Now the words in order (of what)?

1. Insurance (example keywords in this category include "buy car insurance online" and "auto insurance price quotes")
2. Loans (example keywords include "consolidate graduate student loans" and "cheapest homeowner loans")
3. Mortgage (example keywords include “refinanced second mortgages” and “remortgage with bad credit”)
4. Attorney (example keywords include “personal injury attorney” and “dui defense attorney”)
5. Credit (example keywords include “home equity line of credit” and “bad credit home buyer”)
6. Lawyer ("personal injury lawyer," "criminal defense lawyer)
7. Donate ("car donation centers," "donating a used car")
8. Degree ("criminal justice degrees online," "psychology bachelors degree online")
9. Hosting ("hosting ms exchange," "managed web hosting solution")
10. Claim ("personal injury claim," "accident claims no win no fee")
11. Conference Call ("best conference call service," "conference calls toll free")
12. Trading ("cheap online trading," "stock trades online")
13. Software ("crm software programs," "help desk software cheap")
14. Recovery ("raid server data recovery," "hard drive recovery laptop")
15. Transfer ("zero apr balance transfer," "credit card balance transfer zero interest")
16. Gas/Electricity ("business electricity price comparison," "switch gas and electricity suppliers")
17. Classes ("criminal justice online classes," "online classes business administration")
18. Rehab ("alcohol rehab centers," "crack rehab centers")
19. Treatment ("mesothelioma treatment options," "drug treatment centers")
20. Cord Blood ("cordblood bank," "store umbilical cord blood")

Puzzle

To Review:

Loans (example keywords include "consolidate graduate student loans" and "cheapest homeowner loans")

Attorney (example keywords include “personal injury attorney” and “dui defense attorney”)

Lawyer ("personal injury lawyer," "criminal defense lawyer)

Degree ("criminal justice degrees online," "psychology bachelors degree online")

Claim ("personal injury claim," "accident claims no win no fee")

Trading ("cheap online trading," "stock trades online")

Recovery ("raid server data recovery," "hard drive recovery laptop")

Gas/Electricity ("business electricity price comparison," "switch gas and electricity suppliers")

Rehab ("alcohol rehab centers," "crack rehab centers")

Cord Blood ("cordblood bank," "store umbilical cord blood")
Insurance (example keywords in this category include "buy car insurance online" and "auto insurance price quotes")

Mortgage (example keywords include “refinanced second mortgages” and “remortgage with bad credit”)

Credit (example keywords include “home equity line of credit” and “bad credit home buyer”)

Donate ("car donation centers," "donating a used car")

Hosting ("hosting ms exchange," "managed web hosting solution")

Conference Call ("best conference call service," "conference calls toll free")

Software ("crm software programs," "help desk software cheap")

Transfer ("zero apr balance transfer," "credit card balance transfer zero interest")

Classes ("criminal justice online classes," "online classes business administration")

Treatment ("mesothelioma treatment options," "drug treatment centers")

Word of the Day Puzzle

Have you figured it out?

Word of the Day: Treatment

I think this is supposed to mean some kind of medical treatment, like cancer treatment, mesothelioma treatment, drug treatment.

Word of the Day: Classes

Classes. This one is like education. Online classes. Vocational classes. Student takes out a loan and pays it the school, then is stuck with a big loan for life. Criminal justice online classes. What else is popular? Marine biology (or maybe that's just my yuppie set).

Word of the Day: Transfer

Transfer means a lot of things too, but I guess the Internet is interested in credit card transfers. Credit card balance transfer zero interest, Credit card balance transfer zero APR. Are there that many people out there desperately needing a credit card balance transfer?

Word of the Day: Software

Well, there's many kinds of software out there, and it's a huge industry. But are there particular ones that people are reading up online about? Such as CRM software programs? Or help desk software for cheap? I've even seen off the shelf software for creating dating sites

Word of the Day: Conference Call

OK, this is a weird one. Why do you see so many ads for free conference calls? I read somewhere that it's a function of telephone exchange. Something like long distance carriers have to pay local exchanges some kind of fee to do the hookup, particularly in rural areas. That's why there free conference call services always have some area code you've never heard of. Whatever this system of subsidy is, it seems outmoded, but I guess someone is making money off of it Free conference call.

Word of the Day: Hosting

Hosting. Again, in the Internet context, it probably has a specific meaning, like web hosting. Or other types of IT hosting. I guess paying $5 or $10 a month can really add up, that's why you see so many web hosting ads out there.

