When I moved in to my townhome, it came with a stipulation forcing me into a 3-year monitoring contract with an alarm company at $25/month. Worse still, they can’t monitor without a home phone line, which would add another $20/month. I wasn’t planning on getting a phone line, so now the free alarm installation was [...]
Monthly Archive for March, 2007
Google’s customized homepage URL
Posted in General on Mar 20th, 2007
Dear Lazyweb,
Google recently updated their customized homepage to include themes. This reminded me of a long-nagging question I’ve had about this service: why is the URL for it http://www.google.com/ig? I don’t know what “ig” stands for in this context, other than being short, easy-to-type, and hard-to-remember.
Other similar services all have similarly short but easier-to-remember URLs: [...]
A glimmer of hope for American personal finance
Posted in finance on Mar 16th, 2007
In college, some of my favorite courses weren’t computer science, they were finance courses. There are no minors at Mudd, but if there were, I was pretty close to getting one in economics.
I’ve been following the bull market of the past few years, along with more gloomy details on subprime mortgages, inflation, our national debt, [...]
My USB Key is Well-Travelled
Posted in General on Mar 6th, 2007
Last week, I took a few days off work and went down to San Diego to visit my parents. When I got back, I noticed that my USB key was missing, but wasn’t too concerned - I’ve misplaced it before, and it’s even survived at least one trip through the washing machine with no ill [...]