Archive for October, 2008

Open Source Alternatives

While I worked for a company, I took for granted the ability to purchase and use products (and sevices) such as Adobe Acrobat, GotoMeeting and Microsoft Office.  As a new entrepreneur, there are plenty of things that are competing for my limited funds and I’m always on the lookout for free or low-cost alternatives that [...]

Using Your Nest Egg to Start a Small Business

As access to loans becomes scarce, some middle-aged entrepreneurs are betting their retirement funds on small-business ventures.
About 16 percent of small-business owners have taken premature withdrawals or borrowed from their retirement accounts, according to a recent online survey of 512 small-business owners by Harris Interactive and ING Direct. “Raiding your retirement should always be a [...]

Reported Web Forgery$#@!

This morning, when browsing through one of my web sites with FireFox, I noticed that one of the pages came back with the following, ominous error.
Needless to say, I was little concerned
I did some research online and was surprised not to find a lot of information about how Firefox determines if a web [...]