The Sun’s Financial Diary

If you haven’t contributed to the limit in your individual retirement account for 2008 tax year yet, you still have 10 days to do so. As long as the contributions are made before the tax day on April 15th, they can still be considered as contributions for 2008.
In 2008, I contributed close to the maximum [...]

Have you heard that a computer worm could attack millions of computers already being infected by the Conficker worm on Wednesday, April Fool’s Day? The virus, also known as Downadup, explores a loophole in the Windows “Server” Service to control of infected computers. Lifehacker.com today has an article on what Conficker worm is and how [...]

It’s kind of fun to see Google change its logo to mark holidays throughout the year. I don’t know when this tradition started, but I began to enjoy them during the Olympic Games in Beijing when Google released a new logo every day. At the beginning of the new year, let’s look back to see [...]

There are a lot things to be thankful for on this day of giving thanks, family, friends, colleagues. But here on this blog, I’d like to thank everybody for their participation, reading, commenting, or simply stopping by. Without your the reader, it would be impossible for the site to exist fore more than two years. [...]

If you get the contents of this blog via a feed reader, chances are you haven’t visited the site for some time (though I do have some related post links in my feed). If that’s the case, then I invite you to come back for a look because the site just got a facelift. It [...]

The Federal Reserve announced today that it starts to ship the redesigned, colorful 5 dollar bill to banks on March 13. The new money will enter into circulation and soon reach the hands of consumers. The new $5 note uses improved security features that have been used in the $50, $20, and $10 notes when [...]

Starting today, March 1, 2008, New Jersey’s new cell phone law becomes effective. The law makes talking or texting with a hand-held phone while driving a primary offense, which means cops can pull over the drive simply because he/she is using a hand-held phone, whether there’s any other violation involved or not. Before, it’s only [...]

If you do, are you a regular player? Or only buy tickets occasionally?
I don’t consider myself a player, but I do buy a few tickets when the jackpot reaches $100M. Sometimes 2. Sometimes 3. The most was 5. Since I almost have never won any prize in lotteries, sweepstakes, contest, or drawings [...]

Wish You a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous 2008!