Archive for July, 2009

Ok, maybe not. “Cash For Clunkers” Gets another 2 billion dollars.

July 31st, 2009 by stuffaboutlife | Comments Off | Filed in Etcetera


Reports are saying that the House has approved another $2,000,000,000 for the Cash for Clunkers program.

“The House has voted to rush an additional $2 billion into the popular but financially strapped “cash for clunkers” car purchase program.”
“The bill was approved on a vote of 316-109. House members acted within hours of learning from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood that the program was running out of money.”

If you were going to use the program to buy a new car, it might be a good idea to do it sooner rather than later.

Tags: ,

What happened to tmonews?

July 30th, 2009 by stuffaboutlife | 1 Comment | Filed in Etcetera

Tmonews seems to be down still. Bummer! They usually have interesting information.

Oh well.

(Edit: Looks like they were just having database problems, and everything is back to normal.)

“Cash for Clunkers” runs out of gas.

July 30th, 2009 by stuffaboutlife | Comments Off | Filed in Etcetera


The Government has suspended the program already.

News article here, and you will find many more on Google News.

“After an unanticipated flood of applications from car owners, the federal government was reportedly prepared Thursday night to cut off the “cash for clunkers” program, apparently having spent the $1 billion allocated by Congress.”

NewsGator migrating feeds to Google Reader.

July 30th, 2009 by stuffaboutlife | Comments Off | Filed in Technology

NewsGator has announced that it will shut down the NewsGator Online Reader on August 31, 2009.

I never used it, but I have used NetNewsWire for the Mac before.

Bilingual packages?

July 27th, 2009 by stuffaboutlife | Comments Off | Filed in Etcetera

I’ve been noticing that more and more food packaging is now in English and Spanish. I find that to be rather interesting because it’s only within the past couple of years. Some folks think it’s great, and that manufacturers are catering to the “Latino Dollar” while others are against it because they feel that it removes any incentive for new immigrants to learn English if everything is simply made into their language. Still others are wondering “What about MY language?” The third largest language group in the United States is Chinese/Mandarin. Are they next?

What do y’all think?