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<\/a><\/p>\nReplied my friend Steve:<\/p>\n
Beats the heck out of me.\u00a0 Yesterday was a great day.<\/p>\n
\u00a0My favorite stocks did really well — AMZN, FB, GOOGL and VZ.<\/p>\n
The market likes technology stocks at present.<\/p>\n
Also to look at:\u00a0 FEYE, NVDA and MBLY,<\/p>\n
Don’t post your personal stuff anywhere on the Internet.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n I hear Facebook posts are prime divorce lawyer fodder.<\/p>\n Your quirky lifestyle posted for all to admire is not good for your next job application.<\/p>\n Good working assumption: Everything you post is permanent. Someone already has it — even if you try and erase it.<\/p>\n September is tax increase month.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n If you don’t pay your local taxes immediately — if not sooner — you’ll get whacked with a whopping 10% “penalty” increase.<\/p>\n Here’s how it “works.”<\/p>\n 1. You get your local real estate tax bills in September.<\/p>\n 2. If you don’t pay them now, the next reminder you’ll get will be January. That “reminder” will come with a huge 10% penalty.<\/p>\n Why don’t they send you monthly reminders — like everyone else?<\/p>\n Simple. It’s a sneaky way to jack your local tax bills.<\/p>\n This ridiculous looking thing works perfectly. <\/strong><\/span>It’s a Wi-Fi extender. Some part of your house has lousy, slow, dead Wi-Fi. Stick this thing between your router and the dead spot. Suddenly your Wi-Fi dead spot wakes up and becomes full speed.<\/p>\n Two things are great about the gadget: First, it works. Second, it’s easy to program — a first among Wi-Fi extenders. Just follow the bouncing ball.<\/p>\n It has four blue\/red lights: The big blue one tells you it has signal. One little one tells you it has power. And two tell you the thing is working on 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz — the two frequencies Wi-Fi works on.<\/p>\n $94 at Amazon (where else?). Worth every penny. Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Internet speed matters. <\/strong><\/span>I measured my home Verizon FiOS this morning. This is what I got:<\/p>\n Yesterday I was at one of WeWork’s Manhattan, New York, offices. This is what I got:<\/p>\n That’s the fastest I’ve ever had in a conference room. It was wonderful.<\/p>\n Speed is exhilarating. You get your work done faster and more accurately.<\/p>\n Yes, even the cloud works better at high speed.<\/p>\n Newer laptops are:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 1. Thinner<\/p>\n 2. Lighter<\/p>\n 3. Last longer on battery<\/p>\n 4. Have more pixels.<\/p>\n That’s all good. Bad is:<\/p>\n 1. The keyboards are worse. The keys have less “travel.” You type more slowly. You make more mistakes.<\/p>\n 2. Typefaces on the new screens become very small. You have to keep hitting Ctrl + to make the type bigger.<\/p>\n 3. Newer laptops are no faster. Intel has hit a wall. Moore’s Law has run out. Some new Apple laptops are slower than my four-year old ThinkPad X230. No kidding.<\/p>\n \u00a0Instagram is now even better. <\/strong><\/span>Instagram is my favorite fun app.<\/p>\n Good news: you can now pinch, crop and enlarge the images. Favorite feeds to follow: + DavidKrasPhotography<\/p>\n + Destination_wild<\/p>\n + WildLifePlanet<\/p>\n + YourTravelSpots<\/p>\n + Wild.Show<\/p>\n + Cub.animals<\/p>\n + BeautifulDestinationsDaily<\/p>\n + Victoriasconfession.s<\/p>\n + Fantastic_lux<\/p>\n + Nature.Geography<\/p>\n + DavidDoubilet<\/p>\n + Awesomeglobe<\/p>\n + VictoriasSecretDaily<\/p>\n and<\/p>\n Here’s how to get healthy:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n This slide comes from Hooper Holmes (HH), a company which teaches wellness to other companies:<\/p>\n HH tells me one dollar spent on helping your employees live healthier lives saves $3 in insurance premiums.<\/p>\n Three favorite latest New Yorker cartoons<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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