Posted in finance, mylife, travel on April 27th, 2007 No Comments »
The euro hit $1.3682 which is an all-time, in addition the British pound is up to around $2. Boy the wife and I sure picked a great time to go to Europe…we leave in 3 weeks. Hopefully we’ll have enough money to fly back, jeesh
Euro Rises to Record High Versus Dollar
Posted in finance, orlando on April 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Ran across this article posted on CNN.com yesterday and thought it would be worth passing along. In it the National Association of Realtors says it expect home prices to fall for the first time in the 40 years they have been tracking sales. They also expect median home prices to drop 8.7 percent by the [...]
Posted in consumer, finance on April 10th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m sure many of you have already heard or used this site, but considering the book review I just gave I figured I’d take a second to point it out. Investopedia.com is a great resource full of investment tutorials, articles, tools, and one of the best finance related dictionaries on the web. Many of the [...]
Posted in books, consumer on April 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Just finished reading my latest book, Personal Finance for Dummies, by Eric Tyson. Yes it’s been awhile between books as I don’t get much reading done during UCF football & basketball seasons, I call it my reading off-season. Anyways I purchased this book as the wife and I are trying to become more educated about [...]
Posted in consumer on February 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Considering this week for me has revolved around my mouth with two root canals and a second retreatment of one of those root canals all in 4 days- I figured I’d keep up with the dental theme.
If you are one of those unlucky ones that consistently get canker sores in your mouth, well I’m [...]
Posted in consumer on January 29th, 2007 No Comments »
I posted this last year on my blog, and since it just happened again I’ll post it again because it’s worth mentioning. I highly recommend getting a Blue Cash card from American Express if you like getting hundreds of dollars for free. We just received our cash back reward for last years expenditures and it [...]
Posted in consumer, google on January 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Google has decided to give out $10 as a bonus to try it out their (somewhat) new Google Checkout system. There are no strings attached to this,all you need to do is sign up before Feb 15th and then use your free money before March 31, 2007.
So sign up and purchase anything over $10 and [...]
Posted in business, google on October 9th, 2006 No Comments »
Two of the most popular sites are now owned by a single company as Google announced it will be purchasing the rising star of the web- YouTube.com. For those YouTube fans, worry not the site will remain the same it will not be integrated with Google’s existing video service. Should be interesting to see how [...]