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Digerati Life has posted the carnival!

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Silicon Valley Blogger at The Digerati Life has posted this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction in a cool question-and-answer format!The personal debt reduction stories and first-hand experience with debt reduction are the main types of posts that I had in mind when I started the carnival, so among the great ...

“It’s called Black Friday, Mr. Pavlov!”

Friday, November 24th, 2006

At least the retailers are needing to ring bigger bells this year.  (Woof woof!) Sears stores ponied up $2,000 worth of gift cards to early birds.  A 42" LCD TV went for a thousand at Best Buy.  Turkey sandwiches satiated some brave line-standers.  Stores are raising each other in this high-stakes ...

Must be nice to turn down $1 billion

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

This left me shaking my head.  Management at Facebook.com turned down a cool one-billion-ish buyout.Jimmy Napier must be shaking his head, too.  He was known as saying "When someone puts a million dollars in your hand, close your hand."Well, if Yahoo! wants to put a billion dollars in your hand, ...

The telemarketer’s time is too valuable!

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

I'm actually a pretty easy-going guy most of the time, but a few things tick me off.The phone rings.  I pick up the phone."Hello, this is John."Two or three seconds later ...**CLICK** "Uh, hello, is this John?"At this point, I usually say "Yes, I said that before the machine connected ...