Hi, I'm Erica Douglass. I sold my business and "temporarily retired" at age 26. I write here about investing, setting goals, and entrepreneurship. Most importantly, I share lessons I have learned that can help you on your quest for financial freedom!
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Archive for June, 2006
Best. Web 2.0. EVAR!!!
Okay, so I thought Web 2.0 was all overhyped bullshit, and then I found this. Yep, all those millions of dollars spent on venture capital were worth it, baby, because now we can write “WTF!!!!” on maps.
Web 2.0, you roxor.
That pressure on my skull is the feeling of the world caving in
I woke up this morning with a headache. I wasn’t sure what caused it, so I drank a bunch of water and waited an hour… passing the time by reading a book. After an hour, it still wasn’t gone, so I took some Advil. Now the Advil has worn off and it’s back. It’s most [...]
[Read More]“Click”: Read this and save $10!
Hey, it’s like a coupon…Read this post and I’ll show you how to save $10. That is, if you were going to see “Click”.
Let me preface this by saying that I am a fan of Adam Sandler. I think Sandler has done a lot of funny movies (”Happy Gilmore”), and a couple good-even-though-they-didn’t-have-too-many-fart-jokes movies, [...]
[HOWTO] Configuring and customizing Trillian Pro 3.1
I’m doing this post more for future reference for myself than anything else, but it might help those of you who use Trillian as your IM client. I’ve been using Trillian since version .6 and I registered my copy in August 2001, which makes me one of the first Trillian users to ever pay Scott [...]
[Read More]Shuttle update
YAY!!!!
I finally got my system working.
After I wrote that blog post, I used nLite to set up a slipstream of XP 32-bit with the correct nVidia SATA drivers. I then reformatted the system, partitioned as I really wanted (3 partitions: C: 30GB for program files and Windows; D: 174GB for music and movies; E: 30GB [...]
