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Monthly Archive for August, 2009

The health care debate has set off a huge debate about how this country should deal with the health care of its citizens. But don’t worry, I’m not about to get into the thick of that debate on a personal-finance blog. But I did read something interesting in James Surowiecki’s latest New Yorker article on [...]

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Want to know how I downloaded my very first MP3? It was The Devil Goes Down to Georgia, I downloaded it through mIRC, and I played it on my RIO PMP 300 player. Which let you listen to around seven songs at one time before you had to hook it up to your PC and [...]

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The Threshold of Specificity

None of us are as smart as we think, especially when it comes to learning something new. I’m all about saving money by doing things like getting an “MBA” without going to business school, but teaching yourself a new skill all by yourself will only take you so far. Taking a class or reading a [...]

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The Boring Challenge

Nobody wants to be called “boring,” but what if being boring could save you tons of money? As in thousands of dollars at a time? Not so boring now, is it? That’s what The Boring Challenge is all about. It started with my boring lunch post and then yesterday I launched The Boring Challege over [...]

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