Never Spill Your Boss's Coffee

Never ever spill your boss's coffee. Especially in the morning just right after he tasted the coffee and realize that today's coffee is perfect. If you simply replace the coffee from any coffee shop nearby without doing some research, you'll make things worst. Your boss will not be happy if the coffee taste not as good as the previous. So you either get the same coffee or a much better taste coffee, or just don't get any coffee at all if there is no way you can get a good cup of coffee. It's going to be a long day if you spill your boss's coffee early in the morning. 

15 Things You should Know About Caffeine

As Much as I love my daily coffee, I try not to go over 3 cups per day. I just need my coffee to get me through the day, the work and the pressure. Most important of all, wake me up in good mood to enjoy my life. I just can't imagine how my life going to be without coffee.


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Yahoo Introduces 5 Amazing Free Software

According to the blog post title “Upgrade Your Life: Amazing free software” from Yahoo News, good software doesn’t have to be expensive or cost money at all. Well, if certain free software is able to help or provide the service you needed, that’s consider good enough. As FREE has become of the popular marketing strategy online, you’ll find lots of FREE software anywhere. As there are too many FREE software, finding the right suitable software can be a headache. Some of the ways to determine the right software to use is try it out one by one, read through recommendation and search for the most popular software. Either way you still need to spend some time to actually experiment the software because you’re the only person who knows if it suits. I suppose the best time saving method is getting recommendation info from a well-known website, for example Yahoo News. Yup, just like the blog post I introduce above. It’s definitely better than searching free software blindly from the search engine.

Yahoo is shutting down MyBlogLog

Yahoo is shutting down MyBlogLog and termination will be done on 24th May 2011. As an option, Yahoo has suggested that we move on to try out Yahoo Pulse. I have been using MyBlogLog for some time and I’ve tried Yahoo Pulse, but still I prefer MyBlogLog better.

The reason is simple. MyBlogLog provides the services I want but Yahoo Pulse do not. I have much control over MyBlogLog and the service is built for the benefits of users. I get to promote my blogs, gain traffic and built tags and backlinks to my blogs. Yahoo Pulse does not give much freedom to users to do such things. Yahoo Pulse wants users to interact and participate but does not gives anything in return for users. For Yahoo Pulse, Yahoo has much control over it. Users can only follow the path designed accordingly. At MyBlogLog it feels like Yahoo drops you in an island and you’re free to do almost anything.

P/S: I just hope that somebody out there will purchase MyBlogLog from Yahoo and keeps the service alive. I’m sure with some modification and changes, MyBlogLog and become big and profitable. There is absolutely no reason to just shut it down.

The things about Warranty

As a consumer, the so call warranty seems to becoming an enemy instead of a friend. Back from the time when the word warranty introduced, it sounds like a guardian who protects customers from any faulty in a particular period. Now customers need to pay extra for extended warranty. Worst of all, the word warranty becomes a method to persuade customers to buy products.

At the beginning, warranty is a risk bare by sellers so that customers feel safe using the product. That means a certain period of time, any faulty will bear by seller. Sellers need to be confident with the products as those are the promises saying that their products are good. Customers don’t have to worry about anything within the warranty period. That’s considering a guarantee from the seller. Those products definitely won’t have any problem within the warranty period. Some of them even work fine for a long time after the warranty period expired.

Nowadays they give customers a very long period of warranty. Not because the products are able to stay good for that period, but it’s a method to boost sales. There is absolutely nothing to do with products being a good boy within the warranty period. For some sellers, I still able to accept the one to one exchange if the product happens to broke down within the warranty period. For this, they already calculated the cost of possible faulty products and included into the price of the products sold. That means sellers are able to earn more than enough to pay for the faulty products.

The worst case of making use of warrant by the sellers is exchanging parts or products for free but customers need to pay for the labor cost. In this case usually the period of warranty given is long and there is nothing to do with products being good within the warranty period. Some warranty even goes until 5 to 10 years. They impose such a long period of warranty because they want customers to go back to them when there is something wrong with the products. One of the good examples for such case is cars. In order to keep on enjoying the warranty period, customers need to send in their cars only to the appointed service center. There is one guarantee that customers will see clearly which is there will certainly something break down within the period of warranty. There will definitely a need to exchange faulty parts and the labor cost will be expensive. The labor cost includes the cost of the spare parts and the revenue. At the end of the day, service center is still a business to make money. There is no such thing as free services and warranty which does not required payment. In other words it is just another business trick to make money from customers after sales.

P/S: The true meaning of warranty is that customers are guaranteed without any faulty within the given period. Besides if products are well design without any problems, there is no need for warranty. Spare me the warranty and just give me good products.

