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29 ways the Internet is mourning the death of Twinkies

Full story at: 29 ways the Internet is mourning the death of Twinkies – Holy Kaw!.

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Tolerance

 

Practice tolerance.

Tolerate our quirks, our feelings, our reactions, our peculiarities, and our humanness. Tolerate our ups and downs, our resistance to change, and our struggling and sometimes awkward nature.

Tolerate our fears, our mistakes, our natural tendency to duck from problems, and pain. Tolerate our hesitancy to get close, expose ourselves, and be vulnerable.

Tolerate our need to occasionally feel superior, to sometimes feel ashamed, and to occasionally share love as an equal. Tolerate the way we progress – a few steps forward, and a couple back.

Tolerate our instinctive desire to control and how we reluctantly learn to practice detachment. Tolerate the way we say we want love, and then sometimes push others away. Tolerate our tendency to get obsessive, forget to trust God, and occasionally get stuck.

Some things we do not tolerate. Do not tolerate abusive or destructive behaviors toward others or ourselves.

Practice healthy, loving tolerance of ourselves, said one man. When we do, we’ll learn tolerance for others. Then, take it one step further; learn that all the humanness we’re tolerating is what makes ourselves and others beautiful.

Today, I will be tolerant of myself. From that, I will learn appropriate tolerance of others.” via Just For Today Meditations » Blog.

 

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Tolerance and Diversity…

I’m against all forms of intolerance. Even my own! Tolerance and Diversity… | Liberal Logic 101.

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4 Reasons You Don’t Have The Body You Want

Get the answer here: 4 Reasons You Don’t Have The Body You Want.

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The Unpredictable Freedom and Sweetness of Chaos

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I’m going to share a productivity, planning and organizational hack that will change your life. It will yield some unpredictable results, but if you approach it the right way, it could bring some of the most amazing work of your life, along with freedom, joy, exhilaration.

What’s this miraculous hack?

It’s a simple one: let go. Let go of control and allow yourself to be swept away by the powerful currents of life. Let go of planning and embrace not know what will happen. Let go of productivity and be open to new ideas, new opportunities, spontaneous creativity.

via » The Unpredictable Freedom and Sweetness of Chaos :zenhabits.

Go to the source if you’d like the rest of Leo’s perspective on this. Me? I’m going to have to ponder this a little more…

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If there were ever a CEO who was rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic without knowing it, it’s Steve Ballmer. Read on…

“Steve Ballmer must be on crack. Or something. In a fascinating interview with the Financial Times, Ballmer has the cheek to call Google a one-trick pony (this from the company that has only managed two break-out successes so far), can’t seem to come to grips with the fact that he hasn’t budged his stock price in eight years, and takes solace in the fact that the company only has “one way to go, and it’s up, baby, up, up, up, up, up!”

Please pass the vial, Ballmer.

One place where he comes down to earth is in his admission that he hasn’t figured out how to compete with open source:

I’ve got to tell you, in every – other than the battle with Open Source, every other competitor, I love being able to come into a room and saying we’re better and we’re cheaper. We’re going to try to say we’re better and we’re cheaper basically. [Editor; big lie!]

In the case of Linux vs. Windows, anyway, Microsoft is neither better nor cheaper. In its other products, too, it’s losing that argument.

But it’s really in deriding Google that Ballmer looks ridiculous. When asked about Google, he opines:

I mean, come on. They have one product. It’s been the same for five years – and they have Gmail now, but they have one product that makes all their money, and it hasn’t changed in five years.

I mean, they have a gestalt, but gestalt is gestalt. Let’s talk about the reality. The reality is one product makes 98 percent of all of their money, search.

Pot, meet kettle. As the Wall Street Journal noted in response to this Ballmer comment, “The definition of death, in corporate America, is believing you don’t have any competition. The definition of being in a coma may be underestimating that competition.” Ballmer even said that Microsoft has only had two hits – Office and Windows – in the interview.” Ballmer to Google: You’re a one-hit wonder | The Open Road – The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay – CNET News.com

Click the link to read more…

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via gizmodo.com

Woot! I can’t imagine what would have happened if Apple would have picked a competent partner like Sprint…

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One of my favorite apps, Freemind, came in in the top five in a recent quest for the top five outlining tools @ Lifehacker…

“Traditionally one thinks of outlines as a linear progression down the page. Many Lifehacker readers, however, opted to outline their projects and ideas in mind-mapping applications like the popular and open-source FreeMind. You still get a hierarchical structure, headers, sub-headers, and so on, but the information is presented in a mind-map format instead of a simple list. FreeMind is very keyboard friendly—it’s possible to create your entire outline without your hands leaving the keyboard. You use customize item flagging, color coding, and more. FreeMind also made an appearance in and won the Hive Five for best mind-mapping tools.” Source: Five Best Outlining Tools – Outliners – Lifehacker

It also won the best of the mind-mapping tools. I’ve been using it for years and it’s one of my most important tools. If you need to get YOUR thoughts together, you can download it here!

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Kudos to the folks at Datamation who put this list together…

“Tired of your boring screensavers? Need a game that allows you to survive the boring hours before quitting time? Wish your PC looked more like the terminals in the Matrix?

Or maybe you’re more business-minded: do you need an open-source solution for ERP? Project management? Bookkeeping? CRM?

If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, keep reading. These 75 noteworthy projects – each deserving of your love and affection – will help you do everything from creating desktop widgets to avoiding repetitive-stress injuries to visualizing distant, exotic landscapes. Or at least dreaming of life beyond your cubicle… “ 75 Popular Open Source Desktop Downloads

There are other lists for specific applications here…

It is possible to have a rich computing experience without paying through the nose for Apple Hardware or Microsoft software. You betcha! It all begins with Ubuntu! Use the contact form if you want to know more…

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Got Mac problems?

…then you need Pam Lefkowitz of Core Computing.

“Core Computing Technologies, Inc. is a technology consulting firm specializing in Apple Computer technologies.

At Core, every employee is a Certified Member of the Apple Consultants Network program. We hold more OS X Certifications than any other consulting company — including Apple Certified Help Desk Specialist, Apple Certified Technical Coordinator, and Apple Certified System Administrator. As such, you are assured of receiving only the highest quality support and services for your computing needs. ” Source: It’s Always DNS. Apple Technologies, Systems Integration, Network Support

I’ve known Pam for over a decade and her Mac expertise is known throughout the world. If you’re really in trouble, Pam’s the one to call….

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