I found this small statistic in a little blurb beneath the Editor’s Notes by Hallie Mummert, in the current issue (June 2008) of Target Marketing Magazine:
Recycle toner and ink cartridges and by remanufactured ones. According to Office Depot, each remanufactured toner cartridge keeps approximately 2.5 pounds of metal and plastic out of the landfills… and conserves about a half gallon of oil. - Sierra Club
What more needs to be said?
A long standing Internet friend gave me the “heads-up” on this company and opportunity when she cashed in on the New York (where she resides) deregulation.
Well, as it turns out, Illinois is deregulating next and we can cash in on it!
If you’ve been interested in investing in energy and can’t afford the high cost of buying stocks or don’t want to risk the farm on commodities, then this might be the perfect opportunity for you!
Check into: Ambit Energy: Illinois Pre Launch and be one of the first to cash in on Illinois Energy Deregulation!
Tell my friend Jostlet that Debbie at MICE sent you! 
It’s really quite a shame but I’ve been in the PC/Tech business for nearly 15 years and except in the earlier years, I have been the one with the crappiest computer!
Well, this one is on it’s last legs. I am on the PC more hours than I’m off and I give my machines a tough workout. In the early morning hours, I’m checking my Yahoo mail, my MySpace friends, and I play a few games. After the shower, it’s back on to my business and students e-mail, answering my class discussion area, handling other client requests, and maintaining several websites for myself personally and my clients. Then, there’s the writing of my courses for my company website, textbooks, eBooks, reports, my company blog, and the list goes on.
Needless to say, I’m on the darn thing for over 10 hours a day literally - breaks included!
My P4 is about on it’s way out. I’ve been having nothing but difficulties with it holding on to memory when using my graphic applications, and cutting me off FTP mid-stream. I reboot and everything is fine. But God forbid if I dare keep my Thunderbird e-mail open while doing anything else!
So, Friday evening, thanks to a client contract renewal, I was able to order my new PC! WHOO HOOO!
I was going to order this HP Pavilion a6317c Refurbished Intel Desktop PC.., but while I was out doing errands, my housemate called and said, “I found your new PC!”
It seems, that while I was gone, he received an e-mail from TigerDirect.com that had a barebones PC on sale for $199.00!
So, when I got home I checked it out and what a deal! WOW!
I ordered a PCChips A13G+ Barebone Kit . It contains:
Yes! All of that for $199.00!
Now, I’m sure you’re wondering what the catch is, right?
There is none. The only thing you have to understand about barebones is that you need to put it together. And you need to read what isn’t included.
In the situation of this special, there is no Operating System and the CPU fan is not included, but Tiger gives you a recommendation on the ordering page and allows you to add it to your cart. I also chose to upgrade the memory by adding another 1 GB stick bringing me up to 2 GB. And I had to order the thermal paste to use on the CPU.
Since I’ll be wiping my current drive, I am free to use my Windows XP CD for the new PC hard drive. As long as it’s my PC and I’m only running one copy, I’m not in violation of the licensing agreement. However, I did order a copy of Vista Home Basic just so I can have it installed on a dual boot with my XP which then allows me to teach Vista. (Something I would really not like to do, but unfortunately, people are getting stuck with it, so they need to learn!)
So, you might be saying, “But Debbie, you’re a techie, you know how to put these things together! I don’t have a clue!”
Okay, so here’s the clincher! How about a video that shows you what you have to do to finish putting it together?
So if you go this page: PCChips A13G+ Barebone Kit -.. and scroll towards the bottom, you’ll see the Video Installation Guide link!
So you could actually do it yourself and save lots of bucks too!
I also wanted to mention that on the HP Pavilion I was going to buy, they only included a 250 Watt power supply. That is the bare minimum of power you should have and you need to add about 50 watts for every additional device you add to your PC.
If you don’t have enough power going to your devices, they get “starved” and fail sooner. So be careful of that when ordering any PC! I don’t understand why HP would even think of putting in such a low watt power supply anymore! But then again, they didn’t consult me!
By Monday, I’ll have my brand new dual core here! Now, to transfer everything! Sigh. A technicians work is never done! (Laughing)
Tomorrow, March 8, 2008 is International Women’s Day according to UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women).
According to their press realease:
“On 25 February, the UN Secretary-General announced the United Nations campaign, UNiTE to End Violence against Women. For more than three decades, women’s rights advocates have been working to place the urgency of ending violence against women on every national, regional, and international agenda.” (Source: http://www.unifem.org/news_events/story_detail.php?StoryID=661)
To that end, Avon has also joined in the campaign. Avon has created the Women’s Empowerment Bracelet.
In Avon’s online product catalog, they state:
Bracelet proceeds will be used to create a new Avon Empowerment Fund. The first $500,000 from bracelet sales will be matched by the Avon Foundation for a total donation of $1 million to UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, for projects that will empower women around the world.
The bracelet is a simple, yet beautiful silver-tone infinity symbol on a blue stretch cord for $3.00.
In light of all the news regarding the abuse of women, including the recent beheading of a woman’s 15 month old child in Saudi Arabia, and all the other atrocities to women in all countries, walks of life, race and religion, this is a way for women to show support for our sisters visually, while knowing that our purchase will go to help them.
I personally applaud Avon products for their commitment in not only donating the proceeds from the sales, but in adding an additional corporate matching grant that equates to a $1 Million Dollar commitment to the fund. I’m proud to say that I was once affilated with that company as an Avon representative nearly 30 years ago!
Do something good for women everywhere, and purchase a bracelet today!
You can get one from your Avon representative, or their website here:
http://shop.avon.com/shopb/product_list.asp?couponCode=&level1_id=300&level2_id=380
Help stop violence to women now!
Namaste’
Debbie
An article released today in InfoWorld titled: Google ad drop may not signal problem By Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service, reports that Internet market researcher ComScore detailed in a report that there was a 7 percent decline in the number of times U.S. consumers clicked on ads next to Google search results in January.
Here are the two possible explanations for this that is cited in the brief article:
Several years ago, I believe it was a Pew Study, found that search users didn’t know the difference between search results and ads. Could it be, just maybe, that search users finally understand ads and adwords and have just stopped clicking on them?
No, that would be too simple of an explanation for analysts to understand. There has to be some greater reason. Something that will make GREAT BIG HEADLINES! Like Henny Penny and the sky is falling!
Congratulations to you, the search users, who finally figured it out and stopped clicking on the annoying ads! Good for you! We salute you!
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