You won’t find the Ohio State Buckeyes speaking up on behalf of the Michigan Wolverines often ever. That is, until now. With things crumbling at Michigan amid lawsuits and practice scandals, players at the school’s biggest rival are coming to their defense – at least about the so-called “ridiculous” practice schedule.
According to reports, Michigan’s coaching staff has been pushing the players to work out many more hours than is allowable according to NCAA rules. While these extra hours are “voluntary” on paper, anonymous players have said that punishment was in store for anyone who didn’t volunteer their time.
Sez the Buckeyes, …read more

If you’re trying to accomplish something as fast as possible (like me right now), training to exhaustion is the fastest way to get there.  In this stage, you want to leave yourself with nothing left after your workout(s) at the end of the day.  It is impossible to keep this up for ever (nor would you want to) but every once in a while it’s good to put your body up against the grind for two weeks.  However, you shouldn’t do it if you know you might easily be discouraged from working out.
Today’s workout:

incline treadmill 12 minutes, 1.3 miles + …read more

You’ve read my previous blogs on combining cardio and weight lifting into a high intensity circuit.  That program was in full effect today.  Below is a rough sketch of the workout followed by recommendations on how to apply it.

Inside Grip Incline Bench Press 3×12 135 lbs
Regular Dumbell Curls 3×12 25 lbs
Cross Curls 3×12 25 lbs
12 minutes hard treadmill, 1.3 miles + 4 more minutes cool down .3 miles
Lat Pulldown 3×12 (reverse grip) plate 10
Leg Extensions 3×12 plate 10
Leg Adductor (pushing outwards) 3×12 135 lbs
1×12 pushups
2×12 high step ups w/ 25 lb dumbells
1x 6 minutes stair stepper level 8
1×6 minutes stair …read more

Yet another Tips and Tricks video from Youtube.com

Microsoft Office Power Point Tip – Document Themes – If you’re building a presentation and want to make a big impact on your audience, it’s worth the effort to design a visually appealing background and choose your fonts and colours carefully. Of course, we’re not all designers, so Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 lets you apply preset document themes to your slides. Now, you can focus on content.

For small to medium enterprise businesses, doing accounting tasks might seem easy. But it is with no difference in doing such in large enterprises. Results must be accurate, fast and reliable to deliver business smoothly. If you are doing it the traditional way, try to think of automating your payroll system, inventory, etc.
Microsoft® Office Accounting 2007, is a feature rich accounting software brought to you by Microsoft. It goes with two versions to meet the diverse needs of small businesses:

Microsoft® Office Accounting Express 2007 – available as a FREE download at www.ideawins.com.
Microsoft® Office Accounting Professional 2007 – available for purchase …read more

A new round of web seminars are now available for those interested.
Best-selling author Jim Kouzes and sales strategist Jeff Thull are among the business experts sharing insights this month in the Microsoft® Office Live Web Seminar series. And you’re invited to join them! Hosted by Susan Solovic of SBTV.com, the one-hour seminars are free and easy to participate in. Register to attend upcoming live events listed below, or download an archived seminar to hear a recent conversation with 8th Habit author Dr. Stephen Covey, Soup for the Soul CEO Jack Canfield, Alpha Dogs author Donna Fenn, and others. Find out …read more

Wow! Long time no post for me on this site so I’ll offer up my apologies. A variety of reasons and excuses for the shortage of information spewing from my fingertips this past few weeks. Hopefully things have settled down for me and we’ll get back into the swing of things quickly.
Up first is a list of some new web seminars that are available through Microsoft Office Live that are being launched by Michael Gerber and Stephen Covey of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People fame.
The team at Microsoft Office Live invites you to hear some of today’s most dynamic …read more

The Picture Tools ribbon could very well be in my Top 5 list of new features in Office 2007. I’m regularly working with images in my day job, with blogging and with my variety of web clients. For most of my work I’m using a variety of programs ranging from the free Irfanview, to SnagIt, to the full-featured Macromedia Fireworks MX.
But for quick editing of images and making some creative changes to graphics, Word has started to become fairly full-featured for the average home user.

Here’s the new packaging you should be looking for when you’re browsing your favorite software retailer shopping for the next version of Microsoft Office suite.
I’ve been running Office 2007 now for about 6 months or so across the various iterations. I’ve been pleased with the new features and organization of information. It does take a little bit of getting used to and finding some of the lesser used features, but that’s the whole point right. Anything you’re going to be using regularly is right up front, right where you need it when you need it.
The new Office suite will be …read more

My wife needed to print some labels tonight and asked me how to do it with “the new Word”. I’d never done it before so I told her to give me a minute and I’d figure it out and show her.
Let’s just say I needed more than a minute.
With the new ribbon interface, I knew exactly where to go to get things done, but actually accomplishing the task was a little harder.
I’ve done this type of thing before with Word and it wasn’t too hard. It sometimes took me a few minutes to remember how to print different names on …read more