No matter how frugal I am in real life to a point of borderline stinginess, I gladly pay a premium to any mind-blowingly awesome and highly valuable stuff.

And I’m really glad to pony up some money to donate and support TechZing: a weekly tech podcast that I have followed since the beginning.

Honestly the donation I made is really minuscule compared to the value that I had gotten from my personal top-five great interviews on the show over the years (in chronological order):

1. Peldi Guilizzoni, founder of Balsamiq (Episode #4, Episode #14)
2. Jason Cohen, founder of SmartBear Software ([Episode #12][ep 12], Episode #14)
3. [Pete Michaud][peter] (Episode #38)
4. Rob Walling, serial micropreneur (Episode #56)
5. Derek Sivers, founder of CDBaby (Episode #70)

What I really liked about the podcast is Justin’s and …

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When it comes to stationery, I can get very particular about it - especially when it comes to paper. One of the hardest things that I’m having difficulty buying is pocket notebooks that I typically carry with me to record whatever that was lodged in my head at the spur of the moment outdoors.

So far the ones on the market are typically ring-bound ones (which can be bulky and not environmentally friendly) or flimsy notepads that get easily crumpled whenever they get into the pockets of my trousers, to my greatest annoyance since those were the worst kind of surface to write on.

My prayers for the perfect on-the-go notebook got answered when I discovered this at Kinokuniya: these are wallet-sized, 60 pages notepads made in Japan from Apika (at least the logo says …

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