Archive for January, 2009

Truly numbing amounts of money

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

No Credit Needed had to work to wrap his head around exactly how much $887 billion is.  That's the Senate's version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009.  NCN found a good answer: almost $3,000 for every American man, woman, and child. As I've mentioned before, I'm trained to ...

Being a free hosting reseller means lots of weeding

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Once in a while I check on eBay to see what kinds of web businesses people are selling.  One auction I ran across last night was for a couple of domains that provided free, ad-free php hosting. The guy bought a "free hosting reseller" package for $50/month, and this company provides ...

Some more on my goals for 2009

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

I only set two goals for myself for 2009, and they're at the heart just consistency goals: writing down whether I do something each day or not.  I figure that if I can at least do that much, then I'll be able to see how I'm doing on the goals, ...

Upset that your credit card company changed the rules?

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Apparently Chase has taken some of the fun out of their balance transfer accounts.  Some of these low-APR accounts now have raised minimum payment requirements (from 2% of the balance to 5%) and raised monthly fees to $10 per month from nothing per month. Would you be a little ticked if ...