Shane on January 13th, 2009

Jonathan from MyMoneyBlog discusses the question of full-retirement or semi-retirement by asking the question:
Which would you rather do:A) Work 40 hours/week for 15 years, and then not work at all for the next 15 years, or B) Work 20 hours/week for 30 years?

Last Sunday, I had a similar conversation with a guy as we discussed [...]

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Shane on January 11th, 2009

One of the books I have on-call at the library is Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. The books explores the myth of the “self-made man”, asserting instead that “they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make [...]

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Shane on May 24th, 2006

I scan a handful of financial blogs pretty regularly. I also scan a handful of technical blogs relating to SQL Server and Oracle. It isn’t very often that a blog from one of these worlds links to a blog in the other. But here’s JLP from AllFinancialMatters linking to Don Burleson of oracle-dba.com fame. I [...]

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Shane on May 17th, 2006

For the past two years, I’ve been listening to John Prine almost constantly. I first heard The Great Compromise on Pam Hill’s 3rd Annual Rejection Day Counter-Valentine’s show on KFAI. It’s just a great song with clever lyrics and a great political sub-text. The man is seeing a beautiful woman (The United States) who he [...]

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Shane on April 20th, 2006

Hilarious.

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Shane on April 11th, 2006

It’s official. I’m an old man. Our daughter, Dora Lynn Colin, was born three+ weeks ago, on March 18th. She was much bigger than expected, weighing 8lbs6oz and 21 inches long. She is a healthy baby. She eats, sleeps, and poops, which is all that we had hoped for.
Are you getting much sleep?
No
How is she?
Good. [...]

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Shane on December 28th, 2005

For those who just like to collect data, here are some ways to use Excel in your daily life. I personally like the idea of using Excel to track grocery costs. Maybe rather than tracking everything, it would be useful to track prices that fluctuate or that there are often specials on that mask the [...]

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