Jason Ruyle

We only need to save $156.55 every day if you’re stashing the cash under your mattress. You need to account for the compounding of interest, which is the whole point of Andrew’s advice. The money you save today will be worth significantly more after accumulating interest for 35 years.Assuming an average interest rate of 6%, you could save $2 million by age 55 by putting roughly $1400 per month ($46/day) into a tax-deferred account.Of course, since you’re young you can invest that money more aggressively in growth focused mutual fund. Get a return of 9% annually, and after 35 years you’ll have the $2mil with an investment of just $700 per month ($23/day).Starting to sound more plausible? It’s all about investing for the long term, preferably through a tax-deferred account.Here’s an online calculator if you want to play around with some more numbers:CNN Money—Savings Calculator

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Best Practices : Doing Business : Following the Trends: Top Home Features Clients Want : HGTVPro.com

On top of being in to technology and web development, I currently make the majority of my income from remodeling work. At the current time I am remodeling my entire home in Iowa City. I will be putting it up for sale once its finished. Reading articles like the one suggested above are always benefical in trying to figure out where to put your money and energies.

technorati tags:Remodeling, Home, Iowa

I was able to find a great checklist for home owners and myself.

It includes a lot of blank spaces that you can fill in with your morgage rep.

Microsoft Has a Starter Kit for Aspiring Game Designers - New York Times

    “Today the company is expected to announce the fall release of a product
called XNA Game Studio Express, a basic version of the company’s game
authoring tools that will let aspiring designers write games on a PC
and test them on an ordinary Xbox 360. (To test games, the designer pays $99 a year to translate the game from the PC into the Xbox format.)”

Great idea to allow for people to get involved in the development processes.  This concept is a close cousin to the open-source industry.  Great idea.

technorati tags:Gaming, Microsoft

HubPages

I just wanted to let people know about a nice place thats a cross between a ‘digg‘ site and ‘squidoo‘.  Its called HubPages.  I’ve created a couple different hubs;

Joomla - which is ranked with a hubscore of 100 right now (I’m number one)

Drupal - haven’t added much content yet

hosting - basic guide about web hosting

Check ‘em out!

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