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Archive for October, 2008

TV pollution

October 19, 2008

A picture is worth 1000 words. But the TV shows me the ugly face of this statement.

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Useful Firefox extensions

October 19, 2008

(BYM) Blank Your Monitor + Easy Reading – Protects your eyes a little by turning the background of the webpages to black. You can easily de/activate it with the button in the statusbar.
No Squint – Simple and effective – set the zoom level of a page and it will remember it. Also, it brings back [...]

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

October 18, 2008

From Positive Psychology News Daily
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
Margaret Lee Runbeck (1905-1956)
According to the book Emotions Revealed by Paul Ekman, the 16 types of enjoyable emotions include

sensory pleasures (

visual pleasure,
tactile pleasure,
olfactory pleasure,
auditory pleasure,
gustatory pleasure),

amusement,
contentment,
excitement,
relief,
wonder,
ecstasy or bliss, [...]