Dropped like a stone: Technorati rank is now 260K

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Looks like my Technorati has gone back to normal. For those of you who don’t know, my ranking was #2550 because of John Chow’s “ping attack“.

…it looks like Technoranti has recovered from my evil blog ping attack. They have managed to removed all the posts that have been showing up a individuals blogs and re-ranked everybody that saw a huge boost because of it…

So, it was a nice ride! I guess I gotta work harder on my Technorati ranking. I’m looking for other opportunities to boost my relationship within Technorati, too!

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Dividends in 2006: Quite a lot more than I had thought!

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I just got my tax statement from Ameritrade yesterday (Form 1042-S), which reminded me of how much money I had earned from dividends and other income in 2006.

I was quite surprised by the total, and how much tax I had to pay. Anyway here are the figures. It’s not bad considering that my total portfolio didn’t much exceed $11,520 on January 1st, 2006. That’s a return of about 7.9%, not including increase in the value of the stocks, AND only about 75% was invested in stocks bearing a dividend. I just worked it out about 10% gross return on dividend stocks! Not too shabby.

Source Amount
interest $0.98
dividends $769.86
royalties $4.61
royalties $61.01
capital gains $76.62
Total $913.08

Naturally, my interest in dividends has been piqued much after reading this statement and 10 good reasons to buy stocks with dividends.

Disclaimer: I do own dividend stocks, and have done well myself. You may not do as well as this. Do your own due diligence before you buy ANY investment or financial product.

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