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Archive for May, 2009

May 27, 2009

Keep Your First House

The guy who owns the property where I keep my horse is always talking about how he is “house rich, cash poor.”  He owns several different houses — at least three, I think — living in one and renting out the rest.
He frequently tells me about how his dad always said you should keep your first [...]

May 26, 2009

You Can Find Anything Online

Isn’t the internet amazing?  I really can find anything.  In the past week, I’ve found an old mirror printed with a beer’s decals from some old British pub, I found a retired handbag from Vera Bradley, my mom’s favorite ever designer (it has chickens and eggs all over it, I may think she’s crazy, but [...]

May 25, 2009

A Good Choice

The Fiji spa that we chose had a lot to offer for our vacation.  It was an amazing place full of wildlife and beautiful grounds to walk through.  They had expeditions like walk-abouts and diving expeditions that were available to us as guests at the resort.  We also had every spa service extended to us [...]

May 24, 2009

Ideas for a Good Business Website

A good business website usually means more than just listing your location, hours of operation, and perhaps an “About Us” page.  In order to be a website customers will find and go to, it also needs to have something more of value to them.
Don’t get me wrong — the basic information is definitely important.  You [...]

May 19, 2009

People May Know If You Fake Knowledge

I saw an ad recently for a webhosting company that was looking for writers. I checked out their website and it looked legitimate so I applied for the job. However I wanted to make sure that they really knew what they were doing so I asked them some basic questions about things like dedicated server [...]