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  • Longterm Savings Growth

    Focus on the big picture, get a savings account with a good interest rate and try and set aside a certain amount of money each month. Even if you’re only putting in $50 a month, it still adds up over the course of a few years. Figuring out just how much you’ll have put into saving, but figuring out how much you’ll have made from interest is somewhat more time consuming, so here’s a simple way to figure out just how much money you might save over an extended period of time.

    Savings growth calculator after the jump.
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  • So easy even I can do it.

    To understand that title, you have to know that I’m nowhere close to a cyber geek , or even a guy that really has a clue about websites. Strange then that I list web designer in my “career” list on our handy dandy About page. How does that work?

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  • Your order is on its way

    Those were the beautiful 6 words that filled the subject line of the email I received from Best Buy a few hours ago. The best part is that I haven’t ordered anything from Best Buy since I pre-ordered Halo 3 almost 6 months ago. I knew that September 25 was the release date, and that it was just around the corner, but something about that warm, fuzzy email alerting me of all the awesome gaming I’m about to encounter just really filled me with glee. And I wanted to share that with you.

    There, now that I’ve shared that glee, you may now return to your previously scheduled activities.

  • History in the making

    Alright, if you haven’t heard of them yet, you will… soon. The band is Mute Math. They have a video of their first released single called “Typical”. In said music video, the band plays in reverse. Lots of videos have been done in reverse, but few, if any, have been an actual performance backwards. The bandmates learned to play, and lip-synch, all of their parts from end to beginning, that way when the recording was played in reverse it actually looked like they were singing and playing regularly, but all of their movements were backwards. Follow me?

    Well, last night Mute Math made history by being the first band to every play the song backwards on live TV. They recreated their music video in front of a live audience, and they did it all in one take. They didn’t stop the cameras and redo a part they screwed up, they did the whole song in reverse. It was actually pretty cool.

    Check out the craziness

    By the way, if you have a chance to see Mute Math in your local area, I definitely suggest it. They put on a very original, high energy show, which was probably the best I’ve ever seen. Share your thoughs in the comments.

  • Google is up, dollar is down, investers less then pleased.

    Via USAGold.com.

    On February 1st of 2006 I bought one share of Google stock. I paid $400 for it. I planned to ask for the certificate and display it in my office. I wanted to be able to say that I bought Google at $400.

    Today Google closed at $555 and I am up a whopping 39%.

    Suppose I sold my share today and took my $155 profit.

    $155
    -$40 for trading fees
    ————————–
    $115 Gain
    -15% Capital Gains Tax
    ——————————
    $98 Net Gain

    My net profit is $98 (24%) This sound pretty good, except that the dollar has dropped 34% since Feb 2006 and I have actually lost 10% on this transaction.

    BTW, I left for a moment to sell the share during my composition of this post. I can’t afford losses like that. I bought SLV (silver) with the money. I don’t expect to make a profit on SLV, just freeze the $555 asset. I expect that the dollar will fall a lot more than 34% in the next year. Alan Greenspan actually said in his new book that it would be best to keep your money in “other than US currency”. Ironic isn’t it?

    Now granted, this is on a forum frequented and managed by gold fanboys, but it’s hard to call bias on cold hard numbers isn’t it?

    Seeing is Believing