Archive for May, 2006



16 Step Beginner’s Guide to Project Management… If only it were this easy! I really need to focus on the excellent communication.

In “Get Stuff Out of Your House”, from lifehack.org, we are given some great tips on major items to go through and the best way to get rid of them. While the author seems to be on a minimalist kick, this is definitely something that I need to work on. Especially that extra […]

General Motors Hopes $1.99 Per Gallon Gas Offer Moves Its Fuel Guzzlers, reports the Los Angeles Times. That’s right, buy one of their SUVs and they’ll pay you the difference between the national average gas price per gallon and a $1.99 for each month up to a specified time. Interesting mathematics behind this […]

Paper Airplane Building

Build The Best Paper Airplane, just like the one I built in 6th grade to win the paper airplane contest in my Science class!

The Secret

Steve Pavlina has written a review of The Secret, a very interesting movie that seems to be sweeping the web.

Richard Jenkins wrote a very basic (and somewhat old) finance article for MSN Money, titled “Turn $1 a day into $67,815“. It’s still a great reminder of how simple it is to amass wealth. Towards the end of the article Mr. Jenkins provides other tips to reduce monthly spending pointing out “if you can […]

In Chicago Tribune’s Going Broke? Here’s How to Change Gears, we get some advice from Dave Ramsey on how to get back on track if in debt. One of the more interesting insights came via a formula of how much your vehicle(s) should be worth. According to Ramsey, “the current value of all […]

The cover story of this week’s Business Week is “Hot Growth”. Topping the list is VAALCO Energy, a small, independent oil company that looks to faraway places to find its oil. Rounding out the top 5 are Hansen Natural, Palomar Medical Technologies, W&T Offshore, and NAVTEQ.

The Motley Fool has a great brief on Mutual Funds versus Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). ETFs have become so popular in the last couple of years, it is a rather amazing phenomenon. In fact, there are now mutual funds that invest in ETFs that track indices based on predictions predicated upon research and […]

Oh how productive I could be with the36 Hour Day. There are some good tips contained in Jon’s post, even if you are not going to attempt Polyphasic Sleep.