Month: January 2009

I’d like to talk about one of the biggest costs of business – phones – and offer a clean way to mess some VoIP on your desk. If you’re a bigger firm you will know that two workers with phones cost four times more, while three eager beavers cost nine times more, and so on? … Read more

As I lugged my backpack to the airport on my last trip (after making sure it did not weigh more than 10 kg) I pondered the fact that my current body weight — 20 kg higher than recommended in the manual — was like carrying two of these bags permanently. No wonder I was getting … Read more

By now you will have noticed that the entire world financial system is geared towards making you spend more. That’s not you in the generic sense – I mean you, personally – the person who opens the mail at editor@petesweekly.com. The world economic system is built on the two of us continuing to buy stuff. … Read more

Those of us who have ever tried to lose weight know all about comfort food. At some point in any diet, often late on the first day, something happens. Something bad. It’s at that point that the diet goes out the window, and the doughnut goes in the mouth. That something is for the most … Read more