Archive for February, 2006
« Previous EntriesMichael’s Trying Out Prosper
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006Michael over at It’s Your Money is Trying Out Prosper. For the three of you who haven’t heard about it yet, Prosper is supposed to be a peer-to-peer lender. To find out more, go to Prosper.com.
What I’m Reading to My Boys
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006While at the local bookstore a while back, I picked up and started reading Joel Greenblatt’s The Little Book That Beats the Market. Although I’ve expressed reservations about the book, I have to say that I like the way it is written. In fact,
The End of Free Feedburner!
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006Well, now Feedburner has started charging a fee if I want to view anything other than VERY basic stats. It stinks because I just figured out how to get all my feeds to go through Feedburner so that I could track which stories were most popular.
Any other feed services out there that […]
Winning the Lottery
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006Flexo has highlights some advice from Bankrate for those who won the lottery. I don’t know the exact numbers but it seems like a lot of lottery “winners” eventually become bankrupt. I guess the reason for that is that they don’t know how to manage money and I’m sure lots of evil people […]
Another MoneyBloggerPodcast is Out!
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006Scott interviews NCN of NoCreditNeeded. It’s a good podcast.
A great way to follow what’s up with Scott is to subscribe to his feed.
Jim Interviews Phil Town
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006If you have been reading personal finance or investing blogs for a while, you have probably heard of Phil Town, the author of “Rule #1″. My MoneyBlogNetwork buddy, Jim, has posted an interview with Phil. One thing that bugs me about this interview is how Phil skirts around the question:
How to Boost Your Cash Flow in Two Easy Steps!
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006No, this isn’t some intro to a multi-level marketing scheme.
If you are like a lot of people, you are probably getting a decent tax refund this year. Did you know that with some planning, you can actually have that money during the year instead
Jeeves is Getting Fired!
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006AskJeeves.com is becoming Ask.com in a huge makeover at the search engine. Their goal is to take on Google. Barry Diller, CEO of InterActiveCorp (the parent company of Ask.com), believes that Ask.com is the superior search engine because it gives more acurate results.
The New Spam Comment
Monday, February 27th, 2006I have been receiving a different kind of spam comment lately. It reads like this:
“How do I subscribe to your feed?”
I know it is spam because if this person knows what a feed is, then they know how to subscribe to it. Stupid!
I have a feeling that spam isn’t going away. I […]
Wells Fargo’s Direct Deposit Advance
Monday, February 27th, 2006I was just on the Wells Fargo website looking at my bank account and I noticed something called Direct Deposit Advance so I clicked on it. Apparently if you have your paycheck direct deposited into your account and times get tough, you can ask for an advance. I WOULDN’T RECOMMEND IT THOUGH. […]
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