With US consumer debt surpassing a staggering $1.7 trillion, America is gearing up for another expensive Valentines Day, according to financial author and former Price Waterhouse CPA, Jim Trippon. Trippon, who runs a boutique wealth management firm in Houston, TX, is considered one of America’s foremost authorities on the financial habits of American self -made [...]
Gentlemen, the time is almost upon us. Within the next few weeks, you will begin hearing the familiar refrains: “So? Are you going to surprise me for Valentine’s Day?”, “What did you buy me this year?”, etc. Instead of praying that Cupid would fire an arrow to knock you out, take it all in stride. [...]
From at least the days of ancient Greece and Rome, the month of February has been associated with romantic celebration. For the ancient Greeks, it was the time of the holy marriage (hieros gamos) between the king and queen of their gods, Zeus and Hera. It was also the occasion of a fertility ritual, in [...]
We’ve put together a short list of the ultimate home theater rooms that our editing team has come across in recent time. Which ones are your favorites? Continue reading for the list.
I wish I had known these 10 tips the day I started working with PHP. Instead of learning them through painstaking process, I could have been on my way to becoming a PHP programmer even sooner! This article is presented in two parts and is intended for folks who are new to PHP.
When it comes to alarm clocks, their job is to get you out of bed. Here are 10 alarm clocks that get you out of bed in a very annoying fashion.
Many people are intimidated by the prospect of expanding their forums to cater for a larger audience and attract visitors. The process of analysing a forum, locating its faults and coming up with a solution in order to make it more appealing is by no means an easy task. However, using a few simple ideas, [...]
For years we have all known of sites such as www.penguinmagic.com and all such things similar. THEY ALL MAKE YOU PAY TO LEARN MAGIC TRICKS! THIS IS GOING TO SAVE YOU HUNDREDS ON PURCHASING THOSE VIDEOS! It will also help you impress the ladies. Today I went to the liberty of scouring the internet to [...]
The numbers aren’t pretty. While some two-thirds of small firms make it past the two-year mark, just 44% can hack it for four years, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And by “hack it,” we’re just talking survival rates here: Plenty of those “survivors” are choking down ramen noodles to [...]
Since Vista was released to MSDN subscribers back in November I have started using it on my primary development laptop. I would love to run it in a VMWare session while I am developing, but it is still not possible to get Areo Glass to run this way (I need glass running to get our [...]
Here are ten things that you can do to hold more effective meetings.
A United States senator once said it, so it must be true: The Internet isn’t a dump truck, it’s a series of tubes. And many a reputation has gone swirling down those tubes, thanks to the Net’s ability to expose scoundrels, scalawags, liars, cheats, and fools–and then broadcast the scandal to a billion glowing screens. [...]
Our editors have compiled a list of seven strange gadgets you don’t want to be seen using, or so we think. If you have any others to add, please leave us a comment.
Whether you’re writing a simple article for a blog, piecing together the next blockbuster hit, or penning a 500 page romance novel, there are quite a few options for helping you get all of that information organized and drafted. There really are enough to chose from with a wide enough range of options that you’re [...]
“The Clapco D29 is the most impenetrable lock on the market today. It has only one design flaw… the door… must be closed!” –Seinfeld (1990) After installing an expensive alarm system in his apartment and then getting robbed, Jerry Seinfeld learned a valuable lesson: no matter how good the security system, if it isn’t used [...]
There are some aspects of aging, such as gray hair, that Laura Bestler-Wilcox can accept. Mental decline is not one of them. “I’m only 38, but I have no intention of growing old – mentally, at least,” said Bestler-Wilcox, from Ames. She started playing Nintendo’s Brain Age game last month, and says it helps keep [...]
Have you heard the one about the doggie day care deduction? The male model? The pimped-out Amish buggy? That’s right — Bankrate’s back with another nine of the craziest tax write-offs you’ve ever heard of, in the hope it will make paying your 2006 federal income tax a little bit easier. For our last installment [...]
1.5 years ago I published the original ‘Top 10 weirdest USB drives‘. Over 500 000 people have visited the original page, and it included all of the sushi drives, the thumb drive and the now classical barbi drive. I’ve received quite many comments and emails about the list, and I know that some of you [...]
