the modern man's bible

That is how I believe it is meant to be, but I will say that I will probably carry it with me until I have completed all the page-turning chapters!

That is right, for those of you that know me well, know that I don't read unless it is school related (and I am not evena fan of that). But I have purchased my first "outside of school" book at Hastings yesterday.  What it is it? Simply put (as the title states) -

The Man's Book - The Essential Guide for the modern man,  by Thomas Funk

This book tells a man nearly everything he would need to know. Here are some of the chapters...

• Health


• Women


• Dress


• Outdoors


• Drinking


• Smoking


• Cooking


• Arts & Science

So, need to know how a suit is supposed to fit? How to make a whiskey nightcap? What liquir to stock in your house? How to tie certain knots? How to start a fire or even carve a turkey? That is right, it is all in The Man's Book.

It is a rather quick read and as the book says, it is organized in the way that men think, so finding things in it is very easy.

So, grab a copy and know every secret that a man should know! haha....

My favorite so far is the different trims of beards. I had no idea the different names of beards. That part has been pretty funny!

some people just love them both

If you are like me, and have turned into a social network addict, try this cool little Adobe Air application.... TweetDeck.



Thank heavens for this program! With one application you can update your Twitter account and Facebook status. The really nice part is that it also shows a number of other helpful things like your direct messages in Twitter and your replies.

And since it is an Adobe Air app, it has a very small footprint and takes up little space on your computer. And it runs very smoothly.

It gets an A+ from me and it is just in beta right now!

jmo's last.fm

I have been running around the past couple days messing with my sites (as you might be able to tell). And in finding a new widget to show all my social sites I have joined, I realized there were some I haven't looked at yet. Holy cow! that is terrible!

So being the computer geek I am, I had to fix that. And I found some really neat stuff, so it is a good thing.

First, if you haven't looked at Last.fm, please, go do it! It is really cool! You get a free account, setup a short profile, and start looking up your favorite bands. The cool thing is that just about every band you can think of has a radio station for them. They are stations started by just users of the site, but they put some really good tracks. The only thing is that in order to have your own station, you do have to pay a fee. But to do it, you also have to have a variety of 45 songs from 15 different artists. If you don't have that, then you can't do your own radio statio to begin with.

But for free, you can look up your favorite artist and listen to the station that is already running. So one of my favorites is The Pogues Radio. They have a bunch the Pogues and Shane MacGowen, The Tossers, Floggin Molley, The Real McKenzies, The Dubliners, and the list goes on. Great celtic drinking music! haha... Take a look at my profile - http://www.last.fm/user/jonsmof

The second is Delicious. It is very simple, a bookmarking site. You sign up for a free account, it adds a few buttons to your browser, but when you hit a site you like, then you can tag it and add it to your account page. Your bookmark page is available to everyone, so it is kind of a "bookmarking the best on the web" type deal. But pretty cool. I am using mine to start building web design reference sites for my team at work. Take a look at my profile - http://delicious.com/jonsmof