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Round-up: The Love, Hate & Personal Accountability of Credit Cards

The "Cleaning out Bloglines" Round-up: Stop Buying Crap

Somewhere in near-mothballed draft form, there are some articles about why I 1) don't pay cash, 2) don't carry consumer debt, and 3) use my REI Visa for pretty much everything. Cap from Stop Buying Crap sums up well a lot of my annoyance with people who blame the credit card companies for their debt, and how use of the much-aligned credit card has a hell of a lot going for it.

• Why I Still Love Credit Cards
• Oh #@&! The Credit Card Company Held a Gun to My Head and Forced Me to Use the Card!

Round-up: Freelance writing Tips from Angela Booth

The "Cleaning out Bloglines" Round-up: Angela Booth's Writing Blog

I've been reading Angela Booth's Writing Blog for a long time now. With nearly 100 of her freelance business advice, writing tips and motivational posts saved in my Bloglines, she was a natural to do a round-up. Here are some of my favorite posts of hers to keep around for ongoing reference and motivation:

• How to Get Paid to Write
• Conquer writer's "overwhelm"
• Six Secrets For Writing Success
• 2006 Top Writing Tips Redux (Part Two)
• Develop contempt for your 2007 goals - and succeed
• 2006 Top Writing Tips redux (Part One)
• Set Tiny, Realistic Writing Goals for 2007
• Just write it: make peace with your writing self
• Fiction: naming your characters
• Get published: Self-publishing versus vanity presses
• Writers' Mac: Best Mac programs for writers
• Writers' Self-sabotage - 10 ways to sabotage your writing
• It's YOUR book, no one else's
• You Can Create Your Own Writing Job... If

Round-up: Mac Tips for Mac OS X Users & Windows Switchers

The "Cleaning out Bloglines" Round-up: Apple Matters

Apple Matters is an informative yet amusing blog full of tips, analysis and commentary about all things Apple. If you're a Mac OS X user, especially a Windows switcher, these 4 posts will come in handy:

• A Switcher's Guide to Windows and Mac Differences and Equivalents
• Mac Tips, Tricks, And Easter Eggs
• Parallels Desktop - A True Killer App for Mac With New Beta Features
• 20 Useful OS X Tips

Burger & BBQ break

Today is Memorial Day, and it marks the (un)official kick-off of summer grilling and BBQ season here in the States. That said, my mouth is watering for a green chile cheeseburger. May your coals be hot, your beer cold, and life good.

Simple dahl Recipe

Recently I've been drooling over fond memories of dahl in India. Jodie found us a simple, lip-smacking-by-the-look-of-it Dahl Recipe to try, from blog thimble.

Link: thimble » Dahl Recipe

"This is one of our longtime favourite recipes. It has a nice sweet-spicy contrast thing happening with the curry and the coconut."

Posts over the next few weeks: The "Cleaning out Bloglines" Round-up

A while back I posted about trying to clean out the nearly 800 posts saved in my Bloglines account. I've made... some... headway, but not much. So, for the next couple of weeks, there'll be a lot of round-up posts on here, on topics from writing to personal finance. I hope you find them useful, or at least can get a chuckle out of the sigh of relief Bloglines and I are sharing.

Which Roth IRA Account Is Best for Your Retirement?

Searching for the right Roth IRA for you? Compare different Roth IRAs at different banks, and learn more about the benefits of a Roth IRA, below.

As for me, my money is on Vanguard's Target Retirement Funds. Vanguard is known for having some of the lowest fees in the industry and some great funds. They also do a great, plain-language podcast for folks trying to learn more about saving and investing.

Link: Which Roth IRA Account Is Best for Your Retirement?.

"Best Roth IRA Accounts: Many financial institutions offer Roth IRA accounts to their customers. After searching Google for Roth IRA, I came across tons of banks/credit unions that offer Roth IRAs. Haven’t opened yours yet? Well, you no longer have an excuse. Everything you need is right here."

Authors Who Avoid Traditional Publishers By Angela Hoy

Don't want to try to get published by a regular ol' publishing house? You don't have to. Authors seeking publication have more options than ever in today's writing world, and Angela Hoy of Writers Weekly explains why:

Link: Authors Who Avoid Traditional Publishers By Angela Hoy.

"I'd like to talk about authors who avoid traditional publishing houses for some (or all) of their titles, and why."

Marketing Profs Round-up

• What You Can Do About Attrition | Marketing Profs
• How Online and Offline Have Fused into a Single Dialog (and Why Marketers Should Follow Suit) | Marketing Profs
• The Five Most Important Words on your Web Site | Marketing Profs

The Noodle Man - Toshi's Ramen

Note to self: Must take Jodie here for a date. I went to Toshi's Ramen once, years ago, and haven't gotten back by there again yet. It's silly really, because the ramen is good, refreshing and a million times better than the ol' college staple of noodle block and powder-chemical flavoring:

Link: The Noodle Man - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA.

"When people think ramen, they think cheap," he said. "After they eat my ramen, they realize what it really is."