It’s looking like October will be a low month in terms of stacking money away into my adventure fund. I purchased a few products that I hope will help me in my quest to generate sources of income other than my jay-oh-bee. What did I buy? Star Trek Collector plates! No, I’m totally kidding. Here’s what I really bought:

• HTML, XHTML, and CSS Sixth Edition. Yes, it’s a noob book. I’ve done some programming in the past, but I’ve never done any web coding. This book seemed to have good reviews, so I gave it shot. I’m not all the way through it, but it seems a bit more beginner-ish than even I expected. Still, it seems pretty good.
• SEO Book. Hey, the guy has the #1 spot for “SEO Book.” That’s gotta mean something, right? I searched through some relevant forums and nearly everyone had good things to say about Aaron Wall’s book. I’m also not finished with this one yet (I tend to have several things going on at once, if you couldn’t tell), but it seems pretty good. The first part seems to contain a lot of fluff, but I’ve browsed the second half of the book and it looks like there’s some good content in there.
• Millionaire Blueprints. I also saw this mentioned on a forum and decided to check out the website. It’s a print magazine, but they also offer downloads of past issues. I purchase the current issue for $4.95 and liked what I saw, so I got a subscription. Basically they interview people who have made gobs of money in business and they talk about how they did it. This basically serves two purposes for someone like me: 1) Motivation. It’s always nice to hear from people who have actually achieved financial independence. It helps me stay focused; and 2) Education. It’s great to be motivated, but if you don’t know what you’re doing you’re basically nothing more than a really fired up idiot.

So there you have it. Will it help me make money? I hope so. If nothing else they’ll provide good reading material for the bathroom. Or, if they’re really bad, toilet paper.