Canadian Personal Finance Blog

Archive for January 9th, 2009

The new year has brought a heck of a lot of snow to Ottawa, and a bus strike which continues to annoy and make my life interesting (having to drive my kids to school every day). My site has been up and down a bit in the past week as well, I am working with my hosting firm to come to the root cause of the problems as well (my apologies for those who have come to read and found a dead site).

Sweeping the Financial Blogs

This week’s sweep brings up some interesting start of year thoughts from some of the financial bloggers I regularly read:

• The Canadian Capitalist is offering a gently read ‘Til Debt Do Us Part Life Planner which he received, so go over and sign up for his give away (free stuff is best stuff).
• My posting about a Questionnaire For Everything made this week’s Carnival of Satire (#109)
• Michael James has been telling me about a book he has been reading Money for Nothing: One Man’s Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions and he does a review of the dispicable industry that has grown in the U.S. buying annuities from unsuspecting dupes.
• Larry MacDonald talks about what he learned from a friend about Hedge Funds when Hedge Funds Blow Up, it’s a sobering read.
• Ellen Roseman is looking for folks’ opinions of Financial Planners and is looking for your input on the subject.
• One Caveman went for the “cheap pop” by posting a picture of his New Daughter (he posted the next day, that is blogging above and beyond the call of duty dude!). Hope he has a SIN number for her and is setting up an RESP right now!
• Apple announced at MacWorld a new pricing scheme for their iTunes store which is good for old guys like me, but raises the prices on first line hits to $1.29 but removes DRM as well? Interesting.
• Promod over at Riscario Insider had a harrowing Christmas when his son had a bad allergic reaction and spent Christmas in the Emergency Ward. 
• No Debt Plan bravely published his 2009 Financial Goals,  I have no such plans because I am not that brave and know this is going to be an interesting year for my family and our finances.
• If anyone is really curious about how much “money” I make on this site, I post my income every work on my “working” blog Working Hard on the Internet as well.

Welcome 2009, let’s hope you behave better than 2008 (financially at least).