My last post about my banking situation got a little press. At the bottom of a Wall Street Journal article about ATM crime, there were a set of links to two blogs that they thought referred to that article -- mine and someone else's. Yikes! That post ended up getting a lot of visitors from gove
9 CommentsI've been thinking a lot lately about banking. In fact, my current bedtime reading is an excellent book called Medici Money, a really fascinating and hilarious look at the history of Italy and the Church during the Renaissance when the Medici were at their peak of banking power. It's a very ente
10 CommentsBack near the beginning of August, I made the starting discovery that while ADSL still wasn't available for me personally, it's available for my landlords downstairs. You see, in Telecom Italia logic, it's completely normal to say that one person living on the bottom two floors of a house are withi
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