Shrek the Third

I saw Shrek 3 this weekend – I wasn’t sure what it would be like…but lemme tell you, it’s good. It was really funny – most of the humor was for the general audience, but there were the occasional parts that only the adults will get. All in all, the storyline was decent enough – it’s more along the lines of the second movie instead of the first…basically expect more humor with a so-so story line. There weren’t really any big surprises, but it was really entertaining. I think my favorite part was when they meet the wizard (a close tie with some of Puss’ jokes). If you liked Shrek 1 or 2, you owe it to yourself to see Shrek the Third.

New Look, New Blog

Recently, I decided I don’t like using this particular URL for my personal finance blog (called “The Business of Life”). So, I’ve updated the site (both the theme and WordPress), removed the old posts, and I’m ready to start again. If you’re looking for the old posts, well, for the time being, they don’t exist anymore. But, they will return to the internet in some form in a bit, but at a different URL (and I’m not going to mention the URL because I decided the finance blog should be more anonymous to be useful). So sorry for any confusion with people looking for old posts, but the stats didn’t show all that many people looking at most of the pages anyway.

As far as this new blog goes, you can expect to see just about anything here – well, except work stuff. Since I work for a public company and such, I won’t be talking about work on here. Everything else is fair game – we’ll just see where things go from here.

HSBC Direct Savings Rate Increase to 6.00%

Im surprised I havent seen more posts about this recently, but a few weeks ago, HSBCDirect upped the rate on savings accounts from 5.05% to 6.00% (APY). The catch is that its only for new money – meaning if you already have $1000 in there, that $1000 will still only earn 5.05% (which isnt bad), but any money you transfer in above that $1000 will earn 6.00%. The second catch is that the 6.00% rate is only good until April 30th 2007 – so you cant actually earn 6% since it only applies for a couple of months. Still, if youre looking for a good high-yield savings account, this might be a good deal for you – at least worth a look.