Archive for May, 2008

I really didn’t use IM till last year… a 70 year old friend of mine introduced me to it believe it or not! So I started using AIM. Then when Google Mail connected with the service, that works pretty well for most of my contacts. I’ve never gotten into Yahoo Messenger, but I’d sign up […]

Here’s how one work at home mom is coping with the rising gas prices… increased coupon use among other things. How about you?
From KCCI Des Moines
Nora:  I am a work-at-home mom, my husband is a trucker (he drives for one of the major trucking companies so he does not have to pay for the fuel)…….yes, […]

Here’s an interesting interview with Emma Jones the founder of Enterprisenation.co.uk
Emma Jones is the founder and managing director of Redbrick Enterprises, a company that advises local authorities and regional development agencies on promoting and increasing home enterprise, and is the editor of www.enterprisenation.co.uk, a free-to-use home business website that offers help to people who want […]

Visuwords.com is an “online graphical dictionary”. It can help you spot synonyms and choose just the right word to get your web page copy or article out of those verbal ruts you and I can so easily inhabit!
Here’s the results for the word “buy”.

If you constantly read and take notes to help you learn, it’d be nice if you could retrieve them easily.
Personally, the process of making notes in a journal helps me think through the material and retain it. But if you want to look it up later… that’s hard.
So if you’re in that situation you may […]

I used to pass through Danville, VA from time to time and noted that it had once seemed busy but often seemed to have lots of empty industrial buildings.
For example:
The textile manufacturer Dan River, a former Fortune 500 company, once employed as many as 15,000 workers by some accounts. It began hemorrhaging jobs as it […]

Along the lines of creating a CASH GENERATOR (not just getting a power generator), here are 7 Hot Businesses
It’s a good post well worth your time. I like Gordon’s articles and recommend them.
Here are the businesses he thinks are smoking right now…

Bicycles. Buy and sell, repair, start a club, a members group online, etc.
Electric vehicles. […]

Here’s a blogger with a somewhat dim view of the energy situation in the US.
Can’t say I blame him or disagree.
Get yourself a generator. In fact get two. One to produce electricity when the brown outs come, to keep at least your freezer and refrigerator working and the other kind of a generator should be […]

Following up on yesterday’s post, I wanted to mention this one…Co Working Stations Fill The Needs Of The Work At Home Class
Basically while it’s a great thing to work at home, sometimes to be productive you need to get out of the house. But you don’t want to be an office slave so, what do […]

I was in Amish Country in Ohio last week, I noticed a thriving bicycle shop there.
Will there be a boom in such shops outside Amish areas some time soon?
Here’s how insane gas prices are changing the economy? Can you profit from it somehow? Or will you just complain?
From Acton.org 

The search for fuel-efficiency has, for example,…
…hurt […]