Archive for April, 2010
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
AOL and I will never, ever be BFF. EVER. They even told me so. Here's my story:
Let's go waaaaaaay back to 2000. Back to a time when every American's mailbox was absolutely stuffed to the gills with AOL discs. One fine mid-Atlantic day I wanted some World Wide Web on ...
Posted in Deals and Steals | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
The author's marketing firm was kind enough to send me a complimentary copy of Mark Gilbert's new book called Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable.
I enjoyed the book. It was well-written. (Mr. Gilbert has written a regular column for Bloomberg News for over a decade.) What ...
Posted in Book Reviews, Economy, Investing | 2 Comments »
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
Was chatting with a friend today who hadn't been to a dentist in a while. His teeth are apparently a lot stronger than mine are, as he's never had a cavity, but he's still a little leery about going there because of what he might need to have done.
Fortunately, though, ...
Posted in Insurance | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Once in a great while we really internalize something about managing money.
Auctions and yard sales used to be a weakness of mine. I'd go stark-raving crazy buying up all of these bargains for (a) things I had an immediate use for, (b) things I didn't have an immediate use for, ...
Posted in Deals and Steals, Yard Sales | 1 Comment »
