This topic is for things that you can't figure a place to put anywhere else. Like, the following would go in a business conference in a topic called 'self employment resources'. But we don't have a business conference (should we?) And if you're into web marketing... http://cyberatlas.com/ From LA TIMES online 5/27/98 http://www.latimes.com/CNS_DAYS/980525/t000048926.html CYBERSPACE * Quick Hits: There are numerous sites devoted to small-office/home-office associations. Most include information on online newsletters, benefits, news, links and other resources. Here are a few: the Small Office Home Office Assn. (http://www.sohoa.com), the SOHO America Advocacy (http://www.soho.org), the American Assn. of Home-Based Businesses (http://www.aahbb.org), the American Home Business Assn. (http://www.homebusiness.com), the National Assn. of Home Based Business (http://www.usahomebusiness) and the Home Office Assn. (http://www.hoaa.com). * SOHO Diversity: There are at least a handful of sites devoted to assisting and informing managers of women- and minority-owned businesses. At http://www.blackbusiness.com, you'll find SOHO info for black-owned businesses. Black Women on the Web (http://www.dtshop.com/bwow) has small-business and home-business resources for African American women. * Info Central: The Business Resource Center (http://www.morebusiness.com) offers info for all kinds of business owners. Check out business and profitability tips, Tax Talk, Marketing Department and the Management Center. You'll also find upcoming trade show listings, financing guides, templates and work sheets for business agreements and plans, discussion groups, and software and reviews. * You Want Answers? The Times' Small Business Web site can be found at http://www.latimes.com/smallbiz. Check out the 30 most-asked questions about small business, tips on how to start a small business, listings of classes and events, and articles from The Times' archives. * Get Involved: Advocacy issues are a primary focus of the National Assn. for the Self-Employed. It offers a weekly briefing on legislative issues and activities that affect small businesses and advocacy efforts, in addition to a reference area and a survey of the "joys and sorrows" of owning a small business. The NASE site is at http://www.membership.com/nase. * Sitting Pretty: Ergonomics is just as important in a small or home office as it is in a bigger one, so stop by ErgoWeb (http://www.ergoweb.com) for the lowdown on ergonomics standards, guidelines and publications. The site has an interactive buying guide and case studies on ergonomics gone awry. * Don't Forget: Last, but not least, is the good ol' Small Business Administration, for starting, financing or expanding your office. The national SBA is online at http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov, and the California SBA is at http://www.csba.com. * Online Research: Calling itself the "one-stop resource for business, management and technology knowledge," Brint.com (http://www.brint.com) allows you to conduct research online, visit a virtual library on knowledge management, participate in online discussions and read or post publication and event announcements. Who else here dreams of working at home?

I work at home. It's BORING!

so, get a real job...

Yeah, I'm at home here too, and lemme tell you, this house is not big enough for both of us to stay home!!

Yeah? Well, I can't DO anything else. I didn't study, and I have no other talents, so let me be!

The Spring is a home business. I run it out of my home in Quail Creek. Do you want to talk about how we're set up and how we do all this? And do you want to make suggestions on how we could improve as an organization and do it better?

By the way, I love what wer did by putting the list of last responses on different conferences. That's awesome! Killer interface stuff. Very, very cool!

Totally! Yes, Terry, please tell us about the set up and so on, I'd be very interested to hear how all this works - but in English, okay?

C'est vrai... ooops, almost started explaining in French. English, ok. Basically, we have 3 Intel boxes, two BSDI (www and barton) and a Free BSD box (access) running all the spring stuff. And then I have a subnet of about 8 machines at my Austin house. This is where we author our websites mostly. A box is a computer. BSDI is an operating system. A subnet is a collection of networked computers. The video is streamed to the website via a VCR, right now it's playing the party that I just came from over at Brad Adams place in Travis Heights. What else?

And you have your own server as well?

We have three of our own servers on a D3, which is a very fast connection. They are www, access, and barton. (eg. barton.spring.net), and we have about 8 machines, mostly Pentiums, running Win 98 and one running BSDI at the Austin Spring HQ. What we're about is incubating ideas for new web businesses where someone has a business and we provide the web infrastructure for a percentage stake in the business. This is the model we're using for http://www.silkcloth.com and for the "street" series that we just registered (http://www.ih35.com, http://www.congressavenue.com, http://www.burnetroad.com, http://www.lamarbouldevard.com, http://www.thedrag.com etc. ). We're looking for more of these collaborations either locally or virtually on the net. Maybe we could set up a virtual art gallery here for Riette? Maybe others of you have businesses we could implement.

