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Six Tips to Jumpstart Your Weight Loss Program in 2011

Calorie Smart Food Journal for Dieting
Calorie Smart Food Journal for Dieting

A new year calls for new resolutions.

So why not go with the old standby and vow to lose some weight this year?  We all basically can do something about it — and we all know that losing weight comes down to just one thing: taking in fewer calories than we put out.

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How to be popular on Facebook

Friends Forever
Friends Forever

Are you on Facebook?

To be honest, the easier question to ask is “who ISN’T on Facebook?”. 

Yes, Web Watch knows a few people who still haven’t taken the Facebook plunge — but sometimes one has to go where the party is in order to feel like you’re part of the “in” crowd.

So once you’re on Facebook, the next question often asked is “how do I get more friends?”.  Well, on Facebook – as in life – gaining friends is based on how you interact with others.  Except in Facebook’s case, it’s all about your status updates and other online persona features.  Let’s take a look at what ONE FACEBOOK STUDY FOUND ABOUT WHAT THE POPULAR PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK ARE DOING:

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Official Rules for your Holiday/Christmas/White Elephant Gift Exchange

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Roll of Blue Raffle Tickets: Keep This Ticket

Every year, the question comes up regarding how to properly do a gift exchange at holiday time.

Whether you call it a DIRTY SANTA, WHITE ELEPHANT, YANKEE SWAP, CHINESE AUCTION or something else, the basic concept is the same: everyone brings a gift, throws it into the pile, and then they get distributed out in some random manner, with stealing gifts from other people allowed to some degree.

Web Watch is here to present the OFFICIAL RULES FOR GIFT EXCHANGING that we’ve perfected over the years at our own shindigs. These rules work for us — they should work for you, too.

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An even better list of possible baby names

The Name Thang Baby Name Book: 15,000 Names with English, Spanish and French Translations
The Name Thang Baby Name Book: 15,000 Names with English, Spanish and French Translations

So the other day, Web Watch mentioned the TOP BABY NAMES FOR 2010.

One of Web Watch’s readers pointed us out to an baby naming book entitled BETTER NAMES FOR BABY, available for purchase on the linked website.

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Three tips to avoid Facebook spam

The Social Network 2-Disc Set
The Social Network 2-Disc Set

If you use Facebook, you’ve probably – at some time or other – received spam messages.

You’ve probably wondered where these erroneous emails were coming from.

Luckily, Web Watch has found a list of THREE TIPS TO FOLLOW IN ORDER TO AVOID RECEIVING FACEBOOK SPAM:

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25 most common grammar and language mistakes

Strunk and White - Elements of Style
Strunk and White – Elements of Style

While we try to be entertaining in what Web Watch writes, we know that we may not be the best writer in general.

Hey, it happens.  But at least we’re out there trying – and trying to use sound sentence structure and proper grammar along the way.  With the occasional sentence fragment thrown in.  For kicks.

So when we ran across this list of the TOP 25 GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE MISTAKES, we knew that we might be in trouble for doing one of these in the past.  We’ve posted some of our favorites from the list below the cut:

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How to Survive the Office Holiday Party


The Swingin' Christmas Party
The Swingin’ Christmas Party

Ah, the annual holiday office party. 

Typically, an open bar.  Music. Dancing. Canoodling in the coat closet.  Yes, they can be fun on so many levels… but you have to be careful.  Web Watch recalls attending an office party where the boss had to carry a passed-out employee out to a waiting taxi. 

Which brings up today’s question:  WHAT TO DO TO SURVIVE THE OFFICE HOLIDAY PARTY?

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Need money for the holidays? Stop wasting your money on this stuff…


Quicken money management software
Quicken Money Management Software

With the holiday gift-giving season right around the corner, you may find yourself trying to find ways to scrape some money together.

Web Watch is a fan of making a big dinner, then eating leftovers for lunch the next day to avoid paying $5-$10 for lunch. Doing that can save the average office worker at least $20/week in lunch money – up to $50/week or more, if you eat at fancier places.  That’s found money.

If you subscribe to HBO, SHOWTIME or other premium movie channel – you may want to consider dropping those and switching to an “on-demand” movie service like NetFlix or Amazon on Demand (assuming you have a TiVo, PS3, or other box that will support those services).  The $10/month that you’ll pay is likely less than what you would pay for those TV channels.

Here are some other suggestions for HOW TO CUT UNNECESSARY EXPENSES OUT OF YOUR BUDGET, simply by changing your purchasing habits, or substituting different products for ones you use every day: