The Roundup - Feed Malfunction Edition

Posted on September 22, 2007 by Eric
Filed Under Roundups

Sometimes spell check isn’t enough… For all our readers out there, we apologize if you had some issues reading or subscribing to the RSS feed recently. Thanks to PaidTwice for letting us know about the problem! Turns out we had a unicode apostrophe that seemed to be causing problems (a result of pasting directly from MS Word). Things should be up and running again now.

We tried to think of a good way to tell everyone about the feed issue while still giving something of value. We decided on this round up, even though we just had one a few days ago. In any case, there were so many good articles this week that there’s plenty of room for two roundups!

Now, for some of my favorite articles of the week :

Over at The Digerati Life, Silicon Valley Blogger discusses the contentious topic of renting vs. buying. Now, I for one bought my first house because it was literally cheaper than renting (and I’ve gotten a fair bit of equity out of it too!) This isn’t the case in many parts of the United States, but here in Texas, if you’re willing to live outside the city center, you can usually find less expensive housing.

Glblguy makes a good point about patience. It really makes a world of difference when you take the time to think about things you are going to buy rather than buying them impulsively. I think it’s gonna be another year or two before I finally take the plunge on the Hi Def TV. I’ve been wanting one for years but it just doesn’t make sense for me right now.

PaidTwice feels the same way I do about ING Direct right now. I wish they would have at least informed us of the change rather than just abruptly changing things. I guess it doesn’t matter much in the end. I’m looking at other options, but haven’t decided if it’s worth it to switch yet. I like ING, and I know the other banks are likely to drop their returns as well, but this change has me thinking about finding a higher yield account.

Pinyo had the same problem I’ve had when it comes to rationalizing how much something costs in comparison to my hourly salary. I was worse than that sometimes. When I was a consultant, I would sometimes rationalize buying something based on how much I billed for. I think I actually only got about 10% of what my hourly billing rate was, but I used that hourly number frequently. Now I don’t even calculate that number.

Carnival Time!

Carnival of the Homeowner’s is up at Homeowner’s Insurance Lowdown and they included Melissa’s article on The Sub-Prime Scrutiny Spares No Score.

SustainaBee has the Small Actions to Save The World carnival up and Melissa’s article on Coupon Karma was included.

Image Source: rick

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed, get the posts via email, read more about the blog in our about page, or browse our archives. Thanks for visiting!

Comments

3 Responses to “The Roundup - Feed Malfunction Edition”

Pinyo on September 22nd, 2007 5:44 pm

Hey, thank you for linking to my post. I “had” that problem. ;-)
Eric on September 22nd, 2007 5:52 pm

Pinyo - Sorry about that! That’s what I meant. I fixed it (that problem *and* the tense :-) )
glblguy on September 22nd, 2007 8:38 pm

Thanks for the link!