Archive for December 21st, 2007

  • Pandemic Fears In Australia

    Working at home via telecommuting is widely heralded as a business safety strategy during a pandemic.
    Now a nutritional panel from the University of Sydney in Australia has encouraged stockpiling up to 10 weeks of food because they say it’s not IF a pandemic will sweep that nation, but WHEN. Because Australia is closer to Asia […]

  • A Note About Pay Per Play Ads…

    If you have signed up for “Pay Per Play” Ads and put the code on your website, it IS working.
    It’s just that no ads are running right now. There’s a setting you can use to play white noise, but unless you just have to hear it, don’t bother.
    Right now, the system of networks that will […]

  • The World’s Not Warming - So Grab Your Wallet

    I suppose in some ways, the hue and cry about “Global Warming” is good for people who want to work at home. Companies who want to be “green” and “good” and all that are being pressured to allow telecommuting to save the world from Global Warming. So more work at home jobs could result from […]

  • Job Seekers Desperate While Economists Say “No Problem”

    Newsday has a good article that highlights the different perspectives at work after a lay off.
    After American Home Mortgage laid of 1500 workers on August 3, 2007 many have been scrambling for new positions in the Long Island NY area. Many of them are still unemployed, their unemployment checks are about to end soon and […]

  • Pay Per Play Ads Rolling Out Web Page Code

    The other day I told you about Pay Per Play Ads. They are a potentially awesome tool in earning revenue from your website because you get paid even if people never click an ad! Visitors hear your ad and you get paid.
    The code to play the ads is now available for placement on your […]

  • How 4 Hours of Work Can Make up for a Week of Vacation

    Over at The Daily Saint Mike St. Pierre suggests that you’ll have more fun on your time away from your work or business if - in the middle of your vacation - you come in for four hours one day and attack the pile on your desk instead of worrying about it.
    It all sounds a […]

  • Zimbabwe - A Case Study In Runaway Inflation

    Anywhere the money supply is determined by government whim instead of the the value of their gold and silver reserves (is there anywhere nowadays where this isn’t the case anymore? Perhaps Switzerland? I can’t recall.), unregulated expansion of the currency produced runaway inflation. It’s a hidden tax you might say since it’s imposed by the […]

  • Best & Worst Technology Of 2007 - CNET

    CNET has published the best and worst technology of 2007
    Hopefully BEFORE you’ve gone out and bought too many of these losers for the holidays. (And before someone bought one for YOU!)
    Boy, some of these dogs really bark!
    I especially liked reading the Web 2.0 hits and misses.