Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Sorry for the lack of posts recently, I've been extremely busy with random things here and there.
Here's some posts in the pipeline coming out over the next week or so...
* Since when did cash become so criminal?
* Why are we willing to put up with horrible customer service?
* Build your ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Roughly a year ago I signed up for the Chase United Mileage Plus card for the 25,000 bonus miles. The annual fee of $60 is waived for the first year, I forgot about it and recently logged onto my Chase account online to see a recent activity balance of $60. ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
I got an e-mail from Zecco about "ZeccoShare". Here's the e-mail:
ZeccoShare, the revolutionary social investing network at Zecco.com, is now open to all 70,000 community members, and anyone else who wishes to join. Investors can create a profile and begin using ZeccoShare to tap into the power of social networking ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
I'm primarily a finance guy, but my never ending quest for knowledge and great interests in science, history, etc. lead to lots of random places on the inter-web. There's an interesting little animation video located on tenthdimension.com that can found here that will get you to think a little.
The guy ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
I recently discovered that MC Hammer has a blog, it's located at http://mchammer.blogspot.com/ and it's the real deal. I thought it was a spoof at first but there are videos like this one where Hammer shouts out his blog addy.
He doesn't seem to post much nowadays except random videos and ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
I'm in the market for a pocket PC or pda with WiFi. The reasoning is at work I don't get cell phone reception(due to our thick concrete walls) and neither does anyone else who isn't a Verizon customer (they're the only ones that installed a repeater in the museum). However, ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
As per my offer of every sign-up to Zecco I donate $25 to Kiva as noted in this post. The first sign-up was today and as soon as the referral is confirmed I'll fund the donation. Thank you whoever you are.
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
Netflix never has been popular with kids in my age group 18-22. However I've grown to love Netflix over the years.
I was introduced to Netflix when my brother and I use to live together. The actual experience of having DVDs delivered through the mail was extremely convenient. This was when ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
IRAs are individual retirement accounts. My preference of choice for socking away retirement dollars right now is a roth IRA. A roth IRA is a type of retirement account where you essentially contribute after tax dollars in return for your investments growing tax-free and being able to withdraw them later ...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
A couple weeks back I went out to dinner with my brother at the Peking Duck House in Manhattan. After an extremely tasty meal the bill came with a fortune cookie.
The cookie read: "Perhaps you've been focusing too much on saving."
My girlfriend (err "friend" .. whatever it's complicated now) got ...
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