Early Retirement Extreme

Financial independence, frugality, self-sufficiency, ecology, capitalism, and voluntary simplicity

Does anyone know Joomla?

Published in November 18th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’m trying to set up a website in Joomla (not related to ERE in any way).
If anyone knows more Joomla than me, that is, if you know anything at all, and you are willing to answer my stupid [...]

Hedge fund manager calls it quits

Published in October 27th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in Finance, Personal, announcements

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Andrew Lahde, the manager of a small hedge fund, who returned 800%+ by betting against the subprime mess, decided to end operations at the peak. He left this goodbye letter. While I do not agree on the tone of the letter, I think 90% of his points are valid and that they need to be [...]

I’ll be back on Wednesday

Published in October 18th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements

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That is, if AT&T will let me.

Market is crashing, sky is falling, and still no internet

Published in October 11th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements

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To make a long story short. After 11 days and 5 hours on hold with AT&T, they still have not transferred our DSL connection to our new address. Future posting will continue to be sporadic.
In other news, the market continues crashing. It is a small consolation that while I’m down as well I generally beat [...]

A bunch of interesting links

Published in September 18th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements

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First, my favorite topic: me . There is a nice summary of our RV lifestyle plans over at MSN Moneycentral smart spending blog. Since news outlets tend to echo each other, the I also saw links to the post on some of the RV sites. My reputation has started preceding me. Not a good [...]

I need suggestions for better blog post categories

Published in September 9th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, blogging

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As my writing has divergeddeveloped I have come to the conclusion that the categories I use to classify my posts no longer cover my subjects very well. Also there are too many categories with some being used only rarely (sub-prime anyone). If anyone, perhaps someone with some experience in library-science or whatever it is called, [...]

Carnivals reflux edition.

Published in September 7th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements

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I have started participating in carnivals again to draw in new readers. I’m not a big fan of using blog rolls for link exchanges preferring instead to keep them structured and pointing towards blogs I read actively (not many actually).
If you are a new reader, welcome to ‘ERE”. If you like what you see, please [...]

We are selling our furniture

Published in September 1st, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements

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In preparation for our move, we have started selling off our furniture. This finally allows me to estimate how much we have actually paid for the use of our furniture. Furniture follows a depreciation schedule, so what we essentially do is to subtract the price we received from the price we paid and then divide [...]

I revised my blogroll

Published in July 23rd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, blogging

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Check it out in the lower right. I try to keep the blogroll short and relevant to this site. I also try to keep it somewhat representative of the blogs I actually read on a daily basis (hence blogroll). Several blogs have not been updated for a long time, and since I’m stupendously busy(**) several [...]

Weekend roundup - garage sale edition

Published in July 12th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements

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To prepare for downsizing we had a garage sale today. We got rid of a bunch of stuff. The median price was about $1 and the average price was not much higher, and overall we sold for about $60, so all in all we did manage to shed a bunch of stuff. It still looks [...]

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