July 2010

Password Security: Riffs on a neat idea

July 24, 2010

Here’s a clever idea from Adam Pash, seen on LifeHacker: To create a hard-to-hack password you can remember, simply move your fingers over one key to the right on the keyboard and type in your preferred dictionary word. Since anything posted on Lifehacker by now no doubt has been seen by every malicious hacker on [...]

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Worth Bookmarking…

July 22, 2010

Exploring the Internet for new-to-me sites dealing with things monetary, I recently came across a number of interesting blogs. Check these out: Carpe Diem, by Mark J. Perry, an economics and finance professor at the University of Michigan’s Flint campus. Lots of interesting material pops up here, some of it raw data or close to [...]

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CLICK! Why didn’t I think of this one before?

July 21, 2010

Ever have one of those “CLICK” moments, when the light switch snaps on and the brain floods with Insight? They always seem to occur belatedly. It recently dawned on me, as I was thinking of something other than how I’m going to get by during these summers of unpaid work, that an obvious source of [...]

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Textbook Ripoffs: Why college leaves kids in debt

July 20, 2010

One of next fall’s English 101 students e-mailed yesterday. This is a kid who was in one of my other courses and decided to take the upcoming class because she liked my style (read: she got a good grade). She asked how much we will be using the textbook and then said she went to [...]

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Moments of Fame

July 20, 2010

Funny submitted posts to three carnivals but magically ended up in four!   Ultimate Money Blog kindly decided to do a Yakezie carnival with a big round-up of posts from member sites. So that was cool! Thanks to everyone who hosted these excellent events, and especially thanks for including Funny’s squibs. ♥♥♥ The Financial Blogger [...]

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Bargains and Such-a-Deals

July 19, 2010

A few days ago, La Maya and I made a run on a couple of estate sales. The first place was disappointing—looked a lot better in the online photos than it was. But at the second place we both found some loot. Check out this fine junk: That pan, which I’d call a brazier or [...]

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