Archive for October, 2006
Care a Piece of Moon Cake?
Today is the traditional Chinese Mid-Autum Festival (15th of August according to Lunar calendar). The Festival itself, started in the Tang Dynasty, has more than one thousand years of histroy and is China's second largest festival after the Lunar New Year Festival (Spring Festival).
On the day of the festival, moon cake, a symbol of [...]
Google Introducing New Ping Service
Google today introduced its own ping service:
Today we’re launching the Google Blog Search Pinging Service, which is a way for individual bloggers and blog platform providers to inform us of content changes. Blogging providers who syndicate RSS/Atom/XML and want to be included in our Blog Search index can now ping us directly.
Click here to manually [...]
Ping Google and Get Your Blog Updated with Google Blog Search
Google today introduced its own ping service.
Today we're launching the Google Blog Search Pinging Service, which is a way for individual bloggers and blog platform providers to inform us of content changes. Blogging providers who syndicate RSS/Atom/XML and want to be included in our Blog Search index can now ping us directly.
Click here to [...]
Reminder: Free Financial Advice Tomorrow, October 6th
This is just to remind you that tomorrow, October 6th, there will be another session (the last of two) of financial assistance on retirement planning, sponsored by Kiplinger's Personal Finance and NAPFA. The advice is free via the toll-free number (888) 919-2345.
According to Kiplinger, more than 1300 people participated the first event on September [...]
How much Property Taxes Do You Pay?
According to The Tax Foundation, New York and New Jersey top the list of median property taxes in the nation. The 15 counties with highest property taxes are:
Westchester County, NY - $7,337
Nassau County, NY - $7,025
Hunterdon County, NJ - $6,988
Bergen County, NJ - $6,846
Essex County, NJ - $6,642
Rockland County, [...]
