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A live shot from the camera on my phone.

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

All tho’ this article makes a distinction between single digit millionaires and other wealthy people… This is pretty much the lesson that is taught in the book The Millionaire Next Door…

If the 1980s created yuppies (young urban professionals) and the 1990s brought us bobos (bourgeois bohemians), the 2000s may be giving rise to a new kind of elite: yawns.

Yawns are “young and wealthy but normal.” They are men and women in their 30s and 40s who have become multimillionaires and billionaires during the wealth boom of the past decade. Yet rather than spending their money on yachts, boats and jets, yawns live modestly and spend most of their money on philanthropy.

The Rich Are Duller

Maybe these people should move to Texas. 🙂

Mr. Steger, 51, a self-described geek, has banked more than $2 million. The $1.3 million house he and his wife own on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean is paid off. The couple’s net worth of roughly $3.5 million places them in the top 2 percent of families in the United States.

Yet each day Mr. Steger continues to toil in what a colleague calls “the Silicon Valley salt mines,” working as a marketing executive for a technology start-up company, still striving for his big strike. Most mornings, he can be found at his desk by 7. He typically works 12 hours a day and logs an extra 10 hours over the weekend.

In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich

Frustrated iPod owners are angry, their music taken from them by thieves Dateline caught on hidden camera.

On Dateline Wednesday, Dateline investigates if it’s possible, using some of the same high-tech capabilities that make the iPod the phenomenon it is, to track down people who take iPods that don’t belong to them.

Hot iPods: Is there a way to stop thieves cold? A Dateline hidden camera investigation.

One of our projects made the Houston Chronicle Blog… cool!

The last thing the online world needs is yet another social network service, but they keep right on coming. If you’ve got outposts for your life on a variety of sites, and you have friends and associates who want to see what’s up with you, then you’re sending those friends hither and yon.

A place for your stuff

Wow, I didn’t know that Mr. Ron Popeil’s products weren’t selling all that well anymore… last I heard he was worth $250million…

“… despite the loans and successor management’s continued efforts, Ronco’s revenue base had dropped too far to recover and Ronco filed for Chapter 11 in June.”

Sanders Morris Harris writes off Ronco loan

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In ur cafez hav’n ur dinnerz

Jim Cramer goes nuts on the air… woah.

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Awesome! Google Maps added Street views of Houston!

From TechCrunch:

Google continues to add cities to its Street View maps product that launched earlier this year. You can now view and stroll through high quality photos of most of the downtown areas of San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston and Orlando. Nine cities are now covered – click on the camera icons to dive into the city and see it.

Google Street View Adds Four Cities

From Houston Biz Journal:

Google Inc. has turned on the cameras in Houston.

Google puts Houston on camera

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A pretty cool life-hack…

“Wired News has a great story today about “Mileage Runners” who tweak the airline reservation system to plot insane (and insanely cheap), multi-hop air trips that accumulate bazillions of air miles. A hacker friend of mine recently came out to me as a mileage runner, and described a system he’d worked out for gaming the reservations computers to get $400, round the world business-class fares.”

Mileage Runners hack air travel for maximum miles

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A live shot from the camera on my phone.

More on the Rent Vs Buy Debate…. 🙂

Renting vs. Buying: The Realities of Home-Ownership

I’m going, are you? 🙂

Microsoft’s Windows Live Local armada

I’ve seen this chart before, and its just nuts how crazy this current housing boom is…

A History of Home Values

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This is a pretty detailed article about the bottled water industry…

What day of the week you should buy stuff to save money…

Thanks to online coupons, price-comparison search engines and reward memberships, savvy shoppers can pay less than full price on any day that ends in “y.” But depending on what you’re planning to buy, some days of the week may yield better bargains than others.

The Cheapest Days to Buy Certain Items

Interesitng discussion about how weatlh is being distributed based on age groups…

The median net worth of people 55 to 64 has climbed to nearly $250,000, while it has dropped to about $50,000 for those in their late 30s

Generation gap? About $200,000

A radical viewpoint on how to slow down the spread of STD’s…

It’s true: AIDS is nature’s awful retribution for our tolerance of immoderate and socially irresponsible sexual behavior. The epidemic is the price of our permissive attitudes toward monogamy, chastity, and other forms of extreme sexual conservatism.

You’ve read elsewhere about the sin of promiscuity. Let me tell you about the sin of self-restraint.

‘More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics’