Is Your Car Spying on You?
65% of all cars made in the last two years [2004 & 2005 models] are fitted with ‘Black Box’ style information recording systems. This raises a couple of concerns.
The obvious one is the privacy consequences. The manufactures insist that is minimal, since the recorder overwrites itself every 5 seconds if the car isn’t involved in [...]
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Zero Dollar Home Page
September 28, 2005 by SMD · Leave a Comment
Of course you knew there would be spin-offs from an idea as clever as the Million Dollar Home Page that I wrote about earlier this week. And you would be right. One that I like is the Zero Dollar Home Page [despite the obvious lack of a profit motive]. Basically the owner has decided to [...]
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Carnival of Personal Finance Week 15
September 26, 2005 by SMD · Leave a Comment
Carnival of Personal Finance is now online at Free Money Finance. My Get Rich and Not Be Poor is included as well as a slew of other interesting looking stories.
Some highlights include Tax Lien Investing, Lemony Snicket vs King Midas and An Improved Energy Hedging Strategy. It looks like the Carnival is continuing to grow [...]
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When It’s Best To Give Stuff Away
September 25, 2005 by SMD · 6 Comments
Finally someone gets it! I’m talking about Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi has been [is] one of the holy grails of computing. Essentially it is wireless internet access. You go to your local cafe fire up you laptop and you’re listening to your favorite internet radio and surfing the web while you sip your $4 coffee.
Wi-Fi, has not [...]
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1,000,000 Dollar Homepage
September 22, 2005 by SMD · 4 Comments
This story definitely falls into the “I wish I’d thought of that category”. A guy put up a website where he sells advertising space by the pixel. $1 a pixel for a page with 1,000,000 pixels on it. You have to buy a minimum of one 10 x 10 pixel block [you'll be amazed at [...]
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Getting Rich and Not Being Poor
September 20, 2005 by SMD · 5 Comments
This past weekend I took a one-day course called Financial Crash Course, So You Don’t have To. It was a whirlwind financial tour that touched on everything from self-examination of your personal values to Warren Buffet’s investing strategies.
There was one basic concept that I liked that I want to pass on. It was that you [...]
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Free Teleseminar with Robert Kiyosaki
September 19, 2005 by SMD · Leave a Comment
I recieved my Rich Dad newsletter today announcing a special event:
Rich Dad, in conjunction with The Learning Annex, is hosting a free teleseminar with me as I unveil information from my newest book, Rich Dad’s Before You Quit Your Job. If you are available, I’d love for you to join me via phone for this [...]
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Cube Dweller Fun
September 15, 2005 by SMD · Leave a Comment
Every day at my office, I download the latest Dilbert cartoon, print it off and post it on the bulletin board. When I saw this next idea on Business 2.0 Blog I couldn’t help but thing of Dilbert, well Wally actually.
A guy took a photo of himself at work in his cubicle and then had [...]
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Technically I’m Out of the Rat Race
September 13, 2005 by SMD · 6 Comments
To any Rich Dad student or CashFlow game player, the first goal is to get out of the Rat Race. As defined in the game this goal is based on a simple formula: Passive Income greater than Expenses. To most people it also means not having to work for a living.
When I started my online [...]
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Carnival of Personal Finance Week 13
September 11, 2005 by SMD · 12 Comments
Smart Money Daily is very happy to be hosting the Carnival of Personal Finance for the second time. What a difference from week 4. That time I had to cruise the web, begging for submissions and gathering stories on my own to fill out the carnival page. This time I actually had to re-program my [...]
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