Author: webproworld

Grid Computing: CEOs Need to Know

What’s a Grid?
The computer on your desktop, the one you’re using to read this email, only has so much processing power, only so much speed. Your vice-president, who’s gazing out the window and thinking about his golf game, has computing power to spare. If your company had a grid set up, your computer could draw unused processing power from his computer to speed up your number-crunching software.

Focus Your Light

Remember when you were a kid how you could make paper catch fire by focusing the sun’s rays with a magnifying glass? You’d look over your shoulder at the sun, get the angle of the rays just right, and move the magnifying glass until you could see a small circle of bright light on the piece of paper in front of you. Gradually, that circle began to turn brown and the paper began to smoulder until its edges began to curl under as the flame took hold.

So You Want To Be A Freelancer

What’s the difference between running your own home-based business and freelancing? (tick, tick, tick …) Give up? Me too. If you want to work for yourself from home and have a special talent or skill that you think others would be prepared to pay for on an hourly or per-project basis, why not stop thinking in terms of the traditional “home business” paradigm and start thinking in terms of freelancing instead?

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