Archive for September, 2007
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
If you read my last post about Kiva, you'll know there was a shortage of loans due to the popularity of the charity. I made 4 new loans today which you can see on my lender page.
I'll outline exactly what you're donating with Kiva:
You're giving someone from a third world ...
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
I just got a call on my cell phone that woke me up from a company called Quality Resources. The lady on the other line said that they received my information from a "business partner" of theirs. At this point I'm extremely suspicious and I keep asking her who gave ...
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
I surprised to find out how expensive Best Buy's Geek Squad charges for their services. $249 for coming over and installing Windows ($129 if you haul your machine over to a Geek Squad location.). The price quoted doesn't include the software either.
I've installed Windows a couple times and I cannot ...
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Sunday, September 16th, 2007
I've been inside a UPS facility before where they unload and load the trucks. The environment is incredibly harsh in that you're constantly being yelled at to load or unload trucks faster and faster. To add you gotta play tetris with the boxes too and stack them efficiently. I can ...
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
For those unfamiliar with bank runs, they're when people fear that a bank is insolvent and start to withdraw their deposits. Generally images of bank runs are associated with long lines outside bank branches.
"The jitters plaguing financial markets spread to the high street for the first time yesterday as thousands ...
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
This is the August 2007 update of my Million Miles Quest.
For those of you that don't know, my million miles quest is a personal goal to achieve a million miles on American Airlines' AAdvantage program. Achieving a million miles gets you gold status for life. It couldn't hurt to have ...
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
In the past two months I joined two sites that offer rewards in exchange for filling out surveys. I decided a few extra free miles to pad my AAdvantage account wouldn't be too bad.
E-Rewards offers other various other rewards besides miles also. Each survey pays you around $3.50 to $5 ...
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
"Rope Ladder
The trick to climbing carnival rope ladders is to completely ignore the "rungs" and only use the outside ropes to climb on.
While applying equal pressure with your right foot and left arm, move your left foot and right arm at the same time. Then do the same thing with ...
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Yes, the iFone is available for $159 from DealExtreme.
By now you've realized something is a bit off? Yep, the "iFone" is a clone of Apple's iPhone. While I don't intend on purchasing this anytime soon, it is kinda interesting how they were able to clone it in a short amount ...
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
By default, your free cash balance in your Zecco account doesn't earn any interest. You can easily sign up for the money market sweep by checking out this pdf file. I chose to e-mail my request to them.
They didn't e-mail me or anything confirming the money market sweep request. I ...
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