Weekend Linkage – January 17, 2010

Over the weekend, I did a major upgrade of the site, moving from a shared server at Media Temple, where this site is hosted, to a dedicated virtual server. As I noticed in the past 10 days, the site was have a lot of problems, particularly that the pages were loaded very slowly and I got multiple warnings everyday that the site was down, even though only a few minutes. The situation became worse late in the week as the down time got longer and longer and it finally reached the point that I believed that the only solution is an upgraded. Now the site loads much faster and the issues I had before didn’t resurface. Hopefully, the upgrade will bring a better visitor experience.

Weekend Readings

• The Two-income Myth
• Your Mutual Fund Investment Portfolio: How Many Funds Should You Own?
• Are You Saving Money Just to Save, Or Saving With Purpose?
• Think Twice Before Doing a Roth IRA Conversion if You Are Using Account Assets to Pay the Taxes Due
• Maximize Strengths or Minimize Weaknesses?
• Workplace Culture Shock: Adjusting to a New Company Culture
• Lost Credit Card Q&A
• How to Break Free from Your Escrow Account
• Is a Variable Life Insurance Policy the Best Investment for You?
• Getting in Shape in 2010: Taking a “Fiscal Health Day”
• Are You Holding a Retirement Time Bomb?
• Will A Million Dollars be Enough to Retire On?

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