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Hey all, I started a new blog called Budge - cool budget tips for hipsters like us.

The idea is to cull cool little money saving tips from all sorts of people and post them on Budge for all the world to see.

Have a cool tip? Email me at writerjax@gmail.com, or DM me here on this site. I'll link to your blog/company with the post if I publish your tip, and right now, your chances are great, as I just launched Budge about five minutes ago.

A few weeks ago, Vanessa at Random Ramblings started a Postcard Round Robin on TSB, and a few bloggers started exchanging snail mail with each other. Today, mixed in with the bills and the PennySaver, I got my first postcard from Vanessa herself - one she picked up while in San Fran, at this year's BlogHer.



I sent my card to her earlier this week, so I hope she gets it soon - unlike V, I was not so smart as to afix a return address label, so if the 41-cent stamp that's no good for a real lett… Continue

An hour from now EST (6pm 7/11), my client Del Padre Digital (www.delpadre.com ) will be shooting new footage at the 'emergency request' of their partner, Proficient Audio/SpeakerCraft in Riverside Calif., for their new product MODE for iPhone.
The HD footage will be added to an existing advertisement originally created for the Touch, and pushed via Web channels. This 'emergency video shoot' is an interesting byproduct of today's hysteria.

Here's the… Continue

Before I moved in with Archervision, I had my own little second-floor apartment in a two-family home, with a deck overlooking a park.

I live in a vibrant, yet moderately economically depressed, area of Massachusetts, so the real estate is cherry if you do a little homework. My little nook in the world had curved, Mexican-inspired doorways and a huge kitchen. It had a spare room I used as my office, but that also gave me a certain sense of security because I knew if I ever fell on hard times I c… Continue

Did you pick a word to live by for 2008, in lieu of a resolution? If so, how are you doing with it?

I've lapsed lately in paying close attention to my own word: power. I've done relatively well defining what power means and how I can apply it to my life, but I haven't been as diligent in reminding myself to incorporate those findings into the daily grind.

As this is my first time choosing a word for such purposes, I'm not going to beat myself up about not getting it exactly right, and moreover… Continue