Posts Tagged ‘ money ’

Jim at Bargaineering just asked how much people carry on their wallet… and it got me thinking. I typically don’t carry that much … really. At the beginning of the month, I usually withdraw a nominal NT$5000 (about US$165) to last me as long as I can. It covers coffee money, snacks and outside purchases,...
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In the modern world, credit is as essential an ‘asset’ as actual assets are. Without credit, it’s often difficult to buy the luxuries and even necessities of life. We rely on banks to provide the funds for this credit, but now credit is getting tight as banks are looking to shore up the loans...
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I’ve been reading a number of blogs for quite a while, and for my readers I’ve decided to export and save an OPML file of my favorite blogs for sharing. There are only ten feeds currently in the file, and as I read more blogs in the coming months, I’ll surely be expanding my...
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I’ve been away for a few days, and I’m slowly catching up on the past week’s posting. I hate to disappoint my readers so I’ve back dated a post for each day that I was away. After getting home, I wrote over 4,000 words to complete the task. So here are some of the...
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What you’ve missed here… Saturday Bytes: WMV to FLV and FireFox’s Causing Me Frustration Technorati: Why you should bother, how you do it, and the ‘dark side’ NetWork Solutions: How YOU can gouge your customers in 10 steps or less – a case study and our new Advice Column: Your House Is Not YOUR ATM Machine For the advice...
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Here’s a picture of my wallet as it is right now… It’s quite a bulky thing, but that’s probably because of all the crap I keep in it! I don’t usually carry it in my pocket! It’s in my bag most of the time. So, let’s see what is in it! One Taiwan ARC Card; two...
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Flower shopping: a whole new world view!  Just yesterday, I went with Christine to a flower market in Taipei. This is something I normally hate doing, but this time something twigged: I may not appreciate the enjoyment and satisfaction she has from growing and keeping plants, but I could enjoy another aspect that I already...
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A series of posts that looks at our attitudes to money, debt, and credit in some depth. Part 1 looks at the transformation from subsistence to cash and asks: did our attitudes change as much as our society did?
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Many bloggers are so disillusioned with the changes in PR ranking and the changes in Adsense. To recap briefly, Google has felled many kinds of blogs PR rankings and Adsense changes are meaning that (in the short term) income is likely to go down even further. Many bloggers are...
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InvestorsInsight : Thoughts From The Frontline > Print View In this letter presented by John Maudlin, Bill Gross takes a look at the future of the US boomer generation as consumers. He considers some startling, though rather obvious, conclusions:
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