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@Richardk, Thanks Richard, and likewise, this is an interesting forum, I'm going to explore it more.

Yeah, "the magic age"...yet I see more and more stories like this, which seem to present opportunity - age as a asset rather than a liability. Hey if all else fails, become a consultant .

@ArnoldW2, Just out of idle curiosity, how did you come across my blog? Was it the backlink from the Business Week article?

No worries...I was kinda hoping for the shock effect - "How the heck did he find this?" Followed by "Whoa...he actually responded!". My philosophy - If you can't take the least amount of criticism, don't blog. I have thick skin.

Besides, your criticism is valid...I started the blog as an experiment and it is still evolving.

I am in stealth mode because I am still gainfully employed and it allows me the freedom to criticize the sometimes Dilbertian decisions my company makes from time to time (should I choose to). I consider it an additional level of risk mitigation

1) Yes, the latter. I am from the school of Multiple Streams of Income (preferably passive) - Rents, Royalties, Affiliation, and products that can be drop shipped from the manufacturer while outsourcing the mundane day to day stuff. All along this trip I am retooling and learning XHTL, CSS, jQuery, and general web design (coming from a heavy Telephony with C++ and Java background). This presents a problem because the blog does have the potential to go all over the place (ok...does go all over the place). The other problem is, I am still making early forays into each of these topics so I don't have enough of my own content yet. Thus I look for things that I think are relevant and point to them - admittedly lame, but there is a lot of cool information that I think is relevant to people who want to try and go out on their own. I just need to do a better of organizing and presenting the information.

2) Yeah...here's the thing, I'm about as middle of the road, plain vanilla as they come. I have a hard time expressing my opinion about anything (much to my wife's frustration sometimes). This is not for lack of passion, just the way I am I guess. I will work on this (in fact, check out the entry I made earlier this evening in response to something Slinky said - it was what I consider a passionate entry). I will give more of my opinion/support information on the external content to which I link.

Thanks for the response.

Zen
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