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An Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up

By Lee • Mar 12th, 2008 • Category: Current Events
An Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up

As a symbol of health and wellness, nothing surpasses the simple push-up.
Practically everyone remembers the actor Jack Palance performing age-defying push-ups during his Oscar acceptance speech. More recently, Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor whose last lecture became an Internet sensation, did push-ups to prove his fitness despite having pancreatic cancer.
“It takes strength to do [...]



3G iPhone to launch mid-year with Infineon chip - report

By Lee • Feb 29th, 2008 • Category: Technology
3G iPhone to launch mid-year with Infineon chip - report

Current iPhone baseband supplier Infineon will provide Apple with a new chip solution for its next-generation iPhone, which is expected to launch by mid-year, investment bank UBS said Thursday.
In a research note to clients, global equity research analyst Nicolas Gaudois said his checks indicate that the German chipmaker will provide a “new systems solution” for [...]



The future of Web apps will see the death of e-mail

By Lee • Feb 29th, 2008 • Category: Technology
The future of Web apps will see the death of e-mail

MIAMI–The way people have been talking about e-mail at the Future of Web Apps conference, you’d think it were a cell phone carrier or a domestic airline. It’s antiquated, it’s backward, and everybody hates it.Kevin Marks, a Google engineer and Technorati veteran, said in a talk about the company’s OpenSocial project and Social Graph APIs that e-mail [...]



7 Rules For a Stress-Free Life

By Lee • Feb 22nd, 2008 • Category: Recent Entries
7 Rules For a Stress-Free Life

His life may look easy and breezy, but Matthew McConaughey has to stuff just as much crap into his 24-hour sack as you do (with paparazzi cameras in his face while he does it). “I have a lot of responsibilities, and I love accomplishing goals and marking things off my bucket list,” he says. “But, [...]



Photo of the Week February 17, 2008

By Lee • Feb 19th, 2008 • Category: Photo of the Week
Photo of the Week February 17, 2008

Soooo, I’m a little late with this again. Not to worry, I am all over it this morning. Today, i bring you “Morning Coffee“. It is simply a cup of coffee in our new coffee cups that we bought this weekend.