Brian Kim heartily recommends lifting weights if you’re a man. Not because he thinks you’d feel better about yourself with biceps like the governor of Los Angeles. No, apparently regular weightlifting helps combat:

Depression
Irritability
Fatigue
Inability to concentrate
Feeling easily weak and tired
Difficulties coping with stress
Sleeping disorders

For Kim it seems weight-lifting is an excellent way of helping [...]

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Reliable information is crucial to making a good decision. Learn how to separate the truth from the lies, and you will go a long way in protecting yourself from fraud, or being taken for a ride. Wikihow has a great post about how to tell if someone is lying, and here some of [...]

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Many of the things we eat from time to time could help us live longer, better lives if we would eat them more often, some even every day.
I know that my diet could use some tweaking, and so I wanted to find some foods that I should be eating more often.
Askmen.com had recently [...]

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Never check your email first or last thing each day, reckons LifeDev, because it slows you down and affects the way you work.
I can see how useful adopting this tip would actually be because I tend to suffer from stacks of email each day! I also, like many people who work with a computer, [...]

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Don’t have an endless closet full of ultra-trendy couture? You can still knock ‘em dead this year with a few simple tips, from none other than the uber fashionable guys here at LifeSpy.
Although us geeks have it easy, with our flared jeans, baggy khaki shorts and t-shirts for every occasion, we know it [...]

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With the gas prices soaring and the ozone lawyer growing thinner, more people are looking at hybrid vehicles as alternative means of transportation. What makes hybrid cars attractive is that they allow rechargeable power to go hand in hand with fueled propulsion. This means less gas emissions and lower fuel expenses for each consumer. [...]

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While networking is a crucial aspect of business, it’s really important we don’t adopt fall into the trap of adopting what ‘Life Beyond Code’ describes as a ‘Use-and-Go’ attitude.
‘Use-and-Go’ basically refers to the act of being nice, or getting in touch with someone when you need something, and then vanishing from their lives once you’ve [...]

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Eric Giguere has some excellent advice for getting relevant AdSense ads that particularly relevant to bloggers. He includes two examples that show how just one word can result in different ads being rendered.
Sometimes all it takes is one word or phrase to trigger different ads.
Although Eric’s suggestion that you should change the URL structure [...]

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College students with profiles on social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace might have yet another hurdle to clear in their pursuit for that dream job.
Imagine putting all your efforts into a single goal.  Almost anyone, in fact everyone, could say they have done just that.  Whether creating your high school bowling team to [...]

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Forget coffee or coke! Stress and tension will only get you so far when it comes to being productive; however, being relaxed and focused will really up your productivity levels.
A college principal that I know meditates for 20 minutes every morning.
“I started doing it to help me focus more as well as relax,” says [...]

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Fans are a great way to keep cool on those hot summer nights, but can it even come close to your A/C?  RealSimple discusses fan placement and usage to maximize the potential of your trusty old fan.  That way, you can save money on your energy bill, get rid of stale air, and keep cool, [...]

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You’ve done the university cap and gown parade. You received your diploma and picked an elegant frame for your new bachelors degree. Now what?
You need to find gainful employment. If you have planned well, you also have internships under your belt and maybe even a potential job offer waiting for you. [...]

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While I don’t think anyone should ever add the over 124 extensions to Firefox at any one time, I think a sect few of the list could really make FireFox into the number one browser for getting around the Internet.
The list below comes from Listible, and is easy to add to your site. My [...]

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Jason Unger provides some useful tips on how to maximise the moment every blogger dreams of: the day your story makes it to the Digg front page or is Slashdotted and your inundated with site traffic.

Make your RSS feed autodiscoverable
Include related content in your posting.
Be online.
Make sure your site is sociable.
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Desktop security is an old topic that is often addressed, especially within larger enterprises that require secure networks. Home users need not be scared of the internet, you can be protected!
Despite the constant emotions of fear and insecurity surrounding the topic of security, virus protection and malware, user education is the number one [...]

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