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Published 9:45 pm Saturday, September 11, 2010
Lording it over: As the housing slump continues, an increasing number of homeowners are electing to become landladies and landlords and rent out their homes rather than sell them at a loss.
It’s bad enough when you can’t sell your house, but it just adds insult to injury when you have to wear the flowered housecoat, hair curlers and the fuzzy pink slippers.
O is for obsequious: Google has souped up its Internet search engine with “Google Instant,” which begins listing search results with each letter you type into the search field, taking a blind stab at what you’re searching for and providing a list that offers a lot of what you’re not interested in while pointing out it only took 0.17 seconds to find it.
We haven’t seen technology this fawning and annoying since Clippy, Microsoft’s overly helpful animated paperclip.
Econ 101: With kids heading off to college, now’s the time for parents and students to have a heart-to-heart about who’s paying for what. We’ve included a list of 10 things most college students can do without, including smart phones, cars and high-end computers.
Some advice for college students who’ve run short on cash three weeks into the semester: When asking Mom for money, call her personally; don’t text her with “Ma, send $!”
