Technology has made many jobs more practical to allow people to do at home. Customer service is quite popular as long distance rates have dropped, it becomes easier for businesses to route calls as they please and VOIP becomes more practical.

Just as with any work at home job, expectations of employees and contractors are quite high. If you understand what is expected of you before you start looking for work you will be prepared to go through the steps to get hired.

The first challenge is simply finding that job. All work at home opportunities are quite prone to having a huge number of people applying for them. Be prepared for these things to take some time. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve had two of their employees contacting me to ask about listings on this site. One asked me to really try to get the word out, so here I am.

The work is B2B appointment setting. I have the details listed with the other unresearched job leads, but truth be told Blue Zebra has been around a while. That was just the place I have for a long job listing like that. They have 10 openings right now.

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My kids are pretty creative. Most kids are, really, if they have the opportunity. Fortunately it doesn’t take much to give them the opportunity.

The first thing to do is just turn off that television. While many of my daughter’s fantasies stem from things she’s seen on TV, not all off them do. Her favorite princess, Rapunzel, comes from the fairy tale (not from the Barbie movie, which she has never seen). On the other hand, Handy Manny from the Disney Channel is her imaginary friend.

My second rule for encouraging children to be creative is to just let them be. My children play with their toys with little interference from me. This means they get played with sometimes in ways I never would have expected, but the kids are having a blast. Read the rest of this entry »

Blogging is hot. You can find ebooks about it, read about it in major magazines or even hear about it on television. But is it for just anyone or just the lucky few?

Much depends on your goals. How soon do you need to be earning? How much do you want to earn? How much effort are you willing to put into blogging?

Just about anyone who can write reasonably well can earn some money as a blogger. I don’t mean you need to write well enough to become a published author. Blogging is often done in a very personal, conversational style, which is something most people can manage. Just write as though you’re talking to a friend. Read the rest of this entry »

Yes, I know, I’m talking nonsense. And if you don’t run a website you won’t understand much of this. In fact, if you do run a website you may not have come across this problem.

Basically, I was having a problem with PHP session IDs appearing in a few of my URLs. No idea why, and they didn’t come about in all directories.

I did some research and finally found out how to get rid of the dratted things. You see, having session IDs appear in your URLs is not nice to the search engines as they make it look like you have a bunch of duplicate content. Each session looks to be a new page to the search engines. Yes, it can get pretty ugly. Read the rest of this entry »