From the Front: 01/13/2009

For you Louisa, because you asked!News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.In their own words:Afhanistan Shrugged: Better Writers than me! - I wanted to take an opportunity to showcase two other great blogs out there having to do with the war in Afghanistan and Iraq [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 21:19:00

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Review: The War of Art

Every other Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal productivity, personal development, or entrepreneurship book. ... or art, but most everything in the book actually applies to any personal challenge - starting a diet, starting a business, and so on. The book is divided [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 20:00:37

Capitalize on Current Business Trends

photo credit: lumaxart Call it a natural instinct or intuition, but do you ever find yourself having a strong feeling one way or the other with current business trends? I am not trying to say [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:42:03

Still here

Fanny Starr, a Holocaust survivor and speaker, is at ISTE sharing her memories and thoughts over Second Life: ... , who had a successful business manufacturing leather apparel. On September 13, 1939, the Germans entered [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 19:23:44

My Money, My Risk and Your Behind the Scenes look at Building a Home Based Business

Before I even touch on the challenge behind this title, ... of you have expressed a desire to start a home based business but are scared to do it.  You wonder, “ ... , take my own risk and start a home based business (otherwise known as network marketing or MLM) to give [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 15:00:33

Carnival of Personal Finance #175 - "Jokey McJokester" ed.

Hello my frugal little friends, and welcome to the 175th Carnival of Personal Finance - "Jokey McJokester" edition! As many of you know, i'm a huge fan of mixing entertainment with financial learning, so get ready for some fun up in here :) [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 11:02:01

Cavalcade of Risk #69: Risk Management and Uncertainty Quotes

It’s the Cavalcade of Risk, the first of 2009! It’s issue #69… and I figured any theme based on the issue number would be far too risky for this blog, so I had to go a different route!  I discovered a fun website of famous quotes that all relate to risk management, uncertainty, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:22:15

Green Business Ideas for Students

Go Green “Green” or “Eco-Friendly” or “Sustainable” business concepts and ideas are becoming more and more popular in the recent months. The idea of launching and running a green business is nice if you’re looking for a way to make ... business ideas, the concepts behind going green, the reasons for doing so, and the affects [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 20:23:18

Posts about Mortgage Market Report as of January 18, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Real Estate Report as of January 18, 2009 - firsthomeservice ... Grubb & Ellis issues more downbeat report on office real estate market (The Delaware Business ... a weaker performance in the New Castle County office market than reports from other companies. Source [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 12:25:43

Waxman Defeats Dingell

Waxman Defeats Dingell By Paul Kane Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) won the vote, 137-122, to become the new chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, defeating the legendary Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.). The vote came a day after the House Democratic steering committee recommended Waxman for the post in a narrow 25-22 vote [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 15:57:58

Waxman Defeats Dingell

Waxman Defeats Dingell By Paul Kane Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) won the vote, 137-122, to become the new chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, defeating the legendary Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.). The vote came a day after the House Democratic steering committee recommended Waxman for the post in a narrow 25-22 vote [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 15:57:58

Little Known Ways to Ruby Mastery by Thibaut Barrere

A weekly series from the Ruby Masters Welcome to the next installment of the weekly interview series on the RL blog - “Path to Ruby Mastery” - by ... aggregator, automation and continuous integration, logs analysis for measuring speed or business [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 05:30:42

Doubt (Film): A Discussion Guide

Doubt (USA, 2008)Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep put in great performances in the new film Doubt, based on a play of the same title written by John Patrick Shanley. Shanley wrote the screenplay for and directed the film. Here are some discussion questions for the film. ( [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 20:23:28

Tips for Photographers for Working with Web Designers

In this post Ramsay Taplin from Taplin Web Design talks about photographers and their interactions with web designers. Image by photographer padawan Over the years I have worked with many freelance photographers to produce photos for my Adelaide website design clients [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 14:08:49

Small Steps Today, Big Earnings Tomorrow

With the economy in a downswing, people are searching for ways to recoup their losses ... out your laundry duties, cleaning chores, or other things on your to-do list, you're spending a small [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 16:18:35

2009 Top 10 Small Business Ideas

With the highly possible increase in downsizing trends, more and more people are made redundant ... cleaning products, you are on a roll. Energy saving business This idea is definitely hot in the past few [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 09:48:50

