This is just a reminder that the much-loved Google Reader will shutting down on Monday, July 1st. That’s just two short weeks from now. Thus, if you’re still using Google Reader, time is short to find a replacement. Don’t wait ’til it’s too late! The best alternative that I’ve found [...]
Personal Finance Links
There’s a ton of personal finance content out there. So much, in fact, that it can be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.
But don’t worry…
From time to time, I do the hard work for you and highlight the best (recent) articles that I’ve run across. Those highlights end up here.
While I typically focus on personal finance blog content, I also point out useful articles from the mainstream media. Topics of interest include saving, investing, credit, debt, banking, taxes, insurance, retirement, mortgages, and more.
This morning, I awoke to a text message warning me that my Google Account had been hacked. It came from an unknown number, and it was clearly (at least to me) a phishing attempt. The message stated: “Your Google Account has been hacked. Reply NOW to receive a call to [...]
Well… Disney (DIS) has released the details surrounding their annual price hikes. Effective today, single-day prices (for ages 10+) at Disneyland are increasing from $87 to $92. Multi-day and Park Hopper ticket prices are also increasing. At Disney World, the situation will be slightly more complex. Single-day tickets at Magic [...]
As I mentioned last week when I wrote about discount Disney tickets, we’ve been on vacation in the Orlando area. While this isn’t a particularly frugal vacation, we’ve been having an awful lot of fun — and even learning a bit along the way. While at Disney’s Hollywood Studios the [...]
This roundup is couple of days late because I’ve been absolutely swamped over the past week or so. This is partly due to work life, but mostly due home life. And while most of the busy-ness has been good, some has been very, very bad. For starters, I was tied [...]
Speaking of silver coins… The good folks at The Consumerist highlighted an interesting marketing scheme (or should I say scam?) that made it to the front page of Reddit during the middle of this past week. It seems that an enterprising soul has decided to sell ice cream cones for [...]
I’ve never fully understood why some bloggers insist on offering partial RSS feeds. Actually, I do understand. It’s for much the seem reason that websites paginate their content. The goal is to inflate pageviews in hopes of increasing profitability. So I guess what I’m really saying is that I don’t [...]
A popular (and annoying) approach to delivering news articles online is to split the content into a bajillion pages, forcing you to click and load page after page to read the full article. The goal, of course, it to increase pageviews. After all… More Pageviews = More Ad Impressions = [...]