More work-at-home Stories

One of the downsides of web working is that you’re prone to distractions at home, whether it’s the snacks calling to you from the fridge or a toddler throwing tantrums. I experience these distractions everyday and have found ways around most of them. My most important “weapon against mass distractions”, so to speak, was to wake up at 2:00am and work while the rest of the neighborhood sleeps.

Except for my new neighbors, of course. They moved in last week and, since then, it’s been one loud evening after another. Read more »

Wow, I had only planned to leave OS X Leopard on my Samsung Q1 Ultra Premium for a few days and it’s been about two weeks. That alone probably says something right there.In any case, it’s time to say good-bye and get another operating system on […] Read more »

If you work from home, you may be wondering if you can deduct costs related to your home office — a part of your mortgage payment or rent, for example. But unfortunately the U.S. tax law in this area doesn’t recognize the work-life blend that most […] Read more »

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As more people work out of their home part- or full-time, they’re looking for offices or dedicated workspaces in their houses, according to The New York Times: But by 2006, according to data collected by the Dieringer Research Group, a marketing research company in Brookfield, Wis., […] Read more »

China’s Tudou Garners $19 million, venture capital investment lead by Capitol Today and General Catalyst Partners for the the site with 40 million viewers and a new ad platform. (release, earlier report here) Kulabyte and On2 New Releases; the two digital video encoding platforms touting multi-core […] Read more »

A study published Sunday at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology showed that a doctor’s ability to detect a heart problem was doubled after listening to heart sounds on an iPod. Nearly 150 medical students listened to the five most frequent heart murmurs on […] Read more »

In-Stat/MDR Forecasts 118 Million 3G Wireless Subscribers in China by 2008 and says that 2004 will be a crucial year for Third Generation (3G) cellular in China. With over 260 million mobile subscribers and more than 4 million new subscribers added every month in 2003, China […] Read more »

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