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I went to see a nutritionist last week. My goal was to bring down triglycerides, bring up good cholesterol, and bring down bad cholesterol. I figure if I do those things, my weight will go down, my energy will go up, and I'll feel generally better. This week I began my diet modification. I say "modification" because it's not a diet - a diet suggests a start and stop. This is a slow modification of what and how I eat. All good low-glycemic diets, she says, begin with a detox period. I've been asked many times about the detox, so I'll detail it here: This is my own summary, as relayed by my nutritionist and interpretted by me. I am not a doctor, a dietician, or an expert, but rather, an avid and curious reader, and you shouldn't make diet or medical decisions based on what I'm telling you. But here you go anyway: Your liver's primary job is to filter toxins from your intake. In many cases, especially in overweight people busy eating bad food or, at best, enough calories to at least stay overweight, its busy digesting fats, protein, etc. most of the time. Sometimes, it has so...

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Jillian: Daddy? Me: Yes? Jillian: Dora sings Camel Walk. Me: She does? Jillian: Mmm-hmm. And Benny sings Icculus. And Tico sings Timber Ho. And Isa sings Mockingbird. Me: Really? What about Boots? Jillian: Boots sings.... Timber Ho. Me: Who sings Harpua? Jillian: Uh... Cinderella. Me: Cinderella sings Harpua? What does Sleeping Beauty sing? Jillian: Icculus.

SO PROUD.

This week, SpikeTV unleashed the new season of Deadliest Warrior, a show that pits two historical warriors head-to-head in an attempt to test their skills and weapons to declare one deadliest. Last season, I was turned on to the show and immediately was in love with the concept. Even the two hosts, even more likable once you get to know them a little better by following their Twitter streams[1], have become familiar and part of the fun. Last year, we got some very interesting, if fairly uneven, matchups. When we investigated battles like Viking vs Samurai, Pirate vs Knight, and Spartan vs Ninja, we learned about how the advent of steel affected strength and effectiveness of weaponry. When we watched Shaolin Monk vs Māori Warrior, we got not only to learn about warriors that were a little lesser known, but also got to see some brutal weaponry. The Season 2 premiere pitted SWAT against the German counter-terrorism group GSG9. Unfortunately, this episode was a letdown for me. The problem is not the show or the hosts, but rather, the premise. How can you suggest that one warrior is better than the other based on weapons, when clearly, the same weapons...

Baby Schein #2 was one month old yesterday. Very busy several weeks. I'll be writing more shortly, including a review of Deadliest Warrior and hopefully, if I get around to it, a bit on why I think Steve Jobs is more evil and much more dangerous than Bill Gates ever was.

Sayeth Steve Jobs: You know, there’s a porn store for Android. Anyone can download them. You can, your kids can. That’s just not a place we want to go. But then, there's this: What is that? It's the Porn Store for iPhone, aka "The App Store." Get real. Apples doesn't want you to run Apps because they want full control of the revenue the iPhone generates downstream. That's it. It's not about privacy, it's not about children, it's not about anything other than corporate strategy. And I predict it WILL come back to bite Apple in the butt. Then there's the now infamous section of the iPhone 4.0 SDK that bans the use of non-native apps on the iPhone. But let's get real, shall we? As Gruber said, this is about only one thing: once the apps are portable, the device lock-in is compromised. It's not about multi-tasking, although, there's probably truth in that, it's not about new APIs, although, there's probably truth in that too. But it's about corporate strategy: keep people on Apple products in the Apple ecosystem. Let's not forget that Adobe has built its CS5 master suite with a new feature it's been proudly touting: the...

Yesterday, I scanned in dozens and dozens of old concert ticket stubs. Phish, when you order via their "mail order" system (now an "online ticketing system"), often provided custom designed tickets. Here are a few fun ones. Click on any thumbnail for a full size view.

This is the third time I've had to spent serious time "fixing" Wordpress. Say what you will about my old "Small Axe" or "Flip" solutions, but I never had a problem. With Wordpress, I have found regular issues. This time, I traced the problem back to wp-lytebox, and I'm ashamed to say I've had to fix the same problem before. It all started when I couldn't load the post page in the backend of sethadam1.com. Digging in, I eventually found a file called sys.php in the root of the site, and it listed the contents of my site and had a form that allowed someone to add a page, chmod a page, or delete a page. Killer! I found that it was defaulting to /path/to/WP/wp-includes/plugins/wp-lytebox, and sure enough, digging into that directory revealed several other fun scripts, all of which gave someone the ability to access all the files on my site. Fun! I found that I already had replaced this plugin before, so I decided to get rid of it altogether, this now proving it wasn't a misconfiguration, but rather, a problem with the wp-lytebox itself. In this process, however, I was unable to fix my issue. Visiting /wp-admin/post-new.php...

For those of you who haven't seen tonight's Lost yet, fair warning: spoilers ahead. We heard Jacob tell Hurley that a friend was trying to find the Island. And who found the Island? Widmore. The natural question to ask is: is Widmore really a good guy, or is Jacob really a bad guy?

AT&T's network has improved dramatically in the last year or so. I've been really happy with them lately. So it pissed me off a little extra today when I called to get a number blocked and got this nonsense for a response: a non-English speaking person with a phone number one digit off from me continues to call and leave me long rambling voice mails, over and over and over. So I called and asked to have the number blocked, and you know what they told me? They can't do it. They can't block a number. Except, they can. They can block the number, but only for $4.99 a month. So I'm forced to have the phone ring endlessly or take their "recommended resolution." You know what that is? I can change my number. Hey, AT&T? Unacceptable.