The Sun's Financial Diary

I am just kidding, but did you notice that since yesterday, friends of pfblog.org get another favorable treatment: longer summary?
Instead of one and a half lines as everybody got before, friends of pfblog.org now have five lines of summary.
Is that good to generate more interests to your story?
You tell me. 
So in addition to an eye-catching [...]

On my way to work yesterday, I heard on the radio that Warren Buffett sent a memo to staff at Berkshire Hathaway in wake of recent HP scandal and option back-dating at companies like Apple. What interested me most was that Buffett told his colleagues that the five most dangerous words in business are
"Everybody else [...]

I took this picture with my cell phone on my way to work this morning from a school bus stopped in front of me. Somehow the picture didn't come out right, so it's not clear at all. 
What interested me was the note on the back door of the bus, which reads:
"This Bus Checked & Empty"
Whom [...]

“The workforce reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated.”

This was part of the lay off notice sent to RadioShack employees by email Tuesday, reported USAToday.
Have employers really become cold-blooded when they drop their hardworking workers? Or they are so desperate in cutting expenses that they can’t afford [...]

I have several accounts that require me to use an online keypad to enter my password to get access to my accounts.
First is this from INGDirect, a small keypad with 10 keys to input 10 numbers and 10 letters. When I first setup my ING account, the password was a 4-digit PIN. Since I haven’t [...]

Think you have enough online passwords to remember? How about adding a couple of more questions each you try to access your account?
Recently, there is a wave to improve securities at several financial institutions by adopting the so-call “enhanced login process”. For the past month, among various accounts I own, I have seen HSBC Direct, [...]