Happy New Year 2008

Hi, Everyone. Happy new year 2008. Have a great success in this coming new year.

100 Financial Calculators For Entrepreneurs

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Many entrepreneurs don’t have the luxury of having a separate accounting department, instead doing their own number crunching. It’s not always easy, but you can make it less difficult by making use of the huge number of free financial tools for businesses that are available on the Internet. Here are 100 calculators that can help you get and keep your finances in order.

Bootstrapper has put together an excellent list of online calculators that every entrepreneur sometimes needs.

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Most Entrepreneurs Plan to Stay

Inc.:

For many entrepreneurs, growing a business from scratch is akin to raising a child — which is perhaps why so many are reluctant to let go, according to a new survey.

Of 201 business owners whose companies have at least $10 million in annual revenue, 32 percent said they have no plans for choosing a successor, according to the survey conducted by GFK Roper Public Affairs for SunTrust Bank Private Wealth Management.

While 44 percent plan to pass their business on to a family member or promote someone within the company, only 14 percent plan to sell their business to a third party. In addition, about 70 percent of respondents expect they will remain tied to their business in some capacity - mostly as consultants or board members — even after handing over the reigns to new leadership, the survey found.

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Smallville - Nicodemus

Smallville session 1, episode 15 - Nicodemus.

The story about, dr. Steven Hamilton (Joe Morton) uses the meteor rocks to resurrect a toxic flower, Nicodemus, which has been extinct for 100 years. The flower causes whoever it sprays to lose all inhibitions.

Jonathan, lana and pete are all infected with the flower's toxins, and begin to act out of character. Clark manages to prevent them all from harming themselves or someone else.

After awhile, the flower's toxins cause the victim to fall into a coma and eventually die. lex, unhappy that dr. hamilton has spent his time resurrecting dangerous flowers, dispatches a team of specialists to create a cure for the poisoning. The cure is created in time to save jonathan, lana and pete.

Smallville - Zero

Smallville session 1, episode 14 - Zero.

A story partially told in flashback, as it seems someone who was killed on a night gone wrong at Club Zero in lex's past is back from the dead. All this, and chloe digs too deep into clark's past for comfort, and bo's cows are killed.

Lex's past comes back to haunt him, when jude royce, a man presumed to be dead, resurfaces after three years and kidnaps lex. He tortures him in an attempt to get lex to reveal the truth about the cover up of Jude's death. Jude's ex-finance's brother is revealed to be the true orchestrater, having found someone willing to undergo surgery to look like Jude.

Angered over his sister's suicide, which he believes is the fault of lex; he wants lex to pay for her death. Clark saves lex's life, but is worried about lex's past. During a class project, chloe discovers inconsistency in clark's adoption and it puts strain on their friendship.

Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

StartUp Journal:

Should aspiring entrepreneurs pursue M.B.A.s? There’s been a long-brewing debate among academics and entrepreneurial minds over whether business school is worth the hefty price tag for those looking to go into business for themselves.

British entrepreneur Anita Roddick wrote recently that entrepreneurs “are people who imagine things as they might be, not as they are, and have the drive to change the world. Those are qualities that business schools do not teach.”

Going to business school, she adds, may even squelch “what entrepreneurial flair you have as they force you into the template called an M.B.A. pass.” Instead of flocking to business school, she urges aspiring entrepreneurs to focus on building their creative energies and learning to evaluate risks.

Plenty of others disagree, claiming M.B.A.s give prospective entrepreneurs a chance to learn the ins-and-outs of running a business in a classroom environment without the high price of failure you’d get in the real world.

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Smallville - kinetic

Smallville session 1, episode 13 - Kinetic.

The story began when whitney, after losing his football scholarship, begins hanging with some ex-jocks. The jocks are using meteor rock saturated tattoos to give themselves the ability to pass through solid objects.

The thieves rob lex's mansion, and chloe is severely injured when clark is incapable of getting to her in time, after being weakened by the meteor rock tattoos the thieves wore. The thieves decide to recruit whitney, but he has second thoughts.

Clark helps whitney and lex, who is now being blackmailed, fight the thieves. With their powers growing weak, from overuse of the serum, clark is able to subdue them.

Smallville - Leech

Smallville session 1, episode 12 - Leech.





The story is about clark's powers are transferred to another young man. As this young "Superboy" gets known for better or for worse, Clark comes to term with the fact that he no longer has powers.


In more details of this epidode at started during class field trip, lightning strikes Clark and a fellow classmate, Eric Summers, while Eric is holding a piece of meteor rock. Clark's powers are transferred to Eric, allowing Clark to finally live a normal life.


