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All the time I read articles about how being healthy is healthy.  As if a person doesn’t know what is healthy.  Not being healthy is something to do.  Instead of just being healthy one has to educate oneself, to learn what is healthy, and put it into practice.  There’s so much more to do it…

I wanted to revisit what I discussed in a recent post “I highly recommend getting away from all these “services” like Google and Yahoo“. I still recommend that it is best to try to get several things on your own: 1.  Domain name 2.  E-mail account 3.  Web server Getting a domain name costs about…

Intro: You want to connect your Linux box running Debian to a Juniper VPN using the command-line only. (You don’t want to run X on your machine nor necessarily install Java to run the graphical client). Its possible to do with the ncsvc command-line app provided by Juniper. Strangely, the command-line app is contained in…

There was an article written a few years ago about a study which found that noise pollution is a significant problem in San Francisco.  I feel totally pissed off reading this article, and other info on noise pollution in the city.  Here is another article, which says “Noise from traffic is putting nearly 1 in…

An article today discusses a paper that reports that manganese significantly neutralizes the toxicity of Shiga toxin in cells.  This occurs because a certain protein which is responsible for the Shiga toxin’s avoiding normal breakdown within cells is highly sensitive to manganese. This is a significant discovery as hundreds of millions of people are affected…

Today I read an article about another study purporting there to be health benefits to drinking red wine.  I feel that such studies as this are highly deceptive.  They get disseminated in the media with headlines about health benefits of red wine.  But the real question should be: Is there any benefit to having red…

There was some article in the news about more BS circulating about 2012 relating to galactic alignment or something like that.  I actually don’t want to even bother reading the full story explaining that its BS – I already know.  But it did actually make me wonder about the plane of our galaxy vs. the…

Many people are not aware that, when they receive abusive or offensive e-mails, they can report it to the company which hosts the e-mail account.  Finding out where to make the report can be tricky.  Today I needed to report an abusive mail from a Yahoo mail account.  If you type “report abuse yahoo mail”…

Large 5-alarm fire at Golden Gate & Eddy 3 news choppers and one airplane/drone SFO Aircraft Noise Abatement Office (online complaint form) Stations’ contacts: – CBS5 KPIX – ABC7 KGO – KTVU 2 – KRON 4 As per callback from one station, KGO, KNTV, KPIX, KCBS and possibly KRON will be sharing a helicopter (good…

Try this variation of the Change of Season Tea I wrote about the other day.  To make this tea I used a 32 oz. glass jar (which originally was a pickle jar): – Grated fresh ginger.  Grate the equivalent of about 2 tablespoons.  Put in jar and pour hot water over it, filling jar about…