I use Bing Desktop for 30 seconds a day - get a new picture for my desktop. Other than that - no Bing!

Who knew? And here I am with LP, cassette and CD versions of every Moody Blues release from "Days Of Future Passed" to "The Present" - and a few of them on reel-to-reel too. Guess I should feel bad that I didn't download and pay again for yet another version for my portable music players.

No room to grow?  What about no reason to exist? Dell? Dell? No room to grow: Add Microsoft to this list! Windows 8 is a disaster. Internet explorer is, well, irritating. I wait on pages to load before I can read them like I still had dial-up! I'm waiting on an ad to load and I can't scroll down the page to finish t...more

Oh yes. Like the person who says, "I didn't pay any income tax! In fact, I got money back!"

When friends & family ask me about investing, I recommend the S&P index or Total Stock Market index. Why?   Once you leave the world of the index you are saying, "I'm a money manager! I can beat the index long term!"   It doesn't matter what you buy: stocks, managed funds or whatever. You've made the above decl...more

This is what I figured out years ago when I was 18: The only thing you need to have it made is the belief that you have it made. It's all attitude. Happiness has nothing to do with money.

We, as a nation must have our priorities. As long as big bird is still on TV, what else do we need?

"Nobody can reliably predict the long term." Really? S&P 500 has returned 9.9% on average since 1957, when it was expanded to 500 stocks.  Since 1800, the general market has returned an average of 6.5% above inflation annually. Here's the S&P 500 index returns (including dividends) since 1999 - the bubble peak:  ...more

That's why I'm not investing in the stock market at all. It's a Ponzi scheme! I'm relying completely on Social Security for my retirement! :)