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Archive for November, 2008

foolproof money making scam

I’ve remembered a foolproof money making scheme scam.
Pick a stock, any stock.
Write a short investment article stating that the stock will increase in value over the next week.
Write a short invesment article stating that the stock will decrease in value over the next week.
Send each investment article to at least 1024 people, keeping a track [...]

8 reasonably priced gift basket ideas

Some of these, I have actually given, others I would like to receive, and yet others I think are just a great idea but I don’t have the perfect recipient. Most of these are cribbed from a list that I found on the now defunct boards of the (still useful) Organized Christmas website, and they [...]

evaluating choices before buying

Very occasionally at work I’m called upon to evaluate tender submissions. In an effort to be fair and impartial, we usually have a scoring spreadsheet, mark each tender against the spreadsheet, add up the scores and then negotiate with the top scoring organisation.
In real life (as opposed to work life) I’m not that organised, nor [...]

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