Using Google Alerts to Find Jobs, Rare Products, etc.

I’ve helped two people with this so far, and they seem to appreciate it.  So here it is for you, too. Since Google Alerts added the ability to send alerts to feeds, the world got a lot easier…at least in my book. (I had started writing an email parser for Google Alerts…now I don’t have to.) What I love about Google Alerts is that it lets me do research without doing any work.  The research...

A Lesson in Winning…from Elementary School

Just like any suburban-american kid growing up in the 80s, we had bake sales, cake walks, and 739 other elementary school fundraisers named after sweets our mothers didn’t want us to have. Often, these events would have drawings for prizes. It was very simple. You buy a ticket.  Then you put your ticket into the bucket in front of the item you wanted to win. Organizers hold a drawing, choose a ticket, then...