Tuesday, December 10, 2002

Not One Present at the Mall... I did not buy a single Christmas gift at the mall this year. Consumers flocking to online sites. Web retailers bag big gains, with sales for November up 22 percent from a year ago and, for the first post-Thanksgiving week, up 34 percent, according to new reports. [CNET News.com] 11:01:20 PM     Native American's Battle Diabetes War on Diabetes. There are stupid wars and there are good wars. War on diabetes is good. Diabetes is a scourge on Native peoples. The antidote for diabetes is living and eating healthy. It is good for the body and the mind in every way to pay attention to diet and to move the body to spend energy and purify the lungs and blood. Diabetes is a renowned killer of Indian people. The epidemic afflicts as many as 50 percent of the adult population of some tribes. It is on the increase at the... [more] [Indian Country Today] 10:58:45 PM     Marvin Gaye is the Man! I can personally attest to the power of listening to his music to get in the mood. Let me paint the picture:  Sitting down with my favorite TV dinner of Salisbury Steak, his music crooning out of my Emerson boom-box, a splash of Old Spice, my feet in the Epson Salts, a Custard Stained teeshirt and a flush to my cheeks....Oops, I have overshared. 'Lord of love' beats off Robbie. Marvin Gaye has been declared the "lord of love" with his Motown classics 'Sexual Healing' and 'Let's Get It On' voted the nation's favourite soundtrack for sex. [ITN Online - Top Stories] 9:13:06 AM     VS.NET Development in C# for Office 11 This combination is formidable. You will be able to develop complex clients with loosely coupled interactions with WebServices and XML using the client technologies of Office 11. Read it and weep Sun-StarOffice-Java! 9:06:30 AM     Cooking Cabbage is Air Polution Damn, not being able to walk into your flat and smell cabbage. I bet there is a baby boom during the holiday... Farmers issue sprout warning. If you are dreading seeing sprouts as part of your traditional Christmas dinner, you may have cause for an early celebration. The humble Brussels sprout is under threat from the British weather. [ITN Online - Top Stories] 8:55:34 AM

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