Exciting News

March 20, 2009

S and I are expecting a baby. The approximate due date is on August 22nd. Although during the first trimester S had terrible morning sickness (why do they call it morning when it occurs throughout the day?), she is fine now. "The test is positive". I heard these earth shattering words in Las Vegas at [...]

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It’s All About Adjusting The Dials

March 3, 2009

In his latest post How Hard Could It Be?: Start-up Static, Joel Spolsky compares a new business to a shortwave radio. In my mind, an entrepreneur is like a kid playing with his first shortwave radio. He takes it home and turns it on, and what does he hear? Nothing. Static. This might be demoralizing. [...]

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Solving A Different Problem

February 8, 2009

This morning I read an excellent post by Seth Godin (who is he?) titled Solving a different problem. In the post he notes that when the telephone came along, it had none of the advantages of the telegraph. Here’s why people liked the telegraph: It was universal, inexpensive, asynchronous and it left a paper trail. [...]

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My 401K Asset Allocation

January 31, 2009

Over the past few months I’ve come to realize that my 401K asset allocation was too aggressive and not diversified enough (My 401K portfolio being down by 33% was one indication).

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Tracking My Net Worth

January 24, 2009

I feel that net worth is the single most important financial figure. It’s how I can measure my progress in towards my short term (saving for down payment towards a house) and long term (financial) goals.

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Free Suzy Orman Ebook

January 13, 2009

Download Suze Orman’s new book for free until January 15th.

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How Walkable Is Your Neighborhood?

January 10, 2009

Back in 2007 when I was house hunting, I discovered WalkScore.com. Now the first thing that I check when I look at the house is check the walk score of the place. The walk score of a place is a number between 0-100, with a higher number indicating more number of places, amenities, etc that [...]

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Google Chrome 2.0 Pre Beta

January 9, 2009

Google has release some much wanted features in the new release (2.0.156). Reading the release notes I can see the following features that have been included Form Auto complete: It remembers what you’ve typed into fields on web pages. If you type in the same form again, it will show any previous values that match [...]

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Think About Using MoneyAisle For Your CD’s

January 7, 2009

If you find that your bank is offering paltry yields on CD’s have a look at MoneyAisle.com.

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AdBlock+ for Google Chrome

January 5, 2009

One thing that I missed dearly when using Google Chrome is the AdBlock Plus functionality of Firefox. But this morning I came across the AdBlock+ bookmarklet ). It removes flash, background music, third party IFrames etc. Since there is no support for plugins in Chrome, you’ll have to click on the bookmarklet once the page [...]

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