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May 20, 2007

School district poverty & population data

One of my clients needed data on poverty and population density in Southern Tioga School District. In a slightly modified form, here it is. It includes two Tioga County maps, one of school district boundaries, another of zip codes.

December 31, 2007

QuickBooks 2008 Certification

I completed the certification for QuickBooks 2008. You can check out my profile in the referral database here if you enter 16912 as the zip code.

March 3, 2008

Yikes! Best Buy vs. Heidi

I checked out Best Buy's Geek Squad service today for the first time. I just wanted to see what they offer for how much.

The diagnostic & repair service for a computer, something I do a lot of, costs $349.00. Oh my! I usually charge $80 for whatever diagnostic and repair services are needed. Diagnostic/evaluation alone is free - doesn't usually take very long, and that allows my client the option of figuring out if the price is worth it for them. Of course hardware (or software, rarely) is extra - about what it costs me - and hard drive replacements are $120+ hardware (they're a real pain in the butt). I had no idea Best Buy was charging that much! For $350, you can often buy a new (although outdated) computer at Tigerdirect.com.

I guess if I actually charged for the true amount of time that I spend fixing computers, I might be charging that much... but then no one could afford to have their computers fixed.

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