As a user who watches only one football game per year, I woke up this morning to check my iGoogle page before starting my errands for the day. What greeted me should be no surprise. The NFL is at it again.. (actually it’s against the law to say NFL without permission now, did you know [...]

Well, tonight was it for me.. a longstanding part of my e-commerce career might have just fallen into jeopardy thanks to eBay’s new policies. As of next month, ebay is jacking their fees to sellers (me) from 5% per transaction to 8.75% per transaction. This means that if I sell on my normal threshold of [...]

Now that I’m on hold with Vonage, for an estimated 25 minutes more, I decided to use that time to share JUST how bad vonage sucks. Late last week a friend of mine (Tim) got me to try Skype Pro, which gives me unlimited outbound calls to the US and Canada for a whopping $36.00 [...]

Yeah.. about time. It’s not much, but it’s something. You might (or not) find this useful. I know this would have saved me about  $600.00 on this year’s taxes if it had happened in 07 instead of 2008. Increase in Standard Mileage Rates The Internal Revenue Service recently issued the 2008 optional standard mileage rates [...]