Archive for December, 2007
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
I've put together some New Year's resolution that are financially related that I definitely can attain.
1. Step up emergency savings contributions - Currently I contribute $30 a week to my emergency cash fund. If I step this amount up $5 to $35, that's an extra $260 annual contribution. Definitely do-able ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Albert Lord through the entire Q & A session sounded like a extremely nervous fella.
Link to the story on Minyanville here.
Some interesting parts of the CC.
At 22:22
"We're trying to figure out what your stock is going to be worth and you've got to give us some guidance."
"You should give Steve ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
This is a list of the top five highest yielding bank accounts I am aware of. In the future I'm going to try to put out updated lists every now and then.
Bank
Yield (APY)
Minimum
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
I have a lot of ink cartridges that can be recycled via Staples' ink cartridge recycling program. I go about once a week or less to a local Staples and turn in 10 cartriges (which is the max per person per day). You get a $3 coupon per ink cartridge ...
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
At one point in my life, me, my cousin and my brother all lived under the same roof. We all had our own desktop PCs and eventually when the other two moved out they left behind their heavy CRT monitors and desktop PCs.
Most people would throw them out. However, being ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Here's a story which involved an elaborate return fraud scheme:
California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced on Monday the arrest of a Texas couple on suspicion of bilking high-end retailers up and down the state, including in the Bay Area, of more than $375,000.
Terrance Malone, 32, and Varee Hayes-Malone, 32, were ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
I only found out about this nifty little device called the Kindle a couple days ago when browsing on Amazon for random things. The device is an e-book reader that goes for $399. The e-books generally go for $10/pop. What's extremely cool is that the wireless feature of the device ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
I'll admit one of the reasons I haven't been blogging much is because I've re-discovered the joys of playing on my xbox 360 online late into the night. However a couple days ago I turned on my xBox and got the infamous red ring of death which means multiple hardware ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
AGLOCO was started by the people who did AllAdvantage back in the dot com days. Seems like history is repeating itself. I got this e-mail earlier from them:
We would like to update you on the status of AGLOCO's operations. We continue to believe in the AGLOCO concept, ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Staples had a Black Friday "early bird" sale which started at 6 AM. One of the items featured was the Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 4000 for $27.
I purchased this item(along with others) and the following week when UPS delivered my items I received the Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 4000. So ...
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