Archive for July 31st, 2008

Forbes’ article on solar energy breakthroughs is another one of a series of technological advances relating biological research to human energy production: “Solar Energy All Night Long” is about how plants transform sunlight into electricity.
Because, says the article,  there’s enough energy deposited on the earth in one hour to meet our planet’s energy needs for [...]

In the job business, we used to say that only 20% 0f available jobs were listed in newspapers or through the government sponsored “Employment office”. Have online listings made more jobs “advertised jobs”? It’s hard to tell.
So many jobs advertised online are business opportunity come ons or scams, it’s hard to tell.
Overall numbers are still [...]

Peterboro Basket Company is located in Peterboro, New Hampshire and has been making fine baskets since 1854. They started as a small business in that year and have been at work ever since.
If your home based business involves making gift baskets, this is the kind of company you may want to investigate buying wholesale from. [...]

Becky McCray alerted me to this story and G.L. Hoffman’s comments.
It reminded of the “Where’s George?” website that lets people track where their dollar bills have been by the bill’s serial number.
This little country girl wrote her name and address on an egg sold at the town market. The egg ended up on a  [...]

My friend John Dilbeck has an interesting post on Firefox’s “No Script” add on that basically doesn’t let surfers “see” anything on your page – like email sign up forms and Google Adsense that are based on javascript applications!
Ouch!
Suddenly every web page monetized with Google Adsense, Chitika or designed as a “Squeeze Page” may be [...]