Part 1 – Poor Attitude: My early money blunders
Part 2 – The Pit: How I got myself into the financial hole
Part 3 – Treading Water: 2 Years of No Progress
Part 4 – Fire Under My Ass: The wake-up call (Now Reading)
Part 5 – The Final Push: How I finally dug out, and what I’m doing to stay in the black.
This is a series of articles explaining how I personally got myself nearly $20k into debt over the course of 4 years, and then out in just under 2. For the next week, I’ll post one...
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Apr 22nd, 2008
Now, I’ll admit that I’m definitely on the outside looking in of the blogging/web 2.0 community. While I manage very large sites with a ton of users and reach, I’m still on the periphery. Why? Well, I live in Michigan. Not exactly a state known for it’s thriving IT industry. If you go beyond IT services that support manufacturing companies, you can probably count on one...
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Apr 22nd, 2008
Alright, so the whole podcasting thing is a few years old now, and I’ve definitely missed the boat in terms of gaining fame and fortune by broadcasting my voice across the Internet. However despite my lateness to the craze, here I am, with a podcast.
The WinCustomize SkinCast is a brief 15-20 minute podcast covering the happenings in the Windows Skinning world, with an obvious focus on...
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Mar 12th, 2008
DeskScapes 2.0 lets users of all versions of Windows Vista, not just Ultimate, use animated wallpapers. The 2.0 preview released today for free download allows users to take the software for a spin and see what they’ve been missing. It comes bundled with three professional quality animated wallpapers; Silent Hill, Watercolor and Cube.read more | digg...
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Feb 21st, 2008
Windows Live Writer is one of a number of blog writing/management tools out there, and personally, it’s my favorite. It’s completely free to download and use, works with both Windows XP and Vista.
Grab Live Writer here.
Essentially what Live Writer is, is a word processor for blogs. Type and format until you’re blue in the face. Spell check, save a copy to work on later,...
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Feb 16th, 2008
I missed my Friday Fidget last week, but I blame that on simply being insanely busy. You see, we launched Sins of a Solar Empire at the start of the week to retail and digital distribution. This means there was a fairly constant flow of work related to Sins that needed to be taken care of, on top of everything I do on a daily basis already. This week things were starting to calm down,...
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Feb 3rd, 2008
Introduction
Sins of a Solar Empire is an incredibly robust RT4X strategy game that allows you to grow your empire and conquer the galaxy. Games can last hours, weeks or even months. To start you off, Sins comes with dozens of pre-built maps, 3 sizes of randomized maps and a sophisticated in-game map generator that lets you define virtually every aspect of a map. Set your preferred planets, stars,...