Archive for the ‘Deep Thoughts’ Category
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What Fantasy Football and Personal Finance have in Common
This year I finally gave in to the pressure and decided to play fantasy football. In the past, I’ve skipped it because I never wanted to get in a situation where I’d have to choose between rooting for my favorite team and rooting for my fantasy team. I would like to say something magical resolved [...]
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When you Sue a School, Does Anyone Win?
If you’ve been following the news lately, you may have come across a story where a Pennsylvania school system has been allegedly spying on their students. The Rosemont’s Harriton High School’s computers included software that would allow them to turn on the webcam whenever they wanted. This would effectively allow them to spy on students [...]
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Why I Don’t Buy Digital Media
[Caution, I'm going to get on my soapbox for this post. If you are not interested in soapboxes, I suggest you avert your eyes] Yesterday, I touched on the Legality of IPodMeister’s digitizer service. Bringing up the First-Sale doctrine opened up a can of worms in my mind. I love digital media, but I won’t [...]
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What if History Doesn’t Repeat Itself?
Back in 2006, I had a revelation. I was a software engineer and I made decent money. However, there was a lot of talk about off-shoring all kinds of software projects. I looked into it and with companies like Elance, I realized that there could be a major shift coming sooner than I thought. I [...]
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Five Thoughts To My Future Children…
I got the latest edition of Money Magazine yesterday, and Pat Regnier in his The Bottom Line column used the letter to his children as a literary device. It’s not unique (I’ve even written a letter to my high school self in the past), but nonetheless, I thought the idea was worth stealing flattering Mr. [...]
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Money Does Buy Happiness… Imagine that!
It’s long been assumed that money doesn’t buy happiness. There was a famous study in the 70s (PDF) that supported this claim. It concluded that as long as your basic needs are met, money doesn’t buy happiness – it’s money relative to the people around you. If you don’t believe the study, what about the [...]
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Responses to “Is Software Development Slowly Killing Me?”
I got a lot of intelligent responses my question of “Is software development slowly killing me?” I thought I’d like to cover a couple as a weekend bonus. Since it’s a borderline personal finance topic, it may be worth skipping if you are not into that kind of thing. One of the best responses was [...]
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Emptying the Recycle Bin of Mind
Some things that have been going through my mind lately… Blogging I wonder how readers will react to a whole post of random thoughts. Perhaps they’ll let me know with a comments. I have about 18 design changes and features that I’d like to implement on Lazy Man and Money – if I had the [...]
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Lazy Man and Jealousy
Like many people, I’m a member of LinkedIn. I think it’s a fabulous tool for keeping in touch with people and very well could help advance my career. Last week I logged into my account to accept a connection from a friend and I had a surprise waiting. My college freshman roommate’s title was listed [...]
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My One Money Advice
The Digerati Life has tagged me to give my one piece of money advice. The meme was started by Moolanomy. He’s already had the popular suggestion of “spend less then you earn.” While that may be one of the best pieces of advice, I prefer to give some new or at least different advice. For [...]
