Jim Mathers

Boy have I found a site that is absolutely great for blogers.  It’s full of beautiful blog pictures that are free for you to use anytime you want in your blogs.  Nothing makes a blog more interesting than a beautiful picture to go with whatever you are bloging about.  All you have to do is create an account and they will send you an email with a password so you can start browsing through all the pictures.  I’m pretty sure you could find just about any type of picture you might want.

You don’t have to resize it like we sometimes have to do in order to make it fit in the blog correctly.  You don’t even have to do anything special at all because they’re already set up so that they will go straight to your blog and look great.  I hate it when you try to put a picture in your blog and it comes out fuzzy or has a bunch of lines in it that make it look distorted.

If you’re writing about how beautiful the autumn leaves are, it makes it even better to add a picture that reflects those beautiful leaves to help them to see what you’re talking about.  What do you think?

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You have heard the saying ‘The only difference between men and boys is the size and price of their toys’ I bet.  Well it’s true I have to admit.  I do love my toys.  I also like to go fast so I’m looking into buying an audi turbo for my car.

I couldn’t decide if I wanted a turbocharger or a supercharger and wasn’t really sure of the difference.  Well I found out from their site the main difference is in the power supply.  This site even helps you decide what you really need for you car.  They explain the advantages and disadvantages of both the turbocharger and supercharger.  I think I’ll go with the supercharger.

If you’re looking for more power, check into these guys.  They have everything you need to make your car run better and run faster too.

Tags: General Interest, automobile, business, education, male issues, play, technology, travel by Jim
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Businesses today can’t harldy conduct business without credit card processing.  The machines that process credit cards also process debit cards and EBT cards too.  EBT cards are the new food stamp cards just in case you didn’t know.  They’re a lot easier than those old ‘play money’ type things they used before and if they had to give back change, the coins were real money but they gave back the paper food stamps.  They’re a lot less embarrassing for the people that have to have help and there’s a lot of them now.  Also most people don’t carry money anymore.  They either use their debit card or a credit card so if you have a business, you have to accept credit cards if you want your business to thrive.

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Well they opened the new bridge on I 35W in Minneapolis Minnesota today.  It was built to replace the bridge that collapsed last year and killed 13 people.  It’s hard to imagine that something like that could have happened but it did.  One good thing came out of it, it made our federal and state authorities start checking all the other older bridges to try and keep something like that from happening again.  Hopefully it won’t.

A fire engine and ambulance were first across on each side.  In each direction, a line of State Highway Patrol cars was followed by a formation of Department of Transportation construction trucks.  A cluster of awaiting vehicles went honking across for a few minutes, then traffic returned to the more typical of that time of day.  The September 18 opening was well ahead of the scheduled December 24 goal, earning the contractor, Flatiron-Manson, up to $19.6 million in performance bonuses.  Not too bad huh?  Wish I could get a bonus like that for completing a job early but all I get is a ‘good job’ and a pat on the back.  Guess I can’t complain because I don’t have to work as hard as those guys did.

Tags: General Interest, Outdoors, automobile, business, community, male issues, technology, travel by Jim
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With all the foreclosures and mortgage companies in trouble, you would think that Unsecured Business Credit Lines be harder to get but they aren’t or haven’t been affected by that mess at all.  In fact, the credit mess hasn’t bothered business credit cards at all.  They are still just as easy to come by as they were before all of the credit crisis mess with mortgage companies.

I was surprised to find out that you don’t have to be a business owner in order to apply for an unsecured business credit card.  All you so is put your name on the application where it asks for the business name and you can get an unsecured business credit card if you qualify.  Easy business loans can be found easy enough and a wide variety of them too.  You can check into Visa cards, MasterCards, Discover Cards and even American Express online.  All you have to do is select the best card for you, fill out the online application and you’ll know if you quality for the card of your choice in no time at all.  It’s a relatively painless process for beginning to end.  The web site is secure too so you don’t have to worry about putting your information on their application.

Tags: General Interest, Internet, business, technology by Jim
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