Chase Freedom Plus World Card
I have been merrily using my Chase Freedom World card MasterCard. I chose the card when I fired Capital One as they decided to raise credit limits on all accounts in good standing that had a credit line below a certain rate. My 7.99% was in that rate, so they whacked my interest [...]
The Poor Old Slave
I’ve had a bad earworm with the campfire song The Discovery Channel made, so I thought I might be able to cure it by looking up some other songs. This follows the same logic as curing a hangover by drinking beer first thing in the morning. I hope it works!
I remember a ton of them [...]
Microsoft Cash Back - Almost Exciting
MIcrosoft sent me a nice email telling me three things. Of course, the most important at the top was that they changed their branding for Live Search. Whooppee!!!! Yahoo!!!! It’s just what I’ve been waiting for!
What I actually did get excited about was what they put at the bottom - that they were creating a [...]
Microhoo: Again
Microsoft and Yahoo are talking again. Ho hum. *yawn* I won’t believe anything until it actually happens. Here is Yahoo’s official statement they put out today.
“Yahoo! has confirmed with Microsoft that it is not interested in pursuing an acquisition of all of Yahoo! at this time. Yahoo! and its Board of Directors continue to consider [...]
Now’s a great time to buy a home.
The housing market is just about as depressed as a dog with a tennis ball and no one to throw it for him. With the media reporting so much bad news, I want to talk about some of the good news.
While there are different interpretations, it looks like foreclosure rates are declining. Many people were hit with a double-whammy. [...]
Dilbert is Back
One month ago I lost my daily Dilbert update on my iGoogle page. The Dilbert website was obviously upgraded by the characters in his strip. I think Wally pushed his PHB through the vendors to get the site flash-a-tized. There’s no other explanation for what happened. You can read about the change here: http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/19/1842208&from=rss. In [...]