February 2011

Storage in the Cloud

February 15, 2011

How do you feel about backing up your computer data in the Cloud? Basically, we’re talking about using someone else’s servers as a gigantic external hard drive for your data storage. One of the guys in my business group, a PC tech, urges friends to use Carbonite, a service that offers unlimited backup capacity (“no [...]

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Moments of Fame

February 15, 2011

Mike at the Saving Money Today hosts this week’s Totally Money Carnival and kindly includes Funny’s rumination on the virtues and vices of Excel and Quicken. Among the several excellent pieces shown, Flexo’s recent very interesting article at Wisebread resurfaces here, the one where he points out that an emergency plan is better than an [...]

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Another week, comin’ our way…

February 14, 2011

…And I don’t have to work! Nyah nyah! Well, not much: student papers will come in on Thursday, needing to be turned around by the following Tuesday. But all things said and done, reading 50 comp papers is one heckuva lot better than hauling back and forth across the freeways to Tempe ten times in [...]

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Another Day in Paradise…

February 12, 2011

Oh, God, I don’t know when I’ve ever been so tired. Up at 3:00 a.m. Work until 4:30 or 5:00, wrestling with Excel: check and check and double-check to be sure my English-major arithmetic is right before transferring a ton of money to joint checking to cover about half of my share of the 2011 [...]

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Long-Term Care Insurance: Why You Need It

February 10, 2011

One of the features of the new government health-care plan is the option to take out a modest amount of long-term care insurance. It’s not the greatest of all possible programs, but it’s a heck of a lot better than nothing. We’re told that almost two-thirds of Americans over 65 will need long-term care. Nor [...]

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How to Talk to Your Hair Stylist

February 9, 2011

Bear with me, gents, while us chicklets indulge in some Girl Talk. wook! See update, below!!! Over at Out of Debt Again, Mrs. Accountability discovered a cool gadget to allow a woman with long hair to create a DIY bob at home. She tried it, and it turned out looking pretty darned nice. This led [...]

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