Well, I am finally getting to conluding this phase of the BFL adventure. As I did not actually make the 12 weeks timeline I really cannot form an opinion of the successfullness or not of the plan. I will say, however, that I lost 20 lbs in the 9 weeks I followed. The final 3 weeks were full of long nights and late mornings. To top it all off, I lost about 2 weeks of entries due to my PHPBB posts being deleted. All-in-all I feel the diet helped and I continue with the workouts.

A cowboy was herding his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him.

The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?”

The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, “Sure. Why not?”… (more…)

http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/gallery.html

http://www.backuptrauma.com/video

http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/25/technology/adelphia_settlement.reut/?cnn=yes

Many of us are torn between allowing government into corporate America or not. After seeing this article (along with countless others) as well as experiencing corrupt business practice first hand, I am now all for it.

http://www.opera.com/swim/

Opera’s CEO, Jon S. von Tetzchner boldy proclaimed at a company meeting that if download numbers of Opera 8 reached 1 million within four days he would swim from Norway to the USA. Today marks the commencement of that trek.