• 28% of employees report that their overall health is “excellent,” down from 34% six years ago. Men’s overall health has declined more rapidly than women’s.
• 41% of employees report experiencing three or more indicators of stress sometimes, often or very often.
• One in three employees experiences one or more symptoms of clinical depression.
• One in five employees has trouble falling asleep and 31% awaken too early and have trouble falling back to sleep.
• 21% are receiving treatment for high blood pressure and 14% are being treated for high cholesterol.
• Nearly half of U.S. employees (49%) have not engaged in regular physical exercise in the last 30 days.
• Nearly two of three workers (62%) are overweight or obese.
• One in four workers still smokes.

What does that mean to you? Time to push back a little. Ask for a more flexible schedule, and see if you finish the job tomorrow. You never know until you try. I’m sure your boss is feeling the same way, but doesn’t want to say anything. They’re human too, and probably would like to spend more time for their families as well. What do you think?

Is your job sucking you in?

Screenshot:

When finished your search bar should look like this.

So after  a bit of Googling and hacking, I found an easy way to add a custom search into your Firefox search bar (next to the url). I even ghetto-rigged a favicon inside of it, even though it does no justice to the normal ITPub.net favicon (I wasn’t able to extract this from their website, even though their HTML source code is ONLY 50% Chinese).  Without further adieu, here are the steps necessary to make a custom Firefox search plugin for ITPub.net and begin finding your favorite IT-related books:

1. Navigate to the C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins directory of your computer (assuming you are running Windows)
2. Copy and Paste ANY of the current search plugin files (.xml) and rename it to “itpub.xml”.
3. Open the newly created .xml file in Notepad (easiest) to prepare it for editing.
4. Delete everything inside of it (or read it, if you want to know what is going on). If you choose one like Google or Yahoo! (assuming you have both of them installed), you can also see how they do their type-ahead search feature based off the first few letters that you type in the search box.
5. Paste the exact code shown below, then save and close:
   
<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
<ShortName>IT Pub</ShortName>
<Description>ITPub.Net Search</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
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<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.itpub.net/search.php">
<Param name="srchtxt" value="{searchTerms}"/>
<Param name="orderby" value="lastpost"/>
<Param name="ascdesc" value="desc"/>
<Param name="searchsubmit" value="yes"/>
</Url>
<SearchForm>http://www.itpub.net/search.php</SearchForm>
</SearchPlugin>

6. Save and close.

That’s It! Now close and restart Firefox and check the Search bar and look for your newly created ITPub.net plugin. Enjoy!

Todd McShay, ESPN Analyst – “On paper, this is one of the best drafts of 2009. I would have liked to see them take an OT with one of their two first-round picks. Wood was a bit of a reach late in the first, but he and G Andrew Levitre will ultimately become starters and boost what was the weakest area of the team entering the draft. Buffalo’s second-biggest priority was to upgrade its pass rush, and that goal was accomplished by selecting Maybin, who is the best pure edge rusher in this class. Maybin will play in a rotation with Chris Kelsay and Aaron Schobel early on and will have time to get bigger and stronger. And watch out for TE Shawn Nelson, who could turn into a late-round steal.”

The overwhelming response around the league is that the Bills did a great job but did not get the Tackle they needed to replace Jason Peters, who, if could keep his mouth shut, would have been a great player for years with the Bills.

Bills Draft Recap Video (Youtube):

NFL Draft 2009 – Buffalo Bills

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