On the recent events of Gawker's database got hacked into and Amazon's website going down, I restarted thinking on how I am keeping my passwords safe. Out of the hundreds of sites that I go to, I can admit using 5 different passwords that meet all the minimum security requirements. Lucky for us
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12/15/2010
These days everything seems to be outsourced and made outside of the USA. Most products we purchase in the stores such as toys, clothing, and computer parts are made on other countries and shipped back to the States. Most big companies have customer service call centers in India or China. Want
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12/14/2010
Costco for many years have sold iPods, Apple accessories, and even iTune cards with a minor discount. Beside buying Apple products at big chains like the Apple store, Best Buys, or Frys for the easy return and warranty, Costco would be the main place to go. Today I saw an article that Costco pl
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12/14/2010
Previously I have not thought about making my website "mobile friendly" because there are too many mobile devices and it takes a lot of time and resources. If it works with the most popular browsers such as IE and Firefox, that would be fine with me and most of my clients. Things have been rapid
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12/13/2010
Back in the early 1990s when I was building computers for a living, I didn't understand why consumers where buying these cpu upgrade chips for $200+. These chips where usually from AMD, and all that need to do the upgrade was to take out the current processor, connect it to the upgrade chip an
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12/12/2010
On a daily basis, we get bombarded with negativity at work, the economy, and what is going around the world. We want the easy way out or do things that are "safe". We always hear the saying "need to see it to believe it". Many years ago I learned that we need to believe it to see it. Recently sa
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12/11/2010
I just recently finished my 2011 Annual Business plan and started working on a list of cost-saving tips to share with the group that I am training. Learning from my previous experience I would reduce some of my direct marketing expenses like less letters for "Expire Listings", only buy office s
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12/10/2010
When I first took real estate classes many years ago, I first thought that agents that are in the business longer would be more knowledgeable than newer agents. So an agent that have their license for 18 years would have more knowledge/skills than an agent with 10 years and that agent would hav
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12/09/2010
Today I went to visit my optomitrist for an eye exam. She was wondering what I was doing now since I "semi-retire" from technology. My response was that I have been doing real estate. Of course people usually then ask "Is this still a good time to be in real estate?" or "Isn't the market tough
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12/08/2010
I have been to about every single industry before from Automotive to retail to Web, where there independent contractors and they were highly paid hourly. These could be computer network or programmer consultants being paid $100 to $250+ per hour so they are very motivated to work hard to keep t
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12/08/2010
