Archive for July, 2009
Filed under: Money relations
It is kind of hard to know what to invest in right now, well it is probably the same at anytime but now your chances of choosing something that will crash and go away are higher. But, on the other hand there are a whole lot of absolutely great deals right now too. Knowing what they are though is the challenge. Doing some research and checking out finance forums can give an idea of what might be good. I think the other thing is to look at what will probably last, what is needed now and will probably be needed in the future? Personally, I think tech and bio are the way to go, at least for long term. Plus most of those stocks are at a bargain price right now. If you are really into it you could check out some money brokers, or stock brokers, whatever they call themselves at the moment. If you are willing to pay a lot of them are looking for jobs too, I believe.
I haven’t any plans to go that way myself. When I get some free cash, as in cash not being used for bills and to survive, I want to try those online trading things. Like E-trader and that one with the baby. Can’t think of it at the moment, might even be E-trader. I really haven’t looked into them but I know some people who swear by them, swear at them too actually. Might be fun to be a day trader, although it is probably much more challenging at the moment. However, I bet it can be really lucrative now too. Probably the best way to do it at the moment is to use pretend money and see how you do. That way once a person feels comfortable they can, if they have the extra cash, and invest a hundred or so online and hopefully grow from there.
Tags: currency, finance, investments, money
Filed under: Phones
I decided to stick with the guys or gals I am currently with as far as telecoms companies. Not for any particular reason other than it is easy and as you know if you read the post before I tend towards lazy. I blame my parents. (Let’s not tell them that though, ok). Anyway, it made sense as I am happy with who I am with as far as my personal lines, and I have been with them for several years so it seems like a good idea to just go with them for a business line as well. At least I know for sure how they do business.
I still like cell phones better even than the cordless home ones. I have been looking at a couple, like Panasonic KX phones but nothing that would change my mind. Now if they had a home phone that was say like Star Trek type where it almost comes out of thin air anywhere in your house, I could probably go for that. Otherwise to be honest I don’t think I see the point. At least not for me, but I am sure that there are a lot of people and businesses out there that would be happy to have the home phones, cordless or otherwise. I think the biggest advantage of having a home phone would be to have it at home and not to be there to answer it. Just let your machine get it, of course, an even better strategy would be to have a home phone and not to have an answering machine or service. Then you could just say, “uh, no, sorry, didn’t get your call. Did you leave a message? Oh, yeah, forgot.” Might be fun, though most would ask why you don’t just forward your calls, but you could plead phone ignorance. I am over that point myself, anymore I just don’t answer and if somebody ask I tend to just tell them why.
Tags: Add new tag, answering machines, choices, companies, telecom
Filed under: Phones
I have been keeping up with most iPhone stuff cause I am fairly interested in getting one. I was going to get one for a business line but don’t think I would really use more than about twenty percent of its capabilities. I have looked at telephones and cordless phones but don’t find them to be as convenient. So, for work it will be a regular cell, most likely as cheap as I can get. Probably just go with the free ones most phone companies offer, as I don’t think I really would need much more than that. There might be a few features I would need for a business line, but about the only one I can think of off the top of my head is an answering machine or service. I have considered call logging but that doesn’t make too much sense for what I want to use the phone for.
However, I am still very interested in picking up the new iPhone 3GS soon as I get my new job bringing in some more cash. I heard, recently, that they are having problems with overheating on the phones, though. That kind of sucks. I don’t think apple has really said anything about it yet. At least nothing really official. There are some other neat things I have come across for the phone also. There is now an application for getting Sirius/xm radio on your phone, you can download books from Amazon and a couple of other major bookstores and you can now take video with the new phone. Plus you can edit it and it has the landscape keyboard in most of its applications now. That is a great thing! If you haven’t used it, you should give it a try. I was using my friends just earlier after trying to hold a text conversation on my currently phone and it was like somebody reaching down and handing you a glass of water in the middle of the desert. Huge difference when I was texting. Huge. Someday, right. Ah, well going to go take a look and see if there is anything new in apps for the phone.
Tags: 3GS, cell, iphone, overheating
Filed under: Comm
Anybody else out there using an antenna for their TV? I personally am getting a bit tired of it. In general it works fairly well, but when it is windy or stormy then the signal gets weak and it goes in and out. Really that is not to bad but I am very tired of having to get up (yes, lazy) to change the positioning of the antenna. It really seems that each station needs it in a different direction. It is either each station or each show. Either way it is really a pain in the butt! Usually it’s a pain in my butt, cause I am the lazy fellow that has to get up to change it. It goes against my anti exercise stance. What can you do, though?
