A Consumer's How To #43: Buying & Selling Online

Online shopping makes shopping much easier ever. I have used some online store to buy stuff especially books from amazon. I buy one of my calling card for about 10 years. I always concerned about credit card information. By reading some of the pay pal information I am kind of understand how it works and it sounds a better way to play for online shopping. I will look into it for better understand and if I like to use the pay pal to pay.

Wellness #42: Staying Well

I tried the "Symptom Checker" . It didn't have me the answer I expect.

I used the National Library of Medicine website . I found the doctors I was looking for. It is convenient.

I made a personal health report using My Family Health Portrait . It is interesting.

Wellness #41 - Going Green - Part 2

I start to

recycle news papers and other papers.
combine trips to save gasoline
drive the road that has less traffic lights and try to use brake as less as I can.
drive the car more smoothly.

I am going to buy a digital thermometer to program our AC and heating system.

Wellness #41: Going Green - Part 1

I used the green calculator from national wildlife fedration website. The average carbon dioxide produced by my family is lower than the national average. I am so proud of my family.

I have never been a local famer's market. I will go to the one at Rice University Campus because it's closer for me and I can go there after work. I am excited to go there.

Wellness #40: Fitness

A lot of interesting information. I like the exercise at your desk the most and start doing some of them at my desk sometimes if I remember it.

I checked my BMI and calorie requirements. My health age is only 17 and life expectancy is 80. I am happy with the results.

Wellness #39: Nutrition

I have opened an account for nutritiondata.com. I use the tool compare the nutrition between walnuts and pecan. I read some information from the website. It's convenient to have those useful tools on web.

Recipe: Pork Tenderloin over Greens with peanut-orange Sauce

1 pound pork tenderloin
1/2 cup orange juice
1/3 cup orange marmalade
2 tablespoons chunky peanut butter
1 tablespoon dijon mustard
1 1/2 teaspoons curry powder
1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
8 cups baby spanich leaves, rinsed and spun dry

1. Using a sharp knife, trim any visible fat from the tenderloin. Next, slice off the silver skin.

2. Combine the orange juice, marmalade, peanut butter, mustard, curry powder, salt and cayenne in a food processor fitted with a metal blade. Process the mixture until smooth and transfer to a zip-top plastic bag. Add the pork and gently squeeze the bag to coat the pork. Seal the bag and place it in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.

3. Oil the grill grates and preheat the grill to medium.(Alternatively, place and oven rack on the top level of the oven and preheat the broiler.) Remove the tenderloin from the plastic bag-saving the marinade-and place the pork on the grill9or on a broiler pan coated with cooking spray). Cook the pork for 10 minutes on each side. ( The meat will be rosy but cooked through.) Transfer the pork to cutting board and tent with aluminum foil for 5 minutes to rest.

4. Bring the peanut-orange marinade to a boil in a small saucepan. Reduce the heat to medium low and simmer the mixture for 1 minute.

5. Lay out four dinner plates and place an even portion of spinach leaves on each one. Cut the pork into thin slices and arrange over the greens, drizzling with any accumulated meat juices. Spoon the warm marinade over the pork and greens.

Swerves 4. Each serving is 2 cups greens, 4 ounces pork and 3 tablespoons sauce.


Nutrition Facts

4 Servings

Amount Per Serving

Calories 354.2
Total Fat 11.0 g
Saturated Fat 3.1 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 1.8 g
Monounsaturated Fat 4.8 g
Cholesterol 89.5 mg
Sodium 584.0 mg
Potassium 629.3 mg
Total Carbohydrate 26.7 g
Dietary Fiber 3.8 g
Sugars 16.5 g
Protein 36.5 g
Vitamin A 148.7 %
Vitamin B-12 10.4 %
Vitamin B-6 26.6 %
Vitamin C 73.5 %
Vitamin D 0.0 %
Vitamin E 1.8 %
Calcium 13.3 %
Copper 7.1 %
Folate 5.8 %
Iron 31.4 %
Magnesium 12.2 %
Manganese 11.2 %
Niacin 32.5 %
Pantothenic Acid 9.2 %
Phosphorus 32.3 %
Riboflavin 27.0 %
Selenium 78.1 %
Thiamin 73.1 %
Zinc 21.4 %
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

Maps # 31 Have Map, Will Travel

I have watched Google Create a Map Tutorial for a few times. They are putting out new functions constantly. I use driving directions all the time, but I have learned a lot of useful new things from the exercise, to drag the direction line to change to the way I want to go, to look at the street view of the destination surrounding before going there, etc. I tried to put a place mark on the map. All the places I wanted have marks already. I put a correction request on a wrong mark that I fund instead.

Sound #26 Making ( or listening to) music together

I looked "MySpace, Mog and Imeem". There are a lot of stuff going on there. It seems a good place to kill time and have fun for music lovers.

