Blogging, Work-at-Home Stories, and Other Life Hacks

In a report released last month, study says that the younger generation gravitated more towards Facebook than Twitter and blogging. According to one15-year-old, “Twitter is lame.”

Released in the second half of 2009, another study says social networking has made teens and young adults more narcissistic, their walls usually peppered with everything that’s happening to them, good or bad. Read more »

On a lark, I took the free SEO certification test on oDesk.

I’ve been quietly studying SEO off and on for the past two weeks now and I can say I’m learning a lot of stuff, although slowly. The thing is, I’m not yet confident of what I know although I now know it’s a long, arduous climb and it could take a while before you can really get solid SERPs. Read more »

If your body mass index (BMI) is between 25 and 30, you’re overweight. Now, at that range, your weight’s still manageable. You’re just ‘pleasantly plump’. Cute, cuddly, comfy.

But wait, there’s a caveat: don’t go beyond a 27 BMI because then, you’ll be facing significant health risks such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, osteoarthritis, some cancers, and sleep apnea, among others. Read more »

My sister-in-law Andi has tried several solutions to her recurring, sometimes incapacitating back pains. There were the bi-weekly sessions with the in-house physical therapist at the hospital where she works; the countless painkillers; ventusa (a personal favorite, where you ignite a cotton ball soaked in oil and settle it on your bare back under a glass); and more recently, acupuncture. Read more »

“Researchers found striking evidence that some users have developed a compulsive internet habit, whereby they replace real-life social interaction with online chat rooms and social networking sites. The results suggest that this type of addictive surfing can have a serious impact on mental health.” Read more »

So, here’s the story:

I’ve finally decided to take on the weird, wired, wonderful, and downright wacky world of paid hosting. Pretty soon, this blog will migrate to its hosted home as I put my online and offline houses into order. Read more »

For the last month, learning SEO felt like I was a headless chicken running to and fro, in ABSOLUTE panic, because there was something missing in the equation and I was completely MISSING it!

There was no dearth of information for me. Oh no, more like the opposite. Read more »

Here’s the thing: green sea slugs eat algae like the animal it is. But did you know that green sea slugs can go without the algae for a year?

Research findings say they can go on a year-long hunger strike without danger of becoming fodder for sea compost because they’ve found a nifty trick to produce their own food: photosynthesis. Read more »

The Christmas Day bomber was just one of too many individuals who began acting on an ideology that is “unyielding” and “uncompromising” according to Joe Navarro who writes for the Spycatcher blog of Psychology Today. Read more »

It’s sure that a lot of us made a to-do list just before New Year’s Eve. Either written down or in the back of our mind, those new year’s resolutions are there and we’re going to try our mightiest to accomplish them. After all, we do want to say we’ve changed for the better after the end of this year. Read more »