Today I've been thinking about New Year's Resolutions. I'm not going to make any. Rather, I'd prefer to view my life as something I can start afresh whenever I like. Instead of resolutions, I'll be setting goals. My main goal is to be debt-free by December 2007 (excluding my student loan). This is going to be an interesting one because I love shopping and, currently, saving is hardly amongst my favourite activities. ...

I was planning to write an insightful article about money, financial management and such the like. However, I'm feeling distinctly unqualified to do so, due to one of my banks 'robbing' me of £60 today. It's partly their fault (unreasonable charges, unclear policies, senseless bureaucracy) and partly mine (stupidly forgetting dates, spending too much, opening a savings account when I'm too poor to do so, being a stereotypical student). Anyway, ...

1 August 2006 - 1 August 2007 :  I am buying no clothes for a year. Since I graduated, I've been enjoying earning more money than ever before in my life and a significant part of that was buying new clothes. In returning to student life, I return to frugal & thrifty living. Of course, there are some small exceptions (for example, I'm obliged to buy uniform twice a year ...

On 9 August 2006, in Don't settle for Google AdSense, Erik of ProductWiki stated, "While I believe that AdSense is a great source of potential revenue, it is by no means perfect and, in my opinion, needs to be updated to meet the demands of its users... Shopping.com outperforms AdSense by a factor of 4.6!". A few days before Erik, I published my experiences with Google AdSense: On 4 ...

Revver is a company that allows people to upload & store videos of their original content for free & get paid by advertisers if/when viewers click ads at the end of the video. "The income from RevTags is always split 50-50 between Revver and the creator." There's even an affiliate program too. Revolutionary! Strangely enough, the staff members didn't seem to know what they were doing at first, but they ...