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Recessionomics 101: How to Make Extra Money

January 27, 2010 – 10:58 am


by Jilian Mincer
Monday, January 25, 2010

This article is part of a series related to being Financially Fit

Jennifer Winslow wanted to earn some extra cash without giving up the flexibility of working part time.

An avid cook, she and a friend initially planned to cater meals for busy families. When that turned out to be too time consuming, she tried baking. More than five years later, she has a thriving bakery business in Winslow, Maine (her husband’s family has been in town a long time).

Now on her own, she supplies four restaurants with cakes and other sweets and makes desserts for individuals and weddings….(read more)

The 31 Places to Go in 2010

January 23, 2010 – 10:42 am

Check out the list! I live near by one of them, if you want to meet, give me a buzz! :-)

The 31 Places to Go in 2010!

36 Hours in New York City

January 9, 2010 – 6:36 pm

Here is one of my favorite cities!  Doesn’t matter how many times I visited it, it still offers some more interesting things to do/see… read on!

36 Hours in New York City

URBAN renewal. The phrase conjures up government-backed megaprojects from the ’70s, but it’s organic to New York, where someone is always getting off the bus, train or plane. In the last year, the city has opened a hot new park, Lincoln Center celebrated its 50th anniversary with a major face-lift that includes a new fountain with 353 custom-made, computer-controlled nozzles, and the center of cool shifted innumerable times (but it’s probably still somewhere in Brooklyn)….read more

Open Office

December 13, 2009 – 2:53 pm
Editorial Review from PCWorld

Not happy with the idea of a Web-based office application–nor with paying gobs of money for Microsoft’s office suite? Then you want the downloadable OpenOffice.org, the free competitor to Microsoft Office. It’s a full suite, with a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, database, and drawing program–and, for ubergeeks, a “mathematical function calculator” (if you have to ask what it is, you don’t need it).

You may think that because OpenOffice.org is free, it’s an anemic or difficult to use. Nothing could be further from the truth. It does just about everything Microsoft Office does, including opening and saving files in Office file formats, as well as many others…. (more)