Tony Brewer View

Time is money.  This is specially true in the business world.  A company does not want their employees to waste any time.  “Time’s a wastin’” is the same thing as “Wasting money” in the corporate world.  In this worsening horrific economy, everyone and every business are struggling to make ends meet.  That is why it is even more important to find the best deals on equipment and supplies.  There is a website called officedeals.info that is designed to help the consumer (whether a private individual or a business) find the best online deals, promotion codes, coupons and discounts, for office supplies such as Vistaprint business cards, software, computers, office furniture, and back-to-school supplies.

A big congratulations goes out to Julie who has landed a new tech job! She’s one of the top level network administrators for a research company that has offices in more than a dozen companies. Julie has really impresses me, I remember when she was talking about going to school to learn tech stuff, I had not thought she would go through with it.

But she has – she’ applied herself, done tons of homework and is continuing with school even though she has landed a top notch job already – good for you Julie!

When I got an email from Michelle up in Maine that her son just got a new Apple Laptop as part of the state of Maine’s program that gives each seventh grader their own Apple laptop I thought that was a wonderful program! I think that will help the kids in Maine to better compete with the more sophisticated school kids of the big city states. I don’t know especially why the kids were given Apple laptops other than the fact that the governor negotiated a good deal on the Apple laptop computers, but who are we to look a gift horse in the mouth! I do want to find out if there is any kind of discount program available to buy Apple Laptop Batteries when the kids are going to need them.

I think that it is awesome that Maine even has a program like that in place, and I have to wonder if the schools in this area are just as advanced and progressive as the state of Maine was, or if the state of Maine has a big advantage over the rest of the schools.

CDEarth is offering some of the classic video games that we all started out with years ago. If only I had every quarter that I stuck into the slots trying to beat Asteroids and Pac-Mac, just to think of them all going from our pockets into the vendors pockets, clink clink clink. We certainly never thought that in the near future that we would be able to sit down at home and with a few key strokes on a keyboard play these games that we could only play at bars, Chuckie Cheese and a few other places here and there back in the 80′s.

I remember my sister was dating a guy who was the manager at the local Chuckie Cheese, he would invite her and her 3 young sons to come to the place and he would give the kids unlimited tokens to keep them entertained while he courted my sister. I went along one time, being a good sport, and all, and we all really had a blast, eating free pizza, drinking free drinks and cups and cups overflowing with tokens. That was about as close to heaven as those kids could be at that time. Those are good memories to remember now,. I’ll have to ask my sister if she remembers, next time we chat.

I’m glad to hear that there is a major push for all kinds of ways to become “green” I understand that even some of the web hosting companies are doing their part in going green. That is a good thing since we all need to do what we can to help the situation that our one and only mother earth is now in.

I’m still learning so much about computers and am grateful that my kid brother knows so much about today’s computers and the World Wide Web, I’d be in deep trouble if not for him. He knows all about webhosting, colocation, dedicated servers and managed hosting issues that I know absolutely nothing about. I just wish he had more time to spend with me, but he is married with children and his time is precious as most people’s are these days.

So I’ll keep trudging along the best way that I can. With the good weather months coming up we are all going to be busier and busier each day.