Archive for June, 2007
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Travel Computer Project: I Need Your Advice
I’m finding myself doing quite a bit more traveling that I have in the past. Since I spend a good deal of my time on the Internet, as a software engineer as well as writing this blog, I developed a bit of a dependency on it. It’s probably not a good thing in terms of [...]
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Efficient Frugal Shortcuts
The Simple Dollar offered some great ways to be frugal in 15 minutes. I looked at the list and figured would earn my Lazy name by offering a couple of additional shortcuts. Simple Dollar way – “Clip coupons from the Sunday newspaper or trawl the internet for more” Lazy Man way – Buy store-brand generic [...]
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Money Question: What Would you do with a Windfall? Part 4
This is the final part of this Money Question series. If you missed it, catch part 1, part 2, and part 3. I asked several bloggers the following question: Where is the single best place to invest a $50K after-tax windfall now? Assume the following: you don’t need the money for at least 10 years, [...]
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Alternative Income Streams Progress – June 2007
I’m a few days late on this on this usual alternative income update, but I wanted to get those money questions answered. While we are on the topic of money questions, I’ll give you and update on my answer tomorrow. You may have noticed that I updated the chart in the top right of the [...]
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Thoughts From Around the Blogosphere
Here are some articles that I liked from around the personal finance blogosphere: – Golbguru from Money, Matter, and More Musings took a trip. He came back with lots of pictures of New York City. I’ve paid those prices for parking on the Upper East Side before. – Silicon Valley Blogger writes about the first [...]
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Microsoft Surface, Lindsay Lohan, and Broken Laptops
Here are my financial and non-financial thoughts of the week: Have you seen the coffee table by Microsoft? It’s called the Microsoft Surface (Flash heavy official site, text heavy news story) and it knocked my socks off in a demo the other day on CNBC. It’s a touch-sensitive flat-screen TV that’s also a table. It [...]
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Money Question: What Would you do with a Windfall? Part 3
Yesterday, I published part 2 of What Would You Do With a Windfall. If you missed that, it might be worth clicking on that link back there to catch up. What did I ask the bloggers? Simply this: Where is the single best place to invest a $50K after-tax windfall now? Assume the following: you [...]
