June 27, 2009
I admit that I tend to overcomplicate the whole “budget” thing. It drives my wife crazy. My Excel budget spreadsheet includes all sources of income, utilities, expenses, mortgage, credit card debt, as well as an array of sheets and charts that estimates debt payoff out to the next five years. In all honesty, the spreadsheet [...]
June 25, 2009
One of the most nerve-wrecking times in a guy’s life is the day he finds someone that he realizes he actually wants to marry, and he needs to get up the nerve to ask her. If you’ve racked your brain for creative ways to ask someone to marry you, I’m here today to offer you [...]
June 22, 2009
I’ll be honest, until recently I’ve never been much of a “wiki” fan. I mean, essentially it’s sort of a deformed version of HTML – not quite web design code, but not quite WYSIWYG either. The interesting thing about wiki is that it was built around the concept of community publishing. You create a wiki [...]
June 20, 2009
Ever since the Internet was in its infancy, spam emails started flowing. Even folks on Usenet had to deal with the incessant emails from folks trying to peddle everything from pyramid schemes to instant money programs. As the Internet grew, so has the plague that we know as spam. Luckily, you now have a number [...]
June 18, 2009
When it comes to education, there are few topics that can get students excited quite like other countries and cultures can. If you really want to get an interesting classroom discussion going, tell your teenage students that in Bulgaria, people nod when they disagree with you and shake their head when they agree. Or inform [...]
June 15, 2009
A few years ago, during a family reunion, I learned for the first time that my granduncle on my father’s side had fought and died in World War II. The story of his demise sparked a personal interest toward my own family history. So, I did what I always do when I have something to [...]
June 13, 2009
With the world economic climate still painfully low, more folks are losing their jobs than ever before. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. unemployment rate hit over 9 percent in May 2009. France unemployment jumped to 8.2 percent, Germany was at 7.6 percent in January, and the UK was at 6.77 percent [...]
June 11, 2009
There are times when you need a simple, well-designed web page, but you don’t want to put the effort into creating the necessary code and formatting. Ever since the very first WYSIWYG interfaces came out, I’ve been obsessed with their features for the simple fact that they allow you to toss together a website in [...]
June 8, 2009
A few years ago, I started selling a few items around the house on eBay. Realizing that I could actually sell cheap stuff for a reasonable price, I started scouring yard sales for the same sort of items. Finding items that would be popular on eBay meant testing the waters, realizing something was very popular [...]
June 6, 2009
About 15 years ago, I became interested in real estate investment. It was just after I’d started my first job in Connecticut and was able to save up a bit of cash. I was looking for a good investment for some of that money. Searching the Internet for free websites for foreclosed homes in the [...]