I used JamStudio to make a piece of music by piano and guitar.

My daughter and her friends use a program to remix several pieces of songs they like to make a bigger song. They use the remixed song to perform a talent show for their graduation ceremony of the middle school.

Spring Cleaning #28, #29, #30

It is important to get things done efficiently, so it will make people's life easier. It is interesting to read GTD and learn something new.

I have used Yahoo Calendar and email to remember and remind me for doctor's appointments and other important events for a few years. Google Calendar has more interesting looking. It seems more fun to use. I might try it later. I also want to share my calendar with my family, so everybody can put and check family events on it.

I deleted all my old emails and kept only a few useful one in my sub folders.

I have never saved any files on P drive, S drive and Z drive.

#24 #25: The sound of music!

I have read the instructions of #24, #25. I downloaded a piece of classic music "Katrine_Gislinge-Beethoven_piano_concerto_no._2,_1.movement" from "music. download.com" and transfered it on to a MP3 player. I also made a CD of my download. I downloaded(check out) a disc of music from our e-library too. It is pretty cool.

Week 10 #23 A Very Nice Experience

Thanks very much for those who make this learning opportunity so easy to obtain to anybody who wants to explore the new and populor Internet tools and technology.

I have learned a lot of new stuff from the 23 things and I am going to continue to use them in the future.

I am looking forward to learning more.

Week 9: #22 Downloadable Media

I have watched Digital Media Guided Tour and Visited HCPL's digital site.

I like the idea of elibrary. It's very very convenient and you don't need to worry about due date or lost the metiers. By the time goes we should have more and more collections and maybe different forms of digital media compatible with more portable digital devices.

Week 9 #21 podcast

I looked at Podcast.net and Yahoo podcasts. They are just some more places and forms to find information people interested in. For some reason, a lot of them were not play for me, but I did find a garden podcast I enjoy to listen and add the RSS feed to my Bloglines account.

Week 9 # 20 youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KrX5kDiql0&watch_response

I love the beauty of nature!

Week 8 # 18 Facebook, #19 Zoho Writer.

I have just opened a Zoho Writer.account. It sounds very convenient to use. I am going to post this Zoho document on my blog.

My daughter have used Facebook since she was in high school. I registered for Facebook, so I will try to get in touch with her through Facebook. I need spend some more time to play with it.

I composted this paragraph in Zoho Writer and tried to post it to my blog, but it didn't let me do it. I read the instruction and it sounds very easy.

I hope this is good enough to earn my blin for week 8. I will read more about social networking sites and web-based applications later.

Week 7 #17 Technology

We are using new technology everyday, all the time. But I never really think about it until this exercise. It amazes me when thinking how much easier our life become by using these technologies. I can't imaging how people going any where without cars and telephones or any of those modern tools. Now with GPS, you can't get lost. The only thing you need to do is to put in the address of the destination you are going to go.

People are always connected by cell phone, Internet with their families and outside world.

I am curiously expecting more new things coming out to make our lives more fun and interesting.

Week 7 #16 Wiki

I am catching up with my ihcpl assignment.

Wiki is a kind of website that people are working together to develop and update the content. It's a nice team work that let participants contribute without helping of IT people.

I see my daughter using Wikipedia all the time. I thought Wikipedia just anther popular free Internet encyclopedia. Now I know Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world.. When I was reading about Wikipedia, my first question was how reliable the information is if anyone can change the content of the encyclopedia. After I read "Strengths, weaknesses, and article quality in Wikipedia", I am kind of understanding how it works. It's interesting.

Week 6: #13, 14, 15

I have opened a Delicious account and put some web address with tag there. I also put blog lines there because I have all my iHCPL links there. I subscribed Delicious in my blog line list. I can check websites in my watch list when I login either blog lines or Delicious.

I did an advanced search for Learning 2.0 in Blog Posts, in tags and Blog Directory. Thousands of results overwhelmed me. It's like another search engine other than Google and yahoo.

Library 2.0 is too big of a thing for me to think now. What I am thinking now is to do my best to keep up with those new technology and wondering what going to happen with the technique department here if most of our library materiel become electronic format.

Week 5 # 12 Library Elf

I have four people in my family. I used to put all books in my library account, so I only needed to check one account to manage all the books my family borrow. In one summer I got in trouble because I checked out too many books. Since then I distribute every one's books in their account. But I have to check each account often. Now I can use library elf to manage all my family accounts together. It will make my life easier.

Week 5 # 11 Library Thing

Library Thing is going to be very useful to me. Currently I write down the books I am interested in my old calendar notebook with different sorting, such as, gardening; cooking; parenting etc. I also put some books on amazon web in my wish lists. Now I have a place to put, sort and tag all the books I like on Library Thing. I can check them anywhere as long as there is a computer with Internet. I haven't figure out how to put Chinese book there yet.