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Entries for March, 2007

10 Reasons You Aren’t Rich

Here are 10 possible reasons you aren’t a millionaire: as posted by Jeffrey Strain 1. You Care What Your Neighbors Think: If you’re competing against them and their material possessions, you’re wasting your hard-earned money on toys to impress them instead of building your wealth. 2. You Aren’t Patient: Until the era of credit cards, […]

RIAA Backs Down After Receiving Letter from Defendant’s Lawyer

I’m glad to see someone finally beat these guys. I really wonder why artists need record labels anymore? With all the online music stores, you think they would get smart and skip the middle man… Technorati Tags: music, RIAA, industry, case, lawyer

ND house rejects private medical care for pregnant teens

Are they out of their minds? I cannot think of a single instance where this law will be beneficial.  What about situations of child abuse? Sexual abuse? Incest? Did they not think of that? Are the representatives so sheltered that they think this does not exist in North Dakota? “I’ve never seen an issue that’s […]

Dog Food to Destroy

Visit this site. Check your pantry. If you have any food on this site, dispose of it. One of our friends recently lost a pet due to this food… Do it now! Technorati Tags: dog, pet, food, recall, Menu Foods

Students use Ubuntu also

Yesterday, I volunteered some time to help judge a TSA science fair competition. The category I was judging was website design/creation. I have to say I was amazed at some of the skill sets these kids have developed at such a young age. One thing that I really enjoyed is one group of high schoolers […]

Irony

Last Friday I switched my insurance company for my camper to the same company I have my auto insurance with. At the same time I dropped coverage on my Lumina which I also sold last week. Here’s the odd part: Yesterday I received a letter from the old camper insurance company with the renewal papers […]

Violent Acres and Society

Violent Acres hits another nail on the head with her latest post on what makes people less than stellar: The flip side to this is putting too much stock in what others think about you. Since I’ve started this website, I’ve been called evil, cruel, hateful, stupid, immature, meandering, a sociopath, a pedophile, a monster. […]

16 things it takes most of us 50 years to learn

3. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. 4. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we […]

Not Getting Enough Vacation?

Go to work for Netflix. According to this article they do not even monitor vacation time. I hope this is a trend that starts sweeping the workforce, although I don’t see it happening to fast… Disclosure: I am a satisfied Netflix customer. Technorati Tags: work, vacation, life, balance, Netflix

Spam for my Domain

I have been evaluating Zimbra email services, which I find to rock so far (more to come) and have been amazed at the amount of spam my main business domain (internetwonders.com) receives. Here is the snapshot since I started the trial: That’s right, it peaked at 20 thousand messages per day before I disabled the […]