A guide to creating a bootable USB drive that can be used to install any version of Windows 7, and a neat trick for extending the 30-day trial to 120 days.

A Madsen bicycle is sort of like a pedal-powered El Camino: odd, but undeniably useful-looking.

Well, I’ve decided to start a totally new site for all the online banking content. I was never comfortable with the fact that the web design stuff that I consider to be a hobby had to coexist along side the crass commercialism. So I bought the domain www.onlinebankdeals.com. The idea is to keep ardamis.com pretty [...]

Virtualbanking offers a number of benefits over traditional banks. The most evident of these benefits is the typically higher rate of return on investments, and the lower interest rates on loans. Virtualbanking is done entirely over the internet, as online banks have very few (as in the case of ING) or no (as in the [...]

These Godaddy promotion / coupon codes were confirmed valid as of June 30, 2006. Godaddy expires promotional codes pretty regularly, so it pays to just search for codes when you need them and then try a bunch to find the best discount. There is a decent list maintained at Fat Wallet, but even then, some [...]

Welp, ING Direct changed its referral program, and it now requires an opening deposit of $250 to qualify for the $25 bonus. You can still open an account for $0.01, but it just isn’t the same without that $25 kicker. The news does make the VirtualBank referral program look even better, though. VirtualBank still offers [...]

I’m playing around with some SEO stuff, focusing on my page about the Virtual Bank Referral Program. So far, not so good. The damn thing won’t get indexed by Google. I dunno what’s up with that. The funny thing is, most of the sites concerning Virtual Bank are horribly written, from an SEO point of [...]

4.35% APY with no minimum balance More free money. Following up on my post about the excellent VirtualBank eMoney Market account, ING Direct is offering an APY of 4.35% (effective 7/31/06) on its Orange Savings account. This account offers a $25 bonus for opening a new account through a referral. Send an email to vbreferral@gmail.com [...]

APY of 4.60% and a $20 referral bonus Woot, free money. I just opened a savings account at VirtualBank, a division of Lydian Private Bank (member FDIC). The current yield on their eMoney Market account is an impressive 4.60%. BankOne’s Money Market account, for comparison’s sake, has a yield of 0.90%, and that’s with a [...]