This is Why I Never Quit Drinking Coffee

I love coffee. Sometimes when I’m rushing my assignment, I can go until 4~5 cup of coffee a day. I suppose that might be a bit too much coffee for a day but I just can’t stop myself. When I’m busy, I just don’t count how much coffee I had. By the time I realize and start counting, I’m already at my 4thcup of coffee. So whenever I see an article discussing about the benefits of drinking coffee, I’ll read it, repost it and discuss about it. It’s a way to make me feel better for having too much coffee. Here’s a blog post title “5 health reasons to not quit coffee” from Yahoo Shine. Oh I love my coffee.
Below are 5 of the reasons listed:

1. It protects your heart.
2. It diverts diabetes.
3. Your liver loves it.
4. It boosts your brain power.
5. It helps your headaches.

Especially for the last two reasons which boosts brain power and reduces headaches, I kind of had lots of experience about it. For the other three reasons, I suppose there is no way to feel it directly. Well, at least I won’t be worry too much for drinking too much coffee.

The view from back seat of the car

I’m always the person who drivers the car when it comes to traveling. That’s the faith of having my own car. Unless somebody else offering me a ride, driver’s seat is the only place for me. Occasionally when there is a need to car pool with family members or colleague, than there is a chance I get to experience the joy of sitting at the back of the car with my hands free.

I love travelling. I love to drive my car exploring places. The scenery along the road and the music of my choices is a wonderful way to spend my time driving. I don’t need any company on my road trip because it will spoil my original plan. Well, when you have somebody along with you in the car, conversation definitely occurs. It’s like you’re trap with another person in a small room and both of you have nothing else to do but talk. So the entertainment of choice becomes chit chat instead of enjoying the view and listening to the music. Plus the so call entertainment chit chat might become strange and uncomfortable if you’re company with a person which has a different channel of mind set.

When you’re at the back seat of the car, the view and responsibility are different. You can eat, drink, read a book, enjoy the scene along the road, play with your smart phone and working with your laptop. I suppose that is why some people prefer to hire a driver. But I think they are trying to make the time either for work or rest while they are on the road.

P/S: I still prefer to drive alone instead of having others to drive me around.

Butterfly Black Coffee

It’s the beginning of the New Year 2011. Having a nice cup of black coffee is still the most enjoyable moment for me in the morning. Once in a while I’ll go to my favorite coffee house and order my favorite cup of black coffee. Especially when it’s a cold windy morning, the smell of the coffee can really ease my chill. Sometimes my laptop will not follow me to the coffee house because I consider a distraction for keeping me from enjoying my coffee. A cold wooden table with only a cup of my favorite black coffee is the image that I always picture. Paper cup is nice but still I prefer a clear glass of coffee cup. With both hands holding on to the warm cup of coffee, it really feels comfortable. While waiting for the cup of coffee to cool down a little bit, I usually check out the surroundings and the people around. It’s one of the ways to kill some time while enjoying my favorite cup of coffee. Sometimes I just stare at the surface of the coffee cup and check out the shape of the bubbles form. The shape can be anything with the help of my imagination. This is how we should enjoy a cup of our favorite coffee.

The perfect cup of Coffee

I always wanted a perfect cup of coffee. Especially early in the morning right before I start my work, a nice perfect cup of coffee will boost my energy to deal with any work for the day. I’m not really good in making my own cup of coffee. The best that I can do is going for the instant coffee pack. Honestly, coffee that I purchase from Starbuck or MacDonald taste far better from coffee that I make. I could take the time to learn to make my perfect cup of coffee but that’s just too much time consuming. Check out the post title “A perfect cup of coffee?” and you’ll understand how much work and effort you need to do in order to make a perfect cup of coffee.

The End of 2010 and The Beginning of 2011

A lot of things have been going on in 2010 and lots of changes throughout the last 12 month. Still the only thing that is not changing is my coffee. I’m still having my favorite coffee every morning. Each year when it comes to the last day of the year, it’s review time. It’s a time to look back of what we did and what improvement we should do. At most we should prepare ourselves to do better next year. This year I promise myself to work hard on blogging. I manage to write at least 2 posts a day and I hope to write at least 3 blog posts per day in 2011. My online income has improved and stable at the moment, but still haven’t reach my minimum target amount. I hope that my online earning will increase drastically next year so that I can get on with my other plans. There are lots of things that I’m hoping to achieve next year, but I have to do it one at a time step by step.

This year I manage to bring at least 3 of my blogs in the first two pages of Google search results for some keywords. I suppose next year will be focus more on making use of the traffic to make money. Frankly speaking, I will need some income to invest on my blogs and make it better. If I really want to make blogging as my full time job, I need to make enough money to survive so that I can continue blogging. The main goal is not about making a lot of money, it’s about making enough money to do what I like. In my case, it’s simply just blogging.

