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The Calling Card Alternative
How many times have you complained about high long distance costs and phone companies overcharging you? Did you try to do anything about it? Did you search for alternate solutions? Calling cards might be the answer. Their low rates to any...
Real Estate Website Scams
Many still say the Internet is like the Wild West. When it comes to the proliferation of scams, this is certainly true! As webmaster for over two dozen legal, real estate, and other business oriented websites, we receive a lot of email and phone...
Web Site Basics
Web Site Basics By Clare Lawrence 8th June 2004 The web or internet is an exciting place, but can seem very daunting to the novice web designer. You want to get a web site up and live, how is it done, and how can it be done cheaply? Domain...
Script Kiddies III - Grilled Kiddie
In my previous articles, "Script Kiddies - Vermin of the Internet" and "Script Kiddies II - A warning to parents", I described the Script Kiddie problem. This article contains information for web site owners and surfers regarding what to do when...
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This article may only be reproduced in its entirety, including the resource box and subscription information electronically or in print. A courtesy copy of your publication would be nice, too!
Five Minutes
By Dan Reinhold
Everyday.
You're hunched at the computer, flicking the keys with the greatest of ease - or, like me, poking each stroke with the speed of a...umm...well, it DID rhyme!
Everyday.
You're mesmerized for hours by the wonders of Internet business - you market, you negotiate, you design, you submit, you research, you chat...a lot...
Everyday.
Enthralled and empowered by your cyber-independence, you plan and scheme, plot and dream.
While life in the REAL world goes on around you...
"Hey Mom, can I have lunch now?? It's three o'clock!!"
"Huh? Whaa...yeah, five minutes, honey...lessee, click here..."
Funny how the daily grind hasn't ground to a halt...
"Dad?? Couldya sign this? It just says that you know about my tryin' to burn down the school and ya assume full financial responsibility...No big deal, couple alarms..."
"Darn HTML code...Hmm? Yeah...five minutes, umm...son??"
Things just keep rolling on...
"Ya GOTTA see this cool fort me and Billy Scuzbucket built, Grandma!!! And we got grenades, napalm, coupla ICBMs...WAAAY cool!!!"
"Whazzat? D'ja want something, - continued below ...
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sweetie? I'll be right there...just five minutes..."
Life is like that...
"Are you Dilbert Greenbaumgarten? Sir, are you aware that your children are conducting a warehouse sale of stolen merchandise in your garage? You'll have to come with us, sir."
"Yeah, yeah...garage sale, ahh...be with ya in five minutes...just leave the money in the coffee can on the folding table, K??"
Everyday.
Just five minutes...
Whoa...super-important e-mail...ahh, look, be with ya in five minutes...seen the kids?? Honey?
Hello?? Coulda sworn we had furniture before...
With two boys, a dog, a cat, a wife and a household to keep together to boot, Dan Reinhold is the editor of WAHumor to hang on to his sanity by showing how insane the work-at-home community can be. Work at home? You deserve a laugh!
Subscribe at WAHumor-subscribe@topica.com
Send something WAHumorous to WAHumor@yahoo.com
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About the Author
With two boys, a dog, a cat, a wife and a household to keep together to boot, Dan Reinhold is the editor of WAHumor to hang on to his sanity by showing how insane the work-at-home community can be. Work at home? You deserve a laugh!
Subscribe at WAHumor-subscribe@topica.com
Send something WAHumorous to WAHumor@yahoo.com
Do both and enter the Launch Hour contest!!!
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Is Google The New Graham Norton?
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Can the Internet Foster Intelligent Conversation?
Can the Internet foster intelligent conversation and help to form new ideas and moral beliefs? A weird thing happened yesterday as I walked through my university campus. A young man approached me from a political organization that obviously was...
Smart Marketing: How to write your marketing plan
Developing a marketing plan is the most significant strategy for any budding business. Marketing strategies and activities will help make your products and services available to satisfy your target clients, as well as earn profits for your company....
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