This post is part of an ongoing series this month called The Cool 30. You know how, when you work for a company, you can set up your paycheck to be directly deposited into your bank account every payday? Well, when you work for yourself, you can’t really do that. All the deposits that I…
If you are dropping by from my guest post over at ProBlogger, I just wanted to say “hi” and thanks for reading! The Practical Nerd is a site devoted to removing the phrase “I can’t” from your vocabulary. Every day, in our daily lives, we tell ourselves (and others) that we can’t do something, even…
We are a few hours from 2011 as I type this. This is now the time of year where a bunch of people unhappy with their lives get together and say, “OK, my resolutions for this year are [insert same resolutions as last year].” Then we’ll hit January 20th and they’ll already be broken. I…
I’m a fan of the old TV show Seinfeld. For you kids who weren’t watching NBC sitcoms in the ’90s, Seinfeld was the biggest show on television at that time. Anyway, there’s an episode where Jerry, the lead character, explains to a woman that he and his ex-fiancée broke up mutually (“It was the world’s…
I’ve talked a lot about television on this site, and for good reason: my first foray into building my own DVR/media server a few years ago is where I created the term “practical nerd” (hey! that’s the name of the site!). But I also do it because I realized I was in a scary cycle…
