April 12, 2008

Net Handicap is a website helping golfers all over the US with heir golf course software.

Golfers can register on their website, and then input every score they get after they play. This means you can keep track of your progress in a much more detailed manner.

Also they can provide you with an official golf handicap in order to enter into amateur tournaments being held around the United States. According to their website, 80% of golfers don’t have access to a golf club to issue them an official handicap. For a pretty small fee to access the website, golfers can join and be allocated to a local club.

They have a pretty nice website and a good idea. Even just for the purpose of playing with your mates it’s good to have a recreational handicap so you can measure yourself against each other.

Ok, so both of the candidates aren’t much chop.

Who’s going to win the election?

For me, McCain.

The weakness of the economy means that people  are going to be much more inclined to entrust the nation into a “safe pair of hands”, so to speak.

Obama speaks well but the criticism that he’s not much more than hot air is reasonably true. Many of his policies sound nice but are riddled with a lack of true understanding of how the world works which is so typical of Democrats.

While the Republicans are not very well liked by anyone right now, and everyone thought the Democrats were basically guaranteed the Presidency, it no longer looks anything like that.

While McCain is old, and incredibly boring to watch as a speaker, he’s been careful to cultivate an image that he is not part of the “Republican establishment”, painting himself as a maverick who is always trying to do what is right, above the dirty partisan politics.

Overall I don’t really think that he brings much as a candidate, but he brings just enough, in my opinion, to beat Obama.

Anyone who’s been involved with a school knows how hard it can be to raise enough money to deliver great programs and buildings to the kids that go to the school.

SchoolPop provides easy middle school fundraisers through their website.

It enables parents to shop through websites listed with schoolpop and see part of their spend get returned to the school that they are fundraising for. The idea is to always look through them for every time you are trying to buy something online, so that as much benefit as possible gets returned to the school.

There’s a gigantic list of merchants which would be impossible to delve into fully here, but you can buy flowers, ink cartridges, dvds, books, you name it! Contributions generally fall in the 5-10% bracket so you can see that over time, it’s possible for significant amounts of money to fall into the hands of a school if all the parents gather behind to make it work.