Here are a few pictures from our Washington DC trip. You can click on the thumbnails to view lager and uncropped versions of the pictures. More pictures can be found on my Picasa account by clicking here Share and Enjoy:

A few weeks ago I signed up for a Lending Club account. Before joining Lending Club, I researched the company and found they have been around for a few years. The company is well funded by Norwest Venture Partners and Canaan Partners. Lending Club allows individual investors and qualified borrowers to get better rates than [...]

I’ve been playing around with the idea of starting a blog dedicated to personal finance. I realized the other day, my business and finance thought process differs from the average person. I’m not sure where this aptitude came from. Yes, I spent my college years in business school and I enjoy reading business books (I [...]

Today I got to play around with a friend’s Kindle 2. The device is very cool. The screen technology is easy to read. I can see how the Kindle would be very handy for all the PDF documents I want to read. I download the PDF docs but I never take the time to read [...]

Today it dawned on me the reason people don’t meet their New Year’s Resolutions is the lack of accountability and self evaluation. It’s hard not to be held accountable for my resolutions, because I published them online. Since, we are a quarter of the way into 2009 I decided to re-evaluation the progress of my [...]

I had a good time this weekend. Salli and I drove down to Portland, OR Saturday morning to see Wicked for Salli’s birthday. Salli has wanted to see Wicked for a while and we have been unable to get tickets. The play didn’t follow the book 100%, but was still very good. We only spent [...]

I was planning to drive the Porsche today but woke up to 2 inches of snow. What is with the wacky weather this winter. Snow in late February is not something that happens in Washington much. On the drive in the Sentra did just fine. It was funny to see the trucks and SUVs spun [...]

The TiVo has been great. We’ve had no problems with programs not recording. The only annoyance with the TiVo has been no 30 second skip like our old DVR. After a quick search online I found out the TiVo has Easter Egg to enable a 30 second skip. You can enable the 30 second skip [...]

I’m trying out a new diet. I have only been on the diet 2 days. I feel great. I have plenty of energy. By limiting my calories I thought I’d be hungry but I haven’t been. If it looks like the diet works out I will write up something about the diet. In addition to [...]

I took back our Comcast HD DVR this weekend and got an HD TiVo. We hadn’t had the Comcast DVR very long but we quickly figured out the DVR was crap. It failed to record new episodes of a show we setup to record all new episodes in the series. I tried to set it [...]