The rising cost of "health" care. John has some great insights into the problem and realistic solutions.

John Baackes of Senior Whole Health has the answer to fixing the broken health care system.

Now he tells me!

Quoted: What's with those two slashes in http://www.whatever.com? And why the heck do we need them?

Very handy plug-in for those sites that insist on using IE. The download doesn't put the icon in the toolbar so until you add the button to your toolbar it's a fairly useless plugin!

Hard to believe that Reader's Digest would have this much debt, isn't it?!

Quoted: Reader's Digest -- the parent company of Seattle's AllRecipes.com -- said today that it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

I love this story :)

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I have not met a businessman yet who thinks either TARP or the Stimulus plan will do anything other than get money to the unworthy and probably cause inflation.

Both plans are obviously politician pork. For another viewpoint, please read this (but prepare for a headache!).

Quoted: Here's how he should handle the banks.

Good story.

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None of the other "free" ones turned out to be free. I used this on my laptop and it improved it significantly, although not as much as a total reformat (but this is a lot easier than formatting the HD).

I didn't see any other ones recommended on Blue Dot so this will have to suffice for all the other Blue Dotters out there (no apologies to those who think "faves" is an improvement!)

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Interesting analysis of browsers. A must read for heavy browser users!

Quoted: NEW YORK -- Google Inc.'s new Web browser, called Chrome, does much of what a browser needs to do these days: It presents a sleek appearance, groups pages into easy-to-manage "tabs" and offers several ways for people to control their Internet privacy settings.