Archive for May 8th, 2006

From Business Week Online
Susanne Bullo is a capable software programmer who until recently had few job options. She is a stay-at-home mom who has three young children and helps care for an elderly father with diabetes. Although she lives just minutes from Microsoft, family situations keep her from pursuing work there.
She HAS found [...]

While school systems are complaining mightily about the bi-partisan accountability to which they must conform called, “No Child Left Behind”, the couple has found success as a result of the legislation – and their efforts.
From Redding.com
Lew and Sharon Goldfarb went looking for a way to make some extra cash and help kids learn, too. They [...]

From MSN CareerBuilder
Once an anomaly, working mothers are now the norm in the American workplace. Nearly three-fourths of mothers with children under age 18 are in the workforce, and even mothers of the very young are trading in baby bottles for briefcases – more than 60 percent of mothers with children under age 3 work.
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Our local talk radio is abuzz with CBS’ piece on THE ETHANOL SOLUTION which ran on 60 Minutes. It’s an inspiring story of how Iowa farmers pooled their life savings to start creating alternatives to oil…. it almost brough tears to my eyes. Here were people who weren’t waiting for the government to bail them [...]

A while back I made some posts about Google’s page creator (beta).
In my mind these are a bid to help Google create massive amounts of unique, non-duplicated information for their search customers.
At this point, evidently anyone with a Gmail account can sign up and make their own pages.
Each website can host 100 MB [...]