Luke's First Plane Ride ...

Here is Mr. Magukas at the airport for his first airplane trip ... to Denver for the weekend with Mom ...

Rich or Poor?

One day a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the purpose of showing his son how poor people live. They stayed with a very poor family. When they returned, the father asked the son what he thought of their trip.

"It was great, Dad."

"Did you see how poor people live?" the father asked.

"Oh yeah," said the son.

"So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?" asked the father.

The son answered: "I saw that we have one dog and they had four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight. We have servants who serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have walls around our property to protect us; they have friends to protect them."

The boy's father was speechless.

Then his son added, "Thanks, Dad, for showing me how poor we are."

Google or Yahoo!

Some people swear by Google and others swear by Yahoo!. Which is better? Take a look at this cleaver app ... search Google and Yahoo! at the same time: http://us.searchboth.net/. The homepage of SearchBoth is a little cluttered and even a little confusing, but the results are interesting. Experiment with a couple of searches and see if you would consider switching search engines.

Take a Nap for Memory ...

I knew there was a reason I liked to take a nap! Studies (wish I had a reference, however) suggest that our memories are solidified while we sleep. Our brain does a lot of work during our rest – almost like it is a hard drive busy filing, organizing, and making sense of everything we’ve discovered while we were awake.  When you've learned a new concept or information that you want to retain, consider taking a nap or reviewing it right before going to bed.  This will give your brain the best chance to assimilate the new information.

Blue Planet Run ...

Water, especially good drinking water, is a precious resource and one that we sometimes take for granted. Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World is a spectacular book that is now available as a free PDF download from Amazon. You will be amazed at the conditions some people face thoughout the world. Take a few minutes to "thumb through" the book and then count your blessings. Click HERE for the download. 

Foxit Reader: A Free, Lightweight Adobe Reader Alternative ...

If you spent much time opening PDF files with Adobe Reader you know that Reader is not the fastest application under the sun. Plus, Reader provides its share of annoyances when doing updates. For a free alternative application, give Foxit Reader for Windows a try. Foxit Reader is much smaller than Adobe Reader, so one of the best things about it is how fast it loads and unloads. It also makes it easy to convert PDF documents to text.

In addition to offering a very useful toolbar, there is a tabbed feature that works very much like working with a tabbed browser. You can also annotate PDFs with your own text, highlight text, and much more. But, the best feature is how fast Foxit opens and closes PDF files.

Multitasking ...

How successful are you at multitasking? Here is a quote I like:

"Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously."

I find that to do some thing well, I need to devote my full and undivided attention to it. How about you?