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Anyways, 6 hours isn't enough to make much of a judgement.

Something very important I figured out this year was that having the wrong chair may play a very big role in carpel tunnel.

I had an old ergonomic chair at my home office. I had various problems over the past few years, ended up spending several thousand dollars just trying all kinds of keyboards (including the iconic datahand.) After spending several months away from home, my problems vanished.

During this time I was using either a normal keyboard or laptop keyboard -- and sitting in an Aeron chair. The last time I had used a normal keyboard I had reached the point I thought I would have to stop using computers completely.

So yeah, office chair matters big time. More than just your back will thank you.

Quite a contrast to some Valentine's Day chocolate recently discovered in NYC shops (complete with live worms): http://wcbstv.com/consumer/rotten.valentines.ch...

You've done a great job on the blog, I really enjoy reading a wide variety of posts on everything from bodybuilding to driving the R8.

One idea may be to interview/feature people who have successfully applied The Four Hour Work Week to their own lives. Guest posts for this would be cool, if they were closely on topic.

One of the big antagonists is choosing to increase your fixed expenses in accordance to your latest rise in income. That turns what should have been an asset (dollars) into a liability (monthly payments.)

Once that happens the individual feels even more of a slave locked in to their job. When you have long term liabilities you can't take a few months off or search for a more enjoyable career.

Awesome, I saw the Leno spoof, I think he needs to get you on the show!

I have a Vonage VoIP phone which I use for all things non-personal. Voicemail goes to one of my e-mail inbox's. Last month I did not check it once. It turned out all the messages left were completely unimportant!

How much time did you run the ads? eBay's cookie lasts around 30 days and many commissions won't be paid out until an auction ends. This tends to result in compounding earnings.

Additionally, forums appear to suck for performance. With one of my forums typically make 90% of the Adsense earnings from CPM based buys. Sometimes that amounts to an advertiser paying over $1 a click in a niche that might average under 3 cents.

I'm not running AuctionAds right now simply because I am focused on other projects, but I would definately give it some time and rotate it and display alongside AuctionAds units.

Great tips. I've been using forums and communities to recruit talent for a few years now. Its astoundingly easy to find experts in nearly any niche or market, and often at a modest cost. It might not be that way forever now that the "secret" seems to be out.

What did evite copyright, white snowflakes over a blue background?

Hmm, they should have filed a business process patent!

Trademark policies? You bet. There are a lot of amateur Web 2.0 companies that are just ignoring it completely because they are just that -- amateurs. How many *spaces are there? I've seen many posts of sites right here on Mashable which wouldn't stand up to a single C&D letter.

Back on to the topic of this post, I saw the Business 2.0 article too. Whenever I see that someone dropped $20k or so on a questionable site I get very curious.

I would not be suprised if a sham transaction was involved where a friend or associate of the site owner paid the money, and then was paid right back. Not hard to do, some even think this has gone on in the domain name industry. One offshore bank account or corporation and you can prove nothing.

Thanks for the plug, I was not expecting any backlinks from that post!

I am suprised fewer people picked up on this -- its the Google quality score in action.

Google doesn't need to display more ads because they are forcing the remaining guys to pay more!

After I made that post I found another post by Michael Grey, aka Greywolf, -- http://www.wolf-howl.com/google/google-adwords-...

The post was written the 21st, and he complained about spending $2-$3 a day on worthless Myspace traffic. At the lowest end thats $730 a year -- enough to matter.

I think we are going to be hearing more about this.

YouTube on TV -- its not quite seamless, but if you have a Nintendo Wii you can already do this. Quite entertaining for lazy couch potatoes!

Myspace is really valuable to mainstream brand advertisers. Myspace is borderline worthless for all the niche ad buyers that pump billions in to Google.

Myspace is high risk because on the internet things happen fast. No one cares or visits the popular websites of 1999 (ok, may be Yahoo, eBay, and Amazon.) But Myspace is a trend. They got where they were by riding Friendster's wave and eclipsing it. Someone is going to ride Myspace's wave and eclipse it too. The question is not if but rather when.

As for using the valuation of a hot stock to price a company? Thats just silly.