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Do you use the AIM Free phone line service? I tried it out for a while some time back, and it worked quite well if you didn’t mind running AIM on your desktop all the time.
AIM Free Phoneline is
I haven’t used it since I moved my business lines to Skype, which gives me much [...]

I was recently reading about bad backs, and how we get into bad habits at the computer. Many of us spend many hours sat in front of a computer, and bad posture can lead to problems.
Many folks sit on the edge of their chair, and hunch forward. I kow I find myself doing this at [...]

It’s one of the best things you can have. Not coffee, tea, soda, lemonade, but good old plain tap water.
Bottled water is mostly a fashion fad, and it’s a crazy waste of energy and materials. In the US alone there are tons of plastics bottles going into landfill sites each year. Most people in the [...]

Remember Lee Iacocca, the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from its death throes? He’s now 82 years old and has a new book, and here are some excerpts.

Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We’ve [...]

Wednesday. Kathy calls it hump day. Downhill until the weekend she says. A way to get through the week I guess, if you’re having a bad one, but I’ve never really seen a week as something to be endured. Well, perhaps sometimes.
For most of my working life I’ve worked all different days of the week, [...]