Technology

Canada US Price Gaps On HDTV

Recently I sold my home theater PC (HTPC) setup. For those who don’t know what it look it, here’s a photo of the old setup: The system was made up of a Samsung 42″ plasma screen, Logitech Z-5500 speakers (Z-680 are shown) and a custom made home theater computer that handles TV, DVD, movies, etc. The system gave me over […]

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The Net

Laptop Gamer Case Study

I’ve decided to use Laptop Gamers as a case study on how to start a money making website. There are many ways to make money on the internet. My specialty is the content site with advertising model. This model isn’t necessarily better or worst than any other internet business models – it’s just the model that I am most experienced […]

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Investing

Home Equity Line Of Credit

Today we went to the bank to talk about refinancing the mortgage on our primary house. We were just gathering information and rates. Like everyone else looking for refinancing, we want the best rate possible. The ways to do is to have excellent credit and to finance only 65% of the house value. At 65%, the bank can give you […]

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Ramblings

What Is Customer Service?

So yesterday, Sarah and I joined Carl for lunch