Archive for June, 2008
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Capital One Hates the Environment
It’s true… I have proof. Look at the picture above. The most obvious thing is that I’m horrible at taking pictures. (Unfortunately, my camera skills are not good and I recycled the evidence before I noticed how bad the picture was. Let’s pretend I was trying to create blur effect to keep my name a [...]
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Dear iPhone: I Love You and Your New Great Price, but…
… I still won’t buy you. I love the screen. I love the software. The ability to have GPS in my pocket is especially near and dear to my heart. (I once developed software for GPS on cell phones). Finally with the fast data connection, you can do what my Treo 700P did two years [...]
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Have You Decided To Be Rich?
Last week while on an airplane, I finally caught up on some reading. I brought three books with me… Millionaire By Thirty, You’re Broke Because You Want To Be, and 422 Tax Deductions for Businesses and Self Employed Individuals. While reading You’re Broke Because You Want To Be, Larry Winget wrote something that stuck with [...]
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Alternative Income Streams – June 2008
Due to my recent vacation, I was unable to compile numbers of my alternative from May until today. So while I typically like to get this out on the first or second day of the month, here we are in the 9th day. Once again, my alternative income continues it’s roller coaster ride. It almost [...]
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Went to NBA Finals (and weekend links)
This past Thursday, I was reminded of the power of social capital. A friend of mine contacted another friend (who works for the Celtics) on my behalf to score tickets to last Thursday’s game. I’m the type of person who won’t bug a movie star for an autograph. Even though I am fairly close with [...]
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Still Visiting Everyone I Ever Met… But Featured in US News
It’s been a hectic weekend, and it might end with me literally seeing most everyone I have known in the past 10 years. Most days, my wife and I have been visiting three people for three to four hours scattered across the Boston area. I thought this was going to be a vacation with at [...]
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Vignettes of Vacation “Values”
I’m still on vacation in Boston for a few more days. Vacation probably isn’t the right word as we’ve been running around to meet every relative and friend we can. I thought I’d share a couple of our expenses and savings in bits and pieces. The biggest reason we made he trek from San Francisco [...]
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Netflix – Six Months Later
Nearly six months ago, my wife and I decided to get a Netflix subscription. Many of our favorite television weren’t going to have full seasons due to the writer’s strike. Some, like 24, didn’t have seasons at all. We thought that this would be a good time to catch up on the classics that we [...]
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Links: Back in Boston Edition
This week I’m taking a vacation and seeing family and friends in Boston. I had gotten to the point where I really liked the San Francisco area. I didn’t realize how much I missed Boston. I got very emotional driving down the Mass Pike… seeing Fenway Park… seeing the gun safety advertisement on Landsdowne. I’m [...]
