This past weekend: Spent lots of time away from computer to think.

I installed IE7 and FF2 last Friday. Wow, this spell-checker utility seriously kicks ass ... how long until we have native WYSIWYG support inside of the browser? (Dealing with it with Javascript is horrendous to say the LEAST)

I realized a few days ago that I hadn't closed my experimental HSBC savings account - I opened it a while ago when they were running some promotion. I had put in $100 in it and forgotten that it had existed until this past weekend. That got me thinking, how awesome would it be leave $100 and have your great grand-kids find it (100 years later). By my calculations, if you leave $101 at 7%, in 100 years it'll be worth $87,000 (101 * 1.07 ^ 100). Sure, with inflation it won't be worth as much, but it'd still definitely be something cool to find out about.

It's like that episode of Futurama where Fry remembers he had a bank account with $0.93 in it before he got frozen - after a thousand years, he ended up being worth $4.3 billion (at a low rate of 2.25%!).

Perhaps it's time I open up a bunch of random bank accounts with random low amounts of money ... ;)

Posted by roy on November 20, 2006 at 09:02 AM in Finances | 2 Comments

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Comment posted on November 21st, 2006 at 04:24 PM
hey this is kind of random,

but how are you liking ubuntu?

han (guest)

Comment posted on November 20th, 2006 at 01:25 PM
roy, the dr dude wants to know if you can go biking tuesday. he wanted me to tell you to give him a ring. if you can make it, so will i. and vice versa.