A Diet guarenteed to work… if you dare.
OK, if you are like me you have gone on plenty of diets, tried “everything” but “nothing worked.” Most of the times, if we are honest, we probably do something to sabotage it without even realizing we are doing it. But I believe I may have found a cure. The only question becomes, if you have the “stomach” to see it through.
My idea stems from a book I heard about recently, Everything I ate for a Year. We all have some sort of camera at our disposal at virtually all times, whether it be that little point and shoot, or is there a phone left that doesn’t include a camera in it nowadays? So, do exactly what that author did. Whenever you are about to put something in your mouth, whether it is a cup of coffee, a “little snack” or whatever it is, if it is going to go in your mouth, take a picture.
This solves to different issues. Issue one, you have documentation of everything you have put in your mouth (assuming you don’t “skip” a few pictures), and it will help you see what you are actually consuming on a daily basis. The second potential helpful benefit, is that you may even start questioning whether the calories are “worth” having to take a picture and add it to your collection. (Or should you be particularly daring, and post it to a collection on say Flickr, “Is it worth letting people know that I eat that junk?”)
What do you think… would photographing every single thing you put in your mouth deter you from eating more?
Friday Foccacia
Help Wanted - This one isn’t a link. I have been a bit lagging on my posting lately because I am working on a new endevour that I have been wanting to work on for quite some time. A new Podcast. Any tips or tricks on setting everything up would be greatly appreciated. I have been looking at MightySeek’s PodPress plugin for WordPress, any opinions to share?
Go ahead, defend DRM now - Microsoft announced that it is taking offline the License Servers that handle the DRM (Digital Rights Management) for the now defunct msn Music store. Once that happens, anybody who “purchased” music from the store will only be able to listen to it on the devices it currently resides on. So if that PC holding your music dies, too bad, your music is history, and you would have to go buy it again. Once again proving that you do not “own” music that is bogged down with DRM. While the music labels may like this idea, it is just plain stupid in today’s day and age. Just another reason, I am now using Amazon for my music purchases.
You must be a terrorist - Freedom? Protection against unreasonable searches? You must be some sort of terrorist or pedophile with something to hide, right? No matter, according to Ars Technica, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that US Customs agents have the right to take your laptop and search it without reason. Only your alimentary canal is safe against search without cause. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Bad Wiring? - BusinessWeek offered pure speculation on Dell acquiring Radio Shack. While most stories I have seen talk about how it would ruin Dell, or be bad for Dell, I am more terrified of what Dell would do to Radio Shack. I mean, you could be sure that the days of being able to buy circuit boards, and wiring would be over. Where would millions of kids get their parts for science projects?
Happy Springtime
Happy Easter to those that celebrate such things, and to for everybody else (well in the northern hemisphere) welcome to Spring (welcome to Autumn for those “Down Under”)
Friday Focaccia
Who the heck is still voting for McCain? - apparently McCain is so senile, he needs Joe Lieberman constantly behind him correcting him. First he made it clear that qualifications (as he sees it) to be a “War President” and picking up the torch from Bush does not mean he needs to know the difference between Sunni and Shiite. And now he is showing off his International Relations skills by going into Israel and during a speech calling Purim, “their Halloween.” Now, to be honest I do not know squat about Purim, but I am not in Israel as a representative of the United States and making reference to it. Maybe before he opens his mouth next time, Lieberman could teach him how to use The Google 
, and get some information out of the series of tubes.
Glib Gibson - Gibson Guitars started out suing Activision for Guitar Hero claiming a patent infringement issue. Now they are apparently trying to get their way by suing retailers for selling the game! What next, will they sue you for buying the game?
Just another reason I hate Apple - Be careful the next time you update your iTunes software, apparently Apple is trying to broaden their market for their inferior Safari browser by making it part of an iTunes update. Remember when Microsoft tried to include IE7 as part of a Windows Update? Yeah, well the same outrage should be applied here. At least with IE it could be argued that by trying to move people from IE6 to IE7 Microsoft was just trying to rectify security issues (since IE6 is used throughout the OS whether it is your “browser” or not), but there is no valid reason to include Safari with iTunes. But this is Apple we are talking about, who would dare question the “Great And Powerful Jobs?”
