Kevin,

you’re a good man with a good heart. you’re an inspiration to me and to everyone here. keep up the good work and may God bless you always!

Reggie
Singapore/Philippines

Get stuff Kevin!

Doing the same think year in, year out, really drains. Its a rat-race…everybody needs a break.

Two years ago I felt the same, so like you, left my full time software job in the UK to move to Thailand to do something completely different – helping a childrens home, while spending more time on my own software project.

They key is being your own boss! It is so releasing to just drop everything and go watch my kids sporting event, listen to your great podcasts, head into the mountains to visit the home or farm project, without having to ask the boss and give a weeks notice…

Keep up the great work and blogging

Adrian
Chiang Mai, Thailand

Thanks for taking the financial hit for us Kevin. You’ve certainly made an impact on my daily life.

I had sworn off subnotebooks, after the dismal experience known as the C1MV. When I saw you and your son’s Eee Pc video, I decided to give it another go ’round.

Now, here I am with my second subnotebook purchase in six months (Mini-Note), and I’m a very happy camper. People who lug around large laptops just don’t know what they’re missing.

Please excuse any typos. I posted this from my Wii.

I just arrived at my Dad’s house for his FiOS install, so I’m essentially “just waking up” online today. I feel very humbled and honored by the many kind thoughts here. The reader support here exemplifies why I enjoy doing what I do. Thanks for helping me out along as I find my way: you folks keep me honest when you can and more often than not do it in a gracious way. Thanks!

Kevin, you are outstanding and what you do! I admire you for the big decision you made to become a full time blogger. A very insightful person once said.. “our success in life is determined by how much uncertainty we can comfortably live with” Right now you are a little head of your time.. but as your field of expertise evolves, I believe in the next couple of years you will be quite a large name in the tech industry (thats said you pretty well known now).

Even though, I dont always agree with your reviews or opinions you are by far the most charistmatic blogger/ writer that is currently on the internet .

The number of coments to this posts indicates that I am not the only one who shares this belief.

Well done Kevin for your total commitment to your passion.

kind regards

Dean

Kevin your leap of faith is definitely inspirational.

Here’s to your continued and ever increasing success.

Ardua per ad astra (Through difficulty to the stars.)

Congratulations for the leap of faith Kevin.

I enjoy very much this blog, I find it informative and useful. Always at the top in my daily RSS list.

In my little experience, a rewarding life/professional life doesn’t just happen… Ending up working in a field you are passionate about and doing exactly the kind of work you want within it is something people dream of.

You seem to be headed for that, as a direct consequence of your planning, work and willingness to take the risk. And we readers can only be too happy about it.

Fond regards from Spain.

I’ve been reading your blog for a while and I must say that the enthusiasm you have does show you’re happy with this new gig you’ve got going. I wish you all the best jk!

I routinely get blank stares when I tell people I ‘m a full time blogger. The follow-up is always something like, ‘people actually make money doing that?’ if you can stick it out for 18-24 months of hard work and obscurity, then in most cases, the answer is yes.

Keep up the great work! This remains one of my favorite blogs.

All rhe way over here in Denmark i allso enjoy reading jkontherun daily, you two do a fantastic job. i might not allways agree with you, but the ammount of articles and the different topics covered is fantastic.

Do you have a PayPal account set up for donations. I would like to give every so often. I just want to make sure you recieve some money for your work. I know some blogs try to get a sponsor. I think mobility today can’t keep one. You can tgalk about a product without alot of trash talk. Give pros and cons. Thanks for keeping it real.

Kevin,

jkontherun.com is my favorite blog because both James and you are “real” about the technology you write about.

I am perhaps at the point myself where a career switch may be in order; thanks for helping me to think about that again.

Bill

Congratulations Kevin.
I just wanted to say that I enjoy reading jk OnTheRun, and it has steadily risen on my favorites list.

Kevin, I love what you write and it shows that you love writing it. The videos, the podcasts, it’s all first rate entertainment. (and it costs less than a Kindle). As long as you and James do what you do, you can count me among your readers/listeners/viewers. Congrats on your first of many anniversaries.

Thanks a lot, Kevin !

We are all childs of this spirit of new technologies era… Not always a quiet stream.

Best regards from Paris (France).

Kevin, you have my complete support as I hope you know. I enjoy working with you very much and know in the bottom of my heart that you will be successful in this as you have been in other things in the past. Let’s start an empire, how about it?