Barry Eichengreen. Extra: Understanding the TED Spread, Stan Collender, Paul Krugman, Nouriel Roubini, Dean Baker ... the federal funds rate on target does not require open market operations, only discount window (lombard [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 09:07:00

Blagojevich Criminal Complaint: The Best of the Best

Blagojevich Criminal Complaint: The Best of the Best The arrest of Rod Blagojevich this morning coincided with the release of a 78-page criminal complaint by the U.S. attorney's office detailing the allegations against the Illinois governor. While the entire document is a must-read, the Fix, as always, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 18:00:10

Budget Beating Gift Ideas for Photographers

As someone who’s starting a photographic business, I know that there’s nothing that I’ ... - a lens cleaning pen that conveniently fits into any camera bag - from $10 photo-bliss Budget [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 18:13:34

Give Paulson 150 Billion and Come Back In January and Do it RIGHT (And here’s how to do it right)

The bill has failed. Good. It deserved to die. There are two considerations at this point ... , kick the people who screwed them up to the curb and change how they do business. 3) Declare [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 20:26:01

the great canadian dinosaur rush

the early days of palaeontology are full of cool stories of adventure, hardship, and of course amazing finds ... to collect dinosaurs from alberta starting in 1909, and had several summers working alberta [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 07:41:00

The Art of Manliness Manly Holiday Gift Guide

This holiday gift guide contains manly gift ideas for men and boys. When selecting the items to be included, we didn’t want to re-create the typical men’s holiday gift guide full of digital cameras and video games [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 17:08:53

Small Business Internet Marketing: An SEO Dream Job?

This post was guest blogged by Phil Van Treuren of Contest Blogger ... . It was a smaller operation with about half a dozen employees that specialized in drain cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 08:00:54

Dror Benshetrit of Dror

Dror Benshetrit is a genius. We walked out of his studio in total awe ... . One night this lady came and opened her change purse while I was cleaning the table. She took her wallet [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 22:37:40

Kitchen Nightmares J Willy’s Just Got Fixed!

Chef Gordon Ramsay takes Kitchen Nightmares to the midwest this week, visiting J Willy’s in Indiana ... Williams to take care of business, but he doesn’t care. The restaurant was struggling [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 03:11:04

Testability - re-discovering what we learned and forgot about software development

by Christian Gruber ( ... by separating concerns and de-coupling code. Map your solution to the business problem. Write code [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 23:59:19

Making eReader books with OpenOffice and DropBook

eReader has long been one of my favorite e-book readers for any platform, and it particularly shines on the iPhone ... and install the DropBook software (Windows, Mac [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 02:25:22

The Markets, Politics and Change

Throwing $25 billion at the U.S. auto sector is akin to the $25 billion thrown at Citigroup; money flushed down the toilet ... : cleaning it up and stimulating the economy. The cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 06:13:31

Panasonic Announces the Toughbook H1 Mobile Clinical Assistant

The mobile medical space better make some room - Panasonic, one of the kings in the rugged mobile pc space, ... ?v=IDG-1rNzizQ H1 Cleaning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5o5T-TVbjY H1 Drop Test: http://www.youtube.com [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 17:59:02

Starting a Business and Finding Potential Customers

There's a question on Yahoo Answers from a man starting a web development business and he was asking how can he market his new business within his ... you are starting a web design or a cleaning business, the first step is to determine exactly ... to your geographic area. A cleaning business may have no choice but to work within their locality, but a web [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 03:55:31

Limited Time To Work It…

Hey All, Received an email below from a window cleaner who faces a time crunch like most window cleaners do when they first get started in the window cleaning business. I thought other window cleaners may benefit from it. Take care for now. Regards ... in the next few days. I am really excited about starting my window cleaning business but right [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:47:45

Home Office Pioneer: Domainer Recalls ‘Outing’ By 1st Grade Daughter

Kelly Lieberman is a serial entrepreneur, domain strategist, devoted mom ... as an entrepreneur. She’s had a successful carpet cleaning business, overseen vast commercial and agricultural ... a girlfriend into starting a carpet cleaning business together and literally ordered business cards [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 10:37:53

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