Tersosity

Could he be any more clueless?

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Here’s a new and different idea: Companies offering debt-related benefits, as opposed to the more traditional emphasis placed on retirement and other things. Because yes, it is distracting (remarkable that link is from 2002, when the good times still rolled and only a few of us were stressed out about the glaringly obvious housing [...]

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Advice for marketing in touch times.

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These sound about right.

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Too funny, Bill Gates in a Tandy ad.

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12 Breeds of Client and How to Work with Them.

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Interesting Erica Douglass post on being worth more than you think, setting a baseline and sticking to it. I’ve been having related thoughts lately, exactly the opposite of where I had been and could be taking my attitude in this time of being beyond broke and completely without paying work. While there’s consideration [...]

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Good post on rules of thumb, some of which are familiar to me. I didn’t know the interruptions thing had a number attached, but I knew it was bad. I can seldom do much of substance without being free of interruptions. And I have to keep my self-sourced interruptions under control. [...]

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What does one charge as an appropriate rate to migrate a blog, from MT to WordPress or otherwise, for a blogger?

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It’s an interesting theory I could be inclined to believe. More troublesome is my impression when I learned in college about FASB and how it all works was that it’s an arm of the SEC in all but name, sometimes grabbing some wiggle room, but buying that room by largely doing whatever the government [...]

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Credit Card Ghosts, including somr interesting links to factoids and statistics about credi cards.

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I’ve always had trouble battling imposter syndrome, which ties into my trouble charging a lot and accepting too little income, as I discussed with the recruiter yesterday. Not that it helps for what’s a good income to change so dramatically over time. What was a great income in 1978 is live with your [...]

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Just talked with a recruiter who apparently found me on Monster.com, and had a very favorable impression of him. I’m not a fit with the specific opening he had in mind, which would have required Foxpro background, but I’m going up to Burlington Monday for the quick get to know you meeting so it’s [...]

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Apart from cost and fussiness, depending on model, I actually like the compact florescents, and what they did to the electric bill. At least, until the electric usage we were getting billed for nearly doubled for no apparent reason. One of the things I don’t like is that you can’t or couldn’t, put [...]

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On an amusingly related not to my consulting fees post the other day, here’s a post on how to sell overpriced services. The dressing part feels tongue in cheek, even though it’s tried and true advice I first saw decades ago, and so not me. The part about being right up front is [...]

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Sounding sensible? Apparently it can happen.

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This is good post on determining consulting fees, even if it does date back to January. I famously have trouble with pricing, which may be tied up somewhat with self-esteem and excessive desire to please others on my part, and ironically it’s probably low pricing that’s left me with a lack of business and [...]

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Who’s who and reunion for the famous picture of Microsoft’s early employees.

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Via Dan, this is an amusing, lengthy article in which Bill Gates e-mails complaints about Microsoft end user experience to his own staff, which apparently was something he did regularly. I have to agree in general with Dan about Vista.

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Apparently text messages are private from employers, per the court.

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