Citigroup

When I started Diversity 2 (needs authorization), a million dollar dream portfolio on Google Finance back in April 06, 2008, I had no idea that it would be a witness of the 2008-09 financial crisis. 

When I bought 160 shares of Citigroup Inc. at USD 15.22, I noted "Citigroup still has a lot of potential. I must buy now because I buy to hold, not to speculate." Silly me. This was just over three months after I bought 2076 shares of the same at USD 24.08. Since then, it has gone to an all-time low of ninety seven cents which makes the current 4.68 (as I write this) a bit easier to swallow. 

Performance-wise, the portfolio which cost $979,434.26 is now worth $904,580.10 in market value. That is an overall return of -11.01%. The stock market is climbing up, for now.  

(written around 10 AM Central on August 26, 2009)

old news? AT&T A list

Well, I guess you could say we got the memo a bit too late. If only I got a penny...

Anyways, AT&T has thrown its hat into the arena of free circles with high-minutes. This is by no means a review (I have yet to test it myself!) but just a note to tell you guys that I am working on it. In the meantime, check out this line from ther terms:

AT&T reserves the right to block any A-List number and to reduce the amount of telephone numbers that can be used for A-List without notice. [1]

[1] http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/legal/plan-terms.jsp

on an unrelated note, it seems that the location feature in blogger in draft is broken.

My accounts on Twitter

In light of the recent Google blog post, Official Google Blog: Google accounts on Twitter, I thought I needed to do the same before long. Therefore, I am coming up with a list of twitter accounts that I am associated with:

Personal:

1. http://twitter.com/kushalhada (protected)

2. http://twitter.com/hadakushal (public doppelgänger of the above)

kdg

1. http://twitter.com/kdghq (kdg headquarters, not much activity)

2. http://twitter.com/fictionfun (sanbox account, high activity)

etbu

1. http://twitter.com/deanhealthplex (unofficial and unauthorized, not everything here is related to dean healthplex or etbu)

parked:

Parked accounts are not actually related to me. However, as of this writing, I still control them. Thus, I list them here.

1. http://twitter.com/justinfattig (parked for Justin Fattig)

2. http://twitter.com/palmertexas (parked for Benjamin Rogers)