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What Are the Top Five Things You’d Like to Install in Your Life?

In his abode, Lord Byron kept:

“Eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon”

http://neuroticpoets.com/byron/

That was in addition to 10 bloody horses!  All those pets (minus the horses) roamed freely throughout the house!  Obviously Byron liked animals and the companionship and the ability to observe natural fauna in [...]

Every Webmaster Needs Success Data – How to Install Google Analytics Code On Your Site or Blog

Every Webmaster Needs Success Data

Every webmaster eventually knows that he or she needs tracking. The ability to track visitors, clicks, and the browsers, geographical regions, and more data of each visitor to your site is invaluable information! Properly setting up tracking is like learning about your customer so you can better serve the [...]

Want to Accelerate Your Usage of Time and Productivity? Try Pomodoro!

History and “Will it Work?”

What is The Pomodoro Technique?  Directly from their website:

The Pomodoro Technique® is a way to get the most out of time management.  Turn time into a valauble ally to accomplish what we want to do and chart continuous improvement in the way we do it.

Francesco Cirillo created the [...]

Parralax, Retrograde, all that Visual Brew-Ha-Ha

Parralax — okaya parralax is the “apparent” (But not actual) movement of an object visually because of the REAL movement of the observer. Most common is the STellar parralax where a very distant (millions of miles) star appears to move, but realy it’s the earth orbitting annually revolving around the sun that creates the impression [...]

Sprinkle People

I like to include everything in a single email, but wanted to add this: I am definitely the “imprisoned celebrity”, “land-locked-soulseeker” , now.

There is a key and completely essential distinguishing characteristic between financial currency and spiritual currency: you survive with financial currency, but you truly live with spiritual currency. This is not saying to [...]

The Ultimate Star Trek Nerd Post

Star Trek, Astronomical, Cosmological, Planetary Physics terms you have got to know.

Parsec Contraction of “parallax second”; Distance – “parallax – apparent motion — of one arc second”; astronomical unit of length where the earth’s orbit extends an angle of one arcsecond; 19 trillion miles, 3.26 ly Pulsar – A neutron star that puts out [...]

EDRT Advice

20th Century, Irish Playwright, Brendan Francis, said it perfectly:

“People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.”

“The advice you deliver to others, frequently gets rerouted [...]

Why Life is Infinitely Better Reading Books

…and not watching movies. (This is in reference to non-fiction books, btw — and quality reads, not crap).

1. Movies leave you under a spell; an illusory haze so you cannot see. Books give control of the haze others are under.

2. Movies manufacture illusion without you knowing it, while books allow you to choose [...]

A Manual for Fortune-Telling

What follows are key essential pointers for integrating with future horizons. They are:

Fortune-telling isn’t chance; to really predict the future you have to understand the interweaving nature of the past, present, and future. You predict the future by utilizing the fusion of imagination, logic, and induction. If you want to predict the future, study [...]