skinny, try dieting like they do.  Start your day with the Japan Banana Diet!
Step 1: Begin the day with bananas
Eat up to 4 bananas in the morning. They contain resistant starch, which helps burn fat: Just 2 bananas eaten in the morning can help your [...]

Filed under : Life Hacks

Exercise. I hate it, you hate it, it’s just plain boring. Besides, who has time to go to the gym every day anyway? We all know that exercise is important, even for those not looking to lose weight. But it’s hard.
DirectLife helps you measure your activity level and add to it with the help [...]

Filed under : Life Hacks, Product Reviews

Since it is December now, there will be lots of people looking for free Christmas desktop wallpaper on the Internet.
You can include me in that category as well because I just bought a new HD monitor and would like to get a nice festive xmas or holiday wallpaper to download for free. And I’m very [...]

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Besides having that great “Blue Raspberry” flavor, it is likely that Blue Mountain Dew (Officially known as Mountain Dew Voltage) may prevent Alzheimer’s, Spinal Injuries and improve concentration, making it an ideal drink for college kids.
Mountain Dew Voltage has Ginseng in addition to Caffeine, both of these are known to boost energy levels, but also [...]

Filed under : Hydration & Nutrition

I grew up with Amish neighbors. It never struck me as that odd since I saw them on a daily basis. It never strikes most people to ask why it is that Amish shun technology. I know it took me until high school to ask, and I saw them every day. So for those who [...]

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I'm currently interviewing candidates for a personal assistant.  My busy life with a startup, and trying to not lose ranking in my websites takes a lot of time.  I want to share one response I got which demonstrates what not to do, and I'll tell you why.
I saw your post on Craigslist regarding your search [...]

Filed under : How To, Life Hacks

From a few years back…
"Girls who wax must be insane… In my attempt to be a little more metro, or atleast a little less hick I have been making a concerted effort to do things like make sure I keep my eyebrows groomed, and that the occasional random hair that decides that my adams apple [...]

Filed under : Life Hacks, Rants and Tangents

I have been in search of a good massage place where the therapists stands on my back and crushes the knots out of me… Well maybe firmly encourages them to leave…  If you saw the Charlie's Angels Scene where Lucy Liu does this to the unsuspecting bad guy, you can understand the appeal.
I visited Linda's [...]

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Position: Digital/Online Marketing Manager
ZillionTV Corporation (www.zilliontv.tv), headquartered in Santa Clara, is developing a next-generation consumer television service which will change TV as you know it. 
We are currently seeking experienced talent to be a part of our rapidly growing team. We have an immediate need for a Manager of Digital/Online Marketing, reporting directly to the [...]

Filed under : Life Hacks, Site Announcements

If you hadn't noticed I'm consumed with ZillionTV stuff at the moment, and many of you still aren't flooding me with resumes! So get your stuff sent, there are more positions that what I'm even showing but here is another one.
Position: PR Manager
ZillionTV Corporation (www.zilliontv.tv), headquartered in Santa Clara, is developing a next-generation consumer television [...]

Filed under : Life Hacks, Site Announcements

I have two positions which I am looking to fill at ZillionTV.  The first is part IT administrator, part video engineer.  I'm looking for someone who can replicate my capture and encode environment multiple times in multiple facilities.  An ideal candidate will have experience with SDI/HD-SDI, Sony J-Decks, Windows Server, and Windows Vista.  Experience with [...]

Filed under : Industry News, Life Hacks, Money

I don't get to pull the Sex Ed instructor card all that often, but there is a lot of news surrounding a German Spray on Condom.  I had actually been sent a "dip in" condom demo a few years ago, and both of these products have the same problems.
The first is that in order to [...]

Filed under : Life Hacks, Technical

I bought a 97 Jeep Wrangler.  4.0 Liter inline 6, a gas guzzler for its size.  This one was eating even more gas than I thought it should 14 miles to the gallon Highway.  So I looked for low hanging fruit.  The Idle didn't sound quite right, so I assumed the spark plugs, or distributor [...]

Filed under : Hard on the Pocket Book, How To, Life Hacks

Michael Largent used a script to sign up for 58,000 accounts with Google Check out. Every time you validate an account Google Check Out and PayPal put a few cents in to that account so that you can verify that the account is valid.
Where Michael went wrong is that he used fake names, and there [...]

Filed under : How To, Industry News, Life Hacks

A while back Jason Calacanis said that one way to cut start up costs was to fire your IT guy and get a bunch of Mac's the other day, he was twittering that he was looking for a Mac IT guy.  Om Malik twittered today that his Time Capsule was destroying his network.
I'm fighting with [...]

