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- McWhortle--the SEC is lurking I just heard about McWhortle Enterprises for the first time today. They describe themselves as: McWhortle Enterprises is an established and well-known manufacturer of biological defense mechanisms. Fortune 500 companies routinely use McWhortle Defense systems to protect their far-flung executives living in dangerous areas. These discreet, confidential safeguards have for...
- Can My Repo Man Get Jeep Parts from China? So now I have this great new car, but it's made by Chrysler. Yeah, the company that just filed for bankruptcy. The company that's closing down hundreds of North American plants and opening their new plants in China...
- Taxi Queue at BKK Relocated The promised relocation of the public (metered) taxi queue at Bangkok's new Suvarnabhumi airport has finally taken place. The taxi queue is now on level two, the same floor as arrivals, so now you can just head straight out the door once you exit customs to find the taxi queue....
Dell auditors shake things up As I have mentioned before, my profession of auditing does not seem to be well respected. We do, however, serve a purpose, as was made dazzingly clear Friday: Dell Inc. will restate its earnings for fiscal years 2003 through 2006 and the first quarter of 2007 after an internal audit...
Five Gorgeous Recycled Glass Kitchen Countertops Thinking about doing a kitchen remodeling job, especially after reading the guest post on green kitchens earlier this week? That post inspired me to seek out the ways in which recycled or repurposed materials could be used to create fabulous looking kitchens. The most eco friendly products tend to...- Friday's Quizzlet: The Right to Bare Arms Appetizer: If you could live on another continent for 1 year, which one would you choose?I am a "North American" in the truest sense anybody can be, as I am now unofficially a dual citizen. I love both countries, and would gladly bear arms on either of their behalfs because...
What Is The Dow? What Is The Dow Jones Industrial Average? We've hear a lot about the Dow in the news. It goes up and folks are happy. It goes down and folks panic. But what is this mystical Dow that everyone is talking about? The Dow actually stand for Dow Jones Industrial Average. ...
Prosper Marketplace Auctioning Debt The Baltimore Sun is reporting the Prosper Settlement. A settlement for $1 million dollars paid to 20 different states was announced today, with Prosper Marketplace agreeing to the payout after complaints poured in claiming that the peer-to-peer lending service was selling securities that were unregistered. Prosper Marketplace is a business...- Creative Marketing: Hyundai Will Take Your Car Back If You're Laid Off In a creative gambit, the North American unit of South Korea-based Hyundai Motor Company is introducing a new incentive: Hyundai will take your car back if you are laid off or experience any other covered life-changing event. This coverage is actually an insurance policy taken out by Hyundai via a...
- Boating Vacations Boating holidays are a wonderful way to spend the summer! Just pack your bags and float around on a houseboat or a yacht for a few weeks, enjoying the sunshine, fishing and swimming and visiting towns along the shoreline. It's comparable in cost to staying in a hotel, with so...
- Taxi Queue at BKK Relocated The promised relocation of the public (metered) taxi queue at Bangkok's new Suvarnabhumi airport has finally taken place. The taxi queue is now on level two, the same floor as arrivals, so now you can just head straight out the door once you exit customs to find the taxi queue....
Jumping on the Blogging Bandwagon, or Not Bandwagons are lots of fun to jump onto: there are usually a lot of upbeat, excited people already there. Many of them are convinced the bandwagon is taking them to a lovely, special place where their dreams will be fulfulled. And possibly they will be. The problem is, when...- 25 Randy, er, Random Things About Me I got tagged. Normally my policy toward tagging is the same as the U.S. policy on not dealing with terrorists. When this stuff was really popular I was getting tagged every day. Then it died down, maybe because I wasn't responding to people and they gave up. But if Michel...
- Beyond SEO: Guest Article Editor's Note: Here is yet another refeshing article talking about reigning in those SEO urges and making your marketing campaign whole again. Regarding the article quality itself, people are really starting to get this whole "writing valuable content" thing.
what to do if you like your job but hate your career... ...or vice versa. You may be thinking about changing your career path. Maybe your "career" - the actual work you do - no longer appeals to you. Or maybe the work environment (long commutes? corporate offices? 9-to-5 hours turning into 9-to-8 hours?) has lost what little fascination it once...
