Josh Smith Online

Serious Eats has a running feature of interviews and food tips or topics with Mario Batali, and I find them so fascinating. I have embedded his latest video regarding music selection at his restaurant. You also need to see Mario speaking on how to sauce(prepare) Pasta.
Unfortunately the video is not embedding correctly so [...]

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The Dumb Little Man blog has a nice posting on how to get out of a crabby mood. The list has some good ones on it and includes my sure fire way to beat a crabby mood.
6. Make Someone Else Happy. Who could you cheer up today? Who could you thank or compliment? Who [...]

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Much of my web experience and blogging information comes to my through Google in one way or another. I currently use Google reader to pour through loads of RSS feeds, Gmail to handle my email, Google Adsense to monetize my writing, and Google Analytics to track my website statistics. While overall the experience [...]

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The new influx of cheap and revolutionary information technology into the business world has the chance of greatly changing even businesses with the most stringent budget. The beauty of the ideas behind the web 2.0 movement is that the barriers to entry are small which results in often free or very cheap services that [...]

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If you have Firefox and a Del.icio.us account I highly recommend the plugin provided by Yahoo toorganize your bookmarks. I started doing this when I migrated to Ubuntu last week. I just found out today that if you highlight something on a page then bookmark it with del.icio.us the highlighted text is entered [...]

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If you are looking to increase your GoogleFu I have a tip or two for you.

Use a ~ before a word to search for synonyms of the word. This can greatly increase your chances of finding what you want if there are many words that are similar to your keyword. You use it [...]

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Check out this awesome dishmaker, that can form dishes to your needs and store them as a flat disc when you are done with them. If they can shrink it down and add in a cleaning stage this thing could really take off.

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Over the past year I have been trying to get into a Getting Things Done mindset, however I have yet to even read the book due to a lack of time.  Currently I am the busiest I have been in my life which reinforces the need for a system to manage my life.  The most [...]

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I came across this useful site Schooldelay.com which works with schools to send text message, email and RSS alerts to students and parents when their school is canceled or delayed. The push factor of this site is leaps and bounds above the method we used to use to find out if school was canceled [...]

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instructables has a walk through for creating a shutdown icon for your computer.  If you follow their instructions shutting down becomes as easy as one click if you place the shortcut in your taskbar.  I find this especially handy on my laptop, which I often find my self trying to shutdown and get into a [...]

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