Word of the Day: Donate

I think in this context, donate means donate a fairly high value item. Such as donate your old car to KQED/NPR. Which I have done twice. I guess the sell the car off and make a little money off of it. At least they can do that more efficiently than you can. Car donation.

Word of the Day: Credit

Credit has a specific meaning in accounting, but in general it just means, will someone lend you money? Generally for a long period of time, because you're supposed to be able to pay it off, it's a mere formality, at least if it's the AAA kind. E.g., Home equity line of credit. Credit card. I don't think you call a long-term loan credit. You call it a mortgage.

Word of the Day: Mortgage

Ah, another one of those financial words. Home mortgage. ARM. Second mortgage. Refinanced second mortgage. Ah, I've never be able to afford a house in the SF Bay Area.

Word of the Day: Insurance

Insurance is a financial instrument with an expected negative rate of return. If not, the insurance companies couldn't make money. But the customers are willing to pay for that to guard against the large negative event that has an extremely large negative utility (bankruptcy, penury). Car insurance. Auto insurance. Home insurance. Renter's insurance.

Word of the Day: Cord Blood

Should you store or bank cord blood when you have a kid. As a source of stem cells for your kid, or his/her siblings, or you?

Word of the Day: Rehab

Rehab, as in rehabilitation. Alcohol rehab. Drug rehab. Are there other common kinds? Relationship rehab? Co-dependency rehab?

Words of the Day: Gas and Electricity

Gas as in natural gas, the power source. As a substitute for electricity, in certain cases. That's why I think these words are associated, for purposes of this puzzle. Gas electricity price comparison is an important consideration for businesses and other consumers. Not to mention renewable energy.

Word of the Day: Recovery

This one is not financial or legal related. I mean here data recovery. As in hard drive recovery. Or server data recovery. Oops my hard drive crashed. What kind of data was recovered from Edison Chen's hard drive?

Word of the Day: Trading

Trading also can mean many things, but on the Internet, it tends to mean financial trading. Like E*Trade. Or TD Ameritrade. Trading stocks, bonds, ETFs.

Word of the Day: Claim

You would need to disambiguate this one in a dictionary or Wikipedia as well, but the main meaning I intend here is a legal claim. Such as a claim to a piece of land. Or quit claim deed. Or personal injury claim. Or accident claim.

Word of the Day: Degree

Take this to mean what you will, temperature scale, whatever, but on the Internet, this makes you think of academic degrees. Like online school, PhD, certifications, whatever. So think about what kind of degrees you have. And what you want.

As time goes on, educational degrees go more from teaching real skills that contribute to value and the economy, to mere positional/signalling devices that determine distribution of a fixed pie. So says Peter Thiel, who has two degrees. From Stanford. Another reason for change/revolution.

In the midst of stagnation, education has become a status game, "purely positional and extremely decoupled" from the question of its benefit to the individual and society.

George Packer, Profiles, “No Death, No Taxes,” The New Yorker, November 28, 2011, p. 44

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/28/111128fa_fact_packer#ixzz1f7vas2u7

Word of the Day: Lawyer

OK, I know we just did attorney, but in order to make this puzzle work, now I have to do lawyer. Seriously.

The second word/topic is lawyer, synonymous with attorney. I am a lawyer, as of the moment, an inactive member of the California bar. Please don't hate me for it, as I don't identify with it, although I have an office at Stanford Law School (I have one in Gates computer science as well). Lawyer. Ugh.

Word of the Day: Attorney

The second word/topic is attorney, synonymous with lawyer. I am a lawyer, as of the moment, an inactive member of the California bar. Please don't hate me for it, as I don't identify with it, although I have an office at Stanford Law School (I have one in Gates computer science as well). Attorney.

Word of the Day: Loans

OK, I'm doing a little experiment/puzzle here. Over the coming weeks, I'll be discussing a topic/word of the day. At the end, I'll reveal how they are all connected. See if you can guess before then. So today, we're talking about loans, loans, loans. As in mortgages, convertible notes, liar loans, any a loan pretty much any which way. So there you go. Loans.

Tim Ferriss (The 4hr Guy) has a new cookbook

The 4-Hour Chef – The First Kindle Fire Book Teaser

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2011/11/29/the-4-hour-chef-the-first-kindle-fire-book-teaser/