Archive for February, 2009

Yes, it’s time to think about your garden. Where I live people are tilling space for their gardens right now. I’m planning to go out and clean up my square foot gardening boxes with their “special mix” of ingredients. Where I live, it’s time to consider setting out onion sets right now… and thinking about [...]

Judging from the people I follow on Twitter, except for the chick who really likes donuts, they are all health nuts who seem to spend hours on the “elliptical”… I think that’s some torture device in a gym, but don’t quote me on that. Or at the gym. At least that what they say. But [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day! I just thought I’d share a sentimental photo with you on this special day. (I don’t really feel this way about you, but I thought I’d share something that got sent my way just to let you share the warmth!)

Have you heard of “Do It Yourself Hot Water?” It’s a away that you can use solar energy to slash your hot water heating bill. Depending on your water usage, that could cut your electric bill by 33%. Since this current administration’s energy czar thinks electricity rates are TOO LOW and wants to raise them [...]

It’s Official, Twitter could get you killed. Not that there’s anything intrinsically dangerous about the medium… unless you use it to blab your itinerary when you’re headed into a war zone and you might be a wonderful prize for the local warlord. Fortunately, the bad guys weren’t scanning Twitter this time.

Now that digital cameras are easier than ever to come by, it is possible to make money by selling photos online. Sometimes a good photo can earn royalties again and again in fact as a tribute to your camera skills. Here’s just one such place called DreamsTime.com. People needing royalty free photos for websites and [...]

Now that people are wanting to save money, one way to do that which is becoming increasingly easy is to reduce your electric bill by producing some of your own energy. Is it that easy? I’ll let you decide. You can’t really produce enough energy to run air conditioning or heating or other heavy appliances, [...]

As I asked before in the post “Will This Federal Law Destroy Your Small Business?” there’s great concern in the economic development field about this law. These are the folks who work -usually – in public “incubators” to help start new businesses or encourage growth in existing ones. In monitoring the chatter from this crowd, [...]

Does Recession lead to small business formation? I won’t quote them but I will summarize their thoughts… 1. Recessions tend to encourage small business formation because what has been called a “refugee” effect but as far as sole proprietorships, there’s only data from 1997. 2. But as far as the cost of starting a business [...]

I was telling you the other day about how to make money writing iphone applications, and I wanted to tell you about this article from ZDNet: 9 Year Old Whiz Kid Writes iPhone App. This is awesome – a 4th grader is writing iphone applications. His latest has been downloaded 4000 times! Lim, who is [...]