PAULA NEAL MOONEY

"Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's," Jesus said in Matthew 22:21 . So this post about tithes and taxes won't leave me alone in my brain, so I'd better write it out. The end of the year -- specifically today being December 31, 2008 -- has me thinking about earning more than enough money to pay Uncle Sam by April 15, 2009, and that's forefront in my mind. I created a spreadsheet detailing everything I've earned, expensed, donated and all other things taxable so I know about how much I'll pay the government come Springtime. "How much should I give, God?" I hovered over the amount field on WordCity.org , my church's website, yesterday. The amount I put in was more than I'd listed on my spreadsheet in advance, but it was right. I hope. Because even though I realized that the amounts we give each year only factor in a portion to make for a better tax situation, there's still the tithing test to pass. Believe...

I just found out about these HP Home Servers, -- and they loook sweet to me. Why are people going ga-ga over the HP home servers? My husband doesn't see the point, but I was just explaining how we could have an HP home server that backs up all our data, from both our laptops and our workstation in the sitting room. And we could access the data from our HP home server as well. For example, if there's some kind of old file I want to grab off his laptop or our old PC, the HP home server would be just like a network drive to grab it off of. Can the HP Home Server do a better job than DreamHost? I wonder if I bought the HP EX475 MediaSmart Home Server (AMD Live, Windows Home Server, 1 TB Hard Drive) -- that's 1 TeraByte! -- and tried to run a new website from there (since I'm glad my websites are up on DreamHost, but not exactly wanting to add more there) would it do a better job? Whatever, customers are loving the HP MediaSmart Home Servers... ...because looking at the ra...

I'm going thru this article from PC World on how to secure your Vista PC in 10 easy steps , so I thought I'd save it and remember it and tell other people about it by blogging about it. I've yet to find that "local security settings" options they're talking about, but I've done some of the rest and want to finish up later. Safe is good.

You gotta love Amazon. While poking around and researching the different things people buy online and setting up Adwords campaigns to advertise Amazon products, I came across this $384,500 Certified Diamond (Round, Very Good cut, 6.21 carats, G color, VS2 clarity) for sale online at Amazon. Isn't that amazing? I knew Amazon had good stuff -- expensive and good stuff -- but I didn't know they sold loose diamonds and an over 6 carat diamond at that! That Amazon Associates revenue will be exactly $32,682.50 at 8.5% earnings rate for that one sale alone.