For many of us personal finance bloggers, the idea of debt and credit cards is comparable to living in the 4th circle of hell. However, for many others who are responsible with their credit, we treat credit and debt as opportunities. My … [Read more...] about Helping my Father-in-Law with Credit
you write on paper and expect a red squigly line to appear under a misspelled word. I only ever take quick notes during class or in work meetings, so I really don't write much offline. Therefore, when I took a written midterm exam a few weeks ago, … [Read more...] about You know you use the computer too much when…
We all go through times of high and low stress in our lives, and each of us deals with it differently. In my case, I yell more often, but recently I've noticed other problems. My eye/cheek/face have gone through weeks of twitching, my upper back and … [Read more...] about Recognizing Stress and Its Effects
Folks, you may have noticed the sudden drop in subscriber numbers over there on the right sidebar. I normally have 1100+, but this morning (Sunday), I only have 509. I checked out Feedburner and found that Google isn't reporting its numbers … [Read more...] about Google not reporting reader numbers this morning
Yet another month has flown by. What have I accomplished? Well, I got over 1100 subscribers, over 20,000 visitors, over 35,000 page views and my Google Pagerank increased from 3 to 4. Another big milestone: I (and others) have written over 500 … [Read more...] about Best Posts from October, 2007
Shawn, a subscriber and frequent commenter here at Clever Dude, as well as a personal friend of the Clever Dude and Dudette will be posting occasional guest articles. You can read his introduction here. By Shawn This is the final post in the … [Read more...] about Choosing the Right Health Care Plan – Summary
Some of you may have noticed that 2 weeks ago, and then again yesterday, I implemented a "post teaser" on my index pages (such as my homepage), rather than showing the complete post. Why? I'm not looking to get more clicks to my article pages. … [Read more...] about Notice the changes on the Clever Dude homepage?
This morning, I opened up a mailer from our mortgage company and found a nice surprise. As a note, I fell asleep at 6:30pm last night and didn't wake up again until about 6:45am today. I wasn't really tired, so I'm not sure what happened. Stacie … [Read more...] about Our mortgage payment has decreased!
