Here is the 2012 General Election Sample Ballot (full booklet) for anyone who cares to read on their e-book reader of choice (PDF). I “scanned” this all on my iPhone with just a few snaps of the camera using My Scans PRO — I am really surprised how quick and easy it was, it really looks like I scanned it. This is pretty exciting as a note taking and...

So my sleep experiment was very successful — nearly no change in my diet or my physical activity, yet, ditching the alarm clock, yielded 1 inch off my waist, 3 pounds lighter, and a body fat reduction of 1.35%, all in just 1 week. This finally allowed me to break through my 2 week plateau. I was surprised since my carb intake on average has been a bit high,...

Well, one of the hard drives in my desktop computer just died finally. Taking it out sped up and stabilized my desktop system. Thankfully with Acronis True Image home, all of my data and files were backed up on schedule last week so I lost nothing; didn’t even miss a beat Now my computer just runs faster, now that only stable drives are inside of it. All of...

Check out my new sweet ride upgrade that is coming before next week — an e-bike upgrade kit for my bike!!! Now my bike will go 30 miles per hour on a flat grade, sustained up to 28 miles of travel, or, up to 44 miles on a single charge with pedal assist (I bike while motor is engaged). Now I can make frivolous / fun trips in addition to my daily 24 mile...

Using Firefox and Firebug, you can inspect a part of a web page that you are having trouble centering horizontally, and, in this demonstration, see how to do that using cascading style sheets. Despite this demonstration using this for an image (IMG HTML tag), this strategy works for any kind of web page content HTML that you’d like to center as you can stuff a...

With the new year comes new realizations for me in my Amazon EC2 hosting which I wanted to share so others could learn from my experience. It wasn’t as cheap as I thought, but still I am enjoying well over 50 – 70% cost savings in hosting. This is as compared to any other hosting company I could find in getting a dedicated server. I am not really into...

The lucky individual who catches me eating junk food or drinking more than a single glass of alcohol in a 24 hour period will be awarded $100, in cash, by me personally. I will honor this until January 18th, 2012. No claims may be made after this date.