Ten Traits to Make You Rich Submitted by mannkind on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 21:19. in Personal I ran across a blog post entitled, Ten Traits that Make You Rich , and it got me thinking about two things: The writer sounds a lot like me1 I wonder how I would rate myself? I looked2 for the original article on Yahoo! Finance, but wasn’t able to find it. So I’ll be using the list found on the blog post. Patience: I participate in the UW Retirement Plan, the UW Voluntary Investment Program, and
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eCOST.com offers the iRobot Roomba 4100 Bagless Robotic Vacuum in Red for $109.99. With $13.64 for shipping, it’s the lowest total price we could find by $6, although it was about $20 less in December. The Roomba 4100 features dirt sensors, cliff sensors so you can use it near stairs, and a non-marring bumper.
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I haven’t written about serious games in quite a while, but that doesn’t mean the topic hasn’t been on my mind in the interim. The Feb 2008 ACM Communications issue has a cover article entitled “Alternate Reality Gaming”, by Jeff Kim of UWash, Jon Allen of UCSF, and Elan Lee, creative director of two of the pioneering ARGs - The Beast and I Love Bees. As far as I could recall, I had never heard of the concept (but then I’m pushing 60, so who knows what I knew two weeks ago), but googling ARGs
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AT&T to Provide FREE Wifi at Starbucks - Tmobile Suffers Huge Loss as Starbucks Switches to AT&T Wi-Fi 2/13/2008 - Summary: If you are among the legion of annoyed laptop toters who felt that the price to use T-mobile wi-fi at Starbucks was outrageous - particularly when there are so many coffee shops offering free w-ifi (and better coffee) these days - well, apparently Starbucks agrees with you. Because Starbucks and AT&T have just announced that Starbucks has jumped s
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