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The Bonfire Called Living [inspiration]

From my grandmother's blog..  She was ahead of her time.




[E]nergies we create with our minds as well as our bodies.  These thought waves can be measured electronically so we admit that there is actual use of energy with each thought.  In our society, as in most social structures, we are carefully programmed to accept certain thoughts as correct, simply because they are repeated over an over in action as well as words.  Ideas are as contagious as the common cold, and when they are accompanied by fear and worry, many mistaken ideas are accepted as truths.  These thoughts become deeply rooted in our minds, our bodies and our future.  When I stated in a previous column that today we are creating our tomorrows, I was referring to just that.

 
Liken your mind to a television set. Now turn off the old obsolete ideas of dreading and fearing the future and change the channel to ones called hope, anticipation and wanted plans for the future.  What you will be doing is directing your energies to the things you want instead of what you don’t want. Fear, dread and worry burn up precious body energies that could be converted and used to kindle the fires of creativity, love and joy.  How about adding your kindly thoughts to our wonderful bonfire called LIVING.

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Madison, Medicine, and Efficiency: One Blog on Multiple Topics, or Multiple Blogs on Single Topics?

I was inspired to make some updates on the blog after watching Michael Hyatt's presentation about blogging.


 

He is the CEO of one of the major publishing companies , and has effectively been blogging since the late 90s.

What I did - updated some of the old posts , including embedding videos directly , clarifying the titles & adding tags to the older posts .  Posterous did not allow tags early on.  I also added google analytics , we'll see if that helps any of the blog's googlejuice (as explained in the book What Would Google Do?) .

I have been thinking about splitting off into 3 separate blogs, for the 3 main topics that I blog about: Madison , Medicine , and Efficiency .  Michael Hyatt & Jay Parkinson keep all of their posts together, even if there is not exactly one common theme, but many themes.  Other successful bloggers such as Joshua Schwimmer (from KidneyNotes , EfficientMD , TechMedicine ) successfully run multiple blogs.

The advantage of having a single blog is the ease in continuing to post, and the simplicity in posting.  The advantage of multiple blogs would be more focused posts, with a unified theme and more relevance to the individual reader.  Google could find my posts easier, and deem me relevant if I ran multiple focused blogs.

Thoughts?

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Attention Posterous Users: Gmail Adds Inline Image Embedding

To all you posterous users like me, that write most of their posts in Gmail, this looks to be a nice addition. I'm looking forward to testing this out in my next original post.

via Lifehacker.com

via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on 4/10/09

There are some Gmail Labs features that are creative, neat, and truly new. Then there are the things that make email veterans say, "Well, finally!" Inline image additions certainly fall in the latter category.

The Gmail team points to our own HTML work-around as the only means Gmail users had to get an image embedded amidst their message text. Now, once you enable the "Inserting Images" feature in your "Labs" list and make sure you have "rich formatting mode" chosen in your composition settings, you'll see a new image button on the toolbar, and you'll have the option to upload a file from your system or grab one off the web to plant right where your cursor was when you hit the button.

As noted, Gmail (and many other webmail services) still restricts images from displaying until someone clicks the "Show images from ..." or "Always display images" links on one of your messages, so you might note that in any must-see pics you're sending off. Thanks, AcaLazarevic!

New in Labs: Inserting images [Official Gmail Blog]

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DB's Medical Rants

I rediscovered DB's Medical Rants, a medical blog.

His posts seem more relevant to me at this this time in my training.

One quote on his sidebar stuck out to me specifically:

"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." - Charles Mingus

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First post

Hello world.

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