That would be great fun! Thank you, Terry, I'd defenitely be game.

First step, ree. Think of a clever domain name we can register. reeworld.com, artworld.com, artriette.com, you have a fertile mind.

and remember, if anyone has a working, internet ready Pentium that's in the way, you have permission to store it at my house...

Whatever that might be!!! I'll think about a name, Terry.

Good.

Help! I had to reinstall AOL, and lost my bookmarks... if any of you would like to e-mail me your hotlists, please feel free to do so, that I might re-create mine (more or less...)

I thik they all had to do with sex (more or less) oh and don't forget www.jailbabes.com

She's harsh!

ahhh... the truth that hurts... you okay with it WER???

damned straight

*grin* ahhh... somethings never change

or get relieved...

that must be quite the build-up...

fortunately, they now have shampoos that take care of excessive build-up!

but they strip away that protective layer too

one word: salve

organic or no?

organic is good... (orgasmic possibly better...)

that must be some salve!

salv-ational!!!

besides, it's all in the application...

rub, massage or spread?

depends on the applicator

sponge, ladle, brush or other?

depends on the situation

examples please...

That's quite a salvo.....

not a single hotlist sent to me... oh, well...

I'll try and drum one up. I have so many in so many places. What's your primary email? Where does wer@spring.net end up?

wer, i dont have any hotlists in AOL. if i did i would have sent you one!

no,no,no... web hotlists...I don't use AOL for AOL (the wife does, though...)

that one ends up at kitchen_manager@juno.com and rotazo@aol.com... either is fine as I check each as many times a day as possible!

oh, i see! well, my bookmark files are pretty lame and boring.

actually, wer@spring.net only ends up at kitchen_manager@juno.com... which server is that e-mail account on, Terry? if it's not on www, then I don't have access to it...

wer, spring.net emails go to barton.

that's what I thought...

MAINE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY 1.Log on - Make the wood stove hotter 2.Log off - Don't add no more wood 3.Monitor - Keep an eye on that wood stove 4.Download - Getting the firewood off the truck 5.Floppy disk - What you get from trying to carry too much firewood 6.Ram - The thing that splits the firewood 7.Hard Drive - Getting home in the winter 8.Prompt - What the mail ain't in the winter 9.Window - What to shut when it's cold outside 10.Screen - What to shut in black fly season 11.Byte - What the black flies do 12.Bit - What the black flies did 13.Mega Byte - What the BIG black flies do during trout season 14.Chip - Munchies for TV 15.Micro Chip - What's left in the bag after you eat the chips 16.Modem - What you did to the weeds growing in the driveway 17.Dot matrix - Old Dan Matrix's wife 18.Lap top - Where the beer spills when you pass out 19.Software - The dumb plastic knives and forks they give you at McDonalds 20.Hardware - Real stainless steel cutlery 21.Mouse - What makes the holes in the Cheerios box 22.Main frame - What holds the house up, hopefully 23.Enter - The only way to win those magazine ad sweepstakes 24.Web - What a spider makes 25.Web site - High corners of the ceiling 26.Cursor - Someone who swears 27.Search Engine - What you do when the car dies 28.Screen Saver - repair kit for the torn window screen 29.Home Page - map you keep in your back pocket just in case you get lost in the woods 30.Upgrade - Steep hill 31.Server - waitress 32.Mail Server - male waitress, damn few in Maine 33.MS DOS - Some new disease they discovered 34.Sound Card - One of them technological birthday cards that plays music when you open it 35.User - The neighbor who keeps borrowing stuff 36.Browser - A problem moose in the sugarbush 37.Network - Mending holes in the gillnet 38.Internet - Complicated fish net repair method 39.Netscape - What haddock do when you don't do your network 40.Online - good sign there'll be clean clothes this week 41.Off line - the clothes pins let go and the laundry falls on the ground -better luck next week

Love it, wer!!

Thought of you when I read it...

haha!! saw this one before but i luv it anyway...

seen variants on the theme, as well...my favorite is probably the Arkansas version...first time I had see a northeastern one (which is why I thought of Autumn...)

yeah, i've seen it in southern versions as well.

Well, I'd never seen any version of it, and I thought it was hilarious. We Marylanders think those folks in Maine are a little backwards :-)

like, oh say, Stephen King for instance?

No, we think he is really OUT THERE....

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