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Passive Income Smooths the FlowPassive income is income that requires no work - an annuity that sends you a monthly check is an example. It may have taken a lot of work to accumulate the money you used to purchase that annuity, but after that you just cash the checks - or not even that if they go right into your bank account. ..
Employment 1/5/2009 Tony Lawrence 135 views
Hitting the Google Sweet Spot
When I was researching the competition for my 'Working for yourself" e-book of course I visited Google to search for related books and websites. Imagine my surprise this morning when I searched Google for "Work for yourself" and found that page on page one in the sixth position! That's pretty darn good! ..
Blogging 1/4/2009 Tony Lawrence 195 views
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Whenever there has been a protracted power outage, it has often been followed by an upsurge in births nine months later. We all understand why: people are bored, stuck in the dark with nothing else to do.
We're having a bit of a Microsoft power outage right now. ..
Microsoft 1/4/2009 Tony Lawrence 253 views
Book Review: Programming in Objective-C 2.0 (Second Edition)
I have to wonder how much of its intended audience will be reading much of this part either. I can't think too many people with no prior exposure to object oriented C are going to pick this up for their first venture into Mac OS X programming. More likely they'll come from a background even deeper and stronger than mine and will be skimming through the first 300 pages even faster than I did: classes, check - good analogies, not over drawn, basic types, check, inheritance, polymorphism, check, check.. let's get to the OS X stuff! ..
Books 1/3/2009 Tony Lawrence 260 views
Frustrated by LinuxToday's comment system
I'm very frustrated by the comments at LinuxToday's link to one of my posts. The problem is that it takes hours for comments to appear, and I'm not even sure that all of my replies have been posted at all. Therefore I'm going to dupe my response here: ..
Linux 1/2/2009 Tony Lawrence 246 views
Another look at Linux code dependencies
That's when I found out all of the Python module requirements. In true Python fashion, there's no convenient way to test the software before installation. I see this with many Python packages, and I think the casual nature of Python scripting discourages good programming and system hygene. Once I saw the large balls of Python that went along with this program, I decided to skip the installation. ..
Linux 1/2/2009 Tony Lawrence 262 views
Stupid is as stupid does and I've done plenty of stupid
A few of the comments here and at that LinuxToday post have questioned my competence and made fun of my selling an ebook on Linux and Unix troubleshooting. I have to smile a little myself. I've said more than a few times that I don't consider myself "expert" on anything, that at best I'm willing to call myself "competent" and I've also frequently noted that I (like most of us) can be bone numbingly stupid every now and then. ..
Opinion 1/2/2009 Tony Lawrence 269 views
Tear me a new one
I got roundly thrashed at LinuxToday for suggesting that Linux might not be ready to take over the world just yet. It wasn't all that bad - as usual, there were some nice, friendly people and even the complaints weren't particularly vicious. Or maybe they were and I'm just too thick skinned to notice. ..
Linux 1/2/2009 Tony Lawrence 253 views
Linux clipboard for Ubuntu leads to same frustration and defeat
After being soundly berated for my previous post on this subject, I decided to try the experiment again with a more Desktopish Linux distro: Ubuntu 8.10. I installed it in a virtual machine, downloaded 208 updates, and decided to see what luck a neophyte user would have installing clipboard utilities here. ..
Linux 1/2/2009 Tony Lawrence 442 views
Silly Spammer Cooks His Own Goose
I never bother to check their actual sites, but this morning I did happen to visit the page a spam commentor was trying to advertise. He (or she) was using a Blogspot page but had not yet put anything related to his spamming on it. I imagine this is a technique to cut down on their being banned instantly - start off with innocuous content, change it later? Maybe.. ..
Blogging 1/1/2009 Tony Lawrence 244 views
That was the year that was
The year 2008 has a few hours to run as I write this, but I don't expect a lot of visitors today, so it's a reasonable enough time to wrap things up and call it a year. ..
Blogging 12/31/2008 Tony Lawrence 340 views
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