GREAT GIFTS FOR LESS!

Henry desktop vacuum cleaner – £9.95
Your keyboard is a haven for bacteria, and can provide a home to more germs than your toilet.
This USB vacuum cleaner can go some way to keeping your desk area free of crumbs.
It comes in a range of colours, and can go a long way to maximizing the life of your peripherals and stave off nasty illnesses.
Canon IP2600 – £26.91
Quality printing costs money, so this year get your photos printed on the high street for next to nothing and save even more with a bargain home printer.
The IP2600 is fantastic for all aspects of home use whether it’s kid’s homework or driving directions. Just don’t expect quality photo prints for this bargain basement price.
Nike+ iPod Sport Kit – £16.99
The perfect companion for any iPod owner this Christmas is the brilliant Nike+ iPod sports kit.
It consists of a shoe sensor which tracks your runs and transmits data back to the receiver, which plugs into both the iPod nano and iPod touch.
iTunes then takes that data and plots performance graphs and charts, and makes getting fit fun.
Targus Speaker book – £17.88
Targus has come to market with these fantastic battery powered speakers which are great for music on the move.
The solid exterior will keep it safe from knocks and bumps, it’s light enough to be easily carried in your bag, and can be taken to the beach without running the sand lottery.
What more can you ask from a portable speaker?
Belkin Rockstar – £8.11 (www.dabs.com)
If you like sharing your music, then you need the Belkin Rockstar.
It’s a headphone hub which accommodates as many as 5 pairs from a single MP3 player.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re going on a long train ride with a group of friends, or sharing in the school playground, it’s the perfect way to enjoy music.
We vote they are given out free on buses – by law.
Washable mouse – £17.99
Mice attract grubby hands, especially those of small children.
If your mouse is attracting more than its share of grease, grime and germs then the Belkin washable mouse is the ideal stocking filler.
It’s a full two button mouse with a scroll wheel, which can be put under the tap, washed and reused whenever it gets grubby.
Eco Button – £14.95
For the environmentally conscious PC user, the Eco Button is the first gift which should be placed in their digital stocking.
The USB attached button instantly puts the PC into eco or sleep mode when pressed
So there’s no excuse for leaving the PC on during extended coffee breaks.
Not only does it save the environment, but also a few pounds on bills as well.
See DIGG.com for info

THANKS!!

Although there’s no thanksgiving day in Philippines, HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all!! And thank you WORDPRESS!

TRAVELING GERMS

Dr. Mark Gendreau, a senior staff physician at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts, said,”The risk of contracting a contagious illness is heightened when we travel within any enclosed space, especially during the winter months, when most of the respiratory viruses thrive.” Studies show that germs can travel easily on an airplane, where people are packed together like sardines.
In 2003, 22 people came down with SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, from a single fellow passenger who had SARS but didn’t have any symptoms, according to another New England journal study.
Here are five ways to avoid germs while traveling. (Elizabeth Cohen / CNN)
1. Sit toward the front of the airplane
“Pick a seat near the front, since ventilation systems on most commercial aircraft provide better air flow in the front of the aircraft,” Gendreau advised. If you can afford it, sit in first class, where people aren’t so squished together.
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2. Don’t drink coffee or tea on an airplane
Monitoring by the Environmental Protection Agency shows that water in airplanes’ water tanks isn’t always clean — and coffee and tea are usually made from that water, not from bottled water, according to Victoria Day, a spokeswoman for the Air Transport Association.
According to the EPA, out of 7,812 water samples taken from 2,316 aircraft, 2.8 percent were positive for coliform bacteria. Although that sounds like a small number, this means 222 samples contained coliform bacteria.
3. Sanitize your hands after leaving an airplane bathroom
A toilet on an airplane “is among the germiest that you will encounter almost anywhere,” said Charles Gerba, an environmental microbiologist at the University of Arizona who’s also known as “Dr. Germ.”
You should wash your hands after using the restroom, but because the water itself might have harmful bacteria (see No. 2 above) and because the door handle on your way out has been touched by all those who went before you, Gendreau also advises sanitizing your hands when you return to your seat.
4. Wash or sanitize your hands after getting off an escalator
To confirm these tests, here’s a fun activity while you wait for your flight this Thanksgiving: Look at your watch, and count how many people get an escalator in a five-minute time period. Multiply that by 12, and you have how many people are on that escalator every hour.
High-volume handrails are why Gendreau sanitizes his hands as soon as he can after he exits an escalator.
5. Wash or sanitize your hands after using an ATM
Gendreau says ATMs, especially in busy places like airports, are full of germs. As with escalators, he sanitizes ASAP after using one.
Gendreau says that keeping healthy while traveling can be summed up in six words: “hand hygiene, hand hygiene, hand hygiene.”

