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It’s always best to play it safe and know someone’s background before trusting them with your family or business, especially when it’s someone you don’t know that well. It might sound a little un-trusting, but the last thing we want is to hire an employee, contractor, child care provider, renter or anyone else we entrust [...]

I’m flattered when another blogger mentions me, my blog, or a post I’ve made. When I see a trackback – I can’t wait to go check it out. Sometimes it leads me to a blog (and I use that term loosely) that is nothing more than a regurgitation of other bloggers posts, including mine. They [...]

A friend on blogcatalog told me about a site called CambrianHouse, which claims to be the home of ‘crowdsourcing’. (I didn’t know what that meant either) I checked it out and while I won’t pretend to understand every detail, the concept looks quite interesting. First, it’s free to join. Members pitch an idea for a [...]

Reliable hosting is critical if you run your own site or host your own blog. We’ll put up with a lot of mediocrity from our web host like less than stellar customer service, few features, and even limited expansion. Often it’s not until there are serious problems, like server downtime, that we start to look [...]

Jay, over at Scribbles and Words is running a Technorati faves exchange – which is becoming wildly popular. It’s pretty simple. Just add the blogs in the list to your faves and then add your link to the list. I enjoyed pouring through the list and visiting the other blogs. It was really neat to [...]

by Chris Garlington, bloggist and prisoner at Death by Children, who works at home and—allegedly— raises two highly intelligent (read: devious) children. Every day I drive to St. Mary of the Woods to retrieve your future president and/or street preacher, my son, Roon, and every day he hits me with a question I am bound [...]

UPDATE 8/22/09:Â ChillinCash is no longer running. I posted a review of the GPT site ChillinCash awhile back. The site had a lot of good things going for it like a lot of offers, a low cashout threshold and a good referral program. The only constructive criticism I had was the colors and some aesthetics. [...]