National Geographic Magazine—Blog Central. LinuxMan, de Linux y otras cosas …. Why Are My Health Insurance Rates Increasing? « TIB Tips. Today is September 23, 2010. For most people, it will be a day like any other day. They will wake up, go to work/school, come home and go back to bed, just like normal. Sometime during the day they will do whatever it is they do to convince themselves they are different than everybody else. For insurance agents, however, this is a day we have anticipated for 6 months.
For the past 6 months, insurance companies have grudgingly retooled their product portfolios to make them compliant with the mandates that Ms. Starting today, the health insurance plans you thought you were paying for are being modified, not by your health insurance but by your federal government. Be advised, with the elimination of many of the cost savings tools that insurance companies have historically used, your premiums will be going up, again. I want to share 3 of the more costly changes that are effective today. Medical Underwriting Eliminated For Children There are, in this matter, 2 pieces of bad news.
Mr. The Nintendo Project: An 8-Bit Psychochronography. Tumblr. Update: Should I Move my Blog to Tumblr? Apparently not. The results are in, and as befits any good crowd-sourcer, I wanted to share them. Yesterday I asked TechCrunch readers for some advice. Having quit Twitter, I’m looking for a new blogging platform that will allow me to continue writing longer-form blog posts (as I do now on WordPress), but with the benefit of social sharing that Twitter used to give me. WordPress is great as a writer’s tool, but it’s lousy for maintaining a conversation. Twitter is great for sharing, but it was distracting me from updating my blog, which is a problem when it’s one of my primary ways to keep notes for future books. One compromise, it had been suggested, was Tumblr, and so that’s how I framed my question: Should I Move my Blog to Tumblr?.
No. Actually, before I get into what I learned about Tumblr, here’s another thing I learned: a lot of you really like Posterous. If I were looking for a brand new blogging platform to replace just the writing aspects of WordPress, I’d certainly give Posterous a try. Boo!