Eric initially uses the powers for good, but the abilities being to go to his head and he starts to abuse them. After being injured in a fight with Eric, Clark decides to sacrifice the chance at a normal life so that Eric does not hurt anyone else.


Hoping he took his weakness along with his strength, Clark confronts Eric at an electrical generator, and uses the electricity, along with a meteor rock, to get his powers back.

Blogs Are Profitable

The San Francisco Chronicle has nailed it: “Yes, some blogs are profitable - very profitable!”
Apart from the optimistic title, however, the article does a pretty good analysis of the blogosphere, highlighting both its strengths and weaknesses.

Check this quotation:

The blogging world has tremendous strengths - original voices, provocative
opinions, imagination and intimate knowledge of a variety of subjects. But it is
also an industry struggling to mature, many observers argue. They say blogging
companies must overcome the industry’s reputation as a sort of digital Wild West
where anything goes, and confront such questions as conflicts of interest,
product hype, bias and low standards of accuracy.

That is the scenario we should be aiming for; where blogs become just another content management system. Not online diaries. Not a bunch of teenagers sharing their frivolous thoughts and experiences.

Women Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur:

A new survey sponsored by RSM McGladrey and the National Association of Women Business Owners has created a profile of today’s average woman entrepreneur.

After surveying 650 women across the country, the 2007 Survey of Women Business Owners found that women entrepreneurs are more educated.

Here are other key findings from the survey:
They take more risks. Sixty percent of women surveyed would use up to 95 percent of their personal savings or put up their home as collateral for a loan to start or expand their business.

They have been successful for a while. More than 60 percent of the businesses surveyed have been in operation six or more years, higher than the 40 percent reported through other surveys for all businesses.

They started young. Forty percent of businesses with more than $6 million in revenue were started by women between the ages of 20 and 29.

They can get financed. Less than 6 percent have gone to a bank and never been able to receive financing.

They have a family life and run a business. Sixty-eight percent are married, higher than the national average of 53 percent for working women. And 67 percent of those surveyed have children.

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Business Just A Game For Entrepreneur?

What a big said from.

The Cape Breton Post:

Matt Swan was looking for a way to build a local business that would enable him to stay home in Cape Breton, earn a living and spend more time with his young family.

One day, he was looking at a common local image made up of lines and squares, and it hit him: business is just a game. Well, at least that’s true in Swan’s case.

“I was looking at the Cape Breton tartan and thought that would make an interesting checker board,” he said.He finally settled on a cotton cloth game board, wood doweling rack for the wooden checkers and a clear plastic waterproof carrying case. A printed sheet of instructions, with a description of the Cape Breton tartan, is included.Swan prints the game boards and he and his wife, Shannon, assemble the game parts at their home on Rudderham Road in Point Edward.
The printing process is a trade secret. But Swan said the best part about his product is that he can customize the game board for any use, including tourist operations, corporate promotions or conventions.

Now, Swan sells the Cape Breton checkers game from his home and it is available in more than 20 retail outlets in and around the island.

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Smallville - Hug

Episode 11, Smallville 1. Hug.




The summary of the story about two salesmen were transformed in 1989 and gifted with the same power of persuasion. One decided to go into hiding before his powers got him into trouble; another decided to use his power for reasons of evil and also use his kryptonite-based ability to force anyone he touches to obey his commands.


Bob Rickman is one the transformed salesman that has the ability to bend others to his will, because of an incident with the meteor rocks years earlier. Rickman has plans to put a new pesticide plant in Smallville, and he needs the Kent farm to do it. Rickman uses his ability to convince Jonathan to sell the farm. Clark seeks out Kyle Tippet for assistance, after learning the two were salesmen who were both caught in the meteor shower. Rickman uses his ability to convince Lex to kill both Clark and Kyle. While Clark is battling Lex, Kyle, who has more control over the ability, forces Rickman to take his own life.

Smallville - Shimmer

Episode 10 session 1 - Shimmer.

The story about an invisible stalker is pursuing Lex and one of the household staff may, or may not, be responsible.

Everything happened must have the reason, the story from a teenage girl, Amy Palmer (Azura Skye ), lets her obsession with Lex become life threatening as attacks in the Luthor mansion pit Clark against an invisible enemy. Meanwhile, Clark is thrilled when Lana seeks his companionship after Whitney inexplicably rebuffs her.

How to copy HTML links with firefox

The solution for this problem can be found in Firefox extensions that allow you to copy HTML links on the fly; meaning that they enable you to copy simultaneously the link text and HTML, and once you paste it you will already get the HTML code ready to go.

