Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Paul McKenna Can Make You Rich. Really?

Filed under: Other — Malcolm Owen @ 10:16 am

So, yes, I admit it. I’m a fat man. I have done the dieting thing to death, and I’m still blubber-coated. I have tried so many ways to diet, it’s not funny, and most of them are torture…
The one way that seemed to work was Paul McKenna’s “I Can Make You Thin”, which helped me change my eating habits for a good few months, but I soon fell back into the same routine of bingeing after I stopped listening.
I also have his Instant Confidence book and CD, which made me feel an awful lot better in my job, and combining that with the slight diet success, McKenna might be on to something.

The new book and CD combination - “I Can Make You Rich”.

Yes, really. Paul went around the world, talking to various billionaires, rich people and highly successful businessmen, and decided on what mental qualities these people have that us great unwashed do not. And since I have a track record of some success with these CDs and books by him (until I stop listening, that is), I have decided that it’s still worth a try. At the very least, I’ve lost a few pounds to Mr McKenna, but it would be very interesting indeed if this really did work.

Check back this time next year to see how well/badly I am doing…

Side Note - A friend in work asked if he could borrow the book if it worked for me at all. If it did work, and worked well, would I still be working there to be able to lend it out?

Side-Side Note - Is it at all pretentious to write a book about becoming rich, then making the hardback copy have a gold-effect edge to the pages, making the book look rich? Or is this part of the whole system?

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Saturday, October 13, 2007

Free Music in Vast Quantities is Hard to Comprehend. Help?

Filed under: Apple — Malcolm Owen @ 1:50 pm

You know, it’s a really quite strange thing to have problems with. As you know, thanks to that Coca Cola contest, I have become the owner of a brand new 80GB video iPod (well, technically 2, but I sold the second one for a hefty sum of notes). And as part and parcel to the way I (and a few other people I helped out) entered the contest, I ended up with a ton of free songs from iTunes.
Over 300 to be exact.
To any normal denizen of the internet, they’d say “That’s nothing, my music collection is over 5000 songs, thanks to certain websites…”, but there’s a few factors at play here. Namely (a) I don’t usually buy music, (b) I don’t download music to keep, and (c) I listen to the radio a lot. So, given the opportunity to legally download tracks to keep, I’d be happy. Anyone would.

Out of 300, I still have 180 free tracks to choose. And I have until the end of the month.

…So, any suggestions? Seriously, I need help.

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