Archive for February 2008
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As I get older, items related to individual health are always of interest to me. Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Irregular Heartbeat are among those things. Did you know the average survival rate for Sudden Cardiac Arrest is only 6-7% and that 2/3 of Unexpected Cardiac Arrests occur without prior indication of any heart disease. In [...]
I recently read an article about blog and website promotion where the author was offering tips for bloggers to help increase their traffic. One of the simplest of suggestions was to simply ask readers to link to you and you do the same for them. So the purpose of this post is to layout the [...]
With the recent reductions in the prime interest rates NOW may be the time for you to consider refinancing you home to get out of a variable interest rate loan or a loan with a large balloon. Perhaps you’d like to do some debt consolidation, or a remodel…you could get a Home Equity Loan or [...]
It’s the same old story… You just sit down for dinner or you settle in to watch your favorite program on television and the phone rings. It’s one of those pesky telemarketing firms wanting to sell you the latest and greatest things since sliced bread, or the carpet cleaning company offering you some great deal [...]
For the past couple of seasons of American Idol I have resorted to an automatic, “intelligent” dialing program to place my votes for me. The interesting thing about DialIdol is that it “measures the busy signals” to figure out which of the idols are getting the votes. If it makes a determination that your choice(s) [...]
I never could quite grasp the concept of sending our children out to pawn candy bars, wrapping paper, tea, etc… just so they could earn money for the latest and greatest “program” at school. I must say I am a sucker and I will usually pry out of my wallet the $3 dollars they are [...]
In the past month I have had two full weekends that the blog has been inaccessible due to problems at my webhost – Flexihostings. I was left no alternative, after another full day today where they could not resolve the problem, but to change webhosts. This evening I moved the entire blog, all images, databases, [...]
Projects Possible has decided to host a Blog Carnival on Email Productivity. To set the stage I think it is important to understand what a “blog carnival” is. If you look at the Wikipedia link you will see that a “blog carnival” is a blog event. It is described a really nothing more than a [...]
Another post in my continuing series on Valentine gift shopping… If valentine’s day flowers are on your gift list you should check out the great selection at 1800flowers website. Not only can you get the standard “cut” flowers like roses, daisies and tulips but on their one stop website they also have a great selection [...]
In this day and age of email overload I find that I am having to contribute to the overload because individuals that I have exchange email or telephone calls with have committed to do something that invariably it gets buried in their hundreds if not thousands of email. Ultimately they forget the deadline unless I [...]