I’m Reading…It has been quite a while since I’ve posted as part of my personal finance education series, but it hasn’t been for lack of desire to do so. This is the first post that starts getting into topics on investing, and as a result, it has taken me a bit of time to collect my [...]
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So, in case you missed my earlier post, I got an AppleTV last month and it is just awesome. For a 1.0 product, phenomenal. I think Apple is really onto something here, but that’s a topic for another post. One of the biggest criticisms of the AppleTV has been the relatively small 40GB hard drive. [...]
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Surprisingly, I find myself stuck in the airport with at least 90 minutes to kill. I’m leaving today for London, to help participate in some of the global reviews happening this week for eBay, and my itinerary ended up being somewhat compressed. Leaving: 4:50 PM on Tuesday, April 24th from San Francisco. Arrive at 11:00 [...]
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Congratulations to Mike! Here is the glowing snippet from PC World: 40. Mike Schroepfer Vice president of engineering, MozillaIn the ongoing browser war, Mike Schroepfer is a five-star general who leads a massive but decentralized open-source army of staff and volunteer engineers. Its mission: to improve what is right now the best Web browser on [...]
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Too good to pass up… from Paul Kedrosky’s blog tonight. The Top 10 VC Lies… 10. We’re all on the same side here. 9. A lower Series A valuation is good for you too. 8. We’re not funding XXXX companies anymore. 7. I liked it. Really. But we just don’t have the bandwidth right now. [...]
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Now this one is a lot of fun… I moved my blog reading from My Yahoo to Google Reader about 6 weeks ago. It has been tough to adjust to the new habit – my instinct is to always go to My Yahoo. But My Yahoo just wasn’t scaling for the number of blogs I [...]
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The Coin Collector’s Blog reports today the US Mint has finalized the melting ban on US coins, particularly pennies and nickels where the copper and zinc content now exceeds the value of the coins. They clearly want to avoid entrepreneurs buying pennies by the ton, shipping them offshore, and melting them down. I posted about [...]
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This is just a reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday, April 17th, 2007, is your last chance to fund an IRA for the 2006 tax year. After tomorrow, you will have lost the chance forever to make your contribution for 2006. You can contribute up to $4000 in 2006 towards an IRA if you are under 50. [...]
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eBay has been testing their new eBay Motors site in the past few weeks. However, what many people might not have noticed is that Carolyn & the boys are the picture-perfect representatives of the new Minivan page: Now, since I’ve taken a lot of flack in some circles about actually owning a minivan, Carolyn forwarded [...]
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I am a big fan of the burritos at Chipotle. They are not my absolutely favorite (that honor belongs to Bueno Bueno Burrito in Mtn. View), but they are quite good, and I am a big fan of the chain. They are running a promotion this week where if you buy a burrito on April [...]
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About a year ago, Amazon launched it’s S3 storage service. This seemed a little strange to me at the time, because Amazon’s core business is as an online retailer… it was unclear to me what type of strategic advantage they would have as a long term of provider of cheap, online storage. “Let a thousand [...]
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So, a few confessions to start this off. First, I am still a Quicken addict. It has been thirteen years, I think, since I started using Quicken in earnest to track my finances, and I’m still at it. Despite absolutely terrible releases of the software, and lackluster Mac support, it’s still one of my must-have [...]
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About two months ago I wrote a post about Steve Jobs’ announcement on the role of DRM in the online music industry: Steve Jobs Drops a DRM Bomb on the Music Industry: Thoughts on Music Well, that release was followed with the news about two weeks ago that iTunes would begin carrying music from one [...]
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One of the blogs I read regularly is The Finance Buff. This past week, he has posted four times on the topic of inflation-protected bonds, TIPS and Series I Savings Bonds. As a result, I thought I’d post some pointers and comments here. First, as I mentioned in my personal finance series, Series I savings [...]
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Many thanks to Will Hsu for his post today for pointing me in this direction. Please check out this summary write-up on the O’Reilly site on the philosophy and theories of Amy Jo Kim, PhD, based on her discussion of Game Mechanics and Online Communities at ETech. Kim discussed five key mechanics of game design, [...]
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