Today is the last day of the first quarter. I wonder if I’ve reached my goals. I wonder what my goals were. I know I wanted to lose weight. I think my goal was roughly 20 lbs. I lost about 4 lbs. Another goal was to be able to do Read more…
I am literally stunned. I just learned about MIT’s new OpenCourseWare. They have hundreds of free online courses that anyone can take. You could technically get an MIT education for free but without the Diploma. Diplomas are nice but cost way too much. I visited the site and am blown Read more…
Ubiquity is a firefox add-on that make it simple to mash up the web without having to visit several sites to do so. I can add a map, review, calendar item and tiny url all from my email account without having to leave my email tab to insert the info. Read more…
I got two identical messages from two mutually exclusive friends today. The message subject for each message is Hi {RAND} and within the body of the message there is a link to junfunrun.com I googled both of these and can’t find anything on the interwebs talking about this message so Read more…
I learned today about two cool features of Google Spreadsheets. I don’t think I will need Excel anymore. The two functions I learned about are GoogleLookup(“entity”,”attribute”) and GoogleFinance(“ticker”,”attribute”). The GoogleLookup function is amazing. In less than a minute you can populate tons of data about a list of items. For Read more…
Here is a simple test I found. I’m not sure how accurate it is but it is fun to think about. Look around at the site. There were a few other interesting tests like the Stress Test. Here’s the test… What would you do if you were in a situation Read more…
Over the past several months we have tested the waters with clipping coupons. We got ourselves a Sunday paper and even started getting the coupons from my mother-in-laws paper each week. It is amazing how much money you can save if you can come up with a system that you Read more…
I was reading an article on msn.com and found a couple of interesting facts related to weight loss. You would not know by looking at me but I am the creator of an online weight loss community, thintopia.com. I have participated in dozens of weight loss competitions so I am Read more…