Ever wondered what the colours around you made you react, or feel . Well, without getting too ‘new age’ colour therapy has been shown to improve your life.

Just by adding a splash of colour to things around you, at home and at work can improve your state of mind and well being.

Walls - Putting up some orange can galvanise your brain. Studies have shown that people are more productive in orange rooms! Its a useful mix of energising red and creative yellow that does it apparently. Will it stop us wasting time on facebook and twitter? We will have to get the paint brushes out to see!

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We’ve returned from our annual weightwatchers trip. Where we (my future wife and I) (try to) shed a few pounds, we decided to use our bikes this year.

The plan: To cycle the Sustrans West Country way bike route from Bristol to Padstow. A 300 mile part traffic free route which leads us from Bristol to the quiet and country lanes of Cornwall.

We camped throughout the journey, apart from our night on Exmoor where where had the luxury of a B&B in Dulverton.

The trip took us 6 days from start to finish, covering 3 sets of interesting hills - The Quantocks, Somerset. The Exmoor National Park, Devon, and various Cornwall hilly bits.

We were covering about 50 miles a day on average, and carrying around 80 litre capacity clothing, food and camping equipment.

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Work can all too often take over our lives outside the office with various ways to ’stay connected’.
However, I encourage you to make your office hours more productive by offering the following relaxation techniques every geek can use.. try the following tips that I use, you may find they will allow you to see things differently and achieve your work/life goals more successfully and more effectively.

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When I was leaving SxSw earlier this month, I picked up an American magazine called .Inc.

It caught my attention as it had Ev, the Co-Founder of Twitter being interviewed.

I definitely recommend you check out the Magazine, or the website which are both fantastic. On the website you will find a whole multitude of feeds you can subscribe to, depending on what type of business information you are looking for.

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After reading Mr Nice, which was a fantastic insight into his ‘high’ life and times, I discovered Howard Marks and I have a few things in common, here they are:

• Both lived in Brighton
• Both flown on Continental Airlines from Houston to Gatwick (Marks from Prison, Me from SxSw)
• Both visited Notorious Pat Pong District of Bangkok, Thailand
• Both visited the Famous Hobbit House bar in Manila, Philippines

Mark’s now leads a quiet life in Europe, come back to Brighton soon Howard.

A very easy web app for making your own lifestream, like the one for Jayonline

Check out Carlo’s magical badge builder at escaloop

This can be integrated into any site as long as you know the RSS feed for your flickr, or Twitter feed for instance.

Example of how the Escaloop badge works:

People contact me for tips and resources to improve their learning and find out what it takes to work in Freelance web design and development.

All of us were in this situation at one point, not knowing how and which direction to take. So I feel it’s good karma to pass on and share this knowledge.

So you know what I’m referring to, here are some examples recently from visitors to Jayonline:

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