An explanation of my header

Have you ever wondered what the heck my header is about?  Well as you may have figured out it has a great deal to do with my road to success, but not necessarily in a specific order.

From the left, first is the my logo which is the symbolic box of my life, you can read about it at “The Adam Box?”.

Then there is the picture of me which obviously represents the man behind the plan.

Then the next paper is a piece of homework solution for an engineering course which happens to my degree in college and hopefully is my means to making money which will help lead me to success.

The airplane is a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver similar to the one seen in the movie “Sweet Home Alabama”.  This is my dream to be able to afford to part own one of these monster planes.  They have enough room for 7 people and their luggage.  The plane has a max speed of 158 mph and a range of 455 Miles.  The ideal dream vacation for me would be to have my future wife and kids to all fly to a remote lake in our “Beaver” with floats and go camping for a week.  Financial success is required for this plane though, as currently they are sold for about $500,000 not including all the insurance and maintenance fees which add another $15,000+ per year.  Yep this is a big dream!!

And lastly the notebook computer is to represent my beginning journey to success by writing about it on this blog.  For those following this blog for years to come you can witness and be a part of this journey from the beginning of documenting it.

Enjoy!

 

Adam

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Living a Life of Success.

You will find information here and everywhere else about things to do to increase your success, but the biggest thing about success is becoming a well rounded person who is comfortable in their own skin and knows what they are good at.

Having unique hobbies and talents makes use who we are and we should exploit our strengths. Finding our strengths and weaknesses comes with being adventurous with our lives and taking that stance to try new things without reservation or regret.

I came across a blog which does a good job of talking about various hobbies which truly would add spice to anyones life and possibly teach them a few things about life and success on the way. The blog name is NotSoBoringLife.com and he has written guide about Shark Fishing, Pipe Smoking, Grip Strengthening, Playing Guitar, and YoYo’s. He has many more cool things that he has written about, those were just a few of his really good ones. I forgot to mention his article on “Everything you ought to know about parasites” which made it to the front page of Digg. He is also running a contest for $100 to one of twenty blogs, so that is pretty good motivation to enter if you ask me.

Anyways, check out his site, because it is a great blog which deserves a daily visit.

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Increasing Productivity with Dual Monitors

  It has been weeks in the planning, so I finally found a good deal and bit the bullet to get a 22″ Widescreen LCD.  I have read many articles including one from New York Times, about how adding an additional monitor can increase your productivity by 30%.  Since I found myself constantly minimizing and moving windows around, I am sure I increase my efficiency by at least 25% when I am really crunching a lot of work. 

I already owned a 19″ LCD with a resolution of 1280X1024, so I knew that my only options were either another 19″ with the same resolution or a 22″ WideScreen LCD with a resolution of 1680X1050 so that the vertical pixel height was nearly the same.  Having the vertical pixel height nearly the same makes dragging windows from screen to screen easy. 

In combinaton with a Dual DVI Nvidia Card,  I am using the software UltraMon which configures the screen layouts, so that each screen can have a seperate taskbar, seperate screensavers, seperate background all while acting as on long monitor.  This program adds icons onto every window so that any window can sent to the other monitor with one click of a button or any window can fill the space of both screen with another click of a button.

The setup was easier than I ever imagined since I have read about people having a lot of problems.  The hardest thing that is still a problem now,  is the color adjustment between two monitors of different type.  Each monitor has a certain brightness and natural color, so to match the two while having the gamma and brightness correct is quite difficult.  I have been trying to find programs to help me, but they all cost a fair amount of money.  So for now it looks alright, but probably would not be great for image editing.

Anyways, I absolutely love it so far and it also makes Flight Simulator X a lot more fun.  If only I had more time to fly!

NOT MY SETUP, BUT HAVING TWO MONITORS IS GETTING CLOSER

Read some of these articles that I found if you are interested in a dual monitor setup.

Dual Monitor Better than one: Setup

The Virtues of a second screen

Two Monitors are way better than one

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MyBlogLog Experiment

I must say that I love MyBlogLog, because of the potential it gives to gain regular viewers.  I am about 95% sure that my regular views originated from MyBlogLog.  I know that most of the blogs that I check regularly were found through mybloglog.

So today I am going to join an experiment which is intended to use MyBlogLog to increase traffic and gain regular visitors.  The experiment is called MyBlogLog Wagon and I was tagged by BloggerLounge.net to continue the experiment.  Here are the simple rules.

 

1) Write a short introduction about how you found this list and include a link back to that blog.

2) COPY the rules and ENTIRE list below and post it on your blog.

3) Take “My New Community Members” and move them into the “The Original Community Members” list.

4) Find 3 new blogs, join their MyBlogLog Community and add them to the “My New Community Members” section. Remember to also add the “Join the Community” link next to your new blogs. ( Example: http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/ReformatThis/ )

5) Join as a member to each Community listed here by clicking on “Join the Community”. The goal is that all of the new Members listed will join your community, and you should do the same!

My New Community Members

FortuneWatch.com – Join the Community
My Work Related Travel Site – Join the Community
Blog for SEO Friendly Directory – Join the Community

The Original Community Members

Santoshp.com – Join the Community
FleeingtheSocialScene.com – Join the Community
TheAdamBox.com – Join the Community
CourtneyTuttle.Com – Join the Community
SmarWealthyRich.com – Join the Community
BloggerLounge.net – Join the Community
The Thinking Blog – Join the Community
Blogging For Bills – Join the Community
Randa Clay Design – Join the Community
2Perfect – Join the Community
PureBlogging – Join the Community
Dietriffic - Join the Community
Shawn Knight – Join the Community
Reformat This – Join the Community
Kelly Cho – Join the Community
Ms. Danielle - Join the Community
The Man of Silver – Join the Community
Nate Whitehill – Join the Community
Leo Chiang – Join the Community
Garry Conn – Join the Community
Samanathon – Join the Community
Mr. Gary Lee - Join the Community
Feats of a Chilean Dot Com Entrepreneur - Join the Community
Jon Lee – Join the Community
Everyday Weekender – Join the Community
Bryan’s Rants – Join the Community

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