The most used extension for this purpose is called CoLT. Basically you will need to right click on the link you want to copy, move the mouse over “Copy Text Link and Location As,” and then select “HTML Link.”

I have used it for a while, but I don’t link the fact that I need to go through two sets of menus. It adds one unnecessary step to the process.

What is XML?

There are a big knowledge about XML, and if you are web-programmer, you probably know that.

XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. Basically, it is a markup language created to transport structured data across different systems and platforms. There is an article over W3C titled “XML in 10 Points,” which gives an introduction to this language. The 10 points are:

1. XML is for structuring data.
2. XML looks a bit like HTML.
3. XML is text, but isn’t meant to be read.
4. XML is verbose by design.
5. XML is a family of technologies.
6. XML is new, but not that new.
7. XML leads HTML to XHTML.
8. XML is modular.
9. XML is the basis for RDF and the Semantic Web.
10. XML is license-free, platform-independent and well-supported.

Google page rank update in progress?

Recently, i have read about the Google page rank issue.

The reason for the penalties it not totally clear yet, but Darren said that he got confirmations from two sources at Google that the penalties were being given exclusively for paid links, and not for cross-linking inside blog networks.

That would explain why many blogs recovered from the drop, including Problogger itself. Supposedly these blogs were wrongly associated with paid links, and Google reversed their PageRank to the normal level after realizing that. The good thing is that most websites are actually seeing the PageRank update now, and many are going up.

Smallville - Rogue

Smallville session 1, episode 9 - Rogue, which was written by Mark Verheiden; Directed by David Carson.

Story about clark's secret identity is jeopardized when a corrupt policeman, Sam Phelan (Cameron Dye), witnesses Clark using his superhuman powers and coerces him into joining forces.

However, when Clark double-crosses the cop, he is not prepared to deal with the consequences for him and his family. Meanwhile, Lex receives an intriguing proposal from his sexy British ex-girlfriend, Victoria Hardwick (recurring guest star Kelly Brook).

Everyone was worry that clark identity is going to be revealled. A nice episode.

Smallville - Jitters

Smallville session 1 episode 8, Jitters.

What is brewing on Level Three? Earl Jenkins, a man who claims to have "jitters" caused from experiments on that level of the LuthorCorp plant, wants the answers and he is holding hostages until he finds out the truth.

The story is about an experiment at the Luthor fertilizer plant makes an old friend of the Kents literally shake and jitter, and he seeks vengeance against the Luthors, who hide the secret of his transformation behind "Level Three" at the local plant. Jenkins claims his deadly "jitters" were caused by a mysterious contaminant, and he threatens to kill everyone unless he is shown a secret sublevel, which Lionel Luthor denies ever existed.

Smallville - Craving

A story of Craving at episode 7, session 1 is about a girl goes on a meteor-rock shake diet and becomes somewhat of a fat-sucking vampire.

A weight-obsessed teen dieting on kryptonite-infected vegetables gains her fondest dream that whose diet of Kryptonite-affected vegetables causes her to shed weight faster than she can handle, forcing her to satisfy her ravenous hunger by gorging on any available food source. Meanwhile, Lex gets one step closer to the truth about Clark after funding a study on the green meteor fragments.

Smallville - Hourglass

Hourglass is episode 6, in session 1 of smallville.

The story is about an old man gets a second chance at life thanks to meteor rocks; and a woman predicts the futures of Clark and Lex.





An old man uses green meteor rock to reverse the aging process, then gain vengeance on the children of the jury that put him away decades earlier. Meanwhile, another woman at the same old folks' home has prophetic abilities and she sees the futures of both Clark and Lex.

This epidode was on air at November 20, 2001.

Greatest Time To Be An Entrepreneur

Knowledge @ Wharton:

Meet the new consumers of the new media age. They want things to be better,
faster, cheaper and, even more important, free.

“This new consumer is very, very different from [the ones] we dealt with before,” said Ted Leonsis, vice chairman emeritus of AOL, who is considered an Internet pioneer and whose business portfolio over the years includes an impressive array of online companies.

It doesn’t matter what business you’re in — restaurant, real estate or financial services, he added. “We’re living in a world where consumers have taken control of everything.”Leonsis’ foray into entrepreneurship began while he was a student at Georgetown University. It was 1976, the Bicentennial summer, and he started a business selling red-white-and-blue snow cones. It was hardly the stuff of which millionaires are made, but Leonsis said the experience gave him a taste of what it’s like to start and grow a business. “I think that entrepreneurial spirit is really what drives this country and what drives the world economy,” he said.

