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Time For Plan B? Top 10 Recession-Proof Jobs
Forbes has a list of the (supposedly) most recession-proof jobs, and oddly "funeral home director" isn't among them. How strange... The list is very heavy with accounting work and jobs that require computer skills with a little nursing and sales thrown in for variety. Seemingly missing from the list is the guy who "deals with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to." Oh well. More »
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How States And Companies Make Money Off Of Unspent Gift Cards
In the last three years, New York has collected $19 million in unused gift card balances under the state's unclaimed-property laws. Best Buy added $135 million in unspent gift cash to its total operating income over the past two years. "For individual retailers, unspent balances can range anywhere from 2% to more than 10% of all gift-card sales," notes BusinessWeek. More »
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QuickBooks' Latest Update Destroyed Mac Users' Desktops
Here's one reason to use an online service to store financial data: no buggy updates to deal with.* Intuit's December update for 2006 and 2007 versions of QuickBooks Pro on the Mac platform wiped the user's Desktop folder and anything stored there. The company released a patch, but it didn't work if you launched QuickBooks while connected to a wireless hotspot, oops. The latest patch, so far as we can tell, simply disables any further updates to the application—on January 3rd the company "began automatically feeding a patch to Mac QuickBooks users that permanently switches off the program's upgrade mechanism to prevent a repetition of a data disaster." In the meantime, since they can't offer a way to fix the deleted Desktop folders, they're offering rebates to users who buy a copy of the data recovery program Data Rescue II. More »
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The News; Impotent Indignation
• The street price of Cialis is on the rise. "Drug Prices Up Sharply This Year" [NYT] [pic]• Egalitarianism has left the airport. "Southwest to Try Seat Assignments" [NYT]
• Because pedophiles find it so hard to lie about their age online. "MySpace to Add Restrictions to Protect Younger Teenagers" [NYT]
• Son of Enron aborted. "Accounting Industry Loses Bid to Relax Rule"[LAT]
• For the Second Coming, Jesus should overturn the Cingular phone dealer's tables. "Court Upholds Fine of Cingular" [LAT]
• The news is not that a data breach at VISA had a data breach that caused consumer's debit cards to get stolen, it's that they're actually finally formally announcing it. "Visa Says ATM Breach May Have Exposed Data" [CT]
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World of Warcraft 2.0: IRS Offices Patched into Ogrimmar and Ironforge
There are lots of taxes one pays in online games. They can be taxing to the marriages, health and even the sanity of emaciated South Korean nerds slowly irradiated into a shade of phosphorescent blue, like a deep-sea inverterbrate, by their112-hour binges in front of a monitor flickering Lineage mobs upon their retinas. And any World of Warcraft player knows that it can be taxing upon your intellect as well: being forced to endure the general chat channel of the Barrens will slough IQ points off like reams of skin after a first-degree sunburn. More »
