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I love the outdoors and sailing, but also have a weakens for technology. I can't get enough of it. I also have fairy strong political views, but I don't tend to write about them much.

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Sports & Recreation > Running Getting started with cross country running: 1 of 10

I was a baseball player, I loved the sport more then anything...or so I thought. It seems most cross country runners were not into distance running their whole lives but either fell in love with it when they tried it or got cut from another sport and eventually grew to like it. No matter how you ended up in the crazy sport o...
Computers & Technology > Consumer Electronics (Other) What to do when your mobile phone drops in water: 1 of 7

Forget about accidentally dropping your phone in the water for a few seconds, what if you decided to clean it by sending it through the washing machine? Well that wasn't exactly what I was trying to do with my own phone. My phone was in my pants pocket that I decided too wash. So unfortunately my phone got cleaned to, but by...
Computers & Technology > MP3 Players, Radio & Audio Devices How to get free videos for your iPod: 1 of 6

Watching videos on your ipod is great, but you cant just use your DVDs you already own, like the way you can use your music Cd's you already own to put onto the ipod. Its easy with music, you just place the CD in and its easily transferred to your computer and then placed on the ipod. But with DVDs there are so many more cop...
Computers & Technology > Internet Issues Wasted time vs. productive time on the Internet: 2 of 7

The Internet was first used to connect people, it was used for collaboration. Today you can still collaborate on the Internet but in many different ways. Collaboration on the Internet has changed from discussing research to discussing parties and events now with websites like Facebook. The Internet is a great source with alm...
Health & Fitness > Emotional Health & Wellbeing Recovering from low self-esteem: 8 of 24

Its not how far you fall, but how high you bounce once you hit the bottom. There are all different types of people but Steve Simms is correct in saying, "bouncers are the most successful people on earth...". When recovering from something as small as a bad day or something as draining as a death in the family its important t...
Computers & Technology > Website Reviews Website reviews: Digg.com: 2 of 6

Digg was created at the start of the web 2.0 boom. It was created as a social news site where users submit news and vote the best news articles up the pipeline. How it works is anyone can submit a news article that is found online. Then users browsing the site who find an article interesting can "digg" it. The more diggs and...
Computers & Technology > Internet Software & Utils Product reviews: Google RSS reader: 1 of 3

Google Reader (http://www.google.com/reader/) is one of the if not the best rss feed reader online. If you don't know already rss stands for "Really simple syndication". Its used for subscribing to different blogs or news sources. You can use feed readers like Google Reader to have a one stop place to reed all the feeds you ...
Politics, News & Issues > War & Peace Analyzing the war on Iraq: Justified or not: 32 of 90

This is an article I wrote on newsvine before I found helium: Ever since the Gulf War in 1991 Iraq has had poor relations with the U.N. United States and the United Kingdom. After the Gulf war The United States and United Kingdom enforced many economic sanctions against Iraq. Also the United Kingdom and United States patroll...
Sports & Recreation > Running How to buy the right running shoes: 4 of 11

Buying the right pair of running shoes is crucial to running when trying to prevent injuries. The wrong pair of shoes will greatly increase your chance of injury keeping you off your feet. The three main things one need to get right when buying a shoe is size, cushioning and matching your running gait. Not all shoes are crea...
Computers & Technology > Hardware (Other) My experience with a Mac: 3 of 7

My first experience with a mac started a while ago. Growing up I have always had one Windows computer and one Apple computer. It waspre os 9 my mac, and it was one ugly looking thing. The main computer me and my siblings used was always the PC, the mac was second thought and only used if someone else was already on the PC. B...