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I’m taking a bit of a break, so now through July 4th I’ve combed the archives to find earlier content that might interest new readers (as most of my readers are new). This article originally ran July 11, 2006.
Yahoo! has a top ten list for retirement planning. After yesterday’s story about the number of people [...]

Most companies use software to match a resume to a job. Many even have simple surveys on their website that can disqualify you based on your answers. It’s a natural response to the flood of resumes that companies now receive thanks to the internet. The article lists five tips for getting your resume read.

I’m taking a bit of a break, so now through July 4th I’ve combed the archives to find earlier content that might interest new readers (as most of my readers are new). This article originally ran February 23, 2006.
MSN Money has an excellent article on not biting off more house than you can chew. Any [...]

When I initially discussed the Blackstone Group’s upcoming IPO, one of the issues that I pointed out was the murkiness of the tax situation. Congress has come out with a bill that essentially takes away the tax advantage that Blackstone would have over other publicly traded entities. The reason for the difference is that Blackstone is structured (technically) as a limited partnership while most publicly traded entities are corporations. Partnerships do not pay tax on their income while corporations do.

Tuesday, I posted about the security holes that researchers discovered in Apple’s Safari browser after taking all of the three hours to search. Apple has plugged several of the holes, releasing a version 3.01 for Windows. Apparently, the problems were only with the Windows version of the product (insert Apple fanboy joke here).
So, if you [...]

I’ve written before about Conde Nast’s Portfolio magazine, a high end glossy for business types, and I can’t say enough about the excellence of their blog coverage. An offbeat item posted today on the Tech Observer blog goes way beyond business and gets down to real life advice to tell students as they graduate from [...]

So, for now I would not download the new beta of Safari and wait for the final product before wanting to take a test drive. While we have been spoiled with betas from Firefox that are basically functional (and from Google that are entire products), we do need to remember that betas can, and often do, have serious bugs in them and Safari is no exception. Keep with Firefox until at least the security concerns are taken out of the product.

One of the coolest “inventions” I’ve seen in the past few years is the Enertia house. The Enertia house is a log home that is built to create its own environment inside the house. This is done by building double walls of a certain type of wood that allows geothermal energy to circulate throughout the house while the wood regulates the temperature of the air by holding in heat and then releasing it at night.

What I am Reading is a highly irregular column with links to stories that I want to point out, but don’t necessarily have the time to write a column on each one.