Archive for 2008

Have you upgraded to the latest version of Microsoft Office?
I’ve been using Microsoft Word, for example, since Windows 3.1.
Usually the changes for each upgrade are such that using the new version is comparatively simple.
I didn’t find that to be the case with the latest upgrade at all.
It’s “tabbed” like Internet Explorer 7 but it was [...]

Here’s a cool home made website that’s based on a person’s personal passion: Dottie’s Weight Loss Zone.
It doesn’t have all the latest bells and whistles of some Web 2.o sites, but it has UNIQUE information.
Like this page that lists your favorite Restaurants and break down your favorite meals into their calories, fat grams, carb grams, [...]

It’s hard to have a home business if you don’t have a home!
In the past I’ve expressed my reservations about home mortgage foreclosure “business opportunities”. Basically they seemed to charge a lot of money to people who were down to their last cent.
But again today I had a customer dealing with this issue.
It’s a short [...]

From her press release:
Jennifer Johnson is a work at home mom who left behind a career in housing policy research to raise her two boys. She lives in Charlotte, NC with her family. Her mother taught her to sew when Jennifer was a small girl, and she has been sewing ever since. Additional hobbies include [...]

If you’re in Portland Oregon and want to start a home business or improve yours, you may want to check this meeting out.
The Bee
The Thursday, February 21st, meeting of the area-wide Association of Home Businesses in Sellwood will feature a program by Nancy Chapin, guru of all Portland area business associations, and herself a home [...]

Can you say with me “You Idiot!” 
Man arrested in eBay sale of historic documents
I guess if he worked at the National Archives, he’d try to sell the Declaration of Independence on Ebay too!
In 2007 alone, Lorello stated he took 300 to 400 items, including the four-page Calhoun letter, which drew bids of more than $1,700 [...]

Want a simple way to keep fit while working at home?
Don’t want to pay for a gym or job outside?
If you’re a guy and want to keep some muscle mass after age 40, you may want to check out this simple system called, SimpleFit.
Can’t do regular pull ups and push ups? There are substitutes!
HT 

Do you want to connect with publishers? Send press releases? Get the word out to the paper and ink world?
Here’s your slightly bizarre website for doing just that:
It’s the EVERYONE WHO’S ANYONE IN ADULT TRADE PUBLISHING, NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, BROADCASTING AND TINSELTOWN, TOO:
A Writer’s Guide to The All-Pervasive Propaganda Network
Last Edition, 2008
If you can’t find it [...]

Was it P.T. Barnum that said something like that about people paying good money to see bearded ladies?
It could also be applied as well today.
I thought everyone realized that supposed emails from the IRS were all bogus, but no.
A lady asked me to help her get her “online refund”.
I showed her the way to see [...]

I wondered if any of these caterers was a home based business when I saw the headline about this program.
If you live in a city with an NFL franchise, maybe there’s other help to be found?
NFL Helps Locals Women and Minority Owned Businesses Score Super Bowl Business 
The food is courtesy of local caterer All About [...]