Filed under : Industry News, Life Hacks

Phone not ringing off the hook with the ladies?  Not feeling appreciated at work? Just not satisfied with your job?  You should update your resume at Monster.com
Here are some phrases to include in your resume to get extra hits.
Want to get found on Monster? you need the top Searches to be in your text.  So [...]

Filed under : How To, Life Hacks, Money

I got an e-mail invitation to BlueChipExpert.com ( invite code bwbc1 ) and thought I'd share the love.  The premise seems sound.  And they are worth joining if for no other reason than you can browse other candidates resume's which is good if you want to know what the competition in your skill areas look [...]

Filed under : Call to Action, Life Hacks, Money, Site Reviews

I'm tempted to drive down the hill and put gas in my car which doesn't need it, just to annoy the people who organized today's Gas Strike (which is actually a Gas Boycott, but no need to piss off the idiots who organized it).
Gas is subject to supply and demand, and while I suspect that [...]

Filed under : Hard on the Pocket Book, Life Hacks

Who wants to live forever?
University of Washington scientists have uncovered details about the mechanisms through which dietary restriction slows the aging process. Working in yeast cells, the researchers have linked ribosomes, the protein-making factories in living cells, and Gcn4, a specialized protein that aids in the expression of genetic information, to the pathways related to [...]

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I have a very small tattoo it's blue and it is on my hip, just a small "party dot".  I would consider a tattoo if I was sure I could live with what ever I picked for the next 100 years.  But an Eye ball Tatoo?  Gross.  Why would I want the whites of my [...]

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Asperger's Syndrome has a lot of names, but the symptoms are the same, bright and intelligent children with social anxiety bordering on anti-social behavior that amaze and astound in so many math, spatial relations, or music fields but have trouble playing with other kids, focusing on things that are not their strong suit, and often [...]

Filed under : Industry News, Life Hacks

Old habits die hard, they say. How right they are.
I am a novel freak and have been since the 4th grade when I read an amazing novel that started me down the road of reading.
I continued this craze for reading right into college and even early in my career. I didn't quit even [...]

Filed under : Life Hacks

With our busy lives and mounting responsibilities we think that the faster we work, or the harder we work, the more we will accomplish. While this sounds good in theory, it is just not true. When we try to work faster, we may lose focus and this results in taking longer to complete a project. [...]

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There are two main categories that time wasters or time bandits can fall under. The first category is self generated internal time wThere are two main categories that time wasters or time bandits can fall under. The first category is self generated internal time wasters. These are the things that you do yourself to waste [...]

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A checklist is the best way to get organized for any event. Most of us make a grocery list before going to the store, why not make a list for everything else in life? The benefits greatly outweigh the time that it may take to make one. The more checklists that you make, the faster [...]

Filed under : Life Hacks

Most of us are eager to give of ourselves and then give some more. Whether it's giving advice to friends or coworkers, volunteering for activities in the community or at our child's school or just saying yes to every request that comes our way. What happens with all this giving is you become so buried [...]

Filed under : Life Hacks

Rapid technological advancement continues to bring about complex innovations centered around simplifying our lives. We rely on expediency more than ever, and consequently expect products we buy to make our lives increasingly convenient. Today we can hardly recall our lifestyles before the advent of luxuries like cell phones, high speed internet and keyless vehicle entry. [...]

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Meetings could be considered a necessary evil of the everyday work life. A poorly organized meeting will not only be a huge time waster, but can also ruin your credibility with your coworkers. It is vitally important that you learn the basics of conducting a short and well organized meeting.
The single most important [...]

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If you are like most people today, you live a very busy life. You wake up in the morning and before you know it, bedtime is here again and you feel like you still have a million and one things to do. This can cause a lot of added stress in your life - stress [...]

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Do you have to deal with people who just love to waste your time? They will creep up on you and talk nonstop for hours on a trivial subject, or maybe they just want to gossip.
I used to get a lot of these, until I said enough is enough, and I actually went and [...]

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One of the challenges facing you in today's workplace is the constant stream of distractions that happen on an on-going basis every single day. At the end of the work day, you often wonder why you have not completed that task or written that document which needs to be ready by first thing the next [...]

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Hydration is one of the cornerstones of life, shouldn't everyone have access?  Please join the virtual walk to bring awareness to this problem.  You can create a page like mine to show you are a water advocate! 
There are also details on walks happenning around the country, make sure you print out your ticket.

Filed under : Hydration & Nutrition