Security is an issue

Thursday, 31 July 2008, 22:40 | Category : Business, Computers and/or Internet, Family and Friends, General living, Shopping, Technology
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My father came home from work today, quite upset.  His office had been broken into over the course of last night, and the entire office was ransacked.  Things were broken, some things were taken.  They don’t yet know what all is missing, but they are rethinking their security system.  They are considering hiring Leo Protection [...]

Landline or not?

Thursday, 31 July 2008, 22:32 | Category : Business, Family and Friends, General living, Shopping, Technology
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I’ve been hearing and reading more cases of families giving up their hard-wired landline in their homes in favor of simply using cell phones.  I can understand the logic, the cell phones are small and they carry them with them at all times, the landline phone is usually larger and more cumbersome.  Yet I question [...]

Online Real Estate

My cousin came over for supper tonight, and was all excited to tell me about his plans to get rich in Online Real Estate.  He was so excited, he could hardly contain himself!  He has a friend that told him about the business opportunities he could explore with it, and he has decided to give [...]

More record profits for the oil companies

I was reading on time.com that Exxon reported the largest quarterly profit EVER for any US company.  Why does this not surprise me?  The price of gasoline is outrageous, and we all know that the salaries and benefits of the oil company executives are obscene.  I think that we should switch over to biofuel made from [...]

September 7 is Father’s Day!

I just learned that Australia celebrates Fathers Day on the first Sunday in September!  I didn’t realize that different countries celebrated Fathers Day on different days than we do here in the United States!  I just always thought that the Mothers Day and Fathers Day holidays were celebrated universally, like Christmas and Easter! Australians best be getting [...]