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Posted in Quality of Life, Reasons I Leave My Computer, tagged eBay on June 25, 2008 | No Comments »

The great thing about eBay is that there are interesting tactics to be studied and written about everyday.
eBay’s Trust & Safety is working in overdrive this year, NARUing sellers right and left. Like this one I meant to write about for the 6 weeks. But it was “removed” from eBay before [...]

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eBay Dev Conf 2008 - Day 2

Posted in Reasons I Leave My Computer, eBay, tagged eBay, ebaydevcon08 on June 18, 2008 | No Comments »

I like the feel of the eBay Developers Conference this year. It’s about value and innovation. Gone are the flashy, big spending advertisers in matching branded shirts. Present are the great minds who build tools and businesses with their bare hands.
What would we do without Ina Steiner from Auction Bytes? We’d [...]

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Must Buy QuickBooks Pro 2008

Posted in Reasons I Leave My Computer, tagged QuickBooks Pro 2008 on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »

Corporate tax filings are due tomorrow. I have 6 forms that need to be postmarked “Jan 31″. Even though it was just 7 degrees this morning, I was happy to be headed to my accountant’s office.
I tried to get away with using QuickBooks Simple Start. But I found out the hard way that payroll tax filings are ridiculously cumbersome to do by hand, [...]

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