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Entries for June, 2007

Tracking Shared Expenses In Quicken

When you have roommates or a significant other that you often share expenses with, how do you track them? You can have an arrangement where one person pays the electricity bill and the other one pays gas, or perhaps you pay 50/50 on everything. If you are always playing the balancing game, trying to keep [...]

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A 4-Hour Workweek for Students?

Trent over at The Simple Dollar wrote about the “4 Hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferriss, and it got me thinking: A lot of this stuff is obviously applicable to professionals, but can it be applied to students?
Background: I am on summer vacation (”vacation”, now there is a funny idea) right now, so I would like [...]

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Time for a New Car

Well, it looks like I am going to have to retire Helga. My trusty 1990 Volvo 240 DL is less than trusty these days, so I need to start investigating buying a car. This will be the first time I have bought my own car, so I need to educate myself on the whole process. [...]

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Simple Moleskine GTD for Students

Before I started using a Moleskine for tracking all of the stuff I had to do, I had wandered between several systems for tracking everything I needed to do as a student.

I had printed up some of the 8.5 x 11 weekly planner pages from DIYPlanner and I would put every assignment down as I [...]

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Dr. RSS or: How I Learned to Stop Reading Everything and Love the Aggregator

Feel like you’re buried underneath your reading list? Too many blogs to read and not enough time to do it? Read on:
When I first started toying around with RSS feeds & Google Reader (and up until this week) it has felt like a never-ending battle or chore for me to empty out all the posts [...]

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