Yes, despite making friendly friendly with Russia and China today, and dodging the question as to who would win the world cup during a joint press conference with the British PM Gordon Brown, Obama knew what was really the most important event of the day.

As eleven American presidents before him have realised, that when you land on UK soil, you have tea with the queen of England! The conversation must have been electrifying!!

How many of us hear of a great new site from our friends and business aquaintences only to promptly forget about it the next day?

It took me nearly 11 years since the birth of the internet to find out what all the fuss was about. Everyone I knew had dial up access but it was not until I entered the job market and had access to high speed internet that I actually got myself connected at home. For a couple of years prior, I would always go to an internet cafe to check up on my emails….. (more…)

I remember the day when in 2005, my ex-wife and I bought our second home in Phoenix using the no docs loan route.

We “qualified”  with a $5000 downpayment for a $280,000 loan. Once we included some nice furniture and a pool, it increased the grand total to $310,000. This was in addition to the existing mortgage on our first home where we has a mortgage of $180,000.

I didn’t understand how we had managed to get the luxury lifestyle that normally comes a little later on in life. I thought things through a lot for a couple of weeks and realized that if the tide turned on the housing market we could be out of one if not two houses. (more…)

For all those unfamiliar with the term mamzer, it comes from the Hebrew vocabulary for its literal translation – bastard…but lets upper case the word to MAMZER and perhaps even bold the word to MAMZER and for emphasis lets italic the word to MAMZER.

It still provides little relief to those whose life savings have been stolen, those whose retirement were dependent on those ill fated investments with Madoff. (more…)