Posted in Google, Investing on Aug 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Is stock in Yahoo! a screaming buy now that it has fallen to its pre-Microsoft offer levels?
I’m not sure what Yahoo has up its sleeves for the future, but Jerry Yang will have to come up with a solution (very quickly) to recover the share price or face losing his job at the company he [...]
Posted in Contest on Aug 21st, 2008 No Comments »
John Chow is having an interesting contest, to say the least. He has asked his readers to dig through old pictures and find one to blog about. John’s contest is a tie-in with a Family.com “Mom, what were you thinking?” photo contest that is searching for the craziest outfit or hairdo. The prizes being offered [...]
Posted in Blogging, Traffic on Aug 19th, 2008 No Comments »
So yeah, I’m a little behind the times. I have never been into the game of jumping onto the bandwagon immediately after something new comes out, but now I’m ready to take the plunge and give Entrecard a chance on this blog. Look to your right and you’ll see the Entrecard widget in action along [...]
Posted in Economy, Investing on Aug 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Shares of Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) took a dive today of around 15-20% on rumors of weakness on their balance sheets and a poor cash position.
While I understand the ramifications of the housing crisis and its ill effects on lenders such as these, this selloff is simply overblown. I have been playing [...]
Posted in Blogging on Aug 17th, 2008 1 Comment »
I came across a very cool PageRank checker that goes a step beyond all the others I’ve used and actually examines every internal page of a website and spits out the PR of each one.
Shaun Carter dot Com has one PR 2 page (homepage), two PR1 pages and whopping 696 PR 0 pages. While this [...]
Posted in Free Stuff, Incorporation on Aug 15th, 2008 No Comments »
VistaPrint is offering a great coupon code for Address Labels that will give you 50% off your purchase. Currently prices for the labels are as low as $7.99 for 140, so you’d only pay $3.99 for those when you use coupon code: Labels50.
VistaPrint offers a design wizard that lets you customize your new address labels [...]
Posted in Investing on Aug 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Shares of Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (ANF) started out quite strong this morning after their earnings statement and beating the street estimates for quarterly earnings by a penny per share. But in the end the stock closed nearly unchanged from its previous close.
Profits were down 4.2%, which I think is pretty good considering the way [...]
Posted in Finance on Aug 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Are you drowning in debt? Well you’re not alone because the average US consumer holds nearly $200,000 in mortgage related debt, $13,000 in auto loans and over $8,000 in credit card debt. The average college senior is burdened with some $20,000 in student loans as well.
Many people out there are drowning in debt from all [...]
Posted in Economy on Aug 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Consumer inflation jumped 0.8 percent in July, moving at the fastest pace in over 17 years. I think the free ride of low interest rates is about to come to an end as the Federal Reserve will have no choice but to begin raising rates to stave off high inflation. A move which would almost [...]
Posted in Blogging, Google, Traffic on Aug 14th, 2008 No Comments »
I have decided to do a little test here by eliminating the NoFollow attribute on comments using the Lucia’s Linky Love plugin. I am hoping this will bring more people to the blog and foster some more discussion
Another potential benefit to eliminating the NoFollow on comments is increased linking to the site and will increase [...]
