Archive for July, 2009

Forgotten Business Expenses – Mileage

Running a business can be expensive.  The only consolation of this expense is the fact that the government will allow you to deduct your business expenses before charging you taxes.  That makes keeping track of expenses and especially knowing what type of expenses can be deducted key.
One of the expenses I often see overlooked is [...]

Business, Finance

Upgrading & The Internet

I just upgraded my blogging platform from Word Press 2.7.1 to 2.8.1.  I’ve been trying to upgrade to 2.8 for a while and every time I upgraded there were issues with the dashboard and numerous HTTP 500 errors occurring all over the place.  Needless to say I had pretty much decided that I was stuck [...]

Random Stuff, Technology

Computer Frustrations

Computers.  They are our friends and they can be our enemies.  Our relationship with our computer can be a perilous thing, they can be helpful one minute and then totally uncooperative the next.  They can give us an identity online, and they can be used to steal identities of others.  They are so amazing.
I just [...]

Technology

Don’t Do Work, Do What You Love

If you hadn’t guessed from some of my previous posts I work in the IT industry.  For me this means I have tons of fun each day doing all kinds of cool Internet and computer related tasks.  It also means that 99% of those I meet cannot possibly understand why I have so much fun.  [...]

Business

Wasting Time Instead Of Making Money – Part 2 (The Internet)

As part of a new series of articles dealing with ways we waste time instead of making money.  Part 1 was about how we procrastinate work away.
Another of the dangerous ways we waste time working from home is quite sinister.  The Internet is the lifeblood of most work at home offices.  Without it work either [...]

Business