Plaza de Toros

 
Me standing in front of the great doors of the bull fighting ring (Plaza De Toros) in Seville, Spain. May 2009.

The End of Credit Card Consumerism May Be Near

For more than four decades, the shopaholic America has shown an insatiable desire to spend until our credit cards melt. Yet today, a sharp slowdown, record-high gas prices, high consumer debt levels, a plunging real estate market, and the growing green movement all seem to be conspiring to dethrone the credit card way of life.

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The Culture of Friends

With digg, myspace, facebook, and twitter, it is easy to track who your friends are. But these tools not only track friends gained, but also friends lost. It's sometimes surprising to look at your friends list and realize who is not on there any more...

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Give Up, Go Home: All The Good Keywords Are Taken (Or Will Be)

When starting a new business, entrepreneurs have a dream. They dream that there is a great untapped demand out there, who are looking for something and not finding it. It's just not true. We're looking at a future (very soon) where every good keyword is marketed to agressively. And they're unbeatable.

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Hilarious Indian Music Video

I don't want to offend anyone, but I couldn't stop laughing when I watched this.

http://www.break.com/index/absolutely-hilarious-indian-music-video.html

Maybe it's better to recommend you watch it and let you figure out for yourself why it's so funny. But let me just say that it's the translations that I can't get enough of. "Do you want that sign Benny Lava?" It really does sound like they're speaking English yet it makes absolutely no sense!

Business Development for Busy Freelancers

Sometimes as a freelancer, you may find that you get so wound up working on your trade that you forget about running your business. Business development is vital because it involves creating a pipeline of assignments so you don’t run dry. Here are some of the strategies I use to ensure that business keeps coming in.

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Freelancing: How To Create Multiple Income Streams

What do you do if you have one main client and for some reason the work from that client dries up? Perhaps the client goes out of business or goes in a different direction or just has a lull in business?

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Want To Be An Astronaut? NASA Accepts Applications Online

NASA is hiring a handful of people over the next year to join its astronaut training program. The requirements? Must be willing to travel.

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Apple: Unlocked iPhones Might Become Bricks In A Future Update

Apple has issued a statement after the stock market closed today saying that using unlocking software "will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable" once a future Apple patch is applied.Is this just half-hearted talk from Apple, or have they got an update ready to go already?

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