The one that preparing our favorite coffee

As a coffee lover, we tend to be the one standing in front of the coffee bar or cash counter paying for our cup of favorite coffee. We enjoy watching our coffee being prepare and smell the flavor before tasting it. I suppose that’s the most enjoyable period in the early morning before working.

Have you ever wonder what it’s like taking the opposite side of receiving the coffee? Yes, the one who needs to wake up much earlier having the job of preparing the coffee for thousands of people who are on their way to work. I have been writing from my point of view as a coffee drinker, coffee taster, coffee buyer and coffee evaluator. Now let us hear the voice from the one that serving our favorite coffee.

This is a letter especially for coffee House customers.

Free up Computer Resources with Appsmake AppBooster

When it comes to playing game like World of Warcraft online, you need an updated computer with high performance. Especially with the latest release of Cataclysm expansion version, you’ll also need a good video card and updated software driver. If you’re trying to run the game in your 2 years old computer, you might need to tune your computer setting to free as many resources as possible for the game. One way to do this is to use AppBooster from Appsmaker.

AppBooster is able to boots up your memory, CPU performance and internet connection speed by disabling unnecessary programs and hardware support temporally. Some of the programs and hardware that you’re able to disable includes Bluetooth, printer, mobile devices, scanner, help support programs and many more. The basic edition is FREE to download and it’s more than enough to free up lots of resources.

Coffee with Alcohol

I never try much on coffee with alcohol but for some of the coffee alcohol that my friend introduce, it taste good. Especially during Christmas season when the weather is cold, a hot cup of coffee with alcohol can warm you up. Coffee with alcohol is suitable when friends and family getting together for a drink. It’s definitely not when I’m trying to stay awake trying to complete my work. Plain simple black coffee is still the only one for me during working hour. Here a post about “Coffee Drinks and Coffee Drink Recipes with Alcohol” which you can try to make on this holiday season. Enjoy it with your friends and family. Merry Christmas.

Does the flavor of the coffee affected by the altitude of the location grown?

Although the geography location of coffee grown is in the tropical, but the altitude of the location might affect the flavors. According to the post “The Effect of Altitude on Coffee Flavor”, the altitude of which coffee is grown contributes significantly to a coffee’s taste profile. I never did included altitude as a factor of the flavors until I read the post. I do believe the soil and water of the location grown affects the flavor. Well, there’s only one way to find out if it’s true or not. We just have to go ahead and taste the coffee with different altitude. It will be better to make sure that the soil and water is the same so that we only have altitude as variable to really confirm that altitude affects the flavor. There is a chart in the post above which explains the flavors with different altitude. It seems that the flavor of the coffee taste better in a higher altitude.

Having creamer for your Coffee

I’m not a fan of coffee creamer because most of the time I just enjoy having plain simple black coffee. A simple black coffee without sugar or creamer allows me to taste the original flavor of the coffee. For some of you coffee lovers, who like to include sugar and creamer, make sure that you’re consuming them right and in a small range. Having too much sugar or creamer might not be good to our health. Especially when you’re purchasing creamer from the stores, you might want to check out the ingredients of the creamer before using them.

If you’re a coffee lover that goes with coffee creamer, perhaps you might want to make your own coffee creamer. Homemade coffee creamer will definitely taste better and healthier. Check out the post title “Homemade Coffee Creamer” from Deliciously Organic and you’ll find some recipe for homemade coffee creamer. I think this is just a basic recipe. But for a start it’s good enough to get you create your own coffee creamer. You may use this recipe as a basic to start create your own flavors of coffee creamer. Having a list of homemade coffee creamer to serve your guest and yourself will be nice.

Get $3 Free in MP3 Downloads from Amazon

Amazon is giving out $3 Free for MPS downloads. It might be a bit rush because by the time that I find out this offer, you have less than a day to clam the credit. The promotion actually offered for a limited time from November 22nd 2010 12AM PST until November 29 2010 11:59PM PST. You must redeem the credit right before the given time. You can use the money to purchase MP3s sold at Amazon.com. Unfortunately this promotion is offered for US citizens with billing addresses in the 50 United States. That’s too bad for those who stay outside of US, but I’m sure most of you have other ways to get your favorite songs for FREE. By the way for those who are able to redeem the promotion, you need to enter the given code to get the FREE $3.

Norton Safe Web for Facebook

It’s a surprise to see that Norton appears in Facebook too. There are two things that went through my mind when I discover this. Either Norton is using this method to advertise in Facebook or it’s just not safe to play around Facebook without any protection. Honestly I think there is a little bit of both mention above. No doubt Facebook is not a safe place to click around. If you’re a frequent user of Facebook, I’m sure you’ve seen or even experience the auto post of pages that you can’t delete. Although that’s not a treat to your own PC but it really does disturb the usage of Facebook. As Norton Safe Web is FREE to use, so it’s no harm trying it out. One thing that I’m concern is that we need to grant access for Norton to go through our profile and information. Once you’ve install the application, you can see that Norton Safe Web will go through all the feeds and links posted in your Facebook.

