The Random Thoughts Review

Did you know your taxes are about to go up? (redux)

kvandivo — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:24:47 +0000

Hello, those who call Champaign County home. kva ndivo Did you know your taxes are about to go up? I got another “Informational Bulletin” from the Illinois Department of Revenue today, and it talks about the sales tax changes that are going to take place on January 1, 2010. For those of us in Champaign [...]

Imagining a world with Google Go

kvandivo — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:08:47 +0000

Google with Chrome and Go, are creating the perfect storm to take over the desktop.

01022010

kvandivo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:07:13 +0000

kva ndivo OK…. They aren’t just rotating numbers. The meaning is much deeper and more significant than that.

Run, Mama! Run!

Administrator — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:01:24 +0000

kva ndivo That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. So I ran to the end of the road. And when I got there, I thought maybe I’d run to the end of town. And when I got there, I thought maybe I’d just run across Greenbow County. [...]

Did you know your taxes are about to go up?

kvandivo — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:46:51 +0000

Do you live in Illinois? kva ndivo I’m going to guess there’s a good chance that you didn’t realize your taxes were about to go up on a few items that you might purchase on a regular basis. I am registered with the Illinois Department of Revenue as a business (because I thought, once upon a [...]

If you refinanced when the market was peaking, live with the consequences!

Administrator — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:50:41 +0000

As many of you know, I’m trying to involved in real estate investing. kva ndivo You might think that right now would be a great time to be buying homes since the market is depressed. In some ways, you’d be right. In other ways, you’d be wrong. Here’s what I’ve experienced recently [...]

Nifty GMail attachment trick

Administrator — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:48:54 +0000

Everyone out there probably already knew this, but I just discovered it tonight.. kva ndivo I happen to be on chrome, but hopefully that doesn’t matter.. So I needed to send an attachment to someone. But, I didn’t have the attachment. It was on another system. So, I did what any computer programmer [...]

Free Gift Certificates thanks to Swagbucks

Administrator — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:57:56 +0000

I just ordered my first free amazon.com gift certificate from Swagbucks. A couple of weeks ago a friend told me about using Swagbucks for search, and I thought I’d check it out. Here’s how it works. kva ndivo Swagbucks runs a web search engine where they pull in search results from Google and [...]

Funniest Joke I’ve Heard In A Long Time

Administrator — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:52:08 +0000

(This page is certified Lynx-friendly) kva ndivo So I heard this one at lunch today. I’m not normally a joke telling person. Quite frankly, I just don’t usually have the delivery for it. But, I’m thinking that I’ll nail this one. Anyway, I was sitting there in the office, eating my [...]

A website I work on for Mariya Kleyn

Administrator — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:38:26 +0000

I’m not sure that I’ve ever posted about this on my blog, so I thought it was time to do so. kva ndivo For a while now, I’ve been working on Mariya Kleyn’s realty website at: http://www.AroundCU.com/ Mariya is a Realtor for the Champaign-Urbana area (in east central Illinois) and she has the absolute best website around [...]