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The Road Well-Balanced

Do you travel to see prospects and clients? If so, then you know that though your meeting may be just a few hours, hotel stays can make all of the hours you’re away from home feel like "work." You miss your significant other, your pets, your kids, your noisy neighbors – even that lumpy mattress you’ve been meaning to replace (but who has time, and at least you know where all the lumps are, and you put them there). Christopher Elliott, a journalist who writes about business travel, has written a no-nonsense, entertaining article, Finding Balance on the Road, that will provide you with a few cogent ideas to counter the stress of retaining your balance between work and life. And if you feel you've mastered the tug between being on the road and being at home, it never hurts to give yourself a brush-up: check out Elliott's Business Travel section.

How to avoid spam instead of stopping it

Nobody likes email spam. Spam messages cost us time and money when they are downloaded, they clog our mailboxes, and some present a security risk. No wonder that a zillion programs offer you their services in removing spam messages. These applications mostly work this way: they still let spam be downloaded to your computer, they will still let spam clog your mailbox, and downloaded spam viruses will still reach your PC. However, by using a spam “filter” application, you will presumably get a big satisfaction knowing that those evil spam messages are killed on your own PC. Hmmm - must be a better way, right? Well, there is.