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As the child and grandchild of veterans, I appreciate the sacrifices that the men and women of the armed forces make everyday to keep this country safe no matter what the circumstances may be. As a thank you for one recent veteran, I had installed a wireless router for him and his family.

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Its day 3 with my Palm Centro on the road, nearly 200 miles away from home . How I switched from the Treo 650 to the Centro? My cell phone provider’s equipment insurance program. Since they are not producing the 650 anymore, I received a candy apple red Centro. I’m getting over the shock of the smaller keyboard. On the other hand , its stylish, and it can still get down to business. After doing some research by visiting the Palm Blog regarding getting more out of the Centro and also by getting used to the phone and seeing the new Palm applications, I did decide that it was a upgrade in small package.

In case you don’t know, today is Earth Day. I’m going to do my part today by taking a cloth bag to the supermarket.

In the meantime, here are a few Earth Day links from blogs that I like:

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This morning, Rachael Ray of the Rachel Ray Show discussed online reputation management. ” Being aware of your online reputation is just as important as monitoring your credit report score” stated Regina Lewis of AOL. The segment titled, Preventing Cyber-Slander, provides tips on what you can to manage your online reputation.

and win a complementary Starbucks drink on nextSTEPH. In the interest of karma, I figured it was a good time to give back.

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Was yesterday, as declared by Problogger.

I was out of the loop because I was on assignment. However, I just want to thank my clients as well as my friends and more importantly Grandma, for motivating me to continue to help people with their Custom Branded Blogs, blogging and social media challenges.

Unless you have been under a rock, there has been a lot of talk about how blogging can be linked to stress and worse, death due to the NYT article posted over the weekend. I am posting to voice my opinion and to ease concerns about this to clients and colleagues.

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I started my taxes a few weeks ago to discover that both my business and checking banking accounts were taking monthly fees from me. That’s when I decided to change banks. Here are some tips I’ve learned along the way so that this can help others when changing banks:

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