While looking around for information on air conditioners, I stumbled across an article on how to economically air condition a house. This is one of those diamonds in the rough that I love finding. Anyway, it pretty much explains everything you need to know: BTU, EER, Watt, Amps. But as a bonus, it also explains how to fix a themostat for A/C units you find on the street (usually they can be repaired.)
August 2, 2006
Why are we leaving our jobs?
Managers, some food for thought: Top 10 reason why people leave their jobs.
August 1, 2006
Credit Rate Rates
Should have been a little more clear in that last post. The New York State Banking Commission publishes a quarterly survey of credit card interest rates. You can download it directly from their site.
Capital Punishment
Consumerist has posted CapitalOne’s CEO’s address today. I used to have a CapitalOne credit card until they starting trying to slam me with dubious late fees, so it doesn’t surprise me that they are still up to their old tricks. Little did I know how big the bag of dirty tricks really is. If you carry a CapitalOne card, I suggest you cancel. There are too many fish in the sea to deal with a bunch of hiway robbers like CapitalOne.
Cheggit
The naught boys over at Cheggit.net have set up what must be the first useful social porn bittorrent site. Registration is locked at 40K users, but they’ll be opening that up after the beta period.
RelevantNoise.com
Just noticed that the marketing department was looking over my shoulder. Ok, not exactly, but the marketing department’s minions (relevantnoise.com) just scanned my website. What a name for a site, very dot.com era and very cluetrain*. Check out the demo, it’s hilarious – one of the examples involves searching for variations on AOL and ‘cancel,’ quite topical in light of the recent posts to Consumerist.
Amazon Price Changes
Economist R. Preston McAfee was interviewed by the Guardian last month. In the interview, he discusses price volatility and how Amazon might be experiementing with price discrimination. After the interview, McAfee provided further observations about Amazon’s pricing.
Don’t (necessarily) quit your day job
BusinessPundit takes on the tremendously assinine Steve Pavlina’s recent post “10 Reasons Why You Should Never Get a Job”. Pavlina, a mountebank if there ever was one, writes condescending advice for the Amway set about such burning issues as polyphasic sleep and taking the “red” pill. Ok, it isn’t all as terrible as I make it out to be, but that article about never taking a job was pretty ridiculous.