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	<description>The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.        Ben Stein</description>
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		<title>The New Frugality - 3 reasons why</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McCollam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I often appreciate a blogger&#8217;s point of view and manner of communicating - while totally disagreeing with their perspective.  A good example is Kevin Press&#8217;s recent post on Today&#8217;s Economy- The New Frugality: I&#8217;m not buying it.
Press cites recent items in the Economist and Time describing the New Frugality, then goes on to point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you spot the phony headline?</title>
		<link>http://www.mccollam.com/jakeblog/?p=161</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McCollam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Something a little different today.  The following is a list of headlines that interested me recently.   About half of them are authentic and half are simply my imagination.    Go through them and click on Authentic or Not so Much.  If the headline is authentic - there will be a link to the headline.  Take a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter economics</title>
		<link>http://www.mccollam.com/jakeblog/?p=147</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McCollam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is the latest big thing in social media and the digerati are all trying to figure out how to turn some of this popularity into money.  Well - I can see the shape of it - if not the exact mechanics.   But let&#8217;s level set first.
Twitter is a platform.  It&#8217;s provides a way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shop your High Interest Savings Account rate</title>
		<link>http://www.mccollam.com/jakeblog/?p=137</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McCollam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m mostly an autopilot kind of investor and saver.  I don&#8217;t enjoy researching investments and I only like reviewing our holdings when everything&#8217;s going in the right direction (and there hasn&#8217;t been a lot of that lately).   But a facebook page caused me to review our bank account situation lately.
A friend of a friend had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I ain&#8217;t got no money, honey</title>
		<link>http://www.mccollam.com/jakeblog/?p=119</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McCollam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[credit cards]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[debit cards]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[rewards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;ve decided to stop using money.
On reflection it&#8217;s not that difficult.   And there&#8217;s many, many reasons to prefer other forms of payment.   Here&#8217;s my ranked order of how I prefer to pay for personal expenses;
&#160;

Credit cards
Automated account withdrawals
Debit cards
Cheque
Cash

Having credit as number one is easy.  I can get 1 - 2% of the payment back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natasha Richardson: no lessons here</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McCollam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes really bad things happen and they simply don&#8217;t have a point.  Natasha Richardson takes a reportedly mild fall on a bunny hill, initially feels fine, then reports a crushing headache an hour later, and eventually succumbs to coma and dies a couple of days later.  The autopsy rules an accidental death caused by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geocaching: Fun, frugal and good for you</title>
		<link>http://www.mccollam.com/jakeblog/?p=101</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McCollam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So what if I told you I had found an activity that you and your best friend could do together that was fun, frugal and was good for you?    Oh, and it is good for the environment and &#8216;green&#8217;.  And best of all (from my perspective) - it involves playing with gadgets.  No silly - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cost of kindness</title>
		<link>http://www.mccollam.com/jakeblog/?p=92</link>
		<comments>http://www.mccollam.com/jakeblog/?p=92#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McCollam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I experienced a random act of kindness this weekend.  It was quite nice and made me ponder the economic implications.
Geoff and I were at the checkout line in the grocery store  (&#8230;by an odd set of circumstances - Geoff at seventeen isn&#8217;t exactly the grocery shopping type).  As happens on the odd time that Geoff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s your financial EQ?</title>
		<link>http://www.mccollam.com/jakeblog/?p=55</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McCollam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[People enjoy self discovery.  They like to develop insights about themselves and compare those insights with others.  This was brought home earlier this week when I took a BBC quiz, Brain Sex.  (It&#8217;s a fun test, designed to determine the gender tendencies of your brain&#8230; so guys are supposed to do better with the spacial, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make a decision, any decision&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mccollam.com/jakeblog/?p=52</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McCollam</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[challenger]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[corporate culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[decisions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few of us were talking about open vs. private communities and how the ratio of such communities may be indicative of corporate culture.  It&#8217;s an interesting thought.
The notion in the argument was that the ratio of open to total communities was some kind of proxy for organizational openness.  And that too low of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Achilla Orru and his thumb piano</title>
		<link>http://www.mccollam.com/jakeblog/?p=39</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McCollam</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Free at last, free at last&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mccollam.com/jakeblog/?p=32</link>
		<comments>http://www.mccollam.com/jakeblog/?p=32#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McCollam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[chris anderson]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[free]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Consider the perfection of zero.  Marketers have long understood how powerful a concept &#8216;free&#8217; is to consumers.   In his upcoming book, Chris Anderson (author of the Long Tail and executive editor of Wired) examines zero and the implication of zero in a digital world.
The key point is that zero has always had a huge psychological [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vroom, vroom (small is the new big)</title>
		<link>http://www.mccollam.com/jakeblog/?p=14</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McCollam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[automobile]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently size does matter.  A lot - at least for American drivers.
Darren Dahl, a consumer-behavior consultant and professor of marketing at the University of British Columbia&#8217;s Sauder School of Business says that the big car may be too deeply ingrained in the American psyche to give up, according to a recent Newsweek item.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signature move (TBD)</title>
		<link>http://www.mccollam.com/jakeblog/?p=12</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McCollam</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[denzel washington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t really have a signature move.  But I&#8217;d like one.
Many of us remember the Michael Jackson moonwalk, Fonzie&#8217;s thumbs up, John Wayne&#8217;s swagger/hitch, the Ali shuffle and Carol Burnett&#8217;s ear tug. I heard recently that Denzel Washington has a move that he&#8217;s actually had added to his movie contracts. Apparently, early in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Requiem for the newspaper</title>
		<link>http://www.mccollam.com/jakeblog/?p=10</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McCollam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Toronto Star]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy the newspaper. Especially weekend mornings with coffee. It&#8217;s free time. Before chores, before lugging out the office work or even before the gym. Just slow, easy perusal. If I&#8217;m to believe the pundits - this is a dying activity. And that&#8217;s a shame.
The reasons are familiar; nobody&#8217;s buying print advertisements, Gen X and [...]]]></description>
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