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Working at the beach is still working. You have to meet deadlines, read emails and articles, perform testing, and take phone calls. Granted though, you can talk to beautiful ladies on your water break. In the water.

Not so bad.

Learning how to build a basic online reputation is vital for professionals and businesses to succeed in todays world. Potential employers and customers will usually research you using search engines and social media tools. The only problem worse than having no online reputation is having a negative one. The Internet is full of people and organizations manipulating your reputation, intentionally or otherwise.… read more “How To Build A Basic Online Reputation”

Folks who are able to sit in traffic every day for more than a half hour fascinate me. It’s miserable, unproductive and soul-crushing. How do they do it?

After having ads inexplicably open many times while reading the New York Times on the iphone, I finally figured out what was going on. When u double click on the text of an article to zoom in and read it, the edge of the ads is included. So even though you can’t see any of the ad you can still click on it.… read more “New York Times Scams Advertisers”

I went to the Bellevue Entrepreneur’s meetup tonight and met some interesting people.  Some of them had legitimate businesses and some were what I dub “human spam”.  One woman was selling diet pills that allow you “to lose weight with no exercise or changes in what you eat!”.  Another man was involved in a multi-level marketing scheme selling holiday cards.  … read more “Human Spam”

Merchant services is one of the most confusing parts of running an online business.  Right now, I find myself asking “Can one merchant services account run multiple websites?”  I have done some research and found a few options.

If you have a generic business name, such as “Internet Orders” you may be able to set up multiple websites in different niches using one merchant account. … read more “Can One Merchant Account Run Multiple Websites?”

“The Phantom Menace was the greatest movie of all time after the Wizard of Oz.”

“All you critics are thumb-suckers.”

News has just broke that Michael Jackson, the legendary pop star and friend of children everywhere, has died of a heart attack.  Thanks to my younger brother for giving me the news on Michael Jackson.  I am looking around the interwebs to see what other news on Michael Jackson’s death there is.

TMZ has reported that Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest at his home and staff at hospital nearby were unable to revive him.

For the last few days, I’ve been sick and haven’t gotten as much done as usual.  Got home after work today and did a little bit on my side projects and am now watching “Satan’s Little Helper”… such a terrible movie lol.  Probably going to turn it off as soon as I’m done eating these nectarines.

I am trying out outsourcing some menial personal tasks to someone over an internet connection.  Tasks like blog commenting, article submissions, basic site testing and other stuff will be done by a helper instead of me.  Hopefully, I will find someone reliable and trustworthy to take care of this stuff.