Entries from January 2006
Money. Ah, yes. We like it, we hate it. It makes being a grown-up both a joy and a pain in the booty.
Well, here’s a decent
website that might, say, MIGHT be able to help you out.
Bankrate, Inc. is the Web’s leading aggregator of financial rate information. Bankrate’s rate data research offering is unique in its depth and breadth. Bankrate continually surveys approximately 4,800 financial institutions in all 50 states in order to provide clear, objective, and unbiased rates to consumers. Our flagship Web site, Bankrate.com, provides free rate information to consumers on more than 300 financial products, including mortgages, credit cards, new and used automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees.
In my continuing efforts to convert all my business research and such to the internets, I came across it. Seems useful. Use.
Categories: Finance
There are several reasons to like Google.
Google is rebuffing the government’s demand for a peek at what millions of people have been looking up on the Internet’s leading search engine - a request that raises concerns Big Brother may be watching a little too closely.
Thank the New York Daily News for that. Thank
Fark for paying attention.
Now. As everyone who reads this blog knows, I’m a Google fan. So, I’d like to take this opportunity for Google taking a stand, even if it eventually proves to be fruitless, verus The Man. The Man is big and scary, and we all owe The Man money. It’s cool that a bunch of computer nerds can stand up to The Man.
However, just to make sure that everyone is completely aware of the fact that I don’t yet suckle at the Googlalian teet, I should give you an example of something that Google can most certainly improve. God, how I wish they’d improve it. Here goes….
Ah well. Play on, playa.
Categories: Fark · Lifehacks
True Life Email that I received today:
ATTN:
FUND TRANSER CONFIRMATION O.K FURTHER CREDIT ACCEPTED.
Uh oh. My spider sense is tingling. Internet fraud spam? I smell Nigeria. Perhaps Croatia. Don’t people know that African crooks are Old and Busted, while Eastern Bloc Country crooks are the New Hotness?
Reference to our telephone discussion which I told you that We have received your contract payment approval from our ordering Customer Service in the Central Bank of Nigeria for the further credit to your bank account. With all due respect, our bank has obliged to credit your account with instruction. Quoting reference to bnp transfer regulation and in line with British Financial and Allied Conduct, your account will be effected as soon as you reconcile our 1% Cost of Transfer or you may advise us to deduct the total value and transfer the balance to your account.
Let me guess. If I send you my bank information, then I’ll be able to get a bunch of cash/credit/blood diamonds/hookers/blow? Yeah, right.
Let’s read on, shall we?
Should you be willing to accept deduction, our bank is therefore urging you to contact the authorized CBN Paying Officer PROF.TOM.O.ADABA board member/director international remittance department, central bank of Nigeria Lagos annex office on, E-mail: tomadaba_2@yahoo.com Please ask him to issue you the Original Hard Copy of the Authority to Deduct 1% Bill of Exchange form to enable us deducts the 1% cost of transfer. Be advised also that we only acknowledge the receipt of the ORIGINAL HARD COPY OF THE BILL OF EXCHANGE FORM, which must be duly filed and signed by the beneficiary before we can effect deduction.
Google: TOM.O.ADABA. Let’s see what we get.
You know, I’ve been getting a lot more of these lately. I’m not sure who to blame. I faithfully mark spam emails as spam, and send it to the appropriate place, yet still I get it. I wonder how much time and money is wasted on this stuff. I suppose that I could go to
Wikipedia and find out, but, at the moment, it’s early, I’m tired, and just would rather be held.
Please be warned, as our bank does not trust any Nigerian Official except PROF.TOM.O.ADABA board member/director international remittance department, central bank of Nigeria Lagos annex whom we can give attention to in any of this instruction. Prior to our banking regulation, final credit shall be made to your account upon your instruction. NOTE: you’re advised to put a stop with any other impostors that you may be corresponding with for now regarding your payment and comply with this fax so that you will not continually fail prey to clique of impostors.
Gee, thanks for the tip.
Congratulations!
Yeah. Well. Just for that I’m going to forward your email to the
FTC at
spam@uce.gov . Spammers. They kill me.
Categories: Finance
I do. They were a hell of a band.
However, if you’re looking for blog traffic, then you might want to check into one of my favorite websites, Lifehacker.
ProBlogger has some tips that can help you increase your traffic quite a bit. It’s not a big surprise but tagging is high on the list.
The only conclusion that a rational blogger/writer can come to after reading a bit of the
Problogger site (where these particular traffic enhancement tricks are found,) is that Hey, this blog is might be actually useful. Check it out.
Categories: Lifehacks
"If I thought it had any chance of working, I would crack open my own skull, and use a rusty garden rake to scrape the phrase "lady-lumps" out of my brain."
- ringloss, on the Black Eyed Peas opus, "My Humps".
On that note, I have only this to say:
My humps
My humps
My humps my humps my humps,
You love my lady lumps.
My humps my humps my humps.
Yeah, I know. The lyrics are merely illustrative.
Categories: Music
