Archive for April, 2007
Virtual Worlds, Part the Second
Saturday, April 28th, 2007So you’ve tried Second Life. You know about Sony’s upcoming Playstation Home. You think the idea of hanging out with your friends online in a virtual environment that you may or may not be able to create sounds like fun. Well, what’s the other side of the coin? What’s the business and monetary part of [...]
Carnival Day!
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007Hi there, today I’m once again going to link to all the carnivals that have selected an article I’ve written in the past week or two. I hope that you take the time to peruse through all of the posts mentioned in the carnivals, as they collectively represent a lot more wisdom than I have [...]
Book Review of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007Here’s the second book review in my ongoing book review series! Today I’m going to be discussing the book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins. Right in the preface, Perkins explains that Economic Hit Men
… encourage world leaders to become part of a vast network that promotes U.S. commercial interests. In [...]
Using Web 2.0 for Career Development
Monday, April 16th, 2007Web 2.0 refers to the usage of the World Wide Web as an interactive medium, inviting users to take part in shaping the content of their favorite websites. A few examples include Wikipedia, Myspace, and Del.icio.us. All these sites allow users to create their own content, which then becomes available for everyone to read. Many [...]
How to obtain your credit report for free
Thursday, April 12th, 2007One of the most important things you can do to ensure that you have good credit is to check your credit report, to make sure no one has stolen your identity or allowed incorrect information to show up on your report. Your credit report and score are much more important than you might think - [...]
Some Tidbits To Ponder
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007Here are two quick things for you to think about until I get my next big post up. The first is a news release by JPL. The release explains
Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have observed that planetary systems – dusty disks of asteroids, comets and possibly planets – are at least as abundant [...]
Carnivals Aplenty
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007Well, my article about education and time management was accepted into several different carnivals about entrepreneurship and education, so I’d like to link to them in the hopes that my readers take the time to read the many excellent posts compiled for the carnivals and walk away with some extra knowledge. First off is the [...]
A Retort
Monday, April 2nd, 2007Well, looks like I riled up someone out there… this is a retort to this post by Sophistpundit (aka Adam) on my post The Wool Over Our Eyes.
First off, before I begin this retort, I’d like to point out that there is a comment system setup for people to actually comment on my posts [...]