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Nov 26th, 2007 by ravi

Consolation in a downsourced world

Paul Krugman writes in his blog that even that old conservative hope that lowered taxes increase government revenues and decrease deficit is not playing out well, now that corporate profits are on the downslide. But there is hope. For one thing there is the McDonald’s Dollar Millionaire effort (perhaps they mean the Canadian Dollar, or some such reference to the fact that the USD is sinking in value?), and then there is this great deal:The Staples “Manager’s” chair, for a mere $70 (also available in brown). Make sure you can differentiate yourself from the clerical staff with this baby!

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Nov 26th, 2007 by ravi

Meaningful conversation

Every once in a while I take a peek at super-cheery and hyper-earnest überblog LifeHacker, mostly because they give me good tips on free software! Today they offer this bit of advice:

I have always wanted to have meaningful conversations. If only I was cheery enough to try the above!