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For many years now I’ve said that I’m not much of a shopper. Meaning I don’t shop very often. But that’s because I’ve had almost zero income while I was caregiving for my parents. I fought temptation to feel sorry for myself, by simply not hanging out in stores any more than I had to. [...]

If you were to hire the ideal employee, what would you look for? Or supposing you were going to train someone else to take up the skills that you have learned or taught yourself? What kind of person will you most like to be in that position? I’ve started to think along these lines, and [...]

Again, because my business hours are sacrificed for cleaning up Dad’s estate, I can only give updates on my personal situation; 1. Well, one is a business item. I was able to meet with a committee last week and now have a paying web designer contract for their society. That’s for one night a week. [...]

This is a busy week – no, a very busy month! So I won’t take time for a full-length feature article. Just a quick report to let you know how this miracle is coming along. 1. the owner is still holding the dream house for me, but not open to a rent-to-own deal. 2.Social Services [...]

The 23 1/2 years I have just completed as my parents’ live-in caregiver were a gift of time to them and to the Lord. Some people who have been watching me, seem to have coloured me with the kind of subtle disdain they have for a lowly milk-maid. They do not realize that I’ve been [...]

Recently a number of people from church have dropped by to visit. Ostensibly to offer condolences on the death of my Dad, for whom I was a live-in caregiver many years. When I invite them into the living room and they see my desk, they are often amazed, and wonder at what I do with [...]

Dr. Ken Evoy has written an excellent, in-depth article on this topic in his ezine, The EDGE # 083. I’d like to highlight just a few of these suggestions as I think we all need to be reminded of them from time to time. I’ll do this in my own words, however. There is a [...]

Is your “free” website with an unregistered domain not making you money, even though you’ve put all kinds of work into it? Another friend and I were discussing things that don’t work in a web business, and in that dialogue, I realized that certain points are true and need to be re-stated from time to [...]

First go read this news item: ABCnews.go.com/ and, an example of one who was charged with a similar crime finally being absolved: news.zdnet.co.uk/ When you’ve read those, come back to read Fred’s response. What both of these articles confuse is the difference between a PC and an OS (operating system). Just like many people confuse [...]

Have you discovered the new online craze for social bookmarking? Maybe you’re still struggling to figure out how to save your Favourites or Bookmarks in your Internet Explorer, Netscape, or Firefox. That’s a good place to keep your own favourite links, and it is smart to put them in folders and sub-folders so you have [...]