http://enginero.com Personal Finance from an Engineer's point of view! Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:32:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While putzing around online this evening, I came across this article from the AP newswire. This is yet another article detailing a shift in the spending habits of "The Jones's". The article mentions nothing ground-breaking, but it did get me thinking once again about the potential effects of a ... http://enginero.com/2008/06/23/the-joness-are-turning-frugal-the-latte-less-factor/ We all do it in one way or another. For some it just pays the bills, for others it keeps them motivated, but regardless of the reason, we all work. My last work week involved devoting countless hours to debugging and fixing a problem that should never have happened ... http://enginero.com/2008/06/22/work-work-and-more-work-so-when-to-blog/ OK, so I admit it. I didn't like the Commission Junction hosting company ads. Yes, I have used each of the companies before and yes they were worthwhile, but I just didn't care for the flashy animated images. It distracted me, so maybe it distracted you as well. Anyway, ... http://enginero.com/2008/06/18/blog-update-removed-cj-ads-added-top-blogs/ I just ran across this article over at CNN Money. The article highlights 10 families that have chosen to quit using their credit cards in an effort to get out of debt. Each of the families has a similar, yet different story, but simply no longer use their cards. ... http://enginero.com/2008/06/17/cnn-money-no-credit-card-debt-for-10-families/ As I mentioned in my previous post, Birthday Dinner Savings at P.f. Changs, my wife and I have been using Paul McKenna's "I can make you thin" tips for about 2 months now and it has made a very huge positive change in our lives. We saw his mini-series ... http://enginero.com/2008/06/15/paul-mckenna-i-can-make-you-thin-works/ Personal Finance blogging simply kicks butt! Going from only reading PF blogs to entering into the opposite world of maintaining a blog has been tremendous. I have only been running Enginero now for about 2 months and I have already gotten to meet some really great and likeminded people ... http://enginero.com/2008/06/13/entertaining-flattering-exciting-pf-blogging-rocks/ I'm finding that whenever I make a development based update to the blog, it gives me motivation to post about it. I guess it could be that I'm compelled to share my new found knowledge on how the developers have used PHP to build the content management system that ... http://enginero.com/2008/06/12/webdev-tip-customize-the-title-of-your-pages/ It isn't often that I am compelled to read more editorial commentary on the mortgage/housing issues in this country right now. However, I came across this article over at Yahoo Finance that I found interesting. Yahoo's Money and Happiness Expert Laura Rawley gives us the breakdown of how events ... http://enginero.com/2008/06/12/interesting-article-american-dream-fairy-tale/ I don't know why, but for some reason I continue to be compelled to start doing monthly net worth updates on the blog. It has certainly become pretty commonplace for personal finance blogs to have net worth info, yet I keep going back and forth over it. The way ... http://enginero.com/2008/06/11/cant-get-net-worth-off-of-my-mind/ The Wall Street Journal released an article this morning about how some people are buying a new home to bail out on the old. The idea is far from ingenious. People who are upside down on their mortgages due to falling home prices are using a loophole in the ... http://enginero.com/2008/06/11/buy-and-bail-youve-got-to-me-kidding-me/