Capital One sent me a credit card offer. I applied, and they actually decided to give me a credit card! So I can now count myself as a real person in the USA. Too bad MBNA, you missed out. (MBNA wouldn't give me a card of my own despite the…
I’ve added support for OpenID. For those of you from LiveJournal, this means you have an easy way to post comments here. You’ll see an OpenID URL box when you comment. You already have an OpenID – LiveJournal invented it – and it’s simply the URL of your LJ: for…
If there’s a silver lining to the current financial crisis, it’s that I prefer the “market down” music on NPR’s Marketplace Morning Report to the “market up” music. Markets are up: they play We’re in the Money Markets are down: they play Stormy Weather Markets are a mixture: they play…