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 March, 2007
Frickin’ laser beams! (First experience with laser hair removal)
I had been waxing my legs for a couple of years, but I have a few problems with waxing. The main problems are:
1) Waxing is painful.
2) Waxing is expensive.
3) Waxing takes a lot of time (about 45 minutes per treatment.)
4) I was left with sticky wax on my legs and some irritation after waxing.
At $55 [...]
Exposing the Twitter XML API with PHP
Recently Robert Scoble was complaining about how hard it was to add all of his Twitter followers as friends automatically. I figured it should be pretty easy to script. Well, it should be, but Twitter makes it unnecessarily complicated.
First, the Twitter API is marginally useful, but doesn’t let you actually do much besides passively read [...]
