February 2010

Not one but TWO giveaways!!

February 14, 2010

Check out what Revanche is up to over at A Gai Shan Life. She’s engineered a double giveaway contest: in a single event, she’s offering chances at a free year-long subscription to PearBudget and a chance at 500 free full color (!) business cards from Uprinting. PearBudget is an online budgeting program, described by its [...]

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Time for a retread!

February 13, 2010

What a beautiful few days we’ve had! Incredible weather in the 60s and 70s, peace and quiet, and now an unexpected holiday (the State of Arizona, because of the legislature’s deep and abiding resentment at being forced to approve Martin Luther King Day, took President’s Day away from its employees, but the County abides no [...]

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Another sad day for academe

February 12, 2010

Deflected from writing a post this afternoon by the startling news from Alabama: denied tenure, a junior faculty member tried to take out her department and succeeded in killing three colleagues. What a tragedy for everyone, the maddened assistant professor as well as those whose lives she ended, and all their families. Considering how much [...]

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Prius: The road not taken

February 11, 2010

Well, for a change she who hesitates wins. I am sooooo glad I didn’t run out and buy a Prius or some other new Toyota during the infamous gas price inflation of 2008. Because I was employed at the time, I could’ve afforded it in spite of the market conditions. And I most certainly did [...]

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Every Writer Needs an Editor!

February 11, 2010

“Every writer needs an editor” is our slogan over at The Copyeditor’s Desk. How true it is! Fortunately for this writer, longtime journalist and MSN Smart Spending ringmaster Karen Datko keeps a sharp eye on the antics at Funny about Money. She points out, in the virtual equivalent to standing in the middle of the [...]

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Good news for one of the young people

February 10, 2010

My late, great associate editor and de facto business partner Tina has a good shot at a full-time editorial position at the Great Desert University’s business college. It’s incredibly good news. The presumptive boss managed to extract an assistant editor’s line from the university despite the dire economic conditions. It means this is someone with [...]

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