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Having visited the ER recently I was reminded of this. If you don't have a Last Will and Testament, Living Will, Power of Attorney or a Medical Power of Attorney you should get one. Here's how: www.legacywriter.com I was very impressed by this company. You fill in some very simple forms online and they create state-specific versions of ...

Don't be afraid to *emphasize* the important parts of your conversations. People don't read emails or web pages. They just think they do; but what they really do is skim it (you're doing it now) So if you want action, blah, blah, blitherly, blah, *highlight it*, blah, blah, blah. [include:blogad]

Hmmm, Dave' post was quite interesting today: Nordic Track Book Club Review: The Starbucks Experiencep.73 The Starbucks brand, and every company's brand, is nothing more than the sum total of the individual actions its people take.  "No matter what the music, the flavor of the day, or the wireless availability, Starbucks success ...

Today I was tidying my office and came across an old UK car registration document that I no longer needed (obviously). A reg for a 1937 Ford that is, so quite unusual. I had bought a US title and "imported" it into the UK back in '96 to use on my 'glass 37 Ford replica. So, just for grins I thought I'd post it for sale on ...

I've tried Orbitz and Expedia, but today I was reminded by Terri-without-a-blog about www.sidestep.com. If you haven't tried it yet, they are very cool. It appears that they search everybody else's flight site (I bet they have to be quite sneaky to get away with that) and display the best results. It worked for me; I needed a one-way ...

Very nice post by Dan: How to judge a Web Shop by its cover Dugg! [include:blogad]

Nice new service from thycotic; www.shortersigs.com offers a way to replace that long-winded email signature with a free URL that points to your personalized profile. You can set up any number of profiles with different amounts of information and use accordingly. My Telligent sig (below) doesn’t give my home address or phone number for ...

Recently I worked on a friend's website who wanted to sell downloadable zip files - with a twist. The zips are all different; configured in realtime depending on the options chosen. So I needed a component that would be able to stream a custom zip file to the user without storing on disk. /n software's IP*Works! Zip worked perfectly - ...

I just found out that my recent Woot purchase, a 19” LCD Monitor, has been lost by Fedex. L The tracking simply stopped after arrival at Carol Stream, IL a week ago. I’ve never been through this process before so it will be interesting – since Woot is a one-time deal I guess I’ll just be getting a refund – but from ...

I'm looking forward to seeing how this pans out - most people I've read seems to say that Netflix rules, Blockbuster drools. I disagree (and I'm not alone) Blockbuster's recent (and well overdue) improvement to their service should kill Netflix, all things being equal. The interesting part is always that it's not the ...