This page contains a reading in Spanish from Paulo Coelho’s book: Como El Rio Que Fluye: Pensamientos Y Reflexiones 1998-2005. This reading will not only provide you with the tools to learn and pronounce new vocabulary in Spanish, it will also expose you to the timeless ideas of Paulo Coelho. Below, you will find an .mp3 version of the reading which you can …
I walked through the city the other day on streets I have walked thousands of times. I have never stepped in a pothole or unintentionally bumped into anybody. But, I realized, I had seen so little because I had failed to look up. Look up. It’s something that you infrequently do; nobody does. We all have to look straight ahead. …
An unbiased look at the potentially cancer fighting exotic fruit known as Soursop, Guanábana, and Graviola. Will it help you or hurt you?
M. Scott Peck leads my list of the top fraudulet self-help gurus. This may come as a surprise to many of his devotees but let’s at least discuss the possibility. I never liked him because the first line of his famous book, The Road Less Traveled, says Life is Difficult. My mom and her friends all read this book. My …
In this article, we will take a look at DVD Shrink versus Handbrake and let you know when you should use DVD Shrink and when you want to choose Handbrake.
When it’s time to make your career decisions near graduation time, it would behoove you to listen to Steve Job’s Commencement Address first. Many of you college seniors will be graduating in a couple of months. Everybody is asking you, “Well, what are you going to do with your life?”
If you’re wondering what you should do when you’re procrastinating, I might just have a quick answer for you. You see, as I write this, it is the day after St. Patrick’s day. Being part Irish, you might be able to guess why I would like to procrastinate right now after last nights’ activities. How about you? What’s your reason …
Did Hillary Clinton fail in her Presidential bids because people found her hypocritical? I wrote this piece back in 2008 when she was running against Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination. We all know what happened in 2008 … and then again in 2016, when we witnessed the instructive election of Donald Trump. Some people find Hillary dislikable, others disingenuous, …
The word for it currently escapes me. (I think that it will come to me within two paragraphs). But I am semi-it. I haven’t even had two sips of coffee yet and I don’t know that the brain is turned on. Although, when I was in bed, debating whether to arise, thoughts were rapid-fire but in a mellow feel good …
In this article, we will take a look at who invented the iPod and the origins of this device that has become a must-have for just about everyone.
A lot of our visitors wonder how many people are in the world. In fact, I recently received this question from one our frequent visitors: Question: I am wondering how many people that there are in the world? I keep seeing statistics like “There are 1.5 billion Catholics in the world” or “If Facebook were a country, it would be …
I started this post, Copying DVDs: Where to Begin, after having written several posts about copying DVDs to your hard drive and copying DVDs to DVDs and other formats. The fact is that some of you want to know the details–like what is an .ISO file–but most of you simply want answers. How do I copy DVDs from one format …
I am fortunate to answer the question, “how much does Gisele Bundchen weigh?” because this gives me a chance to show you a bunch of pictures of Gisele Bundchen.
Really, how great of a job is that? It’s early Sunday morning and I am going to be spending time with you talking about, and looking at, Gisele Bundchen.
When thinking of various career paths, many high school and college students ponder medicine. In doing so, they wonder: “Should I become a Doctor?” There’s a lot baked into that question and, through consultation with those in the medical profession, I’ve done a critical analysis to determine whether the medical profession — a career as a Doctor — is right …
In this article, we are going to take a look at using AdSense section targeting to drastically increase your AdSense revenue on your blog. You owe it to yourself to read this if your AdSense earnings are not what you expected. Let me first ask you this question: What do you blog about? If you blog about one thing, like …