Weblog Archives for January 2007

Catch up on all the blog entries you missed.

January 30: Lemonade Diet Day 8 (Sindhuja); Day 8 has been an intensely relaxing and stress free day. After all the focus and will power we had to employ this past week to keep on track, we felt a day of utter laziness was well deserved. Cleaning out the apartment from all junk food minimized the temptation ...; Read the full post

January 27: Lemonade Diet Day 7 (Sindhuja); Once again, salt water made me feel a little sick but once it ran through my system I felt fine. My body is still expelling toxins after 7 days. Wow. The laxative tea does a great job of loosening the toxins and my body now wakes up like clockwork every ...; Read the full post; Lemonade Diet Day 6 (Sindhuja); Today was pretty uneventful although I have to voice how much I hate the salt water first thing in the morning. 32oz is quite a bit to chug down and I believe the worst part is drinking it warm. I've started a little more than the required cayenne pepper in ...; Read the full post

January 25: Lemonade Diet Day 5 (Sindhuja); Day 5 is actually here and almost over. I didn't really crave any coffee today. I did have a cup of peppermint tea because my tongue is white and fuzzy and the peppermint is supposed to combat any odors. Plus it was kind of a relief to drink something different. ...; Read the full post

January 24: Lemonade Diet Day 3 (Sindhuja); I woke up at 6:00 this morning before my alarm clock went off full of energy and eager to get the salt water down as soon as possible. I'm giving myself 2 hours to do this before going to work. It's still the worst part of this cleansing. Today I ...; Read the full post

January 22: Lemonade Diet Day 2 (Sindhuja); Well, the worst part of today was drinking the salt water in the morning on an empty stomach. I still had a couple of cravings and felt like quitting, but Bill was my strength. More laxative tea and goodbye Day 2. Bill: > I worked at the restaurant today and ...; Read the full post

January 21: Lemonade Diet Day 1 (Sindhuja); Day 1 went better than I expected. I started the day by drinking 32oz of un-iodized salt water, lukewarm. The rest of the day, I relaxed by indulging in some TV and a book. I didn't really suffer from major hunger pangs although I did crave a good cup of ...; Read the full post

January 20: Lemonade Diet Day 0 (Sindhuja); We decided 2 days ago that our bodies were in dire need of a cleansing of all the holiday feasts this past season. I hope to achieve a healthy relationship with food at the conclusion of the fast and hopefully not give in to my sweet cravings too often. A ...; Read the full post

January 19: For Love or Money (Seemant); Update: I hereby rescind the update I made in my Circuit City post: Office Depot has not pulled their creepy hand spots yet. Maybe they're taking the tack that any exposure is good exposure, in which case I feel sorry for them (but not enough to shop there :) ...; Read the full post

January 16: Canidae on Fire at Circuit City (Seemant); Here's an update: Office Depot has actually pulled their ad spots with the disembodied hand. Seems like enough bloggers (including yours truly) called them out on its creepiness to have an effect. More "me too" advertising, but this one has a couple of twists: it's a two-pronged "me too" ...; Read the full post; XMMWhat? (Seemant); So, after about a year or so of using the various gtk2-based forks of XMMS, someone in #gentoo-dev recently recommended rhythmbox. This is a sucky post because I can not even remember why I was asking for alternatives in there. I think it was because I was lamenting that ...; Read the full post

January 14: Hello T-Mobile, It's Me: Seemant (Seemant); I'm filing this in the "me too" advertising section (when I get around to having such a section). So, there's some US wireless carrier called Alltel which launched this new cool feature that lets you call up to 5 of your friends/family on other networks for free. ...; Read the full post

January 11: All About the Benjies (Seemant); I've not blogged in a long time, I see. Forgive me, dear reader, for that. In fact, a lot has been happening in the week since my last post. In that time, I've been poring over the job boards, looking for something to do. I admit, I've ...; Read the full post

January 4: Branding and Loyalty (Seemant); Ignoring, for a moment, the conjunction of those two words with respect to cults and organisations (and some fraternities), I'd like to share some thoughts about branding and loyalty in airlines. As you, my dear readers, might recall, Aimee and I had gone to Los Angeles and Oklahoma for ...; Read the full post

January 3: The End of a Short Chapter (Seemant); Before we left for Christmas vacation, I found out from my boss that the Developer Relations Manager role that I'd been filling for the last few months was going to be dissolved. The reason for this is that the company's focus is shifting to be more in line with ...; Read the full post; Thing vs. The Easy Button (Seemant); For those of you not familiar with this, there are two major office supply chains in the US: Staples and Office Depot. They both stock pretty much the same stuff; they're both in strip malls all across this great land. And they're both Red. You know, the font, ...; Read the full post

January 2: Health Wrap-up: 2006 (Seemant); Remeber all those fasts I did last year? Well, I had a final blood test (well, for the year, anyway) a few weeks ago -- right before Christmas vacation -- I also had an appointment with my doctor. Anyway, here's the long and short of it: ...; Read the full post; Christmas Updates, New Year's Resolutions (Seemant); I've been working with Marijn on a few bugs in preparation for a gnucash version bump. Phew, that's a lotta links. Anyway, for those of you who are waiting for the version bump, I'm sorry to take so long -- it's just that I ...; Read the full post