Entries categorized 'Life'

What a spectacular quote,

But I am still not satisfied; every day I reach higher, trying to grasp the level of awesomeness that I can feel but can't recreate.

How often do you say to yourself, I would start X or build Y if I only had the time.

It’s amazing the amount you can accomplish when you find an extra 3,285 hours to work on something you enjoy doing rather than vegging in front of the TV. Those hours helped us create a small network of websites and blogs which allowed both of us to quit our jobs and work on them full time a couple of years ago.

Full Article: How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job, Create an Online Business and Fund My Retirement Account

Continue reading "Do You Never Have Time?"

Really don’t know what else to say, except make watch this video.

Continue reading "If I Fall, I Fall"

Seriously? I can pay you $29 instead of using a credit card?

Continue reading "How to Screw Your Customer by TurboTax"

My flights to and from Austin were relatively under booked and Continental upgraded me to first class in both directions. This has only happened a couple of times to me, but every time it happens I am amazed at how much much it improves the experience, even with long runway delays which is very typical when flying out of Newark.

Continue reading "How To Make Flying Not Suck"

Whether you love or hate Microsoft, it is hard to not be impressed with what Bill Gates was able to build in the 25 years or so he spent building the Microsoft. However, my respect for what he has done at Microsoft is very small compared to my respect for what he is now doing with his life via his foundation.

Continue reading "Bill Gates TED 2009"

I don’t share the authors opinion that this Facebook meme is waste of time. I have gotten to know quite a few interesting things about friends of mine and I keep meaning to reply myself.

However, what I did find really interesting, were numbers reported:

An estimated 5 million of these notes — that's 125 million facts — have appeared on the website within the past week.

Facebook: 25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You - TIME

Others are starting to get involved in the Bloggers Holiday Charity Challenge and not using eBay, so it is time to drop eBay from the name.

I'm donating all of my Lounge ad network earnings for November and December to our local food bank [1]....And not only that, but after talking with James, he's decided to sweeten the deal by donating his portion of revenue of any blogger in The Lounge who does the same thing. That's pretty cool. [Dave Donaldson]

Continue reading "Bloggers Holiday Charity Challenge - Apple"

Before you read the rest of this post, quickly look around your office and do a quick count on the number of usable gadgets and gizmos you have not touched in more than three months? I will wait....

Wow, quite a few things huh? What to do with all of this stuff?

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I am looking to sell to video cameras to make room for the new Flip Mino HD. If you are interested in either, ping me at scottwater@gmail.com.

Continue reading "Video Cameras For Sale"