self-help blogs: my newest addcition

So, There is something evil about google reader. It makes it so easy to read dozens of blogs everyday. AND if you find a couple really good blogs on a subject you love then they usually link to other related blogs you will also love and then you end up with a dozen blogs all on the same subject. For me this subject is self improvement or as I have adopted; Life Hacks. It is interesting and useful to have a bunch of varied but similar views on life and how to work it. There are so many things I have read that I was astonished by and must read about 10 more times before I am satisfied. Here is a list of all of my "starred" google reader posts that are about life hacks. Most are from www.lifehack.org.

1. The very simple secret to a happy marriage
   
2. 5 little ways to show your love
3. Believe it or not your beliefs affect the physical world
4. 7 control points to curb the flow of negative energy into your life
5. 22 ways to maximize your opportunity in life
6. 12 ways to boost your positive energy
7. 13 tricks to motivate yourself
8. How to fail at practically anything
9. Build a reading family: how to share reading with your kids
10. 6 reasons why it makes sense to arrive early
11. Eighteen ways to invest in your life
12. Tapping into the fountain of youth
    
13. Nine ways to live the lifestyle of a champion
14. Master the simple science of positive thinking
15. How to build a reliable work ethic
16. Can you catch productivity

See what I mean. It's amazing!

On a side note I have almost finished "Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan and it is WONDERFUL!!!

how to find my blog

I use sitemeter to monitor the traffic to my blog. One of the coolest features of the statistics it gives is that it shows how visitors found your page. Initially a ton of my traffic was from the link I had on boing boing (see my post about it here). Nowadays though, I am getting most of my traffic from random Google searches.

These are kind of funny so I figured I would post 'em on here:

• Medicine makes me drowsy at work
• Retail Idiots
• Dice of Doom
• Diablo 2 Profile Colors Pink
• Starlight Hostess
• My Cat, Whisper
• Catch Cat The Mouse Screensaver
• Diablo Jargon Read
• Earthbound SNES thoughts
• List of Stupid Things Quiz
• you tubes starlight shinin star (i'm no. 1 on this one!)
  
• Summer Sucks
• Yawning Lexapro
• WOW Jargon

It's kind of hilarious. It just shows how varied and random my blog really is.

On a side note, sitemeter also thinks that the majority of the visitors click on the "funny" label over all the other labels. I will try to make more funny posts, as that is what you all want!

Google wins in 9 out of 10 categories!

So I explored a bit of advice from the book mentioned below, and decided to check out just how much better Google is than Yahoo (as I am using blogger and have a gmail account already). I discovered that all of my Yahoo e-mail's can be sent to my gmailbox. Also that Google reader far surpassed my mail beta client for RSS feeds. Got back to my "igoogle" which had been dormant for a while.

I'm slightly disappointed in google on this though; I mean come on.... IGOOGLE!?! can we be more trendy and cliche? (ipod, itunes, imac, ibook MAC MAC MAC) I suppose they were having copyright issues with using 'my'google, but they could have spent more time coming up with something creative like yoogle! I must applaud google for jumping onto the 'i' bandwagon. They even used the lowercase i! They could have been IGoogle but NOOO they had to add insult to injury by using a lowercase i! Grr.

In other news: Well, there actually is no other news.