education

Communication Issues

Anyone who has the opportunity to learn another language would be smart to take advantage of this education. We are becoming a population that is so diverse that communication is becoming a big issue and not one to take lightly. To be able to understand and to be able to translate is a wonderful power these days. Businesses are looking for people that are multi lingual, being able to converse with your customer is a big deal and rightfully so.

There are cuts being made in our schools. Foreign language teachers are being laid off, along with the art and music teachers, which should be of concern to all of us. We need our students to learn languages to use in the future in the business world. A translator can earn big bucks these days and are becoming in high demand as the years go by.

There are translation services popping up everywhere, online and off, and they are doing very well. They are always looking for people to hire that can speak other languages and not just Spanish, although we have a huge amount of Spanish speaking people in our country these days. German, Japanese, Chinese, French, Vietnamese and countless other languages are in demand as well.

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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 | education, internet/computers, technology | No Comments

Bless her sweet little heart but one of my nieces is just one more airhead!!  Don’t get me wrong but I love her dearly and have tried and tried to explain technical stuff to her over and over but that’s what happens, it goes OVER her head.  She was asking me about web site hosting.  I made the mistake of asking her why and after about thirty minutes of blah blah this reason and blah blah that reason, I had to stop her.  What’s the point of listening to stuff you can’t begin to understand when your the one that she came to in the first place.  Know what I’m saying?

Anyway I told her that there was no way possible for me to help her out but I could point her in the right direction so that she could learn a lot more about what she wanted and then learn what she really needed.  They aren’t the same thing all of the time, you know.  If you’re looking for business hosting, then that’s what you should concentrate on and not shop around for other things.  But if you are looking for good ecommerce hosting then just remember you get what you pay for.  I would rather have great ecommerce hosting myself.

The best place I know to find what ever type of hosting you are looking for is on the Internet.  I have my own personal favorite when I’m looking for a great web host and that’s with the geeks.  Personally, I don’t mind being called a geek or going to a geek when I am in need of one.  In fact, they come in awfully handy when you’re trying to explain something to this younger generation that think you don’t know what your talking about.  Send them to a geek and their word is golden to them.  Go figure!

Mailboxes

 Commercial Mailboxes and Residential Mailboxes have come a long way in the past few decades. It has come to the attention to the masses that having your mailbox display your last name and the street numbers on your mailbox and in plain sight for the emergency personnel to utilize is in your best interest.

There has been so many stories in the news about people seeking assistance from our police or fire departments that have not gotten the help that they needed because these emergency personnel can’t find their location due to the lack of necessary information available to them on our mailboxes.

If we rely on this people to come to our aid, it seems the least we could do is make it easier for them to find them and have our Mailboxes have the right information displayed for them to find us in our time of need. They have a good selection of mailboxes for us to choose from these days. Mailboxixchange.com has a good amount of products to check out, if you have the need.

Know What This Is!

I’m a strong supporter of pro-choice. I’m all about a woman having the last word on what goes on with her body. This short email was sent to me by one of my pro choice lady friends. It cracked me up and I had to share it here, hopefully to put a grin on some one’s face today and to help spread the word.

Good lord, we all need a good laugh or a grin each day. God Bless.

 

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Today’s Internet Offerings

Monday, December 21st, 2009 | business, education, family, internet/computers, life, technology | No Comments

The computer certainly wasn’t an everyday tool for us back when I was in high school or in my college days. The ones that we used were pretty limited and it just amazes me how far we have advanced and how having Internet access is taken so for granted by so many of us. People can go through with-drawls if not hooked up to Net each day, just as badly as if needing a smoke can be for someone that has that monkey on their back.

I can tell you that if I had the help of the Internet back then I would have taken advantage of any type of online tutoring, which has become a very useful tool for many students. To be able to go online and find math problems along with the math answers is a wonderful asset for today’s students. There is help out there for students from K-12 and for college students as well. Online math tutoring would have saved my butt many a times. There is Precalculus help, statistics help, chemistry help along with numerous other subjects to be utilized at sites like Tutornext.com.

My niece is one smart cookie and has turned to me at times for homework help. Most of the time I can lend a hand but the older she gets, the harder the work is and I’ve had to beg off more times than I would have liked. So I’m glad to know that she can go online and find reliable assistance in order to have her assignments turned in on time and with a good grade to go along with it for her efforts. This young lady will go far in her life time, she is going to make a difference in this world and I couldn’t be prouder of her for it.