Year: 2002

Omega-3 (Fish Oil) May Help with Heart Disease

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A new study indicates that omega-3 fatty acids (from fish) may reduce the disk of heart disease.

“New trials have been reported that finally broke the camel’s back,” Harris says. “The last report showed that giving 0.85 grams of omega-3 fatty acids to people who survived heart attacks caused a 20 percent reduction in overall mortality over three-and-a-half years. One of the big contributors to that reduction was a 45 percent decrease in sudden cardiac deaths." […]

I had heard that fish oil could be healthy, but I had no idea of the extent.

AIM & ICQ

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As it’s a popular means of communications here at work, I’ve installed AIM. I’m reachable via AIM with Screen Name standardsfanatic or, as always, with 3812078 on ICQ.

Clear Channel

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In response to my post about Sirius Radio, Jon Chan asks “why did you pick sirius over xm?”. I was going to post a reply as a comment, but it got a bit long so I decided to post it here.

The choice was easy :).

Firstly, if I’m going to be paying for radio, the last thing I want is commercials interrupting my music. (XM has commercials while Sirius’ music channels are commercial-free)

Secondly, and most importantly, Clear Channel is a major investor in XM radio — and I want nothing to do with Clear Channel. In case you're not familiar with them, Clear Channel owns nearly 1,200 stations nationwide and they’ve virtually single-handedly responsible for ruining commercial radio.

In DFW alone, Clear Channel owns several stations. 92.5, 97.1, 102.1, 102.9 — all Clear Channel. Worst of all, Clear Channel supports pay-for-play where record companies simply bribe stations to play their songs. That’s one of the reasons why Britney Spears gets her songs plastered all over the airwaves but yet yourFavoriteLocalBand never gets heard.

Clear Channel is evil, and the less money I can send in their direction, the better.

Sirius Radio

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Over the past two weekends, I’ve had my car audio reworked, including Sirius Radio. In all:

Though I’ve only had it for a day and a half, I’m very pleased with it so far. Of all the features, I’ve been most excited about Sirius Radio. For those not aware, Sirius Radio offers 100 radio channels, delivered by satellite, including 60 commercial-free music channels.

There’re all kinds of genres including classic rock, electronica, jazz, and decade-based channels such as 70s and 80s. In particular interest to me, there’s also a Metal channel. Initially, I didn’t have my hopes up, as their description made it seem a bit lame (Korn? bleh.).

However, in the past day-and-a-half I’ve already heard Hammerfall, Dark Tranquillity, and Meshuggah (!). All right, so Meshuggah is listed in the channel’s description, but Hammerfall and Dark Tranquillity are two bands that I thought I’d never hear other than on CD.

Sirius Radio’s tagline says “You’ll never want to leave your car”, and it’s true. I’m actually contemplating whether there might more longer and more scenic routes I could take to work (HHOS).