Not just rich people buy Playstations and Xbox’s This is just ridiculous. It sickens me to see people advocating the use of credit to buy these types of things. If you need credit to buy a HDTV and gaming system, then you don’t need a HDTV and gaming system. Use cash or save for it. Period.

Zack Jenks, a portland web developer, is chronicling his experience building a web business. Much like the Carsons’ Bare Naked App, Zach shares his status and frustrations as the site comes together. Being in a similar situation, I always appreciate getting a window into another devrepreneur’s mind, so this should be interesting to keep an eye on. We’ll have to get Zack out ot the PDX Web Innovators next month.

I haven’t been keeping up with the money blogs very well lately, but I did catch a couple of personal finance bits of note lately. Dilbert’s 9-point financial plan I think this is some very sound advice. You really don’t need to get that complicated with how you manage your money. Moneyhacks and Get Rich Slowly J.D. started Get Rich Slowly about six months ago and has quickly risen to the top tier of the money bloggers (see pfblog.

Last month I mentioned Cambrian House as a place to share business ideas and possibly have them devloped by a crowdsourced team. The idea I submitted there was a social network for health type thing and it got shot down pretty good unfortunately. The idea was in the middle of my idea list, and it was more an experiment with Cambrian House, but I still thought it wasn’t that bad.

nPost.com is coming to town again next week with their second Portland networking event. I went to the first one in August and had a good time. This is a general entrepreneur event, along the lines of an OEF event, but with a youger crowd. Their site is also a great resource for entrepreneurs, featuring many great interviews and a northwest focused job board. I’m adding nPost to the Portland Technology/Entrepreneur group list.