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25 most common grammar and language mistakes

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 15, 2010
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Strunk and White - Elements of Style
Strunk and White – Elements of Style

While we try to be entertaining in what Web Watch writes, we know that we may not be the best writer in general.

Hey, it happens. But at least we’re out there trying – and trying to use sound sentence structure and proper grammar along the way. With the occasional sentence fragment thrown in. For kicks.

So when we ran across this list of the TOP 25 GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE MISTAKES, we knew that we might be in trouble for doing one of these in the past. We’ve posted some of our favorites from the list below the cut:

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How to Survive the Office Holiday Party

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 9, 2010

The Swingin' Christmas Party
The Swingin’ Christmas Party

Ah, the annual holiday office party.

Typically, an open bar. Music. Dancing. Canoodling in the coat closet. Yes, they can be fun on so many levels… but you have to be careful. Web Watch recalls attending an office party where the boss had to carry a passed-out employee out to a waiting taxi.

Which brings up today’s question: WHAT TO DO TO SURVIVE THE OFFICE HOLIDAY PARTY?

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Need money for the holidays? Stop wasting your money on this stuff…

Post author By web gangsta
Post date November 26, 2010

Quicken Money Management Software

With the holiday gift-giving season right around the corner, you may find yourself trying to find ways to scrape some money together.

Web Watch is a fan of making a big dinner, then eating leftovers for lunch the next day to avoid paying $5-$10 for lunch. Doing that can save the average office worker at least $20/week in lunch money – up to $50/week or more, if you eat at fancier places. That’s found money.

If you subscribe to HBO, SHOWTIME or other premium movie channel – you may want to consider dropping those and switching to an “on-demand” movie service like NetFlix or Amazon on Demand (assuming you have a TiVo, PS3, or other box that will support those services). The $10/month that you’ll pay is likely less than what you would pay for those TV channels.

Here are some other suggestions for HOW TO CUT UNNECESSARY EXPENSES OUT OF YOUR BUDGET, simply by changing your purchasing habits, or substituting different products for ones you use every day:

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The 18 Types of Posts every Blogger should be Writing

Post author By web gangsta
Post date November 19, 2010

Blogger Inside

If you’ve been reading Web Watch over the years, chances are that you also have an interest in also writing.

And, as Web Watch has been around for a number of years – the secret to attracting visitors to read what you write is to try to have something interesting to write about. Web Watch covers a wide range of topics — hopefully, you’ve found some of it interesting along the way.

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Angry Birds walkthrough, the science of Angry Birds, and Angry Bird Toys

Post author By web gangsta
Post date November 14, 2010

A Nintendo Angry Bird

Have you caught the ANGRY BIRD craze for your iPhone, Android, or other mobile device?

Would it help to know that ANGRY BIRDS is coming to WII and XBOX LIVE, and PS3 soon?

How about that some math geeks have determined that the RED ANGRY BIRD is 70cm TALL?

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How to use beads in jars to teach kids the value of working for allowance and saving money

Post author By web gangsta
Post date November 8, 2010
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Allowance Jar

Web Watch was at a friend’s house the other day when we noticed a lineup of jars along the kitchen counter, each one decorated with one of their children’s names. Inside the jars were various amounts of glass beads, found at your local arts-and-crafts store.

We had to ask – what’s up with the jars?

Tags Disney, How To, money, parenting, Save Money

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Bad Computer Habits can Lead to Problems

Post author By web gangsta
Post date November 3, 2010

Any problem can be screwed up more by computer

A few years ago, one of Web Watch’s computer hard drives crashed.

We’re not just talking about a minor “ooh, we lost a boot sector” thing, where we could boot to a different drive and copy the files off.

No, we’re talking an extreme catastrophic event where we lost the entire drive. It was physically unable to spin up, making data recovery rather impossible on our own. Luckily, we made a few phone calls and found a data recovery company that was able to rebuild the drive’s data and copy it to a new disc.

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Science proves many pick-up truck drivers are idiots

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 26, 2010
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1956 GMC Pickup

Web Watch was driving down the highway the other day when we were almost part of an accident waiting to happen.

The doofus in the pick-up truck in front of us ended up slamming on his brakes for some reason, which led to all of us behind him having to quickly do the same. While we had plenty of braking room in front of us under normal circumstances, he had his pickup truck tailgate down, taking away an extra foot of available brake space from our squealing tires.

Luckily, this was during the day and we could see that the tailgate was down, but if this same situation happened at night, that truck would be minus one tailgate and we would be minus one engine.

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