Archive for the ‘money’ Category

Building a blog to retire off the proceeds? Think again!

And interesting post on Techmeme started my day this morning called Time To Hang Up the Pyjamas. It was an article by Daniel Lyons who had set up a highly-trafficed blog called The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs a couple of years ago. The gist of the article is that...

Making Money Online

I just came across some links that are all about making money online. How to make money on the Internet – Blogging Why Most People Fail Online How to Make Money Online Without Spending a Cent Why The Job-ification of Your Passion Can be the Ticket to Hating Your Life Top 50 Update: Make...

How much do you earn?

I came across an interesting report today that’s an IT Salary Survey for 2008. It’s a survey conducted by Global Knowledge, a global leader in IT and business training together with TechRepublic, an online magazine and social network for IT professionals. The report comes up with some great facts and...

Bank of England Rate stays steady

Looks like the Bank of England has kept interest rates steady at 5.25%. There was a drop only recently so I wasn’t expecting them to drop any further, but like anyone with a mortgage, I would have minded too much if they had gone down a bit more. Speaking about mortgages,...

How low can you go?

Like most of the people in the UK (apparently) I owe lots of money to the bank. Not that I borrow money on a regular basis or that I overdraw my credit cards, but rather I had borrowed hundreds of thousands of pounds a few years ago so I could...

Mortgage Comparison

It seems that there are more and more comparison sites springing up on the Net. It’s a great medium for that sort of business, as one can now automate comparison across different services as more and more companies push their offerings online and provide APIs to them. I came across...

Malta joins the Euro

I’m sure things are pretty “interesting” in Malta at the moment, as they are currenty in a changeover period switching from the Maltese Lira to the Euro. The general public started using the Euro as currency on the 1st January and shops will stop accepting it at the end of...

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