Cooking For One

I’ve been busy the last week moving my self publishing 2.0 blog to its new location. I’ve also been doing some cleaning up, which is what brought my first self publishing experience to mind. It wasn’t fiction, but it wasn’t exactly non-fiction either. It was the Master’s Thesis for my Electrical Engineering degree.

There are two basic [...]

I was pulling up my channel on YouTube this morning to check the stats, when Internet Explorer loaded one of these false search engine pages called MyFreeze. I was pretty ticked, my immediate assumption was that one of the Trojan virus downloaders I was fighting off the other day while investigating eBook copyright infringements had broken [...]

I recently noticed that Google Image Search returns a row of pictures above the fold if anybody searches on Morris Rosenthal. Strangely enough, according to the Adwords Keyword Tool, 590 people last month did search on Morris Rosenthal, a reasonable chunk of which were looking for pirated copies of my eBooks. The problem with the Google Image [...]

Long term stock investing is full of old wives tales about the intelligent way to proceed. Given the fact that all stock investing is gambling (unless you are trading on illegal inside information), seeking an intelligent system for stock investing is a suckers game. Buy and hold for the long term? Sure, if you buy at the right time [...]

I just mailed off my 2009 tax returns, in which I reported all of my unreported earnings. I know my usage doesn’t meet the typical definition of unreported earnings, which is money a person or business earns and doesn’t report for tax purposes. In my case, I think of unreported earnings as income that doesn’t [...]