Homeless: Can you build a life from $25? | csmonitor.com In a test of the American Dream, Adam Shepard started life from scratch with the clothes on his back and twenty-five dollars. Ten months later, he had an apartment, a car, and a small savings.

links for 2008-02-18 Digital Arts – Features – Create amazing psychedelic art in Photoshop Rob Carissimo reveals how to layer and blend images in Photoshop to create a hazy, dreamlike effect that’s straight from 60s California. (tags: grommets photoshop tutorial)

My love/hate relationship with OmniFocus … has once again resulted in me losing about 30 minutes of work. OmniFocus rarely crashes, but when it does, it tends to do so when I’m doing the difficult work of “the weekly review.” I went back and forth with support from Omni a couple times when this happened…

Digital Arts – Features – Create amazing psychedelic art in Photoshop Rob Carissimo reveals how to layer and blend images in Photoshop to create a hazy, dreamlike effect that’s straight from 60s California.

also discovered I’m Not A Gun in my library. Where have these guys been hiding?

Cleaner. Can we do it? Yes, we can!

Jay on choral music What’s wrong with this song? When is it going to start rocking? 3-year-old Jay at the breakfast table noticing the 17th century choral music that’s been playing for the past 20 minutes.

Auto-categorization in Moneydance vs. Mint Sean Reilly, a developer from Moneydance commented on an earlier piece I wrote about how the application auto-categorizes downloaded transactions. I noted that Moneydance does not auto-categorize, but he is correct, it does auto-categorize up to a point. I want to point out how Mint and Moneydance approach auto-categorization differently…

links for 2008-02-13 Barstool Sports: New Jersey Freakshows Yup, we chose to move back here. (tags: nj funny)

Personal Finance Software for Mac I need some suggestions on finance software for the Mac. I’ve got three requirements: auto downloads transactions from Bank of America graphs and charts for monthly budgets auto-categorizes downloaded transactions I’ve been using Mint for several months. I really liked its auto-categorization features but its reporting is really, really bad.…