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Dealing with Freelancer’s Stress
August 18th, 2008 |I mentioned that my son’s medical program would interfere with my business because it required a big time investment on my part along with other things. Add to that managing the usual stuff like the other kids, work (or lack thereof), household responsibilities, on and on. After two weeks of the program, I reached a breaking [...]
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Links: 2008-08-15
August 15th, 2008 |Is Updated Technology Important to Productive Work? Unless you’re a designer using resource demanding software, a software reviewer (then I recommend installing and using them on a secondary computer instead of your main one), or using a 10-year-old computer — then this sounds like another excuse from a procrastinator. [...]
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Button Placement on Forms and Popup Windows
August 12th, 2008 |How many times did you complete a form only to push the “Clear” button instead of “Submit”? What about “OK” vs. “Cancel” on a popup window? (Raises both hands — one for each.) Why does this happen? Do we expect one button on the left and the other on the right? Are they too close together? Jakob [...]
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Life Lessons from the Olympics
August 11th, 2008 |I love the Olympics and look forward to them especially the summer Olympics. You can always count on the Olympics to bring out every feeling in the book. Sports also teach wonderful life lessons about endurance, perseverance, goodwill, respect, tragedy. Tragedy: Sad to say, we’ve seen tragedy. A suicidal man stabbed and killed the father-in-law of [...]
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Links: 2008-08-08
August 8th, 2008 |W00t! I love 8/8/08. Too bad I couldn’t make anything special happen today. So I’ll have to settle for sharing great links instead! Let the games begin! 21 Online Free Web-Based Applications The Real Problem with PowerPoint 24 Things to do When Stuck for a Topic to [...]
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Save Endangered Words
August 7th, 2008 |Working on a press release, I stumbled in my journey to find a fun expression to use in a paragraph. Hubby came along and asked what I was doing. I explained and he suggested using “A cat in a room full of rocking chairs.” “Huh?” I like to think I’m up on my slanguage, idioms, cliches, and [...]
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Handango Summer Promotion
August 7th, 2008 |Cool summer savings at Handango: Get up to 25% off select apps to help you get through the summer. Use code: COOL20 Also, Handango is currently running a summer sweepstakes contest where customers can win up to $50,000 cash by participating in the contest.
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Book Review: The Perfect Board
August 5th, 2008 |Knowing how to balance a checkbook provides us with an important life skill. A person who can’t balance a checkbook (or these days, reconcile a credit card as few write checks) will struggle to ensure s/he has enough money to pay bills. Not everyone needs to understand how a board works, the process for running board [...]
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Links: 2008-08-02
August 2nd, 2008 |192 Creative, Smart and Clever Advertisements Anagram Genius, Instant Anagram and Instant Rhymes Four Jugs and a Writer’s Tricks I Don’t Care About You (Not me, of course! Loves ya bunches!) Negative Self Talk for Writers: I need to [...]
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The Freelancing Flexibility Advantage
July 30th, 2008 |A previous blog entry discusses Freelance vs. Full Time Writing. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been discovering a big benefit of working as a freelancer. My mom role collided with my freelancer role when my son’s medical challenges erupted. Not to worry — he’s fine. I don’t mind talking about it, but it doesn’t [...]
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