Archive for April, 2008

One of my Kiva loans just got paid off. For a while, I couldn’t find loans I wanted to fund at Kiva due to a rush of donors who flocked to the site for a while.
Now there seem to be plenty of opportunities and here’s one I decided to lend to today, a Ghanian electrical [...]

How To Tell If A Career In Truck Driving Is For You is a tutorial I wrote because when times are tough and people aren’t making a living at their old job, they tend to think “I can always make a living driving a truck”.
Sadly that’s not always true and people can spend up to [...]

You can find all sorts of cool gadgets here at Trend Hunter.
One break through that caught my attention is this: Inkjet Printed Solar Cells
In an advancement that could radically reduce the cost of making solar panels, Massachusetts-based Konarka Technologies has developed and successfully demonstrated the ability to print solar cells with an inkjet printer. By [...]

CDC: Illness Linked to ‘Total Body’ Supplements   
I thought I’d pass this along. We don’t talk about supplements much here but since we have lots of MLM readers and nutritional supplements are a popular MLM product, I thought I’d pass this along. Learning how your company avoids such problems might be a good sales [...]

If you’re looking to change careers, upgrade your education, etc. as a taxpayer you’ve paid taxes to fund your education.
There’s lots of folks SELLING information that’s purported to help you get FREE GOVERNMENT GRANTS, but this is one I’ve written that’s 1) Free and 2) tells you the most common actual grants you are [...]

Though the US Government has done it’s best to make everybody content to be a mindless, docile ward of the State and willing to give 100% of the productivity to Washington, a recent survey revealed that 2 out of 3 Americans still dream of owning their own company.
Several reasons were cited for wanting to start [...]

I blogged about the damage from a Tornado here last Friday.
The National Weather Service decided it was an F-3 tornado. We had an F-5 in 1998.
At this link are photos from the power company’s viewpoint as they repaired the damage.

TalkZone.com Internet Radio lets you host your own talk show.
If you have a passion for a topic and want to reach your current audience and build a new audience, perhaps this is an outlet you should consider.
Unfortunately the costs aren’t mentioned so it may be beyond your budget.
But you might be excited enough by the [...]

The UK has higher broadband internet penetration than the US. PeoplePerHour.com helps aspiring UK freelancers find the work from home projects they need to earn an income.
Here are their current listings.
Potential service providers can learn more at the FAQ for providers.
People Per Hour receives a commission from the fees charged by the provider for their [...]

Read it all at Web Worker Daily
But here are the ones I like best. For instance, I can’t get into the keyboard shortcuts at the moment.  Do I really want to remember all that extra stuff? It’s like learning a foreign language, and if I’ve got to learn one, I’d prefer one spoken by people [...]