How much can we justify spending?

[jwb]

Staying with the question of good blogs but getting back to the issue of budgeting resources, this blog is one of my favorites lately <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://newyorkcentrallayout.blogspot.com/">http://newyorkcentrallayout.blogspot.com/</a><!-- m --> -- I think Ralph liked it when I pointed it out on another forum. What I think is worthwhile is that the guy seems to be budgeting his overall resources -- not just the money, but the time and effort -- and coming up with a result that seems to be making him happy and is fun for other people to watch. I think a key to success is to have objectives -- maybe less conscious ones, but consistent -- and then orient your overall effort to satisfy them. It's worth pointing out that he's using a lot of older, less expensive stuff, but he's getting an overall good result with it.