A sure shot (Forsyth County News)

Some say a picture is worth 1,000 words. In 13-year-old Lijah Hanley’s case, a picture is worth an all-expenses-paid expedition to Peru. After entering National Geographic’s Hands-On Explorer photo essay contest, Hanley and 14 other children were chosen from thousands of participants to take part in a guided journey along the Amazon River. His mother, Jenifer Hanley, will be coming along. They …

Posts about DVD Reviews as of April 10, 2009

Day 1: The Harsh Reality. – alyndabear.com 04/10/2009 Last week before I left Australia, I mentioned I had ordered the 30 Day Shred DVD by Jillian Michaels of the Biggest Loser fame. I’d been following The Casual Perfectionist on her shredding journey for a few weeks, and was intrigued and inspired. The DVD arrived quite literally the day before my flight out, how’ Jaton NNIDIA GEFORCE FX5600XT-DDR DVI TV 256MB AGP8X ( 3DFORCEFX 5600XT-256 ) – electronicscheaptoday.com 0

To lunch, and then across town

Click here to open the post in your browser to see the gallery. The images above were shot on a walk this afternoon that started at MacArthur BART in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, and then proceeded through North Oakland and South Berkeley and over to West Berkeley. We stopped in to visit Gamelan Sekar Jaya at their open house — not only are these folks amazingly talented musicians and dancers, they’re really nice people! Continuing the journey, we made a pit stop at Bake Sale Bett

Searching for the future of retail therapy – a review

Chinwag ran a very interesting session last night on the differing (and competing?) roles of search and review sites in retail therapy fulfilment. Phil Wilkinson has done an amazing job of writing the gist of it up over here (thus absolving yours truly of the need – props Phil). I’d like to comment on a number of the points Phil makes: 1: Recommendation sites need search engines to drive any traffic to them This one is hard to refute as 95%+ of journey’s start at a search engine and so

Money Hacks Carnival – The Print Media Edition

Welcome to the 28th edition of money hacks carnival where some of the best personal finance and money management articles are featured. First, a little about your host. I am a 30 something blogger sharing my personal finance and investing experiences (good and bad) on my journey to financial freedom. Its has been a roller coaster ride and hope you can check out some of my past articles which are categorized for your convenience near the top right of the page. If you like what you see, consider