Online Checklist to get things done

Have you ever used a checklist to complete your tasks? I still remember I used to do this using the old fashion way. That is to write out all the things I need to do on a piece of paper. It more like a reminder paper than a checklist. But still I think that’s the best method I can think of back then.

    Now I don’t have to write my own checklist as I’ve found one website that has the checklist that I needed. It might not be perfect but at least it’s better than the checklist that I used. The checklist website has a lot of categories. The categories include automotive checklists, business checklists, computer checklists, employment checklists, event checklists, family checklists, finance checklists, health checklists, home checklists, personal checklists, recreation checklists, safety checklists, sports checklists and travel checklists. Those are just the general checklists. You’ll get a more detail checklist if you click on those categories.

    Although the checklist website is a simple tool, it still works the same as the old fashion way. The checklist website is free but you are required to sign up for an account.

Get a Free Blog at Weblog

Weblog is another free blog hosting service just like Wordpress. I think you’ll find lots of similar features and display just like Wordpress. Everything is free unless you want to use your own domain name or upgrade your hosting services. Some of the attractive key features at Weblog are as below:

• 2 Gigabytes of file storage
• Lots of Custom Theme
• Integrated stats
• Built in SEO
• Spam protection
• Easy importing
• Link management
• Cross blog communication support
• Comments
• Premium service
• Pages
• Plugins and widgets
• Ping support
• Multiple authors
• Privacy
• Full user registration

If you have experience working at Wordpress, I suppose you have no problem using Weblog. It save you lots of time learning to blog at Weblog as everything is almost the same as Wordpress. You may check out Weblog Alexa ranking and traffic data. Although Weblog might not as popular as Wordpress and Blogger but still Weblog attracts a lot of traffic under the keyword free blog.

Coffee School for those interested in opening own coffee shop

Are you interested in opening your own coffee shop? If you have no idea on how and where to start, perhaps you may attend a coffee school to learn all about it. The coffee school that you can consider attending is The American Barista & Coffee School.

    Does it necessary to go for a coffee school to start and run a small coffee shop? Well, in my opinion if you can spare the time, effort and investment, why not? Honestly you can learn all the necessary skills and methods from anybody who has experience in opening up a coffee shop. That’s not a difficult thing to achieve. The most important part is gaining the connection and continues supports from every party throughout your coffee serving career. There are lots of benefits in attending The American Barista & Coffee School which you can find listed in the website. I believe it’s very difficult or impossible if you’re planning to open a coffee shop just by yourself. Most coffee shops are franchised which makes them very hard to compete. It’s like taking up a platoon of army alone. In order to compete with these coffee giants and survive, you’ll need all the help that you can get. That means other than learning all the skills, formulas and methods from the school. You need to setup your own connection. Especially if you want to start your own unique style of coffee shop, you need all the help you can get from the school, schoolmates or maybe people who has the same dream which opens up same style of coffee shop just like you.

Syphon Coffee Site Seeing

Before having a taste of Syphon coffee, watching the preparation process is an enjoyment. It's like having coffee with your eyes. At the beginning we enjoy watching the cup of coffee making in process. We see the coffee. During the process of preparing the cup of coffee using Syphon method, we can smell the coffee right after the coffee powder is pour into the hot water. As we prepare ourselves for the taste of the cup of coffee, our coffee addiction and desire are well stir up by the smell of the coffee and interesting preparation. I suppose the taste of Syphon coffee will taste as good as we think... eventually.



The Syphon Project from Jacob Forrest on Vimeo.

Beer 101 Class Education

Beer is one of my favorite drinks other than coffee. Beer is for fun, coffee is for work. Both drinks have their own purpose and needs. Although I learn to drink beer during my university life but I did not take any course about beer. I honestly think that university should include beer as a course in the study. We should treat beer the same like sex education. Having too much beer or drinking beer the wrong way can be dangerous. It’s all about learning the necessary knowledge to face the world that fills with beer. This website Beer 101 might not be what we expected but still we can learn something about Beer.

Coffee and the Cup

It’s a nice lovely cup, but what matters most is the coffee. I prefer to have a good delicious coffee with a great smell in a simple pain white coffee cup. I suppose I just cannot take it when the cup looks good but the coffee taste bad. Of cause it will be best to have a nice brew coffee in a nice looking cup. If I cannot have both, I’ll go for the taste of coffee instead of the looks of the cup.