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40-Year Mortgages

by Flexo

According to an article on MSN Money, 40-year mortgages are about to become mainstream. Forty-year mortgages have lower monthly payments than their 30-year cousins, although they cost more over the life of the loan because the borrower pays interest for 10 years longer. With the lower monthly payments, they are seen as a tool to ... Continue reading this article…

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Income and Expenses, May 2005

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There’s nothing special to report in regards to my income and expenses for May. I still need to curb my spending. I’ve been receiving some income from website design projects and from the Google Adsense ads on this and a few other sites. Keep reading this article to see this month’s income and expenses compared ... Continue reading this article…

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Tangential Rant

by Flexo

One small piece of business-speak grates my ears everytime I hear it. The word is processes. For some reason, supposedly intelligent business people are often reduced to pronouncing this word as if its root was an imaginary Greek word, processis. That is, they pronounce the last syllable of the plural as “EEZ.” Unfortunately, like aks, ... Continue reading this article…

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Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Lunch

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For as long as I’ve been working here — nay, as long as I’ve been working — I’ve taken the easy, lazy way out by buying my lunch every day. Usually it’s from the cafeteria, but a filling and sometimes creative company lunch, even though subsidized, still costs more than six dollars. Eating at the ... Continue reading this article…

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The Great (Class) Divide

by Flexo

Big Media CEOs get paid to stay at home. Media companies will pay their chief officers big bucks on top of their salaries to keep second homes for business. The numbers in that article are staggering, but not unexpected. This quote by Paul Hodgson from The Corporate Library mimics my sentiment exactly: “The very idea ... Continue reading this article…

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Today’s Interesting Items

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The Federal Reserve Bank raised rates to 3.0 percent. Will ING Direct, Emigrant Direct, and other high-yield internet savings banks follow? Seven rules for negotiation. Here is some good advice for negotiating anything, such as raises, car prices, and hostages. I wish I had read this when I first accepted my current position at this company. ... Continue reading this article…

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Income and Expenses, April 2005

by Flexo

This entry goes hand-in-hand with my April account balances. Three paychecks came my way this month, in addition to some money for a job I did for a friend and my first Google Adsense check. Continue reading this entry to see the chart.

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Like Beating A Dead President

by Flexo

Unaffected by the failure of the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin to come the “dollar of the future” as expected in the 1970s and by the failure of the Sacagawea dollar coin to be used for anything at all in the last six years, Congress is taking another stab — this time, at dead presidents. ... Continue reading this article…

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