The Self Sufficient Gardener

http://theselfsufficientgardener.com/

I often listen to podcasts while working and have enjoyed listening to this podcast. You can find it in iTunes or directly at http://feeds.feedburner.com/http/theselfsufficientwaycom/feedpodcast .

The War on Small Business

This was an article I wanted to bookmark.

http://dailyreckoning.com/the-war-on-small-business/

"Kauffman crunched a data set from the Census Bureau covering the years 1977-2005. In all but seven years during that period, existing businesses cut an average 1 million jobs… while firms in existence for a year or less created 3 million."

The Myth of government sticking it to the big corps

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/when-will-liberals-stop-falsely-claiming-to-be-battling-big-business-98765764.html

True for both parties.

Solution to an auto update problem on WordPress

Not my normal topic for this blog, but a website I run for a friend uses WordPress and the auto-update wasn't working. This article at http://www.big-webmaster.com/wordpress-automatic-update-with-1and1/ fixed the problem I had, just needed to make a .htaccess file with the line:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

Now the auto update works again.

Federal Spending by the Numbers

Kind of a bookmark for me http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/06/federal%20spending%20by%20the%20numbers%202010

Comparison between US debt post WW2 and now

Just read this article about how some people compare the current US debt to the debt after World War 2, saying we were able to grow out of the debt then, so we should be fine now. They make the observation that the difference is there was a lot of pent up demand, people who had saved because they couldn't buy much during the war period were suddenly able to buy. At the moment there isn't the pent up demand, rather we have an amazing amount of debt. Something interesting to think about.

10 Benefits of Expatriation

As more people get more annoyed with the burden of US taxes, more people are looking to give up their citizenship (expatriation). The Daily Reckoning had a two part series giving 10 reasons to expatriate.

http://dailyreckoning.com/ten-benefits-of-expatriation/

http://dailyreckoning.com/ten-benefits-of-expatriation-part-ii/