Starting tomorrow, Discover card users can get 5% back on gas and hotel purchases through September. The maximum you can get is $400 over those three months but at $4 a gallon, that equates to 8000 gallons.
If you have employees who are on the road for your company, it might be worth it to get [...]
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When I bought my MacBook about a month ago, I didn’t load the Leopard upgrade right away. In fact, I kept putting it off and putting it off. Then a couple of days ago, I needed to load the latest development release of some software from the developers. But, to load that, I needed to [...]
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I have been writing windows applications and managing teams writing windows applications since the very first edition, 1.0 came out in the 1980’s. I was happy to see the leap in technology with Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000 Server and Windows XP. Yes, I know I left some out, they sucked just [...]
Barron’s has an interesting article on oil prices. For a couple of months many have been speculating on whether the current run-up in oil prices constituted a bubble or just normal supply and demand pricing. Barron’s is now openly questioning whether the current prices are sustainable and as is usual with Barron’s they make a [...]
Yesterday, my cellphone rang as I was driving to the ice rink to pick up my son. It was one of my Field Guide subscribers who I have talked to from time to time about their investing strategy. Earlier this year, they embarked on a strategy I said was risky for many reasons. Their goal? [...]
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That is the title of a junk mail piece I received today. Yes, I typically throw away junk mail, but this one caught my attention and not for the reason its producers intended.
This junk mail piece is hawking a Canadian OTC stock that was trading at ten cents a few weeks ago. This junk mail [...]
Find the right people and then get them into the right position. That is a major point in the book Good to Great and I agree with it completely. Finding the right person is very important.
When you think you have found the right person to add to your organization it can be difficult to backtrack [...]
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the Federal Reserve will raise rates. They have to in order to stem rising inflation.
The big question on everyone’s lips is, WHEN will they do it?
Not before late in the fourth quarter is my guess.
Why?
Because, they were very aggressive in lowering them earlier this year and the last thing they want is for anyone to [...]
but, I really regret using it to write the FastDraft for Power Users book in 2003.
Why? Because, now I am trying to push it up to the Field Guide for Investors for the members there who use FastDraft. It is not an easy process. I had to reinstall WordPerfect 11 which I used to use [...]
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More than a month ago, Microsoft said they were withdrawing from their bid to buy Yahoo. At that time, I made some predictions of the fallout. Then both Microsoft and Yahoo said they were still “talking” and Carl Ichan stepped in and said he intended to initiate a proxy fight for the board of directors [...]
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