The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything. Benjamin Franklin How do you decide to make a…
There are literally millions of resumes posted online. Well, I’m guessing that the two million mark has been broken. If not, there certainly are hundreds of thousands. People post their resumes for different reasons. When i changed careers back in 2000, I posted mine to proudly tell the world that I was now a full-time…
Ever heard of guerrilla gardening? The concept is this: Public areas in cities frequently contain areas of greenery, which are sometimes neglected. Guerrilal gardeners take it upon themselves to sneak in under cover of darkness and transform the ugly, neglected spots into beautiful gardens. Why under cover of night? Because what they are doing is…
Okay, we’re going to take a slightly weird turn here. When I was 14 years old, I went on a Canadian fishing trip with my father, an uncle, and a couple of their friends. We caught some seriously big northern pike, and it was a wonderful experience I’ll never forget. One of the amazing things…
You probably heard about the dude from England who came up with an idea to sell individual pixels on his website. He made a million bucks. Others have hit the jackpot by coming up with a unique idea and marketing it, whether on the internet or otherwise. Well, today’s FamilyFirst site is a tip of…
There have been lots of �hot� downloadable programs that have appeared on the internet in the last ten years or so. Many have been of dubious value. Some have even contained nasty things like keyloggers and spyware. So, I have grown cynical with the years. I have a clean, spyware-free computer thanks to being smart…
Got ancestors? Today�s FamilyFirst site is RootsWeb.com, the oldest and largest FREE genealogy site. There are a lot of avid genealogists out there. This site is for YOU! You can upload your own hard-earned research (and benefit lots of other folks). You can communicate with fellow ancestry buffs via the mailing list and the message…
One of the benfits to the world wide web is how fast we can exchange information. But one of the cost of that benefit is that someone, somewhere, sometime will try to take advantage of that technology, and mess it up for all of us. Today’s Family First Site is one that helps prepare us…