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When you put it that way (choose to die young and rich or old and just middle-class), I'd rather live long and healthy too. Of course it's best to have both:) But I think I agree - it's tolerable to not have enough money, since most people are in that boat - but it's really scary when something's wrong with your body. Like not being able to walk on your own, or even breathe properly. We take these things for granted when we're young. Lately I'm slowly getting back to trying to eat better. I need to do it gradually so that I can make a permanent change. I've been vegetarian for 10 years, but that's not enough since it's still easy to eat unhealthy foods on a vegetarian diet.

Ha ha.... roller skating days! I paid tribute to MJ too in my own way today... I definitely loved his earlier stuff (pre-1990s) best... especially "Wanna Be Startin' Something" and its covers. There's a nice one by Emm Gryner. I think his death is truly shocking - just came out of nowhere. And he was health conscious. Just goes to show that stress (if that's what did it) really does have serious consequences. I'll always remember where I was and what I was doing when I finally actually heard about his death.

... and thanks for sharing my article!

Congrats on the NYTimes mention! Also, I really like your blog's design. Sounds like you're doing quite well!

Nice one! Definitely worth the diggs.... and more. Great resource. Will tweet!

I'm initially skeptical, for hive mind/ big brotherish reasons. Maybe just a little too much integration? Are my emails going to be visible to everyone as I type them too? Sheesh.... I don't think I'd want my posts to be visible already in "preview" as I start writing them.... that's what "preview" is for - before you publish! I kind of think Google just wants to maintain its "cutting edge" reputation, you know, that no one else can outdo them. Not sure all the social thought has gone into this.... I guess I'd have to see just what all they're trying to integrate.

Also, how do you do basic things like change colors?

And what's the difference between the custom.css file and custom_functions.php file?

thanks - again, if there's a tutorial that talks about this specifically, point me out - I've been on DIY's site but havent' seen any related to this.

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Hi Matt, thanks for all this help and the great tutorials you've got here. I'm new to Thesis and just reading up on it - I agree with whoever said it was more difficult than they thought. I understand the very basics of hooks and functions now, but I don't know enough to even be able to ask what I want to ask.

I know Thesis comes with standardized hooks, but what about functions? Do I just make up the name for my function? (is that possible)? I want to add some code in my sidebars, images, etc. and I think I know the hooks I need, but not sure what functions I need. Do I just give the function a name I make up?

Anything you can point me to at my level here would be great!

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So this is a bit off topic, and I'm not sure where to look for this question, I'm still new and reading through the tutorials -- but how do I simply add a block of my own code (eg., adsense) to the sidebars?

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Great tips, these are definitely needed in the blogo-twittersphere.... I would also add thanking people in return when they retweet you, write back, or other wise help out with something. This can be obvious, but people appreciate it.

People shouldn't be eating animals anyway, with or without political and social justification for doing so.

Also wrong. Just because it's not spreading among pigs has *absolutely nothing* to do with how quickly it can spread by mutation among humans.

"Swine flu" is H1N1, a combo human-bird-pig virus. It does not *come from* pigs or killed pigs in the form of pork! People, keep in mind that not everyone posting here is of equal education on this matter. No pigs are sick with this.... and viruses mutate so quickly on their own anyway - has nothing inherently to do with all the other junk humans feed pigs for slaughter.

Great stuff; I've come to many of these conclusions myself but it's great to see them affirmed by someone else. I tried putting Disqus on my site, but it didn't work with the code and I tried to move it around but it wouldn't budge. So I dropped it.

Really like the graffiti/ comment analogy!

It's not superficial hype. There is real cause for concern. We can hardly put it in the same box as Ashton Kutcher. Over the weekend I wrote an article on being prepared in case something like a pandemic ever *does* break out (we do live in the real world, after all...). : - http://ow.ly/4aDn

Some points to remember:
1. No pigs have been infected or sick here.
2. It's a COMBO virus swine/bird/human. It has next to nothing to do with pigs.
3. What matters is that it is passing from human to human.

I agree, I agree.... I've done this too.... and am still one of those "little guys" looking for more interaction and connections, so hit me up!:) I want to meet people going somewhere and working on their own success! Love self-development topics and personal finance.

I found the media event kind of fascinating, in a certain way, actually. Enough so that I made a transcript of Kutcher's "victory speech" - it's the third post down on my blog if you want to read it (ie., if you missed the video). Not because I'm any Kutcher fan or anything, but because it was interesting beyond its superficiality.

lol. I understand. Follow me @MoneyEnergy.

? But you don't have to use it through a mobile device.... you can still twitter from home on your desktop/ landline...

It's weird that there's supposedly all this Twitter backlash - where was the Facebook backlash? Did I miss it? I can think of way more reasons that people would have probs with Facebook, not Twitter. Twitter is pretty cool, in cool and relatively unproblematic ways - see my previous post too. But I also agree with Jason's comment a few posts above.

@MoneyEnergy

Right, I think Twitter is really quite different than Facebook. Heck, just look at Facebook's actual origins. Twitter allows for the socializing without the same sense of invasion or erosion of other privacy/social boundaries that can happen with Facebook.

I really like the last point: having money in and of itself is not the goal. The goal is to be financially FREE, which is to say that you're not thinking about, are not forced to think about, money all the time. Similarly, net worth is not what you should thus focus on, but cashflow.... enough to meet your needs and basic wants for the life you want to live.

Nice idea, I like it.... don't independent pf bloggers count? We're the secret that's right out in the open. I offer all kinds of great free financial advice that's worked for me:)!

I totally understand where you're coming from! Some of these are my thoughts, too. I was just commenting to Arohan (of PersonalDividends.com) the other day that there's going to be quite the slew of PhD dissertations done about this period in economic history.... and now with China explicitly asking for a global currency.... that was supposed to be a mythical day in the future, but it's already here.

I think it will be okay too, but the landscape is going to look a lot different. I fear that the US government is going to bully other nations into hyperinflating along with it, when that's not necessary. The US, unfortunately, needs to deflate its own bubble without the rest of the world in tandem. Saw a video in which Citigroup reps went to Norway - small towns - in order to personally sell their securitized CDO's - no one in Norway really understood what they were buying, but they bought on the mythical "strength" of the US dollar/economy etc... this happened in so many countries. Peter Schiff is right that the rest of the world needs to understand they have to part with this belief, so to speak. It has nothing to do with American culture, patriotism, protectionism. It's just a simple economic matter of fact. And then we can all get over it in a few years.

So I guess I'm a realist like craig said here, too. No point in blowing things out of proportion or misinterpreting them, etc.

Yes, thanks for the succinct tips. Some of them are kind of natural - interesting to see how this is being hyped as social marketing, when it's just people being people! Good stuff.

Absolutely fascinating, but crazy... not sure why anyone would want to put their body under such hazardous duress? Great if you've made it work for you:) Interesting to me to learn that one can gain 2-3 pounds by taking a shower.

One thing I didn't see addressed: how much weight you consume/lose just by using your brain, and specifically, THINKING - it takes more energy than watching TV, for example. Maybe one could add doing some really challenging intellectual task to the list?:)