Beyond the Rhetoric

Whether you are willing to admit it or not, the holiday shopping season is upon us. The malls are getting packed with people, desperate to find the “perfect present” for each and every person in their lives. What are you going to buy mom this year? What gift would be most appropriate for little Timmy? [...]

“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.” Anna Quindlen is perhaps best known for her work writing for the New York Times and later with Newsweek, but she has also penned a [...]

While it may be worthwhile to talk about whether a freelance writer should accept payment via PayPal, wire transfer, or a cheque in the mail, we’ll save that discussion for another day. Instead, today’s blog post is about how a freelancer should go about charging his or her clients. When you go into an electronics [...]

We’ve all heard the saying that we should not only talk the talk, but we should also walk the walk. It’s easy to say that you are going to do something and it’s easy to pay lip service to just about anyone, but it’s another thing altogether when you have to walk what you’re talking. [...]

I started out with the intention of keeping today’s speedlink within the realm of consumer electronics and technology, but it soon expanded into a couple of tangential topics that may or may not be related to consumer electronics. Go figure. Such is the nature of this weekly What’s Up Wednesdays adventure; you never know what [...]