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Before the Internet and PC age, I can remember when people earning Ph.D.’s would have to write the future footnotes of their dissertations on index cards and file them away in a shoebox. Because their future employment hinged on keeping their studies safe, they’d hide the shoebox in […]

From The Pine Journal Cloquet MN
Bruce Sundeen has always worked hard… he got his first taste of a mechanic’s life at age 12 working on snowmobiles.
Now he works from home as a mechanic after a stint in the military and working for an auto dealership.
When another employer fired him after he broke his leg on […]

The Sun (UK) British troops have been banned from surfing ebay because it’s too distracting - from national defense.
Military IT experts discovered that servicemen who had returned from overseas duty were busy spending a £2,240 bonus on the auction site.
Top brass were worried it was too much of a distraction, so brought in the ban across the […]

The Marketplace For Entrepreneurs is coming to the Fargo Dome on January 17th, 2007.
The Marketplace offers participants a variety of workshops and exhibits relating to starting a business, entrepreneurship, finding funding and inventions.
You can download their 2006 Resource Directory here for free.

You try to do an honest day’s work in a home based business and the next thing you know, the neighbors start complaining according to the Worcester Telegram and Gazette.
In our part of the country, people are turning to wooden coffins in lieu of expensive metal caskets … they still are required to buy a […]

I first made some money on the Internet selling recipies at Christmas time.
But even if you’re not selling recipies, it’s just that time of year between Thanksgiving and New Year’s when people are especially interested in new recipies for the holidays.
Hey that’s another reason people like working at home - they can get up for […]

Due to the fact that eBay, the Internet trading giant, recently announced that it was banning all teacher’s textbooks of any sort, including all homeschool supplies, Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) has launched their own auction website for them to exchange books and supplies.
HSLDA has already signed up more than 1,500 registered users.
Anyone […]

Sudden interest in alternative fuels such as ethanol are causing corn prices to skyrocket and sending some windfall profits back to America’s farm communities.
The Renewable Fuel Association said it projects total corn used for ethanol production to increase from 1.6 billion bushels in 2005 to nearly three billion bushels by 2015.
The industry group said the […]

Bardin Video Services creates personalized digital videos for their customers.
They digitize photos, certificates, documents, 8 mm film, slides and keepsakes to tell stories for anniversaries, retirements, scholarships, birthdays and other special events.
 
Read more at The Suburban Journals
 

According to Business Week, here’s Jeff Bezos’ plan:

Bezos wants Amazon to run your business, at least the messy technical and logistical parts of it, using those same technologies and operations that power his $10 billion online store. In the process, Bezos aims to transform Amazon into a kind of 21st century digital utility. It’s as […]