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It’s a bit late to follow Google’s “Finance Tip of the Day” advice “Buy airline tickets as far in advance as possible. The cheapest flights are the ones the are bought at least two months in advance”,
but the following tips from AAA are timeless:
“MOVE FAST. Canceled flight? Use your cell phone to call the airline’s […]
0 comments Lana | Travel |
As if to echo my yesterday’s post on real estate prices and budget planning and my post on Nov.26 on purse renting Purse for Rent and the 30 mil Demand, I found this article, published by Bloomberg today, where renting finer things and other aspects of life are discussed.
Here are a few excerpts and the link […]
My collection of financial news for the last 10 days.
It’s been at least 8 months, since all of the media outlets started featuring articles on the demise of residential real estate on their front pages.
The mortgage crisis, foreclosure rate, plummeting of home values, financial institutions loosing funds…the picture is getting bleaker. Every bit of the […]
Today, I’d like to add some more information to complete my post (on Nov. 27) about dictionaries. As I’ve mentioned, Miriam-Webster’s OnLine Dictionary can be installed on your browser’s tool bar, or rather under it. The bar contains M-W Dictionary, Thesaurus and Word of the Day buttons. Every time you need to look up a word, […]
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“Connect words with images and find the name of the whatchamacallit on the tip of your tongue with Merriam-Webster’s Visual Dictionary.” This is an exerpt from the great article I found today at lifehacker.com.
The dictionary has 20,000 words with contextual definition and 6,000 color images for variety of objects. Now you can find the word […]
On November 21, I wrote about the painting found in a pile of trash. Today, I’d like to add a bit more on that subject.
In the end of December of 2000, the world of San Francisco’s artist, Vladimir Vitkovsky, was jolted and nearly shattered by the news that one of his paintings was anonymously donated […]
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A few years ago I read about a new online business, where registered users would pay a fee and get to rent an expensive designer purse for the specified amount of time. At that time I thought that it isn’t a good idea, considering the cost, the inventory and especially, who would want a purse for […]
If your teenager is a big fan of Harry Potter, he/she may have an opportunity to appear in a walk-on role in the new film “Harry Potter and the half-blood prince”. All what is need to be done, is to provide correct answers to the questions in the quiz, which is being published on MSN […]
