My inkjet printer just died… the second one to do so due to the ink drying out and clogging the jets. I don’t do a lot of color printing, and the cost of ink cartridges is ridiculous. So, this time I went with a monochrome laser printer. They’ve come way down in price, and I managed to pick up the Brother HL-2140 for under $80 including tax.

It’s fast, it’s quiet, has great resolution, and there’s one very nice feature… a toner saving print mode, which results in a slightly lighter than normal print that would never be noticed on most documents, unless held up against another one to compare.

I strongly recommend this printer to anyone who needs a good light duty printer for their home office.

Ditch the inkjet unless you absolutely have to print in color, and here’s a tip… take your SD card to Wal-Mart and get their photo lab to print your pictures for you. It’s cheaper, and the print quality is higher than what you can achieve with your own personal inkjet.

Those of you who are new to blogging may not know the name John Chow, but if you want to become successful then it’s a name you need to know.  Even before the days of WordPress, before TypePad, before content management systems even existed… John Chow has been blogging. He started his first website in 1999… way back in the 20th century, and for all intents and purposes that site was a blog. He currently has nearly 39,000 RSS feed subscribers and earns in any given month, the equivalent of a year’s salary for most people.

The obvious path to success is to simply do what successful people do.  And what John Chow does is simple (don’t confuse the word simple with the word easy… there’s a lot of hard work involved).

So, what does John Chow do? Read the rest of this entry »