Archive for March, 2008

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Ebay’s fee increases have caused online sellers to start reviewing their auctions. You can read about that at this MSN MoneyCentral article for example. This is becoming a common event as Ebay grows and wants to keep increasing their revenues while auction sellers see their profits plummeting.
One solution sellers are checking […]

My wife and I were out with her parents on Saturday night at an oriental restaurant that is usually busy, but the other night it was absolutely CRAZY! My mother-in-law noted “No recession in sight here!” And, that night, at least, there was a mass of happy diners!
But whether the economy in general is “in […]

I really didn’t believe this when I saw it because I wasn’t under the impression the cows had to adjust to Daylight Savings Time… but now that the farmers are milking earlier, they don’t like adjusting to the farmers much.
I guess cows like sleeping in too…
“From our standpoint, it gives us an extra hour […]

No, not in a strange foreign country with impure wells… right here in the USA! It has little to do with how to work at home but this does effect how you feel. Perhaps you’d have the motivation and strength to work at home or in self employment if they water you were drinking weren’t […]

Undress4Success has a good introduction to how scams get “recycled” again and again. The names change but these 21 “themes” keep recurring. Some things though are overgeneralizations that make for good lists but might not be universally true. Take this one for example:

#2 — Send us money and . . .
We’ll send you a list […]

Are you on LinkedIn?
To tell you the truth, I only checked this because someone wanted to put me in their network. Otherwise I don’t exploit this system the way I might. I tend to use the “network” in my email contacts more.
But I was amazed at how my puny number of contacts lets me […]

Warning: This product is not in good taste, but then again neither is much about this election. Even Tom Hanks is reported as saying he’s already “bored”… So join the crowd!
Note: This image has intentionally been moved down the page to spare the eyes of all children who love the book “Why Mommy Is A […]

Not everyone can afford Photoshop. But most of us would like to work with images and make our online marketing look better.
The free tool to do that is GIMP. You can download the GIMP windows version here.
But most importantly, here’s a really cool blog called Gimp University to help you learn how to USE Gimp […]

Here’s a letter I got today. The author will remain anonymous, but it’s a common problem:
I am an instructor at a 2-year college in __________(USA). We offer a MT certificate and I teach Medical Transcription courses. …
Many students are attracted by the thought of being able to work from home transcribing for local health […]

Lifelock is being sued by Experian. It looks like another attempt of the big credit bureaus to preserve their profits while attempting to avoid policing the fraudulent use of consumer data as identity theft increases.  Lifelock represents these clients but the big credit information bureau is attempting to keep the company from filing fraud alerts […]