Posts tagged ‘how to’

How I found my fitness mojo and lost 38 pounds in 6 months

February 26th, 2008

For the first time since college I’m a healthy weight for my height, I’m eating right, I’m exercising regularly, and I feel terrific. I’m 6 feet tall (182 centimeters). In September of 2007 I weighed 213 pounds (96.6 kilograms). That gave me a BMI of 29 putting me firmly in the overweight category and near [...]

Stuck in Stuff

July 30th, 2007

My buddy Dave has started a new blog talking about his mission to simplify and declutter his life (and yours) called Stuck in Stuff. And over the weekend he did the most amazing thing: But I have an idea. A spontaneous idea that might change my life forever. I’m calling it the 100 Thing Challenge. [...]

Snap Preview Anywhere, scourge of the internet

April 5th, 2007

I got an email from Joyce Jalleo of Snap.com business development last week politely asking me if I’d like to sign up for the service and add it to this site. The email lists five reasons why Snap Preview Anywhere (SPA); had such a rapid adoption (half a million publishers since November 2006) including (in [...]

HOWTO: Make a PDF e-book from any text file using Open Office

February 20th, 2007

I’ve been looking around for a good text reading application for my desktop computer so that I can comfortably read books. All I wanted was an application that would open plain text files, show them to me with nice margins and easy to read type, allow me to customize the font, background, and foreground colors, [...]

How to give your young children a personalized (managed) email address

February 5th, 2007

My kids like writing letters to their friends and family. However, licking envelopes and putting those funny little stickers on them is not something I do very often (I pay all my bills online and 100% of my correspondence is by email). So, whenever the kids want to send a message to their aunt or [...]