Like many Americans, I spend too much. I got an offer in the mail from PSECU offering a low interest consolidation Visa. I took the offer and paid off my American Express card. My plan was to pay down the loan over 12 months. The problem is, if you use the credit card, you are [...]
We recently bought a fake Wii. The real one is too expensive. While playing tennis with my son (I have the sore arms to prove it), I verified something that has been bugging me for about 20 years. The state of “Deuce” is equivalent to “30/30.” I don’t claim to be the first to point [...]
I just bought a Motorola Droid, which features the Android operating system, written by Google. The phone is good. I like it, I don’t love it.
Its main shortcoming is that it’s annoyingly branded with Google. They make it really easy to set up Google Mail, but really hard to set up Yahoo mail, or a [...]
It’s funny how the health care reform debate is turning out. On the left you hear, “health care costs are breaking families,” and “it’s immoral to let Americans choose health or money,” or something along these two lines. On the right you hear “there’s nothing wrong with health care,” and “only lazy people don’t have [...]
Sarah Lacy’s, “Twice You’re Good,” is a shame of sorts. Let me first cut to the chase, then I’ll expand if you’re interested. Using on my YouOver scale (i.e., would you go back and read it over if you could get the time back) my answer is no, I would not, but not for the [...]
For the uninitiated, a “unique” is a unique visitor in a given time period, usually a month. Companies ensure a visitor is a unique visitor with logins, cookies, and IP addresses, and “unique” counts are generally thought to be pretty accurate. As far as dollars per unique goes, Google is doing something right and Facebook [...]