Archive for September, 2007
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Weekend Round-up: Red Sox Clinch Edition
With the Red Sox clinching the AL East for the first time in 12 years, I can finally relax a little bit. That relaxation is going to last only a couple of days. The playoffs start on Wednesday of next week, so it will be nail-biting time again. For the next day or two, I’m [...]
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Dear Politicians, Please Adjust Roth IRA Limits for Areas of High Cost of Living
As my regular readers know, we are a dual income, no kid, couple in Silicon Valley, which has one of the highest costs of living in America. I was flipping through a real estate magazine the other day and a 1000 sq. ft, 3 bed, 1 bathroom, with no updates was going for $700,000 (the [...]
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In Defense of McDonalds’ Double Cheeseburger
Trent from The Simple Dollar has been on a cheeseburge kick lately. He’s gone through quite a bit of time and effort to write about his experience buying a McDonald’s Double Cheeseburger vs. making his own burgers at home. He comes to the conclusion that “it was more time-effective to make the homemade cheeseburgers.” It [...]
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Afternoon Links: GoodBye Business 2.0 Edition
I received news that I’ll be saving around $10-12 a year and I’m mad about it. It looks like Time Warner is closing down the Business 2.0 magazine. It was my favorite of three magazine that I subscribe to – the other two being Men’s Health and Money. Perhaps I’ll have to start reading Tech [...]
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Automated Housekeeping
According to Google, I’m the second laziest man on the web. I jokingly grabbed the Lazy Man name because I abhor housekeeping. It’s a chore which never ends. I hate the feeling that I’m not making an progress. So it got me thinking, What can I do to eliminate or at least reduce the housework? [...]
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Save Money on the Web
I’ve mentioned before that I’m a software engineer living in Silicon Valley. Such an occupation forces you to stay alert with all the technology advantages in the field. Often that includes keeping up with the latest technology gadgets. Financially, it’s quite a curse. Back in my “gotta have it first days” of 1998, I had [...]
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Weekend Round-up: Jekyll and Hyde Edition – Part 2: Jekyll
Yesterday, I mentioned how the Red Sox season was flailing out of control – not unlike Mr. Hyde. Today, it’s time for the opposite, Dr. Jekyll. I’ve mentioned more than a few times that I’m a Patriots fan, despite all the shenanigans over the last couple of weeks. However, unlike the Red Sox, the Patriots [...]
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Weekend Round-up: Jekyll and Hyde Edition – Part 1: Hyde
I’m doing something a little different this week and splitting the links up in half. There will be some today and more tomorrow. The split of links themselves is random and not related to the Jekyll and Hype situation I’m going to discuss. I’ve mentioned more than a few times that I’m a Red Sox [...]
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Match.com’s Promotion – A Raw Deal?
Match.com has been running a promotion for a little while now. If you sign up for 6 months and don’t find a match, they’ll give you six additional months free. What they are really saying here is that if their product doesn’t work they’ll give you more of it. Imagine how this would work in [...]
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Lazy Man and Jealousy
Like many people, I’m a member of LinkedIn. I think it’s a fabulous tool for keeping in touch with people and very well could help advance my career. Last week I logged into my account to accept a connection from a friend and I had a surprise waiting. My college freshman roommate’s title was listed [...]
