Author: thehackdad

Understanding FIRE – the 4% rule

So I have been doing more research on the whole Financial Independence Retire Early thing and, for my brain at least, it has some nice rules built in which help you navigate the uncertainty of the future. We cannot predict what will happen in the future, lets face it who in January 2019 could have […]

Setting life on FIRE

I had heard of FIRE before, it stands for Financial Independence Retire Early and seemed to be a nice way of saying “Make a million dollars, live like a hermit and prey that the money never runs out!” which didn’t sound much fun to me. To be honest, when I heard it talked about online […]

Totally Too Many Tabs!

If like me you never “properly” shut your laptop down and just leave your browser open with every single tab JUST IN CASE you need it again…. then read on. From the moment that my Firefox browser gave me tabs to use within a single window, I have always had dozens open at a time. […]

Gaming fun for less

I, like so many others hitting middle age, enjoy playing computer games, and while many people simply throw their disposable income at a PS5 (£449.99 Sept 2022) or Microsoft’s Xbox X series X Bone 3001 or what ever its called, this father likes to make his money go further. Now I understand that most of […]