Author: mnc

Fly for a Nickel 0

Fly for a Nickel

I just came across this promotion from SpiritAir to fly for a nickel, restrictions apply of course and tickets must be purchased by 11:59pm ET today but maybe someone can take advantage of the...

OfficeMax Under Fire 2

OfficeMax Under Fire

For those that might not have heard about this yet, apparently OfficeMax had a Verbatim 4GB USB Flash Drive advertised on their website for $17.98. Obviously that is a great price and people were...

Lessons from a Dot Com Mogul 11

Lessons from a Dot Com Mogul

For the last few months, I have been a very regular reader of JohnChow.com and have found a wealth of knowledge on the site to satisfy numerous interests of mine. Recently John proposed an...

Sugar Bowl in HD 0

Sugar Bowl in HD

About two weeks ago, I purchased a 19″ LCD HDTV (capable) that was on sale but had yet to visit my local cable company to pick up the cable box for their HD service....

Plans for 2007 3

Plans for 2007

With the holiday season and an illness thrown in for good measure, I’ve been away from the blog for far too long. This past weekend however, I spent an afternoon doing my month-end net...

Google Gadget for National Debt 3

Google Gadget for National Debt

As I mentioned in my post about a possible site redesign, sometimes I just need a new little project to energize me and get me back into the swing of things. Well, I just...

Making the Choice to Be a Loser 0

Making the Choice to Be a Loser

Awhile back I wrote a post about being in debt and being overweight, where I discussed my thoughts that there is a link to being in debt and overweight in that the characteristics required...

Site Redesign 0

Site Redesign

Lately I have been thinking of changing up the look and feel of the website but I am not sure what to go with just yet.  The site is being run with WordPress, so...

Holiday Exhaustion 0

Holiday Exhaustion

Maybe it is the crazy hours at work or just the holiday season, but I have been feeling exhausted lately.  Unfortunately that means I haven’t been posting as much as I should because I...

Stupid Investment of the Week 2

Stupid Investment of the Week

Over at MarketWatch.com, Chuck Jaffe has an article that identity theft insurance is his stupid investment of the week. To be honest with you, purchasing identity theft insurance is something that I have never...