James's Blog

The Group About Absolutely Nothing membership has soared smashing  all previous records! And without any promotion during the last six months. We are now up to 86 members...proving that you can make something from nothing! So let's try to break that magic number of 100 members. Please invite all ...

OK, I am no financial wizard but then those guys don't seem to be very effective anyway so I thought I would share an idea I have that might help anyone as well as stimulate our failing economy. While many people may be wondering whether to put their money into gold as a hedge against the crashin...

As many of you know, I have, on occasion, railed against people who cut and paste from Internet sources and then pass it off as their own work despite the fact that with every post Active Rain makes you check a box stating that you are not doing so. Well, now they have put some teeth into their s...

This is an old subject but it seems to need revisiting every few months so here it is again. Please take a moment and read it.Let me preface this blog by saying I have no wish to perform the Labours of Sisyphus attempting to police postings on Active Rain. That said however, as a writer, I am for...

I am still here although I have been absent the last couple of weeks...long story...anyway, I am regrouping and will be back full force shortly. Meanwhile check out the new gadget that I have on my profile. Jeff Turner told me about it  and it is way cool. You can record messages from you cell ph...

Although I have asked this question before, I want to give it another shot. Can anyone recommend a really really good sync option/program/service to sync Outlook 2007 between two or more computers. There seem to be a wide variety of options but before I put down the cash, I was hoping to get some...

Sometimes people like me just need a good hobby. The absence of said hobby leads to all sorts of problems and vexations. I tend to notice small things that really should be ignored but they stay with me and I turn them over in my mind again and again until I am nearly bursting at the seams to spe...

Today I am officially announcing a new service designed to help fill a void in the home staging business. Since there appears to be an extreme shortage of male home stagers and since some of the female home stagers have expressed a desire to occasionally partner with said male home stagers, I hav...

I posted this little poll after I started reflecting on the fact that although we only have four members in this group, we appear to haev many times that number of readers. So please take a moment to fill out the poll and helps us get an idea of our readership.

  How I got a bi weekly column on a local newspaper.    Since I am not eligible for this week's New Creativity Challenge I thought I would give my answer as a separate blog post. The challenge was to come up a creative way to meet and make appointments with Realtors. So here is one of my strategi...