HDMI Cable Review: Optimized Cable Company HDMI cables is the best way to connect your new HD Television. As more people are buying new High Definition Televisions and now that United States is going all digital with there TV transmission, no more analog, more people are upgrading there TVs to high definition TVs. And also...
Free Accelerated Learning Techniques The Internet and schools offer a lot of programs to accelerate learning. People are different from one another and there are some individuals who learn faster than others. Who needs a faster pace of learning? Accelerated Learning techniques are not all new; they have been there for quite some...- Getting the NEW Friday Traffic Report Running Today! Bear with me - I am setting up the new home of the Friday Traffic Report!  This blog replaces the 3 year old Webmaster Traffic Tools hosted Friday Traffic Report. (Which is still a great place you can data mine for hours of reading and learning.) But, time for new...
- How about Wolverine ? Movie critics took sharp claws to "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" on Wednesday, carving it up in several poor reviews, but box office watchers said it still should bring blockbuster ticket sales at this weekend's debut. The movie is the first major release of Hollywood's lucrative summer season, which can account for...
- That's a lot of zeros Wow. According to CardTrak, consumers "will likely rack up more than $85 billion in holiday sales on VISA, MasterCard, American Express and Discover credit cards" this year. That's $85,000,000,000 -- up 11% over 2005. Even at a (randomly chosen, unrealistically low) average annual percentage rate of 3%, that means the...
- These Boots Were Made For Balking During the DNC a couple of weeks ago, I commented on the sloppy and disturbingly blatant display of empty boots that were strewn across the steps of Government Center in an anti-war protest of sorts (empty boots = dead American soldiers, get it?) Now, while I have sworn to keep...
- Canadian Paper Money Money -> Paper Money: World -> Canada Canadian paper money has an interesting history. If many of us were handed an example of the first Canadian paper currency, we wouldn't recognize its significance. That's because the first bills issued in Canada weren't printed bills at all because paper was an...
Credits Cards Really Aren't So Bad (Re-Post) Note: We are taking a short break from blogging this week and will be re-posting a few of our earlier articles that may not have been read by many of our current readers. If you have already read this article (and those few to come), we apologize for the repetition...
REVIEW - The Automatic Millionaire REVIEW: The Automatic Millionaire, By David Bach "A Powerful One-Step Plan To Live and Finish Rich" FROM THE BACK: "Do you want to live rich and retire richer? Rich enough to do what you want to do when you want to do it? Rich enough to stop worrying about...
4 quick steps to building wealth 1. Find something you can do well and (at least moderately) enjoy doing.* 2. Do it.** 3. Try to save some of the money you make doing it.*** 4. Repeat steps 2 and 3.**** I think that may be it. What do you think? photo credit: woodleywonderworks * Notice I...- Taxes for Bloggers This is tax weekend for us. I spent the two days gathering up and cleaning up the information we'll need before we file. Here are some things that bloggers (or other freelancers) should be sure to get lined-up before doing taxes:
- Free Stock Tips There are many stock tips for investors to use when looking for an investment, here's a good stock tip. Technical Analysis - Measuring how a stocks historic trends move, measuring the bearish line directions and the bullish line directions. Investors have develop different technical analysis evaluation on how a stock...
- Weekend Link Love And Carnival Roundup Special thanks to FIRE Finance for including my post What Matters In Investing in this week's Carnival of Personal Finance, Lao Tzu edition (love the theme). Following are some posts around the blogosphere I found particularly interesting this week. Swine Flu Virus And The Costs Of Staying Home by Saving...
Starting Kids Out on the Right Financial Track Many of the best lessons we can learn about personal finance are taught when we are very young. By laying a strong financial foundation for your children, you can help shield them from making catastrophic financial decisions in the future. There are some great options available out there that can...![Image Copyright 'moonberry' [DeviantART.com]](http://www.makrin.com/wp-content/2009/04/wedding_cake__3__by_moonberry-150x150.jpg "Image Copyright 'moonberry' [DeviantART.com]")
Wedding Photography Over the past few days I have been looking over some of the local wedding photographers in Bradford area to see what their work is like, and see what prices they charge; not because I'm getting married but more out of curiosity, and I cannot get my head around some...
