Programming is an exercise in mental stamina, and a developer may have to hold intense concentration for hours at a time. This can cause unnecessary stress for the programmer, and also physical pains, such as a sore wrist, back aches, and eye strain. Unless you are the type that eats, and breathes programming, you will probably feel the wear and tear of this career over time. But there are a few programming stress management tips I could give that can make your days go by smoothly.

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Some of the greatest empires in society has been built on cheap labor. 25% of the Roman Empire, and 30% - 40% of Italy were slaves. During the peak of the United Kingdoms power, 5% of their population were slaves. And for those of us who grew up in America, we’ve all heard about the horrors of slavery time and time again. Slavery were vital economic pillars of society that allowed these nations to grow in power. Although slavery has been abolished in most developed countries today, with all the loop holes, modern day slavery still exists in the form of outsourcing, migrant workers, and something called an “Internship”.

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Math has never been my strongest subject, although I should be good at it, considering I hold a Computer Science Degree.  Still this didn’t stop me from learning a valuable lesson in  my 9th grade Algebra class, which had saved me from a lifetime of indentured servitude.  It’s called compound interest, and here is the equation on how to calculate interest,

For the last few months a lot of things have happened to me. I got married, started a new job at Michael Stars, I ended up taking some clients on for my side business, and I’m trying to promote this website. When you are doing this many things, you are bound to crash and burn. I pretty much sleep later than I should be sleeping, and I wake up feeling like my eyes are on fire. It’s not pleasant to be feeling this way, and on top of that I haven’t been working out as much as I should or taking care of myself very well. I even think that my hygiene hasn’t been up to par lately.

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The world is in crisis, we are having a population explosion, and it’s wreaking havoc on our environment. Did you know that in the 1950’s there were only about 2.5 billion people on this earth. Out of all the millenniums of human history we were left with only 2.5 billion people in the 1950’s. In only 60 years from that time we are now stuck with 6.5 billion people, and that number keeps growing. With this many people on earth, we are crowding out every other living species, human suffering has increased, and because of our lust for energy we are warming up this planet like a microwave. I’m afraid for this planets survival, so when I hear a story about a women (Nadia Sulaiman) from Bellflower California having 8 babies, with 6 children prior, I get real upset. I feel this women should have no support from anyone, and should live with her children in a homeless shelter. Irresponsibility such as this should not be rewarded.

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Dear Diary,

On January 18th 2009, I was coming home from church after teaching my Sunday School class. While I was driving back home my tires popped, and I started losing control of my steering wheel.  The car directly behind me was tailgaiting and it nearly hit me while I was trying to change lanes.  I was lucky though, because there weren’t many cars on the road, but if it was a regular weekday then I probably wouldn’t be writing this right now.  So after I parked the car, I called my husband, and he ended up running 2 miles from our apartment to rescue me *haha*. I’m such a lucky girl.

I recently read this blog from homemakerbarbi.com and it was describing retro 80’s baby clothes.

The website is called Retro Babies, and they have the cutest clothes for babies at the site. If you are a child of the 80’s and you love to live life through your children, then check out retro baby. This will give you a good trip down memory lane, without the side effect of feeling old.

Retro Baby

We just came from the rose parade and saw this message to the police in one of our photo’s.

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A filipino singer/songwriter I discovered online. I love his song about Gentlemen, it’s a very beautiful song. I’m not actually sure if he wrote this song, but if he did, then kudo’s. I’ll keep my slanted eyes on this guy, not in a sexual manner though.

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Dear Diary,

On January 1, 2009 we had finished watching the Rose Parade in Pasadena, and it was the first time we had seen it in person. Knowing that it would be pretty crowded near the parade grounds, we figured that we would take the metro rail there. When nearing closer to the parade the metro was getting more and more crowded, but I prefer this over trying to find parking for 1 hour. I won’t sugar coat my metro experience though, I admit to a few scary moments on our way to Pasadena. Midway into our trip there was a drunk white guy talking in a ghetto accent, and I couldn’t understand a single word that came out his filthy mouth. The few words that did make sense was when he told my husband about how his dad died for him in Korea. What the heaven? Anyways, he smells like he didn’t take a bath for years, and we tried our best to not give him eye contact.

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