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Hard drive recovery update

As you know, my external hard drive failed recently—with all the digital pictures I’ve ever taken on it, and tons of video and lots of other documents.
I’ve decided to go with ECO Data Recovery.
I talked to people from them, Data Recovery Corp, and Drive Savers.  Although I felt like Drive Savers had the best chance […]

The time is now to start a lean cash machine

We’re likely heading into a recession. Our likely next president’s likely tax hikes on the job-creators will likely push us further into a recession. So it must be a horrible time to start a new company or invest in one, right?
Not bloody likely. (”wrong”)
Andy and I started DaytradeTeam.com in 2000. We were giving stock trading […]

Worst Sign Ad I’ve seen

It’s Friday, so I’ll keep it light….
I was riding my bike the other day, burning a few calories when I took a break to take a drink and noticed a sign:

If someone gets the point of the sign, and its not:

“We can’t do big jobs quickly”
“If you ask us to do big jobs quickly, you […]

Back up your data!

I thought I was…
I store all my digital pictures on an Acomdata external hard drive. The reason I do this is because I’ve had the same home desktop computer for about 6 years, but I’ve had to ‘nuke’ it 3 or 4 times to get it back to pristine condition.
Well today I was going to […]

Poll Concerns

No this isn’t about the Acorn scam, although that does frustrate me and concern me…
This is about optimism and fact. I intended to write this poll about the fact that Kerry was leading Bush up to election day in 2004, but Bush still won. This was going to lead into a discussion about optimism […]

My vote for president may suprise you…

I have not made up my mind completely. As you may know, fiscal policy and taxes are by far the most important issues to me. Generally I believe in a small government, low taxes and personal freedom. I consider myself a libertarian and am considering voting for the libertarian nominee for president, Bob Barr.
Obviously my […]

Basic Economics: Taxes on rich hurt the economy

Liberals will have you believe that the top 1% richest of people / companies are evil and deserve to be bled dry on taxes. They’ll mention “Fortune 500 CEOs” and “Exxon Oil” as their ‘evil’ examples.
And sure, for the pessimistic, ‘my life isn’t my fault’, ‘life isn’t fair’, cry-baby economic light-weight libs out there, its […]

Political Words

Watching the town-hall debate tonight just drove me nuts….
“Fair taxing” = redistribution of wealth
“De-regulation” = Failure to save the people from greedy evil capitalistic companies
“Markets run wild” = Free-markets
“Cut taxes for 95% of Americans” = Steal from the rich, give to the poor….socialism
“Health care is a American right” = Let’s force the markets’ supply, thereby […]

How I value MY time

Yesterday I talked about time-value and how most Americans are very ignorant on the subject. Most people, when given clear economic/time choices, they value their own time very low, less than $10 per hour.
I, on the other hand, value my time extremely high…probably around $50 to $100 per hour. Let me give some examples:

I don’t […]

Do you value your own time?

So many Americans don’t value their own time. Are you one of them?
Let me illustrate my point. Let’s say you’re heading home, but you need to get some gas. You’re coming up on a stop light that just turned red. On each side of the road sits a gas station, waiting for your business. You […]