An interesting article over at MSN Money made me think a bit. The article, Your lifestyle may hurt credit score – MSN Money talks about how the FTC is pursuing CompuCredit for ‘deceptive marketing practices’ because they monitored not only the payment history but the purchasing history of the card holder.
At first glance, this sounds [...]

I recently got back from a week-long vacation only to find that things had descended into one of the seven rings of Hell. Admittedly it was one of the upper rings, but it still had caused quite a bit of disruption for just one person leaving. I’m not saying I’m in a critical position at [...]

I was reading an article over at NetworkWorld – FTC targets prerecorded telemarketing drivel and was struck by an odd notion. What is the response to this ruling, limiting electronic ‘robocalling’ from being used in telemarketing?
For us meat-people, a sigh of relief surely. No more (particularly) annoying calls during dinner making a short spiel then [...]

Yesterday’s results for July’s inflation numbers are in, and they’re not particularly heartening. July showed a 1.2% price increase for consumer goods (for the month) which is the highest single month increase in a loooong time. Even removing the food and energy portion, the increase was still .7%, which was about three times what Wall [...]

Sorry for the lack of posts recently, the promised series of Disney-related articles is in the works, only they’re stuck on a dead laptop. During the trip my laptop decided to completely conk out on me for some reason. I’m hoping that it’s just a flaky hard drive. I’m trying to get it to get [...]