Anyway, I am thinking about cable or satellite TV again. I looked into it before, looking for cable and satellite help, but never broke down to do it. Still not sure if I am that desperate yet, but I am getting there. I Have kind of looked at companies like Sky or Direct TV but the biggest problem with paying for cable or satellite is that you get so many useless channels. I was wondering why they somebody doesn’t have a choose your own channels package or something. I think it would be a great hit. I would go for it, especially if it was a bit discounted. I haven’t seen anything like that though. I’ve checked Virgin Media, which looks good, and Comcast for different areas. I don’t need three hundred channels when I will probably only ever watch about fifteen of them regularly, though. That is not to say I want all the channels to go away, cause choice is a very important thing! My fifteen channels or so are probably not the fifteen or so that the next guy would want to watch. So having a ‘do it yourself’ or diy package would be a wonderful thing. I wonder if they don’t currently have the capability to offer something like that. I can see the first one to offer that getting a whole lot of customers almost immediately. They could do like a pay per view thing, where you look at the movies on your tv and then choose the one you want and are charged for it. If they could do the same with a pay per channel thing.
Tags: antenna, cable, satellites, signal
Filed under: Comm
I believe I was complaining about antennas and how good they seem to work. It is not that I am using a cheap antenna because I spent quite a bit on it, it’s actually an HD one and when the signal is good things look great! My irritation kind of seems to go in waves, about like the signal. When it is good and working great then I am fine and a happy camper. There are some channels I miss but it just wasn’t worth paying for a whole package of crap that I just wasn’t going to use. I don’t know much about and am not really interested in those boxes like Eurovox for cable or the Dreambox for satellite because the whole idea doesn’t seem quite fair to me. Although when the signal is bad and causing issues then I kind of reconsider things and all those extra channels and just going ahead and paying for cable or satellite TV instead of just using an antenna starts looking less annoying.
After calming down a bit I think I am about half way there. Halfway to going ahead and breaking down to pay for cable or satellite. I still am not sure which would be best, something like Sky or something like Comcast. They both have their attractions and their pitfalls. I am not honestly sure about what all the pitfalls are and what the full difference between them are but I know what makes me interested in both of them. Cable seems to be a bit more expensive but it looks to be more stable. The satellite seems to have some of the same problems that the antenna does but supposedly to a whole lesser degree. I have heard that during intense storms you don’t get anything or you lose out on some channels. But cable works whether there is a storm or not. The biggest problem with cable would be error on the provider’s part or somebody cutting something they shouldn’t. I think I would have to check more into what the differences are and just how bad satellite is during storms. I would probably go with satellite if the storm thing is not a big issue. I guess the next time I hit that boiling point with my current antenna I have something to do besides grab a crowbar.
Tags: antenna, cable, storm affects, windy
Filed under: General
It is good to be back writing, was taking care of some real life issues but those are done now. Time to get back into writing and start sharing all my wonderful thoughts and ideas again. I have come across quite a few interesting things recently but just haven’t had the chance to sit down and actually go over them so that I could share with you all. It is summer now, least it is here and that means fun in the sun when you can and relaxing evening when you can grab them. Finding that it hasn’t really been like that for a bit, just too much to do. Like the rest of you. Lots of things on the plate, but that is fine. I think we would all be very unhappy if the plate were empty. I don’t really know of anybody that like an empty plate. Seriously, who would? To strangle a metaphor, even if the food is getting all mixed together on the plate it is still so much nicer to have it on the plate than to be staring at a plate sadly devoid of anything.
Alright, then figure I should get on with things. Wonder what everyone has been up to? I have spent most of the time learning things and putting out fires here and there. It is somewhat exhausting; don’t think I had much sleep for a couple of weeks there. But, seem to be over the hump and ready for the next set of challenges, only this time I think I want them to be a bit more fun. I would get more specific but I really don’t want to bore everyone. I would like you to come back and see what is going on and some of the stuff I wanted to share my opinion on. Yeah. Who am I kidding, I want to share my opinion on everything. Probably wouldn’t be here otherwise.
Tags: busy, silence, travel, writing
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