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Excerpt: Well, the days of the US calling our money Monopoly money because of its weak exchange are now gone, as our Canadian dollar hit parity with their own greenback.
I wanted to mark this occassion on my blog because it means that Canada is doing well, and the US is doing poorly.
This unfortunate …
- September 20th, 2007 9:16 AM EDT
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Excerpt: Sabine and I continue to look at homes, and get ever closer to buying one of our own. We already got pre-approval to go and place an offer on a small house in St. Thomas. The house has not even been built yet, but I look forward to it being done. There are two other similar models on the street. It …
- January 10th, 2007 10:45 PM EST
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Excerpt: ImgFly.com
Designed by Chris Garrett
Hundreds of Images added each day. 50GB of transfer a day! Google Page Rank 5 site. Only 3200 Unique visitors to the site in November (tracked by Mint).
Reason for selling: No time to work on the site, and I am not able to monetize it well. The right perso …
- December 5th, 2006 11:46 PM EST
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Excerpt: Okay... So late one night a long time ago I had an idea on how to make banking more useful for me, and it was as simple as folders.
Let's say I want to save money for a car and a house. Currently, the easiest way to track such a thing would be to open up two new accounts and funnel money into the …
- March 24th, 2006 3:38 PM EST
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Excerpt: Sabine and I have been looking at houses, more and more often over the last few months. We have decided that we are not currently rich enough to afford our dream house, but we can get a few things we want without going totally broke.
Currently, we are looking at buying a house around the $140,000 …
- February 16th, 2006 4:19 PM EST
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Excerpt: I just wanted to write a blog in here on how Blogging is beginning to be viewed by a group of people. I have to admit that I have perpetuated this myth a bit by highlighting all the positives of blogging, and the people doing well.
The reality of blogging is very different though. To be a profess …
- August 11th, 2005 6:32 PM EDT
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Excerpt: For everyone that wants to become a professional blogger, there is probably a number in their head thinking how much they would need to be paid to drop everything and blog professionally.
There are bloggers getting paid $100,000 and more either from a company or doing it on their own. Articles I …
- June 16th, 2005 6:42 PM EDT
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Excerpt: Ottawa is not a cheap city to live in, but that's just my opinion. Sabine and I have been trying to cut back on expenses as much as we possibly can. We keep lights off to keep hydro costs down,. we don't have any extra features on our phone, like call waiting or anything, we have a discount long-dis …
- June 7th, 2005 9:27 PM EDT