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Archive for December, 2008

There’s A Better Browser Than Internet Explorer … And It’s Also Free!

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

If you’re a typical user of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer(E), you’ve probably had problems with viruses, spam, computer attacks and goodness knows what else. The fact is, IE is a a very good browser in many respects but the bad guys just love to hack at it and bombard you with nasty bugs.
However, there is a [...]

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An Opening: Revisiting An Old Loss

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

I can’t explain where, after thirty-one years, the need to
visit my mother’s grave came from. I was driving south on
Highway 99, thinking about this and wondering what to
expect when I got there. I first started feeling this need a few
months earlier and had ordered a copy of her death
certificate from [...]

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Sex or Gender – Part I

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

Alan Pease, author of a book titled “Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps”, believes that women are spatially-challenged compared to men. The British firm, Admiral Insurance, conducted a study of half a million claims. They found that “women were almost twice as likely as men to have a collision in a car [...]

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Rain and Rainbows

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

Lately I’ve noticed a lot of tragedy in my life and the lives of those around me. And I’ve noticed that the only way I’ve been able to deal with it is by surrounding myself with those who care for me, and I’ve also noticed that my friends that take the longest to heal are [...]

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Why Choose Dish TV?

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

One can only wonder how we possibly survived before satellite TV was around! While scouring the internet looking for information on the best Satellite TV system to purchase it became clear to us that Dish TV is simply the best choice for satellite television. Dish TV is affordable, offers the best channel options and has [...]

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Bryan Ellis on Virtual Real Estate Investing

Friday, December 26th, 2008

Landlords and rehabbers take notice – you may soon be focused on the new concepts of “Virtual Real Estate Investing“. What is meant by “Virtual Real Estate Investing” ranges from online games like SecondLife (where real profit can be made) to the use of internet technologies to make normal real estate investors more profitable. [...]

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Dealing With The Painful Loss Of A Loved One

Friday, December 26th, 2008

I had to take a friend to the doctor today and as I sit here in the waiting room about to doze off I begin to write this article. By the way, why do waiting rooms in doctor’s offices make people sleepy?
OK, let me get back on track. As I’m sitting here, I [...]

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World Trade Magazine 70,000 Readers Learn about

Friday, December 26th, 2008

“Engineer-to-Order Manufacturers Find Little Global Competition” is an important feature in World Trade Magazine. The 70,000 plus senior executives and managers reading the publication have purchasing influence over their supply chain. Global competitiveness is central to the publication’s message. According to the World Trade Magazine article, “ETO (Engineer-to-Order) manufacturing cannot be outsourced. The unique one-of-a-kind [...]

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Travel Breaks for the Environmentally Conscious Snowboarder

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

Hundreds of keen skiers will before long be searching for their ski trousers and dashing off in search of the heaviest snowfall.
And undoubtedly the impact from your carbon footprint will be close to as far down the list of vacation essentials as a Christmas cracker after the Christmas holidays. [...]

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Boost Your Search Engine Ranking And Generate Free Traffic With Reciprocal Links

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

Reciprocal links are an important step in your overall plan to get site visitors.
What are they? Reciprocal links are mutual links you and some other web site owner agree to post on your respective sites.
Why are they so important? It goes back to the basic nature of the Internet. The Internet exists as an information [...]

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