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Updated: October 15th, 2008

Worst thing I’ve ever seen…

Edit: Oh, and this just knocked the wind out of me: this is the rate of return in my 401K account this year:

Edit #2: nope, that wasn’t the worst. Today (Oct 15, 2008) beats them all:

Updated: August 20th, 2009

If you haven't heard of Digsby yet, you have probably been living in some kind of a virtual cave or have no friends. Digsby is a multi-network instant messenger application, similar to Trillian, Pidgin (GAIM), or Miranda. I said 'similar', so what makes Digsy special? Reviews I read so far don't give the real reasons and don't dive into the features in depth. Instead, you get a…

Updated: February 24th, 2009

Why do I dread doing taxes every year? One of the main reason was having to figure out ways to import hundreds of transactions from my stock brokers: Scottrade and InteractiveBrokers. I love IB but come on, it's 2008 and they still don't provide .txf files to import into TurboTax (or TaxCut, but I use TurboTax myself). Scottrade, on the other hand, is directly…

…and I'm not too upset about it. Down, home prices, down!! Read this article for a nice update on the current housing market conditions and the experts' opinions.

AP
Housing Market Spirals, No End in Sight
Thursday March 6, 5:30 pm ET
By J.W. Elphinstone, AP Business Writer
Low Home Equity, Record-High Foreclosures: a Limp Housing Market Looks Even Weaker

NEW YORK (AP) — Nervous homeowners and economic analysts have…

Take a look at the hidden camera videos of what hotel cleaning staff does to your drinking glasses. Watch and fear! And never use them again.

I never thought this could actually happen but Sharper Image, the home of overpriced crap that nobody ever buys, is now bankrupt. Spencer's next?

Oh, and by the way, shares plunged 72% and are now sitting at 41c. That's from a 52 week high of $14.16.

CNN Money | Reuters | Google Finance

I saw this joke posted on the Internet and decided to keep it for future reference. But… is it even a joke? I don't think so! It's the goddamn truth.

What a woman says, what she really means…

I need = I want
We need = I want
It’s your decision = The correct decision should be obvious by now
Do whatever you want = You are…

I was looking through some old papers while cleaning out the closet and found this list that Milla made for my mom when she was visiting. I quickly jotted it down for future reference. Here it is in no particular order:

In San Francisco

• Golden Gate Bridge
• Golden Gate Park
• Twin Peaks
• Legion of Honor (beautiful place!)
• Embarcadero

…

Updated: December 19th, 2007

If you haven't heard yet, there's a cool useful little device that you can buy for about $20, called the Kill-A-Watt. You plug it into the power outlet, then plug something into it and observe various fun facts about the plugged in device, such as the power consumption, voltage, amperage, etc. I started plugging things in and recording power consumption that you can see below. Here are…

Updated: November 11th, 2007

The aww factor is through the roof.

About a week ago, I started seeing really weird behavior on digg and fatwallet, among other sites. For instance, while viewing any digg article, the CPU goes to 100% and Firefox becomes unresponsive – it even pops up the "Script not responding" message similar to:

My digg viewing experience has plunged and I even resorted to using (gasp, how dares he!) Internet Exploder. It was even weirder…

Sheep mentality or really really bad comments? Judge for yourself: http://www.digg.com/videos/comedy/What_the_hell_3

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/305240_costco27.html?source=rss

Here's the summary: TVs, computers, cameras, camcorders, iPods, MP3 players and cell phones now have a 90 day return period. TVs and computers have a free 2 year extended warranty by Costco. Items bought before the policy went into effect Monday, Feb 26 are not affected by this change and can be returned according to the old policy.

Well, we all knew it was coming, and even though I'm…

Posted in TIME magazine recently, this original letter from an anonymous marine is a must read. Here it is:

The Secret Letter From Iraq
A Marine's letter home, with its frank description of life in "Dante's inferno," has been circulating through generals' in-boxes. We publish it here with the author's approval

Written last month, this straightforward account of life in Iraq by a Marine officer was…