Image via WikipediaSince 4th March 2010 HVP got into the mainstream media because one of its largest producers in the United States - Basic Food Flavours Inc from Las Vegas - got a consumer safety warning announcement from the FDA. The FDA stated that Salmonella contaminated the company's HVP production equipment. Afterward a nationwide recall has been initiated. It includes products from McCormik, Trader Joe's, Safeway and a lot of other companies. Here is the FDA list of recalled products.What is HVP?Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein is one of most common soy-based food "fillers" used to make literally   read more

Sorry i just recognized on the weekend that the Haloscan comment system is no more working. They have been bought a while ago by JS-Kit and now they stopped the Haloscan comment system because of too many flaws over the last few months.They wrote that users should change to the Echo system (which costs 12$/year) or change back to the blogger comment system. I intend to go back to blogger's comment system but for this change HaloScan needs to edit and remove their code from my template.This will take some days Hopefully the comments can be saved and imported in Blogger's comment system.   read more

Make a Profit with your BlogBlogs can be written to maka a profit or non-profit but most bloggers blog for the purpose of making money.Usually some post will be published to provide an outlet for voicing out the bloggers opinions and share their thoughts on personal issues. But most of the population of bloggers has the intention to profit financially from their blogs.Fortunately, there are several methods of profiting from a blog and applying these methods can help you gain money. Here are three steps to make money with your blog from scratch on:1. Promoting and Premium ContentThe first (and basic   read more

Bad breath - Everybody has faced this situation once or more often in their life, some even have chronically bad breath ( Halitosis ).Here are 10 tips to avoid bad breath:Up to 90 % of bad breath is caused by a "dirty" mouth. Dirty means your mouth still contains food between the teeth and bacterias are happily growing in your gum. Cleaning your teeth at least twice a day should help reduce the bacterias who are one cause of bad breath.Cleaning your tongue is essential, too, as it will further reduce the bacterias in your mouth. It's best to clean the tongue after you brushed your teeth.Drink enough   read more

Yesterday one of the developer of Google's real-time search has been interviewed by The Technology Review magazine about the topic on how Google ranks Tweets.Interesting as it is, he mentioned that it is similar to the PageRank model. There it's necessary that you get as much back links from related blogs and websites (best is high-quality -> with better PageRank as yourself) to climb higher in your PageRank.In Twitter the ranking of your tweets works in this way:If you are in connection with a lot of members who tweet about similar topics -Iphone as example- then Google will "look" who your reputed   read more

What does this graph show us?That we pay way too much for Ink and too less for Crude oil or that medicine is still too expensive in comparison with alcohol?What do you think about these prices?Graph source: Gizmodo   read more

If you are a costumer of Netflix, you get each time their nice red, white, black and blue colored envelope together with your DVDs.The next time when you get another DVD, keep the envelope and recycle them into some fantastic Origami Art.There are already some easy Origami folding instructions on the web available which are specifically for Netflix Envelopes.Here are some of the examples which you could make with your Netflix envelope. For the instructions how to fold your Netflix envelope visit - NetFlix Origami.All pictures are from Netflix Origami and link directly to the instruction page!   read more

Many members of Twitter use the new list feature already and made additional followers for their own lists. But there are also some cases in which members build lists to warn other members about the included list members.These cases can includeSpamIdiotspol itical incorrect wordsI guess you won't be included in a list who is calledMy SpammersIdiotic tweeterDumb-assIn this case you have to unfollow this list.Step 1:Visit the profile of the member from whose list you want to disappear.Step 2:Click on the TOOL button beside the LIST ButtonStep 3:Click on BLOCK (Twitter user name)FINISH!After you blocked   read more

In the last week i started to build two twitter lists for Adgitize and EntreCard members. With these lists you can track the events and messages from the members easily, no distraction from other tweets!One advantage of these lists are that you don't have to follow all these members, you just follow the list and can choose which of the included members you like to follow (so your time line won't get messed up with unnecessary tweets :) ).In case you want to join and follow the list simply leave me a comment on this post or send me an (click this link) in Twitter, please include in your comment   read more

Congratulations to the 10 winners:1st Prize: from this week on 31 days1 month ad - iTravel2nd Prize: effective in January/February2 weeks ad - A Woman Remembers2 weeks ad - Yambol Daily Picture3rd Prize: effective in February/March1 week ad - http://www.benway.ne t/1 week ad - http://www.glynissmy .com1 week ad - http://www.dealdaddy s.com/1 week ad - http://www.elcalient emamma.com4th prize:2.500 EC - http://newilluminati .blog-city.com/5th prize:1.500 EC - Bloguardian Hellsite: OVERCASHED6th prize:1.000 EC - http://www.shoot-me- now.com/Not all members who dropped cards commented on all five   read more