I saw a post on Craigslist today that I’ve seen a few times for the last week or so on my feeds from around the country. Here’s the link: http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/cpg/646621213.html Anyway, there are numerous red flags in the post, such as: looking for a “webmaster” (it’s 2008, not 1998) focusing on cheap work client has [...]
About a year ago, I started blogging in earnest about personal finance and investment, as well as the occasional post on personal development. In April 2007, I started a series about investing for young adults, which took me a bit longer to complete than originally planned (6 months vs. 1 month). During the process of [...]
Ok, ok, it’s been awhile since anything has been posted relating to the investing series for young adults. However, the series has basically been finished, so I’m going to start posting the next installments in the series. I’ll be moving the series and several other posts to a new site that I’m hoping to get [...]
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. T. E. Lawrence, “The Seven [...]
I’ve been ramping up the frequency of my posts over the last month, and I’ve also been tightening the focus of the blog to cover mostly personal finance and investment. In the future, I hope to post more about entrepreneurship and real estate as well. I have several posts in the works that I’m excited [...]
I’ve decided to start reviewing books on my blog. As I blog mostly about personal finance, real estate, entrepreneurship, and other business topics, the books I review will also fall in those categories. I’ve been reading a lot of real estate books lately, so don’t be surprised if you see more of that topic here [...]
I’ve decided to start doing paid reviews on this site, through services like ReviewMe and PayPerPost (despite my reluctance to encourage Ted Murphy’s success). However, I understand that there are serious questions being raised about the ethics of these services, so here are my guidelines: 1. I will post a disclosure policy somewhere on the [...]
When I started this blog, I thought it would be funny and clever to pay homage to Scrubs by naming my posts “My…” Well, it hasn’t been very funny and it certainly doesn’t feel clever. Mostly, it feels annoying, like when you take a stupid position publicly without thinking too hard about it first and [...]
I’ve decided to start a side blog about Christianity (or faith in general) and science, technology, and the future. I need a name. Here are my thoughts so far: Would Jesus Have an Ipod? Yeah, that’s all I’ve got so far. Seriously, toss some ideas my way. Please.