Howdy all!

It's been awhile since I've blogged, and I apologize. Hopefully nobody's been anguishing about my lack of posts, and you've all taken some time to catch up on other financial matters that need attending to.

JLP of All Financial Matters notes that Engadget and Gizmodo were valued at $30 million and $50 million, respectively, according to a recent article in Fortune. JLP then figures his blog is worth a cool quarter mil based the number of visitors he gets in proportion to these uber-popular.

My post about changing the banking system hit a good tastebud in the mouth of Moolanomy, who is hosting the Carnival of Personal Finance #127 - Wonders of the World. As usual, the carnival has a lot of great posts in it, so please go on over and check it out (unless you just came from there, in which case please check out my own site before you return :o).

As a company, Google just doesn't seem to be able to stop its own growth. Not that it wants to – why would it? But a part of me wonders if it's not starting to act like a giant black hole that will soon suck all aspects of life into its dark and hungry maw.

This post in FatWallet.com's freebie forum made me chuckle out loud:

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Whatever that is... go Here

My post about Assessing whether you should contribute to a political campaign was added to the 123rd Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted this week by The Dough Roller. Take a look at some of the other great posts that were included in the issue.

PF Blogs is a personal finance blog aggregator, and they're having a "deal" of sorts for anyone who wants to try out their Friends of pfblogs service. Basically, if you add their javascript-generated blogroll, you get three months free as a "Friend", which gives you:

There's a mediocre article today at Yahoo that purports to tell you where to find the best freebies. The first section tells you that you can get some free music at a few sites. *Yawn* The rest of it doesn't get much better.

Sweet! My entry into the 109th Carnival of Personal Finance, which was posted over at the Mint blog yesterday, was accepted. The post I entered was Are you ready for an unpaid leave?.

Disclaimer: This post is in no way an endorsement of the Stock Doubling project, its related Web sites or of any stocks recommended on those sites.

About a month or so ago I stumbled across the Stock Doubling blog. It's a very interesting project: Basically, one guy is trying to see if he can pick at least one stock per year that will double. If successful, With a starting capital of $500, that means he will reach $1 million in 11 doubles (approx. 11 years).