Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
I was at the supermarket earlier today and as I walked out I saw a credit card cut up into two pieces and discarded on the street. The first thought that ran through my mind was hopefully the person canceled the card instead of just cutting it up. The card ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
3 days ago I started the lending team "Bloggers" on Kiva while it was in beta mode. Lending teams opened up to the public today and 2 other bloggers have joined!
If Kiva were a casino, Sam Snyder who joined this morning, would be considered a "whale". He has 2,500+ loans ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Kiva is experimenting with lending teams. It's still in beta mode and here's the gist of it from Kiva:
How do Lending Teams work?:
Members of Kiva Lending Teams continue lending as individuals, but they have the option to count each loan they make towards the overall impact of one of their ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
I was flipping through the channels and CNN had day 2 of the DNC and they were interviewing former basketball star Charles Barkley. Barkley was commenting on how he use to be a Republican but he's supporting the Democrats this year and considers himself an independent. The quote went something ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Flexo over at Consumerism Commentary gives me a mention in his post about Kiva. I'm glad Kiva is getting more exposure and it'll get tons more exposure on CC than here. :D
I discovered another blog I like. It's called Wisebread: "living large on a small budget". Two articles I particularly ...
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
My involvement in Kiva.org isn't necessarily a bad thing but I find myself spending way too much time on there looking for new loans to fund.
As of today I have loaned out a total of $20,050 (654 loans) to third world entrepeneurs. I totally blew the $10,000 goal I set ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Back in September of 2006 I signed up for the Chase Cash Plus Rewards Mastercard as a backup card in case Citi decided to end 5% rewards cards (which they did). The card got me 5% back on gas, supermarket, and pharmacy purchases.
Today when I logged into my chase online ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
I'm writing this post from my Opera web browser. It's fast and sleek... everything Firefox use to be for me. It seems with every update and new version Firefox became more memory intensive and slower. Fuck features. All I need is tabbed browsing. Simplicity is king.
I think one of the ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Ac ouple days ago I went to my local Citgo gas station for a fill up and saw on the huge sign they were selling gas for $3.62 a gallon and next to the price was a sign indicating it was a "cash only price". I had to drive up ...
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