Archive for December, 2009
LifeHints – New Year’s Resolutions You Never Knew to Make
Posted on Dec 27, 2009 11:15:32 AM
“New Year’s Resolutions You Never Knew to Make"
SAN JOSE, CA December 23, 2009— Having trouble deciding what resolutions to make for New Year’s? A new web site, LifeHints.com, makes it easy.
Unlike other web sites which answer questions you already know to ask, LifeHints gives you hints for your life (family, household, finance, etc) … even before you know you need them. For example, LifeHints may suggest establishing a 529 fund for your children’s college education, putting your antiperspirant on at night, or simply getting the "Down Low Glow" for your bicycle. LifeHints makes these suggestions based on whatever you have told it about yourself, and what the recommendation engine has found that other people like you appreciate.
During the beta period, the service can offer some amusing recommendations: getting your colors "done" for a person with no interest in fashion, protecting your home computer network for a household with only 1 computer, and so on. It’s all in good fun, though, and makes for interesting reading. And if you really don’t like a hint, you can "banish" it so that LifeHints will never show it to you again. In addition to the core hints, LifeHints also supports user-generated content so you can add your own ideas to the hint database, as well as improving any hint via a wiki style.
LifeHints also supports Facebook integration, so if you have a Facebook account you can "connect" at the push of a button, see which hints your friends have recently recommended or completed, and even "assign" hints to your friends (for example, "Cure Your Bad Breath").
The service is free, and while the backers plan to add algorithmically-chosen advertising alongside the hints at some point in the future, for now the focus is on making the user experience as fun and as helpful as possible.
If you’re not sure what resolutions to make this year, hop over to www.LifeHints.com and see if it has any interesting suggestions for you.
About LifeHints, Inc.: LifeHints pioneered the concept of an on-line, intelligent mentor, making it easy for ordinary people to live expert lives. LifeHints is a privately held California Corporation headquartered in Silicon Valley; its service runs on Google App Engine and is integrated with Facebook Connect.
That “strang” or dental floss as the rest of the world knows it
Posted on Dec 24, 2009 12:48:49 AM
I’ve never set very good examples for my children. I’m not boasting, I’m quite ashamed. Words fly from my mouth, I raise my voice and I am definitely over-weight. Add to that a post I wrote yesterday entitled, ‘Bama Belle, Southern Charm or Fake and you will know exactly why this is funny…on so many levels….
Yes, the kid is flossing his teeth. He has a collection of dental floss and he loves the stuff. He is constantly asking for the flavored kind, any flavor will do. Tonight though, he had a piece of chicken stuck between his front teeth. I watched him struggle to get it out with his tongue, then is finger *shutter* and then I asked exactly what the problem seemed to be……..and that’s when he said it…..
“where’s some of that strang”
And, with that, I give you a five year old that wants to floss his teeth and will ask me to do it if he thinks he can get me to do it for him…
We did foster the love of brushing teeth in this house. We started when they were babies letting them gnaw on one in the tub. Every time they got in the tub, we finished our bath off with some toothbrush gnawing. It was just something they learned to ask for. Now they do not use it in the tub anymore but they are really good about brushing and if I weren’t afraid to jinx myself I’d tell you that neither of them has ever even had so much as a cavity scare………
And, I add that with my ability to set examples not because I don’t brush my teeth, ha, but because my husband and I have always had dental issues. And, my mother and father did as did his. I truly believe that some issues are just genetic. I’ve had very little dental work done as an adult. Most of my problems (and my husbands too) occurred at the onset of puberty…which is fairly common I understand especially when the problem is genetic.
So, brush on brother and I will get you some more strang!