FIRST CYBERCRIME PROSECUTION

At last, someone was convicted for cyberbullying that resulted in cybersuicide. The convicted is a 49-year-old mother named Lori Drew.
Greg Risling of Associated Press wrote:
‘Prosecutors said Drew and two others created a fictitious 16-year-old boy on MySpace and sent flirtatious messages from him to teenage neighbor Megan Meier. The “boy” then dumped Megan in 2006, saying, “The world would be a better place without you.” Megan promptly hanged herself with a belt in her bedroom closet.’
U.S. Attorney Thomas O’Brien, who pronounced the case the nation’s first cyberbullying trial, said the jury’s decision sent a worthy message: “If you have children who are on the Internet and you are not watching what they are doing, you better be.”
By the way, My Space was one of the sites that rejected me. Now I’m grateful for that.

SMELLY PUBLISHERS

I’m working for a smelly Europian publishing company that’s pushing me to put errors into my articles. Grand isn’t it. Just wait for developments. This might erupt.
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MIRACLE SCIENTIST

There’s a Japanese scientist named Yoshiro Nakamatsu, 77, who’s working towards 6000 inventions before he dies at age 144. He sleeps only 4 hours a night and invented his own special food (a special mixture of dried shrimp, seaweed, cheese, yogurt, eel, eggs, beef, and chicken livers—all fortified with vitamins) to maintain his Spartan lifestyle.

The author of this piece known only as ‘thirtyseven’ wrote:

What really sold me on Dr. Nakamats was when I came across the following passage from some German interview. The question was one the author has probably asked hundreds of times—“so, where do you get your ideas?”—and Nakamatsu has the last answer anyone but him would ever suspect:

Is there a secret to becoming an inventor? How do you come up with new ideas?

I am teaching philosophy at the University of Tokyo. The base for everything is a strong spirit, followed by a strong body, hard studies, experience and finally leads to a “trigger”; experience. You “trigger”; a bullet which contains spirit, body, study and experience – and finally that releases the actual invention.

How do you “trigger”; an invention?

A lack of oxygen is very important.

A lack? Isn’t that dangerous?

It’s very dangerous. I get that Flash just 0.5 sec before death. I remain under the surface until this trigger comes up and I write it down with a special waterproof plexiglas writing pad I invented.

Do you do that a lot? Putting yourself in that kind of situation to come up with a new invention?

Of course. This is the Dr. Nakamatsu method.

WHAT’S THIS!!?

My WordPress dashboard says my post ‘Obama is Antichrist!?’ was the busiest. Yet my stats say that no one viewed me two days straight!!– zero.

COINCIDENCE?

After I posted my piece ‘Obama is Antichrist!?’, no one viewed me the next day– my first zero. Coincidence or what?

ENDORSING AUTHORS

Just a tip to modern book readers. If you notice that your author is always mentioning brand names in their books, boycott them even if the author is bestselling. There are better authors who aren’t being paid by unethical commercial companies.

SOLAR-POWERED CEMETERY

This pioneer idea should earn a world record: A gritty town named Santa Coloma outside Barcelona has made its cemetery a plant for solar panels giving power to 60 homes per year! It took 3 years for Conste-Live Energy to build this.

Santa Coloma’s population of 124,000 is crammed into four square kilometers (1.5 square miles) so it had virtually no place to generate it.