Personal Blog of Mike Bowden

Life always changes right when you think you have it figured out. Everything seems to get turned upside down and then in a blink of an eye it’s back to normal. Some of you may know that my life recently changed and for the better.

My daughter was born on March 10th at 9:40pm, we named her Addison Lynn Bowden. Things have been great since she was born and has put a lot of things into perspective. When my son was born the same thing happened, this time it’s a bit more noticeable. It’s a great feeling and really makes you appreciate life as a whole.

I have recently made some changes that will better my life and my families. I plan to continue with these changes and strive to be a better person for not only myself but for my family as well. I will be reporting what I’m doing and how it’s working, what worked for me and what didn’t.

I would like to hear what others have done to change their life for the better after something life changing happened. What have you done? What worked? What didn’t work?

Ever have widgets that you want to line up? Maybe you’re tracking weather for multiple locations or you have world clocks for different areas? Whatever it may be, from time to time we need to be able to align widgets so they are centered, or grouped together properly.

Since the window for the dashboard is transparent, use a web browser and try to place it as close to the edge of the widget as possible before opening dashboard. Then, once dashboard is opened you can use the opacity of the window and the browser windows edge to align your widgets in a straight line.

Hope this helps, does anyone else have a simple quick tip that’d like to add?

Life changes at a rapid pace. We never know when, where or how it will happen. Some of us go through life and are simply there. We are like the “sheep” you see on a daily basis, driving to work, working and then driving home. The same mundane tasks on a daily basis, over and over again. Most of us never have anything happen that changes the way we look at life, the way we live life or how we deal with life. But sometimes, things do happen that will alter the course of life.

Recently I received some news that did just that for me. I’ve been having back pain and neck pain for too long. Probably for the past few years. Over the the past 7 or 8 months I’ve noticed muscle growth in the lower right section of my back. Last week I decided to get some X-rays done and figure out what was going on down there. What I found changed things for me, probably forever.

The chiropractor that I visited to have this work done, explained to me that my spine had a slight curve to it (left to right, not front to back) and that if I didn’t start having regular adjustments and try to correct the problem, that it would most likely develop into multiple-sclerosis. This was a shock and a hard blow on life to me.

It wasn’t until recently that I started to look at life with a new “lease”. This just added more fuel to my life fire. I am now receiving regular adjustments and hopefully within time this problem will be corrected and I will not develop full-blown MS. However, I do not plan on waiting to find out. I will be living every day with a passion as if it were my last.

Recently I have changed my daily schedule to reflect some of the changes in life that I’ve wanted to take. Over the next few weeks I will be explaining my new routine, how it has helped and how to achieve the same results. I will also lay out my plans for this blog, life and my career as I see it.

Life is too short, we all put things off thinking it will get better tomorrow and if we simply put it off until then, it will get easier. This is incorrect, life is SHORT, start living it now. You will reap the benefits time and time again if you do so. Don’t hold back, do what you feel is right.

Has anything happened in your life that has changed the way you look at it? If so, share your stories here and give others some inspiration to fuel their life fires.

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The title of this entry is probably vague for most of you, unless you’ve heard of 10/GUI. Don’t feel bad if you haven’t, I just recently found out about it myself. But I must share it with my readers as I believe this to be the next level of computer interaction. We’ve already seen a lot of this same “type” of technology implemented in some of the devices we use on a daily basis, such as an iPhone of Microsoft’s Surface.

But I would have to say, this is by far the best “upgrade” if you will to computer interaction. Not only did this company seem to have solved something we’ve been using since computers became popular, the mouse. But they’ve also created a whole new GUI (Graphical User Interface) for the user on the desktop itself. I’ve included the video below, it’s eight and a half minutes so it isn’t too long.

Enjoy the video.