Thursday, March 12, 2009

Investments

We all know that the economy is in trouble. Banks seem to be dropping left and right, the stock market is jumping up and down, and many investments are teetering on an uncertain slope. With all of these issues affecting the economy, many people have began to take their financial future into their own hands. People that had never considered handling such things on their own before.

In the little I have seen of investing, I have noticed that one of the most popular investing opportunities seems to be investment in precious metals such as gold or silver.

It must be cautioned that any investment can be risky, holding potential for loss or minimal returns on investment. The purchase of gold or silver dollar investments is no different. If you are considering making an investment in the coin market then Monaco Rare Coin would like to invite you to take a look at their investment-grade coins.

Monaco Rare Coin is part of the Monex family of companies, who have assisted customers with precious metals investments for over 40 years.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Timesink

A timesink is an activity that consumes a significant amount of time, often without the person caught in the timesink realizing that such a length of time has passed while they were distracted by the timesink.

In my own personal experience with timesinks I have identified several online timesinks. MySpace, ICanHasCheezburger, and most recently Facebook. These are sites where the unsuspecting user will log into the website intending to spend only a few moments and then - without realizing it - an hour, then two... an entire afternoon and or evening has passed by.

Timesinks are bad. They can cause you to put off work. While it might seem convenient to connect with friends and family via Facebook, look at what you have to do for that connection.

You log into the site and visit the "news feeds" section where a jumble of activity greets you. Everything your friends have done on Facebook lays open for you to look over. Who they befriended, what groups they made or joined, what images they have uploaded... it is all there, waiting for you to look over.

One you get through there you need to check the "Status Updates" section to make sure you did not miss any updates in the news feed. And trust me, there's always stuff in one that is not in the other, so you have to check them both.

Finished commenting and chattering and you now have to go to your profile page to "check your wall" for any messages that might have been posted there. Another half an hour spent reading and responding....

Do you have any private messages/e-mail? That's on another screen... has anyone asked to be your friend? Has anyone asked to add your birthday to their datebook? Have you been sent something by someone? Were you tagged in any pictures that someone posted? Did someone post a note and tag you in it?

There is an endless array of things you need to check and when you are all through ... you start over from the beginning. Just to be sure you did not miss anything, to see what was added since you started...

It is a nasty cycling timesink. The new drug of the internet that sucks you in and addicts you and entices you to stay... just one more minute. Oh... look here.... and here...

And... how many ads did you click on because you can not tell the difference between an advertisement and the website content? I clicked on three in a single half hour segment before catching on to the fact that those "You have a message!" and "Someone sent you a hug!" deals at the top and bottom of the content were not part of Facebook. They look like they are, they have the same scheme and fit very well into the layout, but they are advertisements.

I have broken the addiction. I have better things to do with my time than waste it in the Facebook timesink.

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Busted Website

Arrrrgh. I have a day to myself to catch up on work and such, so I am making a circuit of my websites and what should I discover but that one of the sites, which I have not had a chance to work on in far too long, is broken.

It won't load the main site, it won't load the blog - nothing. It's all busted and I am in just enough of a mood that I am seriously contemplating taking it as a hint that I should scrap the whole thing and rebuild it from the ground up. Hate to loose all the back posts on the blog, but am extremely frustrated to discover the site is busted.

Monday, March 09, 2009

Is there still a surface up there?

Why is it that no matter how hard you work, you can never quite get your head up above the surface to gasp in more air?

It seems like just as I am about to catch a breath I have something wrap around my ankles and drag me back under. A bill I forgot to pay, a bill I am scrabbling for the money to pay, something that broke and has to be repaired or replaced... the list just goes ever ever on. And then you have to remember to add in the stress from lack of sleep.

Someday I just want to be able to do something lazy again. Window browse through stores online without any plans to buy anything, work on one of the quilts I want to make to sell, do some bookbinding or painting... Work on my novel.

Right now I'm not even sure where the surface is, much less if there still is one.
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