For him at least, business is all about being in the “happiness business.” He said online businesses can cultivate people’s desire to volunteer and give back. “It’s all about getting out of the I, I and I, and really seeing where you want to fit into the bigger world.” The Internet has led to a whole new type of charitable giving — online philanthropy, where “micro-donations” by many donors can add up to a sizeable contribution. Being successful with an online business is all about being smart with math and algorithms, Leonsis noted. “Marketing isn’t just to people anymore.

You have to market to algorithms.” Also, “the basic unit of life in this world is the pixel and every pixel matters on a page.”

The ability to cross promote is a powerful benefit of the Internet, he added, citing Amazon.com’s algorithm-driven marketing effort that alerts customers who bought certain book titles to other titles they might also like.

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Smallville - Cool

This episode 5 - Cool in session 1 is about a jock falls into Crater Lake and comes out of it all a meteor freak who must take body heat from his victims in order to survive. His next target is Chloe Sullivan, clark's friend.





The storyline began after a student falls into Smallville’s frozen lake, the Kryptonite at the bottom of the water manages to preserve his life. However, he must now extract heat from his surroundings - and that includes sucking the life out of his friends! Meanwhile, Clark continues to get closer to Lana, but their “date” is brought to a halt when Chloe’s life is placed in jeopardy.

Find Small Ways To Develop Revenue

SeattlePI:

Q: I am a young photographer trying to start my own business. I have so
much gear that I still need to buy, and I am overwhelmed by my startup marketing
costs. I am concerned that if I don’t show more revenue or more of a profit
within the next few years that I will be seen as a failure in the business
world. Right now I’m working 70-hour weeks.

A: Here’s a fun quote to think about. Andy Warhol once said, “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”

As an emerging photographer, artist and businesswoman, the perspective you bring to your work each day, I believe, influences outcomes. Through your lens today, you see more problems than possibility. From my lens, I see a hard-working business owner who may be too focused on tasks that don’t produce a positive return on each invested hour. For freelance entrepreneurs like you, the secret to developing a
sustainable, lucrative business is not just working more hours. The trick is
developing revenue- producing assets within your business that can produce
income in addition to your portrait work.

As a brainstorming exercise, I’d like you to think creatively of all the ways you might be able to earn income but not physically have to be there to do the work every time. These initiatives can include generating royalties from Internet photo sales or developing a series of salable photography-based products, posters and greeting cards like Anne Geddes’ well-known baby photos.

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Smallville - X-Ray

This is episode 4 in session 1. X-Ray vision ability.

The story began with the question that "is Lex really a bank robber?" It doesn’t appear so. Clark must confront a new “Freak of the Week”, that can shapeshift into any person she wishes. Luckily, Clark is developing that trusty X-ray vision.

Guys aren't the only ones with big crushes on Lana. Tina Greer likes Lana so much that she wants to be her. With her meteor freak powers of shapeshifting, that might not be too difficult. The answer above is Tina robs a bank as Lex. So much for playing the evil card later on.

8 Business Technology Trends To Watch

McKinsey Quarterly:

Technology alone is rarely the key to unlocking economic value: companies create
real wealth when they combine technology with new ways of doing business.
Through our work and research, we have identified eight technology-enabled
trends that will help shape businesses and the economy in coming years.

1. Distributing co-creation. The Internet and related technologies give companies
radical new ways to harvest the talents of innovators working outside corporate
boundaries.
2. Using consumers as innovators. Consumers also co-create with
companies; the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, for instance, could be viewed as a
service or product created by its distributed customers.
3. Tapping into a
world of talent. As more and more sophisticated work takes place interactively
online and new collaboration and communications tools emerge, companies can
outsource increasingly specialized aspects of their work and still maintain
organizational coherence.
4. Extracting more value from interactions.
Companies have been automating or offshoring an increasing proportion of their
production and manufacturing (transformational) activities and their clerical or
simple rule-based (transactional) activities.

5. Expanding the frontiers of automation
Companies, governments, and other organizations have put in place systems to automate tasks and processes: forecasting and supply chain technologies; systems for enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and HR; product and customer databases; and Web sites. Now these systems are becoming interconnected through common standards for exchanging data and representing business processes in bits and bytes. What's more, this information can be combined in new ways to automate an increasing array of broader activities, from inventory management to customer service.

6. Unbundling production from delivery
Technology helps companies to utilize fixed assets more efficiently by disaggregating monolithic systems into reusable components, measuring and metering the use of each, and billing for that use in ever smaller increments cost-effectively. Information and communications technologies handle the tracking and metering critical to the new models and make it possible to have effective allocation and capacity-planning systems.

