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August 2010

 

Thoughts on Life Without the Internet Pt 2

I recently wrote about my wife and I being on  financial diet, and the resulting lack of home internet and phone data package. I talked about some of the drawbacks and ways that I have worked around them. Today,  would like to discuss some good things that have come out of this temporary situation.


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Has Social Media Changed Your World?

Or more importantly, have you put social media to work to help change the world?

I was recently going through my RSS subscriptions to weed out the ones I no longer read and the ones that don't provide any real value to my life (an exorcise I highly recommend everyone do periodically). I came across an old post at BigIsTheNewSmall. I recommend you subscribe to this blog.

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Thoughts On Life Without the Internet Part 1

A couple of days ago, I wrote about my Wife and I being on a financial diet. A couple of the expenses we cut  are the home internet, and the data package on my phone.

Over all, this has been a good thing, but I have learned that the data package on the phone was a lot more important than I thought it was. I didn't realize how much I depended on constant access to the internet.

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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is." - Yogi Berra

I like this, partly because I say "in theory" or "theoretically" a lot, and a couple of friends always respond with "but we don't live in the land of theory."

 

Going on a Financial Diet

My wife and I have gone on a financial diet. We are cutting expenses everywhere that we can so that we can pay off some debt and have some cushion in our budget. We really want to give more money to ministries we are excited about, but have a hard time giving anything more than our tithe (and often, that is a stretch).

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A Blogging Dry Spell

I was looking around here a couple of days ago and realized that my last post was 5 months ago. Way to long.

There are several reasons for this dry spell.

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