Archive for January, 2008


How Much Does It Cost to Make a Rocketboom?

Does anybody know how much it costs to start a videoblog? Because I keep pondering that Valleywag story about Rielle Hunter’s best friend Fred Baron loaning his son Andrew $800,000 to start Rocketboom (and then suing to get it back). Where did all that money go? Let’s tally up Rocketboom’s expenses:

1 pretty girl (preferably with […]

Daddy, What Was Private Property Like?

News By Us, not news bias / Tricia S. Vaughan
At my oldest son’s fifth birthday party at a California train museum last November, I had his calendar on display so that his playmates could write good wishes. My son had different plans; he wanted no one touching his calendar: “It’s my private property!” As frustrated […]

Singapore Trust document

A PDF of the legal trust document for the charitable trust in Singapore, Riverkids Project, can be downloaded here. It’s about 95Kb and 10 pages long. Please note the passport/IC numbers and home addresses of the trustees have been removed from this PDF, but we are happy to supply them via email.

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Mandarin thieves busted!

This morning I snapped these naughty cockatoos raiding my mandarin tree. They are such messy and wasteful eaters. First, they break off a mandarin, scoff about half of it, and then throw it away and move on to the next fruit.
While I’ve been patiently waiting for my mandarins to ripen – they are almost there […]