Today,
the City Council will vote to send the proposed amendments for voters.
There are seven propositions, including:
modifying the mayorÂ’s veto power, appointing a commission to set
councilmembers salaries and expanding the term limits for the mayor and
councilmembers.
Look for the January 30 issue of the Long Beach
Business Journal for more information.
Mac Users had an interesting post when Aaron Freedman when reading how PC World had 15 reasons to upgrade to Vista. You can’t blame PC World, after all it represents Windows readership and judging by how Windows still provides for 90% of all vulnerabilities on computers, they are defending their meat and potatoes.
To be fair, Vista is an improvement over XP in some areas, but I wouldn’t upgrade to it for many reasons.
1- Go for the original interface instead of the copycat!
2- Expose works on all Tiger and soon to be released OSx versions, period. Flip 3D will not be available for the Home Basic version and requires an Aero-compatible graphics card.
3- Live Thumbnails, well
Exposé also shows live Windows.
4- OSx has less system resources running around in the background hogging precious CPU efforts.
And the list goes on with tidbits Microsoft proudly hails that OSx has had for some time.
A fun read.
On a serious note, be careful before you go out and buy a new computer or are thinking about a Vista upgrade. Microsoft sells it in different versions from completely chocked and full-on bells and whistles only the beefiest computers would be able to handle. And then, there are the vulnerabilities that will stomp it the next few months and all the usual suspects we’ve heard about from the beta testers.
Less Sale By Owner
You really need professional help when selling a home in this market . Doing it on your own can be especially tough as we see a smaller proportion go that way. For-sale-by-owner deals went up the last two decades to 18% in 1997 down to 12%, according to a NAR survey. In fact, going it on your own is best when the market has too many buyers and little sellers, it seems.
The survey found that median selling prices run 31% higher when using an agent. FSBO, For Sale By Owner, want to avoid paying commissions, but face all the challenges an agent usually deal with and professionally understands.
The article is interesting and clearly explains what I have been saying in this blog for some months now, you pay for a professional that can save you not only time but problems.
Click here to go to the Business Yahoo article.