I'm one of the people who posted a list of failed startups ("10 web start-ups (all mine) ... and why they failed"). I've been fortunate to always have a day jo

I'm one of the people who posted a list of failed startups ("10 web start-ups (all mine) ... and why they failed"). I've been fortunate to always have a day job that I enjoy, and I've never really sunk big money into any of my side projects, so I'm not in debt. I look at much of the time I've spent on my projects as time that I would have "wasted" some other way, if I weren't working on them. Although none of my projects brought me fortune or fame, here's what I got out of them: * Better coding skills, which has certainly helped me in my day job. * An assortment of functions and classes that I can re-use in future projects. * A lot of fun.