Just another reason I love Starbucks - Things need to be changed… not so much new, but changed back to the way they were before, when Starbucks was mostly about coffee. Well it seems that Starbucks got the message, and is promising a number of changes to get back to their coffee basics. There is only one thing that would make me happier about this announcement. They did mention that there would be new espresso machines “designed to give a more consistent …” beverage. But to me, that only means another version of those automated espresso machines they installed. I would love to see them go back to grinding the beans and pouring shots from a real espresso machine. But I guess you can’t have everything.
Just wait until Bill O’Reilly gets a hold of this - I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw this Jeff Parker cartoon, about the overcommercialization of Easter. Of course I probably didn’t laugh for the reasons it was intended. Here we have a holiday, where the symbols of the holiday in no way resemble the reason for the holiday. For this reason, either for a joke or not really understanding you always have people ask the question of what does the bunny and eggs have to do with Easter? Of course we know this is because the Christians stole the symbols of the Spring Holiday from the Pagans in order to “sell” their religion to try and convert people. Now you complain about its commercialization? I really just don’t want to see or hear about a “War On Easter” I really really don’t.
Friday Focaccia
Welcome to the return of the Friday Focaccia. I don’t actually know why or how I got off track with this. But, I guess it is not important. It is now back in all its half-baked glory.
Speaking of Half-Baked. How is it that the hardline right people still think the GOP is the party to “keep us safe” from terrorism, but yet here we are, nearly 6-1/2 years later, and it turns out that the US military may not be ready for attack!
The commission’s 400-page report concludes that the nation “does not have sufficient trained, ready forces available” to respond to a chemical, biological or nuclear weapons incident, “an appalling gap that places the nation and its citizens at greater risk.”
“Right now we don’t have the forces we need, we don’t have them trained, we don’t have the equipment,” commission Chairman Arnold Punaro said in an interview with The Associated Press. “Even though there is a lot going on in this area, we need to do a lot more. … There’s a lot of things in the pipeline, but in the world we live in — you’re either ready or you’re not.”
Of course I am sure there will be some argument that the independent commission is “biased.” After all we don’t have to worry about them attacking us here because of our brilliant strategy of stretching our troops too thin, and extending their tours “over there” keeps the terrorists from striking here right?
Gone to the place in the sky…er… ethernet - Got pictures stored at skyfolder.com? Or more correctly, DID you have pictures at skyfolder.com? I signed up for a skyfolder.com (Beta) account some time back, but never actually used it. It was yet another one of the free storage places to keep your photos and such so they are “accessible anywhere.” I received an e-mail from them TODAY notifying me that the service would be taken offline on February 4th! And that after that time I would lose access to my pictures and storage. As I said, fortunately, I never stored anything other than a couple of files to test the service out, and nothing was lost. I hope not too many people lost anything there, but it just goes to show… Don’t trust any of these services with your irreplaceable memories. Because, all it takes is an investor pulling out, or advertisers disappearing, and suddenly they go bye-bye and your memories are lost forever. Sure, use them to share photos and such, just don’t allow it to be your ONLY copy.
War Crimes - It is often difficult to understand when you look back at history how people could sit back and do nothing when they have a war criminal as a leader. People wonder how people could follow marching orders from a man that has no regard for International Law. Only now, we are living that history, and our President is now the admitted war criminal. Not only that, he and his staff openly defended the illegal practice, and could authorize its use again, even as the CIA Chief stated that it is “probably” illegal. So, how do you feel about being one of those “people with blinders on” that allow these blatant abuses of human rights by their leader?
Does MSNBC hate women? - First, Chris Matthews has made so many deragatory remarks about Hillary Clinton that he was forced to do an on air apology. Now David Shuster has been suspended by the network for saying that the Clinton campaign “pimped out” Chelsea.
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