Where's Your Mortgage Coming From?

 

With the housing market in the state it is, great deals appearing everywhere, we all need to think hard about where our mortgage is going to come from. That's why it's worth taking a look at Lennox Financial Mortgage. Sure, there are many other providers but none with quite the same commitment to customer service.

But that isn't really the most important point. In today's markets you need choice, you need to be able to look through the various financing options and take the one that is best for you and your specific situation. That's what Lennox Financial Mortgage really provides.

For example, if you know that your income is going to rise in the near future then you can take a 1% ARM mortgage. This keeps payments low now, at the risk of reverse amortization, but with your income increasing, perhaps from a promotion or a bonus payment, it enables you to buy what you want now rather than later.

Lennox Financial Mortgage can also help if you're a little stretched to get what you want. After you pay the moving costs, get the new furniture, it can be very difficult to also pay the closing costs on a deal. So they have an option where, for a slightly higher interest rate over the term of the mortgage, you can include the closing costs in the loan.

Of course, Lennox Financial Mortgage also offer simple fixed rate and fixed term mortgages, which means that you have the choice of whatever is the best financing method for your home. Very much worth checking out, a company that can help you to achieve your dreams in the best and most efficient manner.

 

Technorati tags: Lennox financial mortgage, mortgage, home loan, ARM, closing costs

Indian Condoms

Over at the Lindsey Lohan blog a super little tale about Indian Condoms. 

No, I won't spoil the punch line for you by giving it here but one part of it is all entirely sensible and believable. The question is whether the last line was delivered with a straight face or not?

If it was a native English speaker I would have sdaid not, it was done tongue in cheek, but with someone not completely at home in hte language, well, it could have been inadvertent.

Fake Priests

 

You would think that people would get this, wouldn't you?

 

A bogus priest and his girlfriend tricked an Austrian pensioner out of $200 after promising him a naked bathtub session with the woman.

"The bogus priest and his girlfriend ran a bath for the pensioner, who undressed and got in straight away," a police spokeswoman in the northern Austrian town of Linz said on Wednesday.

The pensioner waited in the tub for about 10 minutes, but when he heard cupboards being opened and closed in the living room, he emerged from the bathroom and chased the pair out of his flat, she said.

Really? It takes ten minutes to work out that a priest with a girlfriend might not be on the up and up? That one offering you a free nude bath with said girlfriend might not be the most reliable person in the world?

Sheesh. Why aren't we all rich already?

Maria Eva

 

An amusing story here about Maria Eva, the Indonesian singer. Apparently she got down and dirty with a politician a couple of years ago and filmed the encounter on her mobile phone. She then lost the phone and it's now all over the net.

An Indonesian parliamentary committee intends to question a legislator over a video distributed on the Internet that appears to show him naked with a singer, the head of the committee said Wednesday.

The shaky, one-minute video that appears to show Yahya Zaini, a member of parliament from the country's biggest party, Golkar, with the woman has caused shock in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country.

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The woman who was naked in the video, Indonesian pop singer

Maria Eva, held a televised news conference in which she said she took the footage using her mobile phone.

She denied distributing the video on the Internet and said she had lost her mobile phone.

It's just this surveillance society isn't it? Getting ever more difficult to have that bit of illicit nookie.

Smellovision!

 

Long a standard part of sci-fi dystopias it looks as if advertising by smell might really be coming:

 

What was billed as a pleasing alternative to exhaust fumes at San Francisco bus stops ended after officials Tuesday ordered the removal of advertisements that gave off the scent of baked cookies.

The fragrant billboards, posted at five bus shelters on Monday in an effort by dairy producers to make passengers thirsty for milk, had to come down because the shelters' maintenance contractor had not informed San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency officials, said an agency spokeswoman.

The thing is, and this is something that I'm sure most Americans wouldn't get, is that the association of cookies and milk wouldn't work elsewhere in the world. They're just not associated in quite the same way.

I Wouldn't Try a Thong

 

There's at least one part of the world where dressing a little too sexily might not be a good idea:

A town in Muslim-majority Malaysia has threatened to fine non-Muslim women for wearing "sexy" clothes, infuriating some women's organizations.

Authorities in northeast Kota Baru, which calls itself an Islamic city, will slap fines of up to 500 ringgit ($140) on women who expose navels, wear body-hugging outfits, mini-skirts or see-through blouses, the Star newspaper said on Tuesday.

"Such outfits are prohibited here as it smears the reputation of Kota Baru and affects its status as an Islamic city," the Star quoted municipal council spokesman Azman Daham as saying.

If you were thinking of hanging out on the beach in a g-string bikini, or perhaps a thong, may I respectfully suggest that you think about doing it somewhere else?

Metrosexuals

 

It's long been thought that the outbreak of metrosexuality, you know, men using face creams, making sure their clothes fit, all those decidedly silly things, were confined to the great cities of Blue America.

Sadly, this turns out not to be the case:

Urban Chinese men spend 8.6 minutes a day gazing at themselves in the mirror and shell out 80 yuan ($10) a month on beauty products, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday, citing a survey.

Men in Beijing and the financial center of Shanghai were neck-and-neck on whose residents were most vain.

Those in the capital spent the most money on cosmetics -- an average of 119 yuan a month -- but those in Shanghai looked in the mirror the longest -- about 17 minutes a day.

I have a feeling that it might be neccessary to do something about this. Can the world's mines that supply black polo necks survive China adopting them too?

 

Technorati tags: metrosexual, china, men's cosmetics

Testing Tags in Blogger

So this is just a test to see whether I can insert tags correctly using this blogging tool.

 

 

Technorati tags: blogs, advertising

Windows Live Writer

So now our question becomes whether this is actually the best way of posting both to this blog and also to 419 er Watch. From the slightly absurd things I've from it so far this automatically allows me to post the same post many times, but not at the same time to many blogs. Hmm.

Test

 

OK, so will this windows live writer allow me to post to my blog? and if it fdoes, will it post links?

Capitalists and Capitalism

One of the things that makes modern capitalism so different from previous types is theexistence of the Internet Entrepreneur. Rather than trying to control machinery, that vital partthat makes the workers more productive, the internet entrepreneur is attempting to control human capital, both much more difficult and much easier. More difficult because your bright marketers and programmers tend to bugger off if you kick them, not something that used to happen with a steam engine. Easier, because you don’t actually have to have money to bring them together. There are any number of companies that have been started with nothing but sweat equity and whatever computers the staff themselves already own. Real money doesn’t come into it until 6 months down the line. So the job or career of an internet entrepreneur can be both easier and harder than that of his top hatted forebears.