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   Download now or listen on posterous 02 Battle Cry.m4a (7335 KB) Don't let the title fool you. This is a song of peace. I have started out every morning this week with this one from Shontelle, "Battle Cry " - positive, uplifting, good vocals and a great beat...this will put a smile on your face and go ahead let your body move to it. What ever happened to Shontelle? I love this tune and want to here more from her.  What is she up to today, I think this song is Ocotber '08 - just before the election Another Big notable is this quote from Greg Mortensen's "Three Cups of Tea", written in the fall of 2003 Former Brigadair General Bashir of Pakistan, " As a military man, I know you can never fight and win against someone who can shoot you once and run off and hide while you have to remain eternally on guard. You have to attack the source of your enemy's strength. In America's case, that is not...

Brain Rules is a book written by John Medina where he goes through 12 principles called brain rules describing how our brain works and how to improve our life based on those principles. John is a molecular biologist who spent his whole life studying how the brain works, and in the book he shares what scientists know for sure about the human brain. Brain Rules In this article I want to share five powerful lessons I’ve learnt from Brain Rules. Most of them are common sense for many people, yet they are rarely applied in our everyday life. Exercise. Everyone knows that exercise is good for our body, but few know it’s good for our brain too. Cardio exercises are extremely healthy because they improve our cardio-vascular system which in turn helps the oxygen to flow in our body. Many studies have shown that exercise is good for preventing aging and common diseases, but also brain performance. The good news is that it doesn’t matter how old you are and if you haven’t exercised ...

So today I worked from home. No seriously. I answered emails, checked in on the status of work in development and wrote a 1st draft of an SOW, I also caught up on some of my digital marketing news.... Apple v. Google ... I mentioned this yesterday in my post re: Lala and even thinking about charging me to stream music....not happening Mr. Jobs...it really is not happening. But this smart phone, data owning, behavioral targeting monster that they are jockeying to unleash. On the one hand I am pretty excited to see the free market take it's gloves off...look how successful it has been with Verizon and AT&T...our rates are supposed to drop in 10 days...I will definitely check my bill for that and change my calling plan to catch the deal. On the other hand I like the ethos of these two companies a lot and I sincerely hope a measure of civility is maintained. We love you don't hurt each other ....too much. And talk about another good reason to walk away from IE forever, how a...

So, Last FM and LaLa.... These two I don't know, Last Fm just didn't do it for me...so much re-dux of the same old thing and this one kicks you right into a video player...so as far as getting work done, wasn't happening. Although nice layout on the history of the artist and for me personally there's something about red that I find to distracting to leave on at work. Which reminds me one last criticism of Jango..the player plays only one song if the window is not open on top in your browser big boo for multi-tasking.   And LaLa....please. I know this one get lots of props from the folks at work and Jobs just bought it but c'mon ...way too complicated. I don't know I even tried but you open an account and get some kind of free points that expire, I have no idea what you're supposed to do with them though because I tried to make a play list and somehow accidently burned a few points just putting the list together and not even playing the songs. As if th...

So a quick run down of free digital "radio stations ", because I just ran through this today as I have been looking for a better player to run in the background at work. First because it is first Pandora. I still have heart for this player just because it was my first. Clean design interface in light blue. super simple jumping off point type in an artist or select from an exisiting playlist and your off. The trouble is their playlists seem to suck! Even when I vote thumbs up or down too many B sides and random shit. This is in fact what sent me looking. Next up was Jango. First off it is an MS product which has a Mac girl was hard to swallow. Still I tried. Easy standard starting point type in artist and go. Lots of distracting music videos which I liked but truly ads and emails all over the place. I opted out twice and I still get them so I am once again in the hunt. Next up I checked out both Last FM and LA LA.... Posted via email from Elena's posterous...