I want to share this guest-post of mine at Million Clues titled 'Starting a Blog the Right Way'.

Guest-posts are not allowed to be published in the author's own site so you can read the post at Million Clues instead of my own Plato on-line.

And here's an additional tip:

10 things you should know about bloggers and blogging

Author: Rick Vanover -TechRepublic

The shocking truth about beauty industry

Sample: Cosmetic products sold in the US are required to pass no safety tests.

'The beauty industry banks $500 billion a year by helping people hide the epidermal truth-so it should come as no surprise that the biz glosses over a few facts. Treehugger lists five:

• Skin-toxic chemicals lurk in many skincare products, "and trigger skin problems such as rashes, redness, acne, and other symptoms of contact dermatitis."

• Carcinogens exist in products by companies that give to breast-cancer research: "Cosmetics companies, including EstĂŠe Lauder, Revlon, and Avon, are some of the worst offenders."

• Cosmetic products sold in the US are required to pass no safety tests: "Period."

• Toxic chemicals aren't listed on labels of personal-care products. Lax laws allow many of them off the label, but watch for oft-contaminated chemicals, like sodium laureth sulfate, urea, and quarternium-15. -Neal Colgrass SOURCE: Treehugger

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So it was simple female intuition again that led to the Duggard case solution:

'Two UC Berkeley police officers broke the Jaycee Duggard case open this week after her alleged captor visited the campus, People reports. "He was clearly unstable," UC officer Lisa Campbell said of Phillip Garrido. Campbell had a background check run on him and discovered he was a sex offender. When she met with Garrido and his daughters the next day, Campbell's colleague Ally Jacobs joined in.

'Jacobs didn't buy it when Garrido said his "life had changed" after doing time for rape and kidnapping years before-especially because his two girls "sat there with no emotion." Her suspicions appeared confirmed when Garrido's parole officer told her he didn't have any daughters. Garrido then met with his parole officer and admitted to kidnapping Jaycee Duggard and having two daughters with her. "I'm glad ...

Those who are fond of using credit cards in restaurants should be careful. They are among the most common targets for hackers, experts say, because they often fail to update their antivirus software and other computer security systems.

And do you know that even the 'Private Browsing' mode recently added to most browsers such as Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3 still allows Flash cookies to operate fully and track the user.
Just shows that being security paranoid isn't enough.

Another journalist wrote yesterday: 'President Obama is on vacation, and that means it's the media's sacred duty to overanalyze his summer reading plans.'
There is sarcasm there (overanalyze) yet that's what John Dickerson of Slate did. Most of the books are 'thrillers' (might be being a US president isn't a thrilling job enough for the meantime).

Today, the authors and publishers of the books mentioned should be grateful to the president-- a survey done by Amazon showed that their sales showed drastic improvement! Here is the book list:

The Way Home by George Pelecanos
Lush Life by Richard Price
Hot Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
John Adams by David McCullough
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Common denominator: all writers are white male.

Those 'investigative journalists' who disclosed President Obama's pet peeves on Politico aren't journalists-- they are dumb rumor peddlers and should be banned. Pet peeves are weaknesses. And when your enemies know your weaknesses, it's their advantage. And I'm not talking about game of Chess. Obama obviously has SERIOUS real enemies.
What kind of citizen would want their king's weaknesses exposed to invaders!?

To those who stay or drive in Bangkok, you must be careful of volunteers from a Buddhist group called Por Tek Tung. They arrive at accident scenes and haul the injured to hospitals and the dead to morgues. Good? Maybe.
The problem is that they fight with real EMT's over the right to transport victims. And there are rumors that some corpses are found stripped of valuables and are held for ransom. I tend to believe this because in Philippines, there is a version of this where morgues and funerals also hold corpses for ransom.

Now that M. Jackson's doctor was charged with homicide, details of the investigation are coming out. This one is about an 'alleged' statement made by Dr. Murray. His lawyer said that "Dr. Murray simply never told investigators that he found Michael Jackson at 11am not breathing," after allegedly giving Jackson Propofol and then leaving the room. See Associated Press