Today is the one-year anniversary of my last cigarette. A full year later I am still a non-smoker. This was something I never thought I would become. I smoked through half the 80’s, all of the 90’s and almost all of the 00’s, all those years I thought that my addiction was far stronger than my willpower to destroy it, and that I was forever doomed ( Read more... )

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Smoking. Smoking is near the top of my list for life changes. Picking it up? Noooo, silly! Quitting smoking. Not a moment too soon, I might add. I’m undergoing a number of life changes at the moment, and I decided this was the perfect opportunity to quit smoking once and for all. At my partner’s suggestion I started using Chantix last week, and ( Read more... )

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/08/microsoft.ballmer/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday with an impassioned endorsement of PCs and a sneak peek at the company’s future Windows 7 operating system.

I wonder how they came upon the name itself. “Windows 7.” My ( Read more... )