Stop watching TV. That is to say, stop watching any program with ads. In a half hour show you watch 8 minutes of ads, say you watch 2 hours of TV a day, thats 32 minutes of ads a day. For a week thats 224 minutes, thats almost four hours a week of ads. Four hours a week, at least. Buy it on DVD, watch it when you want to. Stop being a slave to the tv guide.
Open an Online Savings Account. I suggest ING, however HSBC, Commenwealth and I'm sure a whole bunch of others offer the same kind of thing. 6% (or around it) interest. Put in at least a quater of your after tax income. After a year or so the interest really starts to add up, but this time it works FOR you.
Weekend Update:
Friday Night: NOTHING
Saturday: Not much. Went to the gym. Picked up Alana and her brother.
Sunday: A good day. Slept in, went out for breakfast, went to the Food & Wine Fair. Went shopping, didnt buy anything. Went & saw Pirates again. Good day.
Caught in the Web:
A good article that spells out quite clearly the reasons for declining movie ticket & CD sales. It doesn't, (unlike everyone else), blame piracy for the loss, but rather the increase in other media, muscling in to what used to be a limited market. If people are buying and watching more DVD's they have less time to go to the movies. So simple, yet ignored by so many.
http://www.spinner.com/2007/05/03/the-25-most-exquisitely-sad-songs-in-the-whole-world-no-25/
Self Improvement Link of the week:
Review:
Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
Five Stars, without a doubt. This is going to be a thesis of a review so get ready.
The movie starts strong, and doesnt let up. The action is incredible, the actors phenominal and the story is supurb.
The movie starts, apart from an aside at Port Royale, in Singapore, with Barbossa, Elizabeth and crew meeting with a Pirate Lord. The story then moves quickly between a great many locations, including Worlds End, ShipWreck Cove (Which looks incredible) and lots of battle at sea. All characters from previous movies are in, and all the lose ends are tyed up. Captain Jacks introduction is bizarre to say the least. The pirate lords are to meet, to discuss how to deal with the East India Trading Company and their 'hired help', Davy Jones & crew of The Flying Dutchmen.
There are a lot of twists and turns, that play themselves out to completion, and are quickly replaced by even more.
I think Jack (obvisouly) steals the show again, but a lot has to do with the fantastic job that Geoffrey Rush does as Barbossa.
Babe of the day:
Carmen Electra
