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myOwn10-Key - How To Balance Your Checking Account Without First Entering All Of Your Transactions Balancing your checking account with the aid of your computer does have to mean first entering all of your account transactions into a program. Repeatable Code - A Step Up From Reusable Code Reusable code is a category of code that few managers or developers seem to pay much attention to until they need it. Maybe they would pay more attention to repeatable code. Writing Articles - Starting New Articles With A Repeatable Skeleton Articles written for distribution on the Internet have common requirements. Having a repeatable skeleton to start each new article saves me time and helps keep the formats of my articles consistent. Starting a new article, with the exception of the text I write, is reduced to point and click. Personal Finances - K.I.S.S.ing Your Checking And Credit Card Accounts Successfully managing your personal finances requires making some lifestyle choices. Whether you have done so consciously, or unconsciously, you have already made your choices. Are they the right ones? Double Text - Starting The Program From Within Visual Studio Make Double Text readily available whenever you are working on any language in Visual Studio. Personal Finances - Getting Off The Paycheck To Paycheck Roller Coaster Budgeting, accumulating spending history and living from paycheck to paycheck are the three traditional methods of managing personal finances. None of these methods work for most people. There is a new approach. Credit Card Theft - Do You Know And Exercise Your Rights? When an invalid or incorrect charge appears on your credit card statement, you have 60 days to contest that charge. If you don't contest the charge in time, you become liable for paying the amount of that invalid or incorrect charge. Protecting yourself from this type of theft is not automatic. It starts with you. Tape Adding Machines - Bad Habit, Addiction Or Comfy Loafers? The next time you're in an office where personal computers are used, look on the desks. Chances are pretty good that you will see a mechanical tape adding machine sitting next to many of the computers. That makes no sense to me whatsoever. Tape Adding Machines - A Very Expensive, Unnecessary Addiction The mechanical paper tape adding machines setting on corporate desks next to high priced personal computers are not normally thought of as an inordinate expense. In fact, it is my experience that those mechanical machines are considered by companies to be a necessity. Nothing, in my opinion, could be further from the truth on either count.