Even though today is Saturday, the weekend unofficially started yesterday for me since my work was shut down due to inclement weather conditions. Basically overnight a storm dropped a ton of snow and it would have been difficult for everyone to get out of their driveways, much less to work. I wasn’t going to complain though since it allowed me to work on the new floor some more and get it mostly done (there is just some remaining trim work to be done). Enough about that however, here is some great things from around the web for the weekend:

1. Creating passive income is a common theme here at Fiscal Musings and there is a nice article about just that over at The Walrus, a relatively new blog and recent commenter here. The article is entitled Keys to Creating Passive Incomeand covers various ways to go about it. I have one quick suggestion for The Walrus though. I would change the permalink structure to include the title of the posts instead of just referencing them by number so that the search engines have an easier time finding them. Nice blog though.

2. By now a lot of you have probably heard about the offer that Microsoft made to buy Yahoo. When I first read about it the offer was at a 61% premium over the current share price of Yahoo. Many people are seeing this as a way provide competition to Google, which is more and more being viewed as the new evil empire. It sound like a pretty good idea as far as I’m concerned. Google left a bad taste in my mouth ever since they banned me from Adsense citing “click fraud” even though I never clicked on an ad myself or told anyone else to. And submitting an appeal was a joke. They also downgraded my page rank to Zero I believe because I’ve done some sponsored reviews. I digress here, but Google is getting on my nerves.

3. Speaking of Yahoo, there was a decent article by columnist Laura Rowley, Be a squeaky wheel to avoid ‘Gotcha Capitalism’. I’m sure we’ve all dealt with this before at some point. Hours spent on the phone with “customer service” (a misnomer itself) trying to fix what never should have happened in the first place. To combat this effectively we just need to educate ourselves and pay more attention to what’s going on with our services and corresponding bills. Don’t just pay whatever shows up in the mail; peruse the details to make sure you agree and to catch the un-asked-for extras.

Well, the sun is shining and I have a lot to do today to get the house back in order and usable again with the new floor. Enjoy the above and have a great weekend.

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