Posted in Articles, rotate on October 17th, 2007 14 Comments »
My first PC was a 486 DX 33MHz machine with 4Mb RAM, for which I paid £700. It was my first purchase with the wages from a part time job I had at the time. I thought it would be useful if I learned how to use a PC properly.
By the time that PC went […]
Posted in Articles, rotate on October 2nd, 2007 7 Comments »
I met my wife in the middle of the dot con boom.
One of her friends, at the age of 21 was already a Millionaire… “on paper”.
He was a co-owner of a company developing three dimensional browser technologies.
They had received a significant investment of venture capital and were moving onto the next stage of their development, […]
Posted in Articles, rotate on October 1st, 2007 6 Comments »
I recently wrote an article on the theory of the Greater Fool.
This reminded me of someone I used to work with who took early retirement from the place we were working at.
As part of his retirement package he received a lump sum payment.
This person had always played the stock market, and so, upon leaving he […]
Posted in Articles on October 1st, 2007 9 Comments »
Last week I got into the worst dispute of my blogging career over something I saw as a scam.
During the ensuing “mini flame war” I was told amongst other things that I “get cheap thrills and attention by bashing others” and was attention seeking.
Today I see the same blogs involved in that incident […]