After 31 years of being stalked by a debilitating fear, Tim (who wrote “The 4 Hour Work Week”) reveals how he manned up, took responsibility, and showed his fear who was in charge.

We all get tons of spam emails every day.  They contain advertisements, offers for pharmaceuticals, and malware.

But did you know that spam produces 17m tons of CO2 annually?

It’s true – you see, the “Carbon Footprint of e-mail Spam Report” estimates that 62 trillion spam emails are sent each year.  This requires more than 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy each year – enough to power more than 2.4m homes.

That’s a LOT of spamming.

The energy required by ISP’s to find and sort legitimate emails and delete or block the spam uses 80% of that energy.

A report released by Symantec found that spam had increased by 192%, and that bot networks were responsible for roughly 90% of all spam emails.

A bot network is a group of computers that are controlled by a central “bot herder” that is used to send out spam to others.  This group of compromised computers are mean times referred to as a “zombie network”.  Check out more about bot networks here.

So – what can you do to make sure your computer is safe? Continue reading »

These days, just about everyone is interested in a way to generate income from home.

Unfortunately, there are so many misconceptions and flat-out misinformation in the home-business industry that it is easy to get confused between the scams and “get-rich-quick” crowd and the actual legitimate home business ventures out there.

There are tons of different ways to start a legitimate home-based business.  Getting into business isn’t hard – the challenge is staying in business. Continue reading »