Two simple ways to increase your credit score
I have a friend who makes more money than me, has no debt except for a small mortgage, and his credit score is 150 points lower than mine. The key difference between us is that he puts a couple...
View ArticleThe bitcoin-train connection
Ever since Bitcoin came into prominence, there’s been a great deal of speculation about the shadowy creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Newsweek thinks they found him: A semi-retired engineer who dislikes banks...
View ArticleAnother breach, more credit-card advice
So Minnesota-based Supervalu, an operator of grocery stores, had a data breach in the midwest last week. If you’ve shopped at Cub Foods, Farm Fresh, Hornbacher’s, Shop ’n Save, Shoppers Food and...
View ArticleThe Marx connection to Hafner
Hafner was a Chicago-based maker of clockwork-powered O gauge trains during most of the first half of the 20th century. The trains were inexpensive but durable. William Hafner developed the clockwork...
View ArticleI am not in jail.
The bank vice president apologized for calling the police on me. That’s neither the beginning nor the end of the story, but it seems to me that police involvement of any kind is a sign that your real...
View ArticleDon’t buy a house if you can’t afford it
I see the advice all the time not to buy a house if you can’t afford it, but rarely do I see a good explanation of what that means. It’s really easy. Let me explain it, as someone who paid off a...
View ArticleMemory buying secrets
Many years ago, I wrote something titled Memory Buying Secrets. That post is lost to history, thanks to migrations in this site’s early years, but there are a number of things you need to know when...
View ArticleNeed a Commodore motherboard? Believe it or not you’re in luck
Individual Computers is working on, of all things, a replacement Amiga motherboard that will fit in an Amiga 500 or Amiga 1200 case. The board will use the AGA chipset that the Amiga 1200 used, but the...
View ArticleRental property: a good investment
Is rental property a good investment? It certainly is if you do it right. Here’s what you need to know. I’ve seen several formulas for success, but I follow the one-percent rule, because you can do it...
View ArticleCommodore C64 vs C128
The Commodore 128 was introduced in 1985 as an upgrade path from the Commodore 64, the most popular model of computer of all time. The 128 was intended to address the biggest shortcomings of the 64...
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