Bush : The Worst President Ever

Here is a really good article on exactly how bad Bush has been to the United States of America.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/137146?from=rss

Grand Theft Auto PS3

Just bought a PS3 with Grand Theft Auto 4 last night. Finally had a chance to play it today and....it keeps locking up! WTF is up with that?

I have been reading on various sites there are problems with both the PS3 and M$ 360 versions. I guess they forgot to test it before it came out?

***UPDATE: Read in a few places that disabling the Internet solves the problem. I tried it last night and was driving around fine for a good hour or so. I will have more time today to play and will have to see if it truly works.

***UPDATE #2: I have been playing for a while now with no lock-ups. I am hoping this is the short term fix. I would guess Rockstar will have a fix out shortly.

Personal Finance Software

I have been looking into ways to get off my desktop bound personal finance management software for the past few weeks. Ideally, i want to access my information from any computer or any OS i am on.

Of course, i value the privacy of my information and when I start talking about money, even more so. If a "bad" person got a hold of my financial accounts things would be bad to say the least....a hassle i would prefer to avoid.

I found a couple of online sites: http://www.mint.com/ and http://www.buxfer.com/ that on the surface look really cool. However, both have left me wanting. Perhaps i am just stuck in the old way of doing things.

To me, i want to take a receipt from a credit card purchase enter it into a form and then balance it when i get my monthly statement. This allows me to see exactly what I am being charged and by whom. If something is on my statement but i did not enter it, i can deal with it.

Mint basically tells you when a charge has been made on your account. Basically the reverse of how I do things today. At first I did not like the idea at all, but as I have thought more about it, I am rethinking it. Still not too sure.

Buxfer is confusing to me. It aspires to function how M$ Money or Quicken work, however the interface is not intuitive at all. How do i enter a loan? Just put a negative number? How does it deal with interest payments? how do i know how much principal i have paid? The only conclusion i have come up with is it is in need of a lot of work.

So....i have been thinking of rolling my own Personal Financial software, open source of course. If i did that, i could do exactly what i want. However, that means i would have to host it somewhere and figure out how to calculate loan interest, etc... I think i know how i could host it for free, however how private would my data really be?

I need to think this through...