Money, Matter, and More Musings
Musings on Money, Personal Finance, Frugality, Debt, and Other Matters
From the category archives:
Recently, a reader added some extra dimensions to the topic which amounted to saying that most personal finance bloggers are rich and self-righteous. [Editor's note: I had the comment quoted here, but the author wanted it removed, so it's gone now]
Any thoughts?
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Here is a rare reminder for my readers to subscribe to my blog’s feed. Subscribing is very easy, and if you are an avid blog reader, it will definitely enhance your reading experience. Just click on any of the following buttons, or click on “Subscribe by Email” (if you prefer your feed through email) and you are ready to go.
), but at times these numbers are a source of encouragement to keep on writing. It is always comforting to know that people are interested in this blog. 
If you have already subscribed to the feed, please accept my gratitude.
Before you go away from this page, here are some articles from the past that may interest you:
Also, check out the most popular posts if you haven’t done it yet.
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I am sorry if some of you are having trouble accessing this blog today. I was trying to access it over a couple of hours around noon and kept getting “Internal Server Error” messages.
DreamHost is really testing my patience. In the last 4 months, similar things have happened for about 6 or 7 times. I will probably look for a different (more reliable and more expensive) hosting option very soon.
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Earlier, I have listed some posts from my previous domain at Blogger. Here, I am highlighting some of the popular posts since I started writing on this new domain in mid-November. Listed below are 8 posts on a variety of topics; hopefully you will enjoy them. I would encourage readers to read through the comments. At times, comments really bring out the essence of the points under discussion.
Btw, sometimes I become sullen and don’t really live up to my tag line “personal finance doesn’t need to be boring!”, but I try
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What is it with spam and Wordpress? It just keeps coming and coming….why so much spam-love for Wordpress? This certainly didn’t happen when I was with Blogger till a few months ago.
Yesterday, the number of spam comments on this blog passed the number of genuine comments and trackbacks, and this is how it looked:
Not good. 
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I should have mentioned about this earlier, but better late than never
Check out the 84th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance hosted by Jim over at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity. Incredible number of entries in this one.
Trent “The Blogging Machine” of The Simple Dollar hosted the 58th edition of the Festival of Frugality.
Make a point to visit these carnivals if you haven’t done it yet.
Also, I will be hosting the next Festival of Frugality (# 59) on this blog on Tuesday, Jan 30th. Click here to submit your articles.
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Some of my fellow bloggers have noticed an errant website posting full content feeds of certain blogs. In the past couple of hours more than a dozen posts from this blog have been posted.
In order to discourage this, and while other resources are mobilized, I will disable full feed content for the time being. Instead, a 75 word “summary feed” will be published. I opologize for the inconvenience that this may cause to my regular readers.
If any of you, who are reading this, have faced a similar situation before…I would be interested in knowing what countermeasures you took.
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Finally, things are taking shape with this new theme. Thanks to Dimes, Sun, HC, Kirby, Maria, and Ispf for giving some timely input.
Now time for some wrath.
Why the heck can’t IE do what other browsers do? It did crap to my blogger template, then to my Giraffe theme and now if Ispf hadn’t mentioned some weird stuff (misplaced right side bar and missing “submit” button for the comments”) with IE6 there would have been some more crap with this theme. Browsers should have some kind of a common code….it sucks to keep modifying your template to optimize for every other browser.
I may have never mentioned this, but I don’t like HTML/CSS…sometimes, it causes a lot of pain and suffering to ignorant idiots like me.
In other news, till now, there are about 34 entries for the next edition of the Festival of Under 30 Finances to be hosted on this on blog the 26th January (Friday). Looks like some busy time ahead reading and sorting stuff. If you are interested in participating, submit your articles asap.
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I tried to change a few things in my previous Urban Giraffe theme and it just wouldn’t come out right. Finally I gave up and decided to switch to a different template. After a few hours of searching and reading reviews, I have (for now) chosen the TripleK2 theme by John TP. Let me know if you like this one better than the old Giraffe. I will be glad if you guys could voice your concern over anything in particular that you don’t like about this new theme.
The immediate reason for the shift was that the Giraffe template was messing up a few things in Internet Explorer (expecially the post titles); and here is a distribution of readers on my blog showing a large number of IE users:
So got to do it for the IE users :).
The most obvious drawback is that this theme is not “fluid”, so if you are using 800 x 600 screen resolution, you will have to scroll to get all of it. But, according to sitemeter statistics, less than 2% of my visitors are using that screen resolution…hopefully they won’t mind the change so much.
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It has been almost 6 months since I started blogging actively….of which the first four months were spent on Blogger and next two on this new domain. Just thought of highlighting some old stuff from my Blogger times which my new readers may or may not have glossed over. Here are some posts that struck the right (sometimes the wrong) chord with many people. Generally arranged in the order of oldest to newest.
How I Killed My Debt and What I Learned From it
Really Bad Debts: How About 1303.57 % APR ? Any Takers?
How Long Till You Double Your Money? Is the Rule Of 72 Good Enough?
How Much Do You Spend On Killing Cockroaches?
How Secure Is Your Information On Yodlee?
How And How Much You Would Earn From A 0% APR Offer: Part 1
How And How Much You Would Earn From A 0% APR Offer: Part 2
Do Worry About Retirement But Beware Of Overkill !
Wow ! Get A Free Xbox 360 ! …But Wait…What’s This Behind The Curtain?
18 Credit Cards And Not A Single Late Payment: A Guide To Efficient Credit Card Management #1
18 Credit Cards And Not A Single Late Payment: A Guide To Efficient Credit Card Management #2
So How Many Cards Does It Take To Hurt Your Credit Score?
And Let There Be More Light For Less Money: Save Money On Light Bulbs
Man that sort of turned out to be a mini carnival in itself :). Have fun reading those. Also let me know if you spot any errors or missing pictures. When I moved to this domain, I “imported” the old stuff from blogger…and a lot of unhappy stuff happened. So keep me posted about it.
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