the minimalist kitchen concept

i’m the process and creating my own minimalist kitchen, since this concept definetly helps make life easier, and efficiently functional. what i like about my minimalist kitchen is that it actually is true to the objective of having only the essentials unlike other.. versions.. http://www.chow.com/stories/10447 ..and i would post it but why? anyhow back to refining the ideal.

economical & healthy foods

It’s rare to find a page that has a list of economical yet healthy foods, and given it’s rareness, you’re saden by it’s imperfections on such a simple thing: http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22145/52070-20-healthiest-foods–1 The intro is too long, making our reading that much harder, and the title is misleading as most items on the list aren’t typically under $1.

Oats: “a dollar will buy you more than a week’s worth of hearty breakfasts” – really now? then why don’t you link to this imaginary store of yours? Still, oats do cost less than most other foods.

Eggs: the price of eggs have been rising, so we can’t add this into our new and better list below.

Kale: “usually a dollar a bunch” – what’s that? $1 a lb? well, we’ll take your word on it.

Potatoes: we’re not sure how “dirt cheap” these are, but we do know that they’re not complex carbohydrates, not whole grain so thus will not be listed.

Apples: good item!

Nuts: not economical

Bananas: not the most nutrient-dense food, but good for its price at ~50 cents a lb

Garbanzo Beans: yep, beans are a good choice at 0.50 – $1 a lb

Broccoli: one of the most healthiest foods, though we’ll need to find out their typical cost prior to adding them to the list.

Watermelon: need to find typical cost

Wild Rice: brown rice works

Beets: need to find typical cost

Butternut Squash: “usually less than a dollar a pound” – need to verify that

Whole Grain Pasta: good choice!

Sardines: not one of the heather fishes, but it is cat food: http://www.petfooddirect.com/store/product_detail.asp?pf_id=3022327

Spinach: “year round for less than a dollar” – need to verify that

Tofu: another good choice

Lowfat Milk: “but per serving, it’s still under a dollar” – why would you go per serving when servings are different quantities for different items which makes it a bad measure.. this is just stupid

Pumpkin Seeds: very bad choice, too high in saturated fat

Coffee: not a health food, jus a regular food

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And there we have it, version 0.1 of the new and better list of economical & healthy foods (and it’s organized):

Apples
Bananas
Kale
Oats
Whole Grain Pasta
Garbanzo Beans
Tofu

can small & light make life easier?

The laptop said to be the world’s smallest and lightest at http://gizmodo.com/5025164/hands-on-sony-vaio-z+series-worlds-smallest-lightest-blu+ray-laptops, and sure, compactness helps in mobility, but if it doesn’t have enough speed to do what you need to do, it won’t help make life easier. The cost also needs to be affordable. Since the laptop is out of the picture as an item that would help make life easier, how about the site gizmodo? Well, they didn’t even list the specs in an user-friendly manner.

firefox 3 review

Pros: a few new features; somewhat improved performance; does not support outdated OS versions such as Win 95, 98, and Me or Mac OS X.
Cons: degraded tab drag-drop function that now shows a transparency of the tab being moved.

Released early this month, I was hotly anticipating the new version albeit to much disappointment. The page zoom function is the single best improvement I saw though surprisingly as mentioned on http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/firefox3.asp, IE7 already had that. A review at http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/17/25TC-firefox_1.html says that it’s faster, but from experience Firefox 3′s is only a somewhat improved, and consumes insignificantly less memory. Other reviews can be found at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2317300,00.asp, http://www.techreviewsource.com/content/view/173/, http://macapper.com/2008/06/01/publish-firefox-3-a-safari-users-review/, http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/06/firefox-3-review/, http://reviews.cnet.com/browsers/firefox-3/4505-3514_7-33087853.html?hhTest=1, and http://www.crn.com/software/208403208

Organizing bookmarks hasn’t improved, though it has changed – it’s now call “Library.” Nothing else worth mentioning besides that it’s pretty much the same, though hopefully future extensions will improve the surfing experience.

best blogging software comparison

When you google, it’s like gambling – you typically can’t predict what the outcome(s) will be. Deciding on a blogging platform led to sites like http://digg.com/software/Blog_Software_Comparison_Chart, and http://lifehacker.com/software/blogging/compare-blogging-software-146190.php, but actual comparisons was found on http://asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm, http://www.ojr.org/ojr/images/blog_software_comparison.cfm and http://www.weblogmatrix.org/. While the last one appears to be better done, if these comparisons had the capacity to filter each feature, it would be surely help make life easier; unfortunately all of these comparisons are outdated.

A shame really, so I rolled some lucky dices and here. we. are.