December 30, 2010

Tips for Winter Driving

Category: Driving,iNeed.to links of the day,Vehicle,Winter — admin @ 12:45 pm


The Snow Fox’s Winter Driving Tips

The season of skiing, snowboarding, ice skating, and general icy, snowy, cold fun is upon us. Here are a few tips to get you to the sites of such fun and back.

Download these tips as a pdf HERE

Remember: driving in inclement weather is dangerous. Even if you are careful and do everything right, you can still slide, hydroplane, hit black ice, or just get run into by the other guy. Don’t drive in bad weather if you don’t have to or cannot handle it.

July 29, 2010

Computers, Martial Arts, and Defcon…

As I eagerly await the official start of Defcon this year, I contemplate the similar structures excellence creates across disciplines, such as computer security and martial arts – hacking and jeet kune do. As I explore these connections, my results will be expressed herein. Meanwhile, if you’re here, grab One Inch of Power, and if you’re at Defcon, grab a sticker!

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San Bernardino Jeet Kune Do & Kali!

Looking forward to training with you!

April 23, 2010

Basic JKD & Kali classes starting in SoCal…

Basic JKD & Kali classes are going to start soon! Get the details at Meetup.com…


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San Bernardino Jeet Kune Do & Kali!

And click here for a PDF class flyer.

Looking forward to training with you!

March 11, 2010

Do Not Pass Go… without a good password

Information Level: Basic

Account theft, credit card fraud, not to mention full-blown identity theft, are becoming an ever more serious threat to everyone. Your first line of defense is the passwords you use online… are they up to the challenge?

If any of your passwords is a single word that can be found in the dictionary, the answer is NO. Such simple passwords can be “brute forced” with a dictionary attack easily – a criminal simply sets up a program to guess all the words in the dictionary, and will find the right one in minutes.

January 15, 2010

Backup Follow-up…

Information Level: Basic

Have you backed up your valuable digital data yet? One thing I am sure of: backup is easier than recovery. So, here are a few more tips on how you can properly back up your date.

  • The Minimum: You have a flash drive with a second copy of all the files you would weep and babble incoherently for if your computer suddenly exploded.
January 5, 2010

Warm up with the Push Shuffle Drill


Fit for Combat – Routine #1

Warm Up Exercises for Martial Training & The Push Shuffle Drill

A warm up should be performed before participating in technical sports, exercising, or stretching, and Combative training is no exception. Warming up generally consists of a gradual increase in intensity of physical activity. This increase the heart rate, which in turn increases blood flow to your muscles and raises your body temperature. Warmer muscles are more elastic and less susceptible to injury. It is important that warm ups should be specific to the exercise that will follow, which means that muscles used in the warm up are the muscles required for the following activity. In the case of martial arts, where all muscles are being trained to react with speed and power, all major muscle groups should be warmed up with special emphasis on the feet and legs.

Free Download: Wallpaper

Martial Wallpaper – A little reminder as you go through the day

K.W.I.C – Having No Way As Way:

K.W.I.C.

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Bruce Lee’s Phases of Jeet Kune Do Learning:

JKD Phases

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January 4, 2010

Interception is Integration

Category: iNeed.to links of the day,Martial Articles — VV @ 11:26 pm

Martial Articles

Martializing Martial Arts – Article #1

The Basic Principle: Interception is Integration

What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object head-on?

Here’s a better, or at least a more answerable, question: why should they meet head-on at all? And if an opponent’s fist is substituted for the irresistible force, and your jaw for the immovable object, I bet you would agree they should never meet head on. The question then becomes, what are your options?

Once such a force is on its way, there are four basic options:

January 1, 2010

New years resolution #1: Backup your data!

Information Level: Basic

Happy New Year to all of you. Now, start the year off right, and make sure you have a backup of all your important data.

REMEMBER:
1. All of your irreplaceable digital photos, your mp3 music collection, your college papers and/or office documents, and your business/financial information, is stored on what is basically a glorified cassette tape! The hard drive is susceptible to magnetic, electronic, and physical damage… not to mention the motor may simply burn out.
2. Archiving is NOT the same as backing up. If you simply archive your data by moving it from your computer hard drive to an external storage medium, it is still only stored in ONE PLACE, and that one place may break in any of the aforementioned ways, or just get lost.

December 20, 2009

New Site up, new firewall recomendation, and Word errors fixed…

Information Level: Basic/Intermediate

In The Short List I recommended Sunbelt Personal Firewall (free version) as my firewall of choice. I have since discovered two problems with it: 1. It presents a nag screen every once in a while, asking you to upgrade to the paid version, and 2. It does not work with Windows Vista (don’t know about 7). PC Tools Firewall Plus has neither of these drawbacks, and is still effective and light on system resources.

December 11, 2009

Hello world!

Category: iNeed.to links of the day — admin @ 9:45 pm

Welcome to iNeed.to – Portal to Wholeness. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

December 5, 2009

The Short List – Must-have Software for Windows…

Information Level: Basic

All good, all free. Everyone running Windows should try out this software. Period.

Keep Secure:

Stay Tuned up:

  • Advanced SystemCare Free – Best allround tune up (be sure to un-check “start with windows” in the options after you install it).
November 16, 2009

AntiVirus – Now you (and I) really have no excuse…

Information Level: Basic

Well, I am impressed. The latest entry in to the realm of free (as in beer) antivirus software, Panda Cloud Antivirus, is closer to the Platonic Ideal of AV-ness than any I have seen before. Here’s why: