This is pretty major setback for google, I've come to trust them and maybe too much. I've spent months getting my personalized homepage to the state I wanted... I had some custom ToDo Lists and note modules that I've written and now all the data is gone... I'm not sure what's going on but from a quick search on google tons of people are having the same issue. So I'm still crossing my fingers that it will come back... I wish there was some backup option to save all my data to email once a day... I've emailed Google, hopefully they'll have a general response... stay tuned for an update..

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I find myself often asking this question... when will I quit my fulltime job and work for myself... And by working for myself I don't mean find projects to work on for other people (at least not entirely). The problem is we spend the most amount of our time working for someone else. It's a vicious cycle that I hope when broken will reap major benefits.

I've been working for seven years right out of school and only for the past year I've really started looking at how to make money online, by using your own projects.

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For those of you who have been living under the rock, there is a TV revolution going on. Let me get this out of they way first... yes I do "borrow" TV shows off the net. Let me tell you what... I'm really not sorry... the amount of money corporations are making off us is insane... and there are no limits every year it's more and more and it will never end, unless we do something about it. I agree people need to get paid, but in my opinion entertainers get paid way too much, yes they do entertain millions of people but that's just because the way the system is setup. There is plenty actors out there who would be happy to work for much less money. I feel like I'm getting off topic here, all I'm trying to say is that we pay way too much for entertainment.

I recently moved and just got cable installed today, it's costing me $50 a month... what am I paying for? well basically 20 minutes of commercials per hour and other promotions within the actual shows.

Why did I get cable?

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Yesterday was a great day for Apple, by far the best keynote speech to date. Apple TV looked amazing and well the iPhone, what can I say WOW.... it really put my eTen PDA/phone device to shame. I want to go on record and say that I'm buying the iPhone the first day it comes out, it's a very exciting time and I can't wait to see what people will start coming up for it once it gets released, widgets galore ;) .

Anyway since the iPhone is still a couple months away I thought I would play a little devil’s advocate and look at some of the problems that Apple might be facing with the iPhone, I'm sure everyone wants them to succeed, as you can see none of the smart phones have yet but if anyone can Apple will. So here we go:

Complexity of the phone

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What am I talking about you ask eh? :) Well I'm talking online purchasing, specifically eBay and their lack of shipping price control. It's absolutely sick that you have pay $60 for shipping of a memory card from China or Hong Kong. I'm sure everyone one of you have gone through this at least once in your life... you order some tiny product on the web, it gets shipped to you for twice the cost to purchase it and then UPS slaps a 29.99 price tag for breakage fee, plus taxes on top and you're paying 3x the amount you purchased the item for.

So I was thinking would it be great to try to get rid of this process? Well I think for certain purchases it's possible to do. For example: Lets say you buy a brand new ipod for $100 on the web. It's NIB (New In Box) and it's located in Australia. Now lets say someone else buys the same product but it's in Canada and they're located in Australia. Instead of shipping the items cross continents you ship the same item but locally between the two people. When you find people like this you connect them together, so you have two buyers and two sellers involved in each transaction

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