Archive for 2008

I was just reading an enewsletter from a friend. One article was pretty choppy and I wondered if he had proof read his work before hitting “send”. (I’m guilty of that myself at times, that’s why I’m glad you can at least update blogs!).
But as I was thinking about that, here came Marcia Yudkin’s reflections [...]

The fate of the Raw Milk Industry may hinge on these California hearings.
Family farmers can sometimes earn a good living from people wanting to buy raw milk. In some cases they can’t sell raw milk per se, but they can sell shares of a cow that produces the raw milk and shareholders can come and [...]

To try to curb astronomic health costs, Health Savings Accounts are something that should be encouraged.
The so-called “Tax Payer Assistance and Simplification Act” (which isn’t either of course) contains an all out attack on Health Savings Accounts which prompts threat of a Presidential Veto.
“The Administration strongly opposes H.R. 5719, the so-called “Taxpayer Assistance and Simplification [...]

TNHousingSearch.org is a statewide database of rental units available across the state of TN. It was created by the Tennessee Housing Development Agency because, well, I guess they never heard of Craigslist. It’s free for landlords to list rental properties. So if you have rental properties and want some free advertising at taxpayer expense, here’s [...]

Some people asked me how we were doing because of the tornado that hit nearby last Friday. Here are two pictures I snapped with my cell phone yesterday so they’re not that great.
One of the first reports was of a car being lifted off the road and deposited in this yard. By the time the [...]

Here’s her website: DarynKagan.com
Here’s her story, in part, from Breitbart
In a competitive and youth-obsessed business, most everyone gets The Call sometime. For ex-CNN daytime anchor Daryn Kagan, it came in January 2006. She was brought into an office and told that CNN would not renew her contract when it expired at the end of the [...]

Microsoft has a marketing nightmare on their hands. Like other near monopolies, they don’t seem to care. They figure “You’ll just have to learn to like it.”
That’s a great opportunity for someone else - anyone else! Please!
From Breitbart
Fans of the six-year-old operating system set to be pulled off store shelves in June have papered [...]

Thursday May 15th marks the 3rd UK National Work from Home Day
From TMCnet
National Work from Home Day is organised by Work Wise UK, a national not-for-profit initiative to promote “smarter” working practices - such as flexible, remote and mobile working, and working from home. It aims
to give half the working population, some 14 million, [...]

Lifehacker has some good points … use the word “Telework” instead of “Telecommute”. They have a slightly important difference. One emphasizes your working, the other sounds like a vacation.
Know why your boss is afraid to let  you do that so you can answer objections. For that they recommend this article from Web Worker Daily.
They also [...]

I found this quote from eMarketer interesting because these facts lead them to conclude we are reaching “broadband saturation”:
eMarketer estimates that by 2012 there will be over 533 million broadband households worldwide, of which 94.3 million will be in the United States. A good percentage of these broadband subscribers will also be subscribing to a [...]