The Vendor Client Relationship Yeah, “we’ll gladly pay Tuesday for a hamburger today”. Via Constant Siege
Finances
Auto Makers to Get $17.4 Billion – WSJ.com They got more money than they asked for, with fewer strings attached, and less oversite. Oh, and who’s the “car czar”? The guy who’s supposed to watch over all this? why, our favorite bailout maven, who’s done such a fine job with the bank bailout–none other than [...]
I’ve got an idea. Yes I do. How ’bout, instead of giving Wall Street 700 Billion Dollars, Washington, gives everyone in the US 2 Million Dollars. With a population of approximately 305,358,236 (US Census Bureau estimate), that’ll cost the gov’t less money, and, really ought to kick the economy up a notch. Just a thought.
The state of financial software for everyday people on Linux is abysmal. I’ve been using Monyedance for my finances, since I moved over to linux/Ubuntu completely 3 years ago, and am very happy with it, except for one niggling problem with dialogs lately. The problem with Moneydance is that it is not free, either money [...]
Found this pic out there, and liked it. I may resurrect it for Buy Nothing Day (it is a graff for last years event). Be a maker, not a consumer.
Opt Out at OptOutPrescreen.com. You can opt out from these offers either for 5 years, or permanently (by mail). It won’t eliminate all of the offers, but according to MasterYourCard it took care of about 90% of their junk mail. Ecological, and de-stressing. The rest of the post at MasterYourCard is worth reading also–it’s about [...]




