Link: Supermarket Standoff: Potato Chips

#1 Zapp’s Potato Chips

via Supermarket Standoff: Potato Chips – Yahoo! Shopping.

Link: Pandora Files to Raise $100 Million in IPO

The company reported a loss of $328,000 on total revenues of $90.1 million in the nine months ended October 31, 2010. In the same period in 2009, it lost $18.6 million on revenues of $31.4 million.

via Pandora Files to Raise $100 Million in IPO | Tricia Duryee | eMoney | AllThingsD.

links: Time to give whole milk a second shake?

“We need to be much more flexible in our approach” to dietary advice, suggests Miller, whose organization doesnt mind which kind of milk you drink, so long as youre drinking enough. He wants to move away from such issuing such restrictions as “dont eat fat.”

via Time to give whole milk a second shake?.

link: Dating site sued by sour love seekers for alleged bogus profiles

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I’m not sure if this is true, but I’m not surprised if it is.

• What drives corporations to do things that are intrinsically bad for their users?
  • Profits, competition or they fact that they can?
• As programers and product managers for Match, when they came up with the idea, I wonder if they end justified the means?
• Do they think users won’t figure this out pretty quickly?
• Do corporations need a Chief Morality Officer CMO?

Not only does Match use inactive and bogus accounts to artificially inflate active participation at the site, the complaint asserted, but to misrepresent the gender ratio at the site, which is “heavily skewed toward single males.

via Dating site sued by sour love seekers for alleged bogus profiles | Anonymous | Daily Outrage | San Francisco Examiner.

Second Thoughts About Parenting – NYTimes.com

I like “On certain days, it feels like I am having my nose rubbed in my imperfections, particularly when their tone of voice or their actions mirror my own.”

via Second Thoughts About Parenting – NYTimes.com.

Don’t Get Carried Away by the Market Rally – WSJ.com

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Don’t Get Carried Away by the Market Rally – WSJ.com

My investments that I held on to since 2005, have finally recovered to the previous high levels.  But since I’m in this for the long haul, I think I will stay fully invested.

WSJ : When the Whole Family Is Staring at Screens, Time to Try a Tech Detox

from WSJ: Your BlackBerry or Your Wife

10 Signs Your Devices Are Hurting Your Relationships:

1. You can’t get through a meal without emailing, texting or talking on the phone.

2. You look at more than one screen at a time, checking email while watching television, for example.

3. You regularly email or text, other than for something urgent, while your partner or another family member is with you.

4. You sleep with your phone near you, and you check your email or texts while in bed.

5. You log onto your computer while in bed.

6. You have had an argument with a loved one about your use of technology.

7. You text or email while driving.

8. You no longer go outside for fun.

9. You never turn off your phone.

10. When you spend time with your family—a meal, a drive, hanging out—each person is looking at a different screen.

 

NYT: 10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Technology +2 Of My Own

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This article from NYT has been on the top 10 technology most emailed since December 29, 2010.  Almost 16 days now.

Read it at 10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Technology

Here is my take and I’ve added 2 more

1. GET A SMARTPHONE

Also Why: I use my Blackberry for calendar, music (Pandora and podcasts), Evernote to capture all notes (text and photos), maps.  No brainer.

Beware: that you can spend too much time on the smartphone and not enough time on self reflection. Listen to this TED talk by Amber Case on Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now

2. STOP USING INTERNET EXPLORER

Beware: There are still sites out there that only support IE, especially the ones in Asia markets that need active X for watch videos.  Also Firefox can become bloatware and many others are switching to Chrome.  5 years later, when we have 3 big browsers, the simple, nimble browser maybe the next browser of choice

3. UPLOAD YOUR PHOTOS TO THE CLOUD

Also Why: Having your photos online allows you view them anywhere

Beware: Picasa charges you for $5 a year for 20 GB of storage, where flickr is free.  Picasa does have a nice desktop application.

4. GET MUSIC OFF YOUR COMPUTER

Beware: I haven’t seen many people do this on a regular basis. There is nothing wrong with filling your digital devices, use an AUX cable to play it on your portables.  I have 2 Apple airports, but seldom use it to stream music.  It’s still too much hassle and I use Pandoro most of the time.

5. BACK UP YOUR DATA

Also How: I buy 2 hard disks (2TB) from Amazon for less than $100 and keep one at home and one at work and use Time Machine to backup.  The online backup solution is expensive, eats up your CPU cycles and also eats up networking bandwidth.    As hard drive price goes down, it makes sense to have the individual do it themselves

6. SET UP A FREE FILE-SHARING SERVICE

Also Why: I put all documents I create myself into dropbox.  There is no way I create more than 2 GB of content, so this guarantees I have access to the document on any mobile device.  I also also immediately get to work on my documents on any computer I happen to be on.

7. GET FREE ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE

Beware: Antivirus software kills alot of CPU and makes your machine slow. I tend to turn off virus checkers, backup my data, use Firefox and restore my computer if its gets really infected.  I make this trade off because I trust my backup.  If the virus kills my backup, that’s another story.

8. GET A BETTER DEAL FROM YOUR CABLE, PHONE AND INTERNET PROVIDER

Also Why: you should consider canceling cable, go with Hulu and Netflix. Don’t use landlines and use cell phone.

9. BUY A LOT OF CHARGING CABLES

I agree.  Also I am researching mobile solor power USB chargers

10. CALIBRATE YOUR HDTV

Also Why: I don’t have a TV, how about calibrating your computer monitor?

TT 11: Put your reading list, task lists on the cloud

use Google Reader to subscribe to blogs.  Put your task lists into rememberthemilk.com

TT 12: Store your notes on the cloud using Evernote

I enter my text notes and capture web page on Evernote using email, Blackberry app, my computer and I have access to it anywhere.  You can also take photos of text from newspapers, magazines and Evernote allows you to search on the text in the images.