January 2011

Whence Bag Lady Syndrome?

January 6, 2011

I suffer markedly from bag lady syndrome, the haunting sense that one of these days I’m going to end up living on the street. Sometimes I wonder where the hell it comes from. Really, there’s enough in the bank to support me without my ever having to lift a finger in paying work again…but I [...]

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Moments of Fame

January 5, 2011

Several high points this week: Sustainable Personal Finance hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance this week and kindly included Funny’s speculation about the repercussions of the latest tax break coming our way. Speaking of the which, MSN Smart Spending accepted the same post, only handsomely edited and much improved by that site’s gifted contributor, Karen [...]

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Three reasons to keep the land line

January 4, 2011

SDXB called the other day to say he’s going to get rid of his land line. Figures it’s going to save him a ton of money. Not only is he going to ditch the land line, he’s also going to kill his Cox high-speed Internet connection, effectively taking his computer offline. His plan is to [...]

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Ooops!

January 4, 2011

UH-oh! What have we here? “Akismet has protected your site from 21,974 spam comments…” It has? How d’you suppose it did that when it was supposed to be turned off? Turns out it wasn’t off. Last time I updated WordPress, I did a bulk disable of all Funny’s plug-ins, and then blithely bulk re-enabled them. [...]

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2011′s First Carnival of Money Stories

January 3, 2011

Happy New Year! And welcome to the year’s first Carnival of Money Stories. Since we’d all like to know if the economy is going to get any better over the next twelve months, our theme is—what else?—predicting the future. What does where we’ve been tell us about where we’re going in 2011? Editor’s Picks: Winning [...]

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Cutting for Stone: A Good Read

January 2, 2011

Just finished reading Abraham Verghese’s engaging book, Cutting for Stone. It’s one of those novels that pulls you so completely into its world that you feel sorry when it ends. It’s the story of the orphaned and abandoned twin sons of an Indian nun and an Anglo doctor who grow up as Ethiopians in a [...]

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