The terrible loin pain woke me up in the middle of the night. The consistent pain almost drove me crazy. It was a restless night. Tried hard to fall asleep but no vain. The pain constantly dragged me out of my dream. Took the pain killer but it took hours to act. Rolling back and forth on the bed until I finally felt asleep. It was an awful night. Health is the most important thing in your life, but most people ignore it all day. Once you realize how health is important to you, this may be the sign that you are getting old. Young people tend to trade health for a little bit of time, but when they grow old enough, they will trade 2X time for just a hope to regain their health.

The load time of a web page has directly impact on a website/blog. It is the first impression the visitors have on your blog. Long load time of a blog will harm the user experience. Statistics shows that if the load time of a web page exceeds 10 seconds, the blog may loose 1/3 of its regular visitors. Therefore optimizing the load time is an essential task to any blog and websites.

Pingdom Provides several useful tools, including Fall Page Test, DNS Health, Ping And Traceroute. The Fall Page Test creates a chart of the size and the loading time for every single element in the URL that you want to test. It’s very straight forward and it helps you to spot the bottleneck. It helps me to reduce the load time of my blog from originally 10+ seconds to now only 4 seconds. If your blog is experiencing long loading time, you got to try this, as it may help you to throttle up your blog.
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Puppy Linux is a extremely light weight Linux. It generally runs from a liveCD, USB thumb drive, or hard disk. The liveCD is approximately 85~128MB, which is very small when comparing to other distribution of Linux. It’s loaded with a GUI, a word processor, a browser, a video player, terminal, and any other applications which you would likely to use on a daily basis.
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Since the debut of the new 4th generation of iPhone, everyone is crazy about this beautiful gadget. However, Comsumer Reports recently removed iPhone 4 from its most recommended list because of the reception issues iPhone had encountered. Apple claimed that this issue was not software related or hardware related. An iPhone user even email Apple to inquiry the issue. Steve Jobs replied that it was due to the incorrect way of holding the phone. It turns out that it is the antenna band that causes the issue. Whenever a user touches the antenna band with his hand, it shorts out the antenna, thus dropping the reception. This is obviously a design flaw that Apple is unwilling to admit.


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As I try to create my booklist with the WordPress plugin, Now Reading Reloaded, I found that it has compatibility issues with my current theme, Mystique. It turns out that Now Reading Reloaded may not be compatible with many modern WordPress themes. The compatibility issues are caused by templates that came with the plugin. When I try to view the book, the whole theme just crashed.

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