By the time you read this, we’ll be deep into a roughly 3k mile roadtrip. The good news is that the bulk of the driving is packed into the first and last couple of days. As such, we’ll be able to recover (and fish, swim, etc.) in between. The better news is that I’ve lined [...]
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On the Road Again (Literally)
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Four Years of FiveCentNickel
Wow. I can’t believe that I almost forgot about this, but… Today is FiveCentNickel’s fourth birthday. It’s really hard for me to believe that it’s been four years since I wrote these words:
Welcome to fivecentnickel.com, a new weblog about personal finance written from the perspective of a thirty-something family man.
(I’m still thirty-something, by the way.)
In [...]
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Vacation, Vacation, Vacation
By the time you read this, we’ll be on our way out of town for a much needed vacation. Fear not… I’ve lined up a bunch of guest posts to fill the void, and I’ll also try to pop in every once in awhile to see how things are going.
Aside from that, I’ll be posting [...]
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Admin: Anti-Spam Images for Leaving Comments
Are you having trouble leaving comments? If so, please let me know.
I recently had to implement a simple little challenge-response test for leaving comments due to a recent deluge of spam comments. When trying to leave comment, you should see a “captcha” image containing a financial word. Simply type the word into the required field [...]
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Happy Fourth of July! (Changes are Afoot)
This is a just a quick (and nearly belated!) note to wish everyone a Happy 4th of July. We slept in this morning and then had a fairly lazy day, though we did go our to see Hancock. It rained late this afternoon, and our kids don’t handle late nights well at all, so we [...]
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PSA: Widespread WordPress Hack, Steals Search Engine Traffic
Sorry for wandering off topic, but…
This is just a quick public service announcement to anyone out there that runs a WordPress-based website. There is a pretty nasty hack going around right now that hijacks your search traffic. In fact, FiveCentNickel was compromised on Thursday, though this has since been resolved without any lasting damage.
I posted [...]
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Back to Basics – Suggestions?
Given that I’ve now been at this for three years, I though that it might be time to go about an write a series of basic articles for financial newbies. I’m thinking of something along the lines of a “Back to Basics” series. While this might not be as useful for the personal finance veterans [...]
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Three Years of FiveCentNickel
This is a bit hard for me to believe, but I launched FiveCentNickel three years ago today. Most of your probably don’t know this, but I actually started this site on a whim after reading a MacAddict article about weblogs in general, and WordPress in particular, back during the spring of 2005. The rest, as [...]
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Introducing Credit Addict (dot com)
This is just a quick note to introduce you guys to CreditAddict.com…
Sharp-eyed readers might have noticed periodic links out to this site, as well as its presence in the RSS aggregator block near the bottom of every page here at FiveCentNickel. In case you haven’t made the connection, Credit Addict is a new project that [...]
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On the Road… But You’re in Good Hands
By the time you read this, we’ll be well on our way to a relaxing (and much needed) vacation. But fear not… I’ve lined up a number of great guest posts to fill the void while I’m away. Over the coming days you’ll have an opportunity to enjoy fresh content from the likes of:
» Being [...]
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