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Entries for January, 2008

Craigslist is good for your karma

We have finally entered the last stage of the move-in process! We have gotten most of our stuff put away, but we have discovered that we have more junk than we thought. (shocking, I know)
As we unpacked, we threw stuff that got a variation of the following responses into a box:

We still have that?
We haven’t [...]

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Open Thread: Music for Studying or Writing?

I’ve noticed that recently, when trying to write or just study, I have a hard time doing anything productive when I have music going that has lyrics or a lot of instrumentation going on. I’ve messed with some ambient streaming stations and some of that stuff has me intrigued - I think that having something [...]

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HSBC Online Savings and Quicken

Resurrecting a post from tumblr:
Finally figured out how to get HSBC to talk to Quicken, here?s the secret:
Enter your username in caps with your password (not the security key that you enter on the on-screen keyboard) as your ?PIN?.
(Courtesy of this site)

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Miscellaneous News and Links

Well, I am (after this post), 22 consecutive posts into my blog365 challenge (or 6.0% of the way there).
I did a little bit of work on the site today:

Converted my RSS feed to Feedburner - For my dedicated fans, you can get all of my updates in your feed reader of choice (mine happens to [...]

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Student Time Economy

Study Hacks has an interesting post on Time Arbitrage for students - he plays off of Tim Ferriss’ (of the 4-Hour Workweek) and Keith Ferrazzi’s (of Never Eat Alone) ideas on how to make the most out of your money or social network and applies it to the ways students spend their time. His basic [...]

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