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online home mortgage leads - some advice
here’s some advice on those spiffy sounding internet mortgage leads from people like lendingtree.com: don’t use them.
remember the spoof site “spammesilly.com” where you could submit your (or, perhaps an enemy’s) contact information with the hope of inundating the lucky soul with endless spam emails, pushy phone calls, and junk mail? well, [...]
Northwest Airlines Is Bankrupt…Finally!
The fact that Northwest Airlines is filing for bankruptcy should come as no surprise to anyone who has had the privilege of flying with them in the past few years.
My younger brother and I were stranded at the Minneapolis airport for hours thanks to the rank incompetence of Northwest’s Reagan National employees.
Heck, even Congress demanded [...]
Life Experience Degree
What exactly is it?
Good question. But apparently over 11,000 people search for the term “life experience degree” on Google every single day. I’m guessing that this is a popular interest. I was looking at some stats on verious keywords the other day and this one really stuck out.
Amazing the things that Google [...]
Dearelder.com
This post has been updated quite a bit, thanks to additional information provided by David Bateman. Although I doubt that he, or DealElder.com, would endorse my conclusions. Read the whole thing.
Near the top of my list of yucky dishonest (after trading emails with David I don’t think that DearElder is “dishonest”, although I [...]
AOL Instant Messenger = Bad
If you use AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) to chat with friends and/or colleagues online, you should be following with great interest the stir surrounding AIM’s Terms of Service (TOS).
Contentious - Why You Should Stop Using AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) RIGHT NOW!
Slashdot - AIM’s New Terms Of Service
Slashdot’s followup - AOL: We’re Not Spying on AIM [...]
al-qaeda, al-jazeera to merge
in a move that most are calling “unsurprising”, al-qaeda, the world’s foremost terror and death cult, and al-jazeera, the 24-hour beheading channel, today announced a merger that analysts expect to benefit the arab world for years to come.
al-qaeda has been looking to consolidate its propaganda and unfounded lies departments with a viable communication [...]
Looking to buy a laptop?
Today would be a great day to do it.
Follow this link for $750 off Dell Inspiron laptops. The original price must exceed $1,500. So you basically can get a system for half price. Very nice…