7. Putting more science into management
Just as the Internet and productivity tools extend the reach of and provide leverage to desk-based workers, technology is helping managers exploit ever-greater amounts of data to make smarter decisions and develop the insights that create competitive advantages and new business models. From "ideagoras" (eBay-like marketplaces for ideas) to predictive markets to performance-management approaches, ubiquitous standards-based technologies promote aggregation, processing, and decision making based on the use of growing pools of rich data.

8. Making businesses from information
Accumulated pools of data captured in a number of systems within large organizations or pulled together from many points of origin on the Web are the raw material for new information-based business opportunities.

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Smallville - Hothead

Smallville session 1 episode 3, Hothead.

The story is about a abusive and hot-tempered football coach gains the ability to control and project fire.

Meanwhile, Lionel Luthor comes to town, Lana wants to quit cheerleading, and Clark wants to play football.Hiro Kanagawa makes his first appearance as Principal Kwan. He was originally supposed to appear in the series pilot, but his scenes were cut.

Clark and his father come to a stand-off, as he joins the school football team. Scared to death that Clark will accidentally harm his team-mates, Jonathan must deal with his son’s new-found independence. Lex is also battling the wishes of his father, as they tussle over the control of LuthorCorp. Still, their troubles seem petty when the team’s coach takes on pyrotechnic abilities, using his fiery rage to win at any cost.

Smallville - Metamorphosis

Smallville Session 1 Episode 2 which is Metamorphosis. After watched the first episode, i believe that every must, expected to watch the following episode for the great storyline.







The summary of the story as, the meteor rocks are continuing to affect the towns population, including a certain insect fanatic, who takes on bug-like tendencies after being attacked by his swarm. Unfortunately, he wants to mate with Lana. Clark must save her, without revealing his powers. Meanwhile, Lex holds Lana's Kryptonite necklace in his possession, and ponders what to make of the strange stone.


This episode is Clark must deal with Greg, a nerdish bug collector with a crush on Lana who gains the ability of various insects and uses them to lash out at anyone who opposes him.

Smallville - Pilot

Smallville session 1, episode 1 - Pilot.




This is the first episode of smallville launched at year 2001 - 2002. The great starting story. Every show needs a strong pilot, and Smallville has a pretty great one that establishing the main story and characters in a simplistic, yet interesting way.


The story as begins nearly 20 years ago, when the meteor shower lays waste to most of the town, bringing the infant Kal-El (Clark) to Earth. Brought up as Clark Kent, his foster parents decide to tell him of his origins, now that he is a teenager. Keeping his abilities a secret, he is forced to help Lex when his car spins off the road, granting him a new “friend” in the process.


Lex made friend with clark after his rescue; the fact that meteor rocks hurt him, and that his love for Lana is planting him in trouble with her boyfriend Whitney (Eric Johnson). With some nice moments of sly humour, and clever foreshadowings of the future, the first episode is one of the better instalments from this season.

Smallville Highlight

Smallville tells the tale of a teenage Clark Kent in the days before he was Superman.

It is the town where he came from where very strange things started happening with his arrival in a spaceship in the midst of a meteor storm of green rocks. Clark must deal with a variety of individuals given powers by the green rocks, keep his powers a secret, cope with his friendship with a young Lex Luthor, and balance the two girls in his life, Chloe and Lana. The show also shows us how Lex Luthor develops from a friend of Clark's and kinda-okay guy to (presumably) the villain who will plague Superman in his later years.

Smallville Premier

Smallville series, is a drama that film about the story of the teenager before he become a superman. So begins the “Early Adventures of Superman”.

Photo of the actors and actress

Long before Clark form those legendary tights and a cape, the Man of Steel was living the life of a teenager; with superhuman abilities. As his body developed, so did his alien powers.

As Smallville opens, Clark Kent cannot fly. He can not burn objects to a crisp with his vision, and he has yet to master the ability of seeing through walls. With the pain of puberty, comes enormous power, and overwhelming responsibility.

It’s a stroke of genius, and it’s hardly surprising that the show has become a roaring success. Season 1 is hardly its strongest hour, but it places the foundations for what is, currently, the best on-screen Superman since 1978’s motion picture.

Originally created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, the Superman comic was groundbreaking; pretty much establishing the modern comic book rules, and providing DC with its most well-known character. During his conception, it was fairly easy to see the real-life parallels that influenced Shuster and Siegel.

A tale about a stranger coming from an alien world, and using his unique gifts to help others. It was a revolutionary time. A time of change. Clark Kent would struggle to hide his identity, and get by in a world that was a million light years from home. Little did they know, that the character would continue to go strong in the 21st Century.

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