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New Menu Thingy, New Forums

Monday, June 6th, 2005

Well I have decided to add a new menu thingy to this site, just below the lovely picture of the ocean at the top of the page. You will notice old favorites like the Blog, Blog Aggregator, Tools page, and About Us page.
What you may notice as being new is the link to the [...]

New Host

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

Hi Guys;
We just moved this site to a new host, if you commented and it is not showing please leave your comment again.

Sign You Are Getting Popular

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

A couple of signs this site is getting popular:
1) I am now on the C-List blogger list at http://www.blogebrity.com/thelist/ as a result of this site.
2) The comment spam has begun.
So far nothing has made it past the Wordpress moderation system, but I can only assume it will get worse from here.
This is rather unfortunate: given [...]

Around the Aggregator Today

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

So have you been to the Financial Blog Aggregator lately? Have you subscribed to the feed? I strongly suggest you do, it is the best way to get your daily dose of personal finance blogging! Here’s a sample of what’s going around the aggregator today:
Neville talks about how Owning A Business Can Be Worse Than [...]

What Would you do with a Windfall?

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

I have a confession to make; every once in a while (probably once every 4 months), I get impulsive and drop a dollar on a lottery ticket when the pot gets particularly large.
Now of course, no sensible person should by a lottery ticket and expect to win, and being the sensible person that I am, [...]

Interesting Investing Advice

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

Not very sound investment advice, but it made me smirk:

If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have $16.50 of the original $1,000.00.
With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Coors Light (the beer, not [...]

Book Review - The Automatic Millionaire

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Last weekend I found myself in an airport shop in Salt Lake City, halfway home from San Jose with a 2 hour flight ahead of me. I had learned from the previous leg of the trip that the plane I would be flying on featured so little room that using my laptop was out of [...]

Top 5 Posts to Date

Monday, April 25th, 2005

The Wealthy Blogger just reached the 40 post mark, and is fast approaching the 2 month mark. By number of comments, these are the five most popular posts:
Heyyyyy, it’s the Ponz! (16 Comments)
Banks are Evil (13 Comments)
Cut Up Those Credit Cards (10 Comments)
Jetsgo Shows Credit Blows (9 Comments)
My Get Rich Slow Scheme (7 Comments)
Of course, [...]

Greetings from California

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

You won’t be hearing much from me this week because I am in California for a conference, but I want to re-iterate that the biggest tip when traveling: do not eat at the hotel! One of my coworkers recently got to enjoy an $18 burger and fries

Cash Not Trash

Friday, April 15th, 2005

Hosting a garage sale is a great solution for ridding yourself of clutter and making some extra money. To have an effective, efficient, and successful garage sale, it takes some preparation and basic know-how. Part of the apprehension in having a garage sale is the fear of a negative outcome. Let’s cover the basics to [...]