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Entries from August 2007

D&G “Licensed” Watch

August 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Dolce & Gabbana are in the upper echelon of Italy’s fashion designers, normally making anything they produce unaffordable for the masses. They’re changed their tune a little bit, recently outing a new line of reasonably priced fashion watches. Sporting the new “Licensed” watch with it’s sporty and high-tech design you might feel more like James Bond than a [...]

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Tags: Style

Investing - What 90% of Your Return Depends On

August 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment

The entire financial industry is designed to take money out of your pockets. Its unfortunate, but brokers and financial advisors are looking for commissions, fund managers are taking home huge paychecks for mediocre performance, and all at your expense. Recently, this has gotten worse with hedge funds. Most take 2% of asset value per year [...]

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Tags: Money · Self Improvement

Split household bills online

August 19th, 2007 · No Comments

A perennial favorite website of mine, Lifehacker.com, points us to this handy web site designed to make splitting bills easier between roommates. Billshare.org can create receipts to divide your financial burdens among your housemates, or merely track expenses. In addition to locking them out of the house, now you can nag the lazy bums via [...]

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Tags: Money

Healthy, Cheap Cigarettes

August 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Now I don’t think anyone should adopt smoking, but if you already do I think you should consider adopting the Ruyuan (meaning “like smoking”). It’s a little device that looks like a cigarette and delivers nicotine without any carcinogens. Just pure unfiltered, heart racing nicotine. It even releases smoke to give the same experience.
The Golden [...]

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Tags: Self Improvement

Logitech Harmony 1000 Universal Remote - Gadget of the Week

August 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Now that you’ve got the plasma TV (or LCD) and the couch, you can grab a beer and chill out. But then you realize that your IQ is not nearly high enough to figure out how to get the TV to switch to your HD cable box, and your DVD remote is on the other side of the room, so you’re [...]

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Tags: Tech · Weekly Features

High Paying Fun Jobs

August 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Forbes recently did an article that I thought deserved mention on livvit. We’re all about ambitious lifestyles and you can’t have a great lifestyle without a great job. The article centered on jobs that are fantastics in many respects, but have downsides when you look closesly.
For example take a luxury cruise ship captain. They can [...]

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Tags: Money · Self Improvement

Woodpecker Hotel - Weekly Hotel Feature

August 15th, 2007 · No Comments

If you’ve ever wanted privacy then you should check out the Woodpecker Hotel in Vasteras, Sweden. The hotel is perched 50 feet up an Oak tree in a Swedish park and you can only get there by good old fashioned rope ladder. Complete with a bathroom, cooking facilities and an Ikea bed (what else do [...]

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Tags: Weekly Features

Launch software using your keyboard

August 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Chances are, most people out there are still using their mouse to navigate through the Windows Start Menu to find the programs they use often, or they’ve pinned them to a Quick Launch bar in the taskbar. To skim a few seconds off the time it takes to launch a program check out Launchy. It’s [...]

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Tags: Self Improvement · Tech

Drive 10 Supercars for $4,000/year

August 13th, 2007 · No Comments

I think fractional ownership is a great way to get a little bit of luxury in your life for a lot less. CLUBGT is a great way to get into 10 supercars, for less than the price of an average sedan. You buy points, just as you would in a timeshare, and these allow you to [...]

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Tags: Luxury

Become Rich - The 60% Solution

August 12th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Let me first say that I am a fanatic about personal finance. I’ve been studying it for years and I find it sexier than Paris Hilton… even when she’s out of her jail clothes. One of the tenets in personal finance however, is the budget. And BUDGETS DON’T WORK. They don’t work because after a [...]

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Tags: Money · Self Improvement