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Dirty secrets of modern food
We keep reading every day about a new food that causes cancer, obesity or some other disease.  After reading this you will notice that simply any processed food is bad for you (Including Milk, fruit juice, soups, restaurant meals, all cereals) all in the name of profit.  The most interesting claim is that whole milk is better for you then low fat alternates, since the low fat alternates have powered milk added in as a filler, which contains Oxidized cholesterol (Bad).

WARNING: After reading you may want to move to Oklahoma and buy a farm and never enter a grocery store again:
http://www.westonaprice.org/modernfood/dirty-secrets.html
By Steve on October 01, 2006 9:14am in Random Ramblings | Comments (0)
Microsoft Windows Abandonment
The Microsoft news these days regarding Vista, the next Office, and IE 7 is really boring me.  I do not ever recall feeling so little excitment for MS's OS releases before.  Well, I did not ever care for Windows ME but I was running Windows 2000 on my personal machines then.  I was looking for a Windows NT flavor built for the home user.  Windows XP has to be the best OS Microsoft has released, it merged the best parts of 95 with NT.  The boot time was the best seller of the product in my opinion.

Vista seems to be Microsoft's answer to a new release, but not a new OS.  Basically Vista is a UI overhawl that will just eat even more memory.

My goal is to never use another Microsoft OS after XP.  I will keep using XP and when I feel that I am forced to switch I will go to a flavor of Linux.  However, when the following apps are converted I will sooner:

  • Photoshop - Gimp doesn't have it all just yet.

  • Quicken - GnuCash is not at all a replacment.  I need online access to certain accounts, detailed budgets, a load of other features I use from Quicken.

  • Dreamweaver - I only use code editing in dreamweaver so I do not understand why I cannot find an app in Linux to do this.  However, I like Dreamweavers side bar's with all the files on a project level.


  • That's it!  I am already useing mostly open source/freeware tools in Windows, so other then the above a switch would be easy.
    By Steve on March 20, 2006 1:14pm in Random Ramblings | Comments (0)
    MSNBC.com
    I don't know about you, but I used to really like MSNBC.com, even though it is partly owned by evil Microsoft.  Until recently they had a neat JavaScript driven menu that allowed me to go through the headlines and click on the items I felt like reading.  Now I am forced to click on a category and sometimes I get presented with a click through ad.  Move over MSNBC.com, I will now spend my news gathering time over at cnn.com.
    By Steve on July 07, 2005 7:56pm in Random Ramblings | Comments (0)
    Chat Abbreviations?
    Why is it that people online abbreviate "ok" as "k"?  How much time does this save us?  When "ok" is an abbreviation already for "okay."  Very very strange if you ask me.  I am going to start abbreviating "oh" as "o", so I can save more time during my online conversations.  Just so you know, I am guilty as well when it comes to abbreviating "okay."While I am on the subject, check out the Rellims list of Abbreviations at http://rellims.com/chatlingo.php.
    By Steve on May 06, 2002 10:07am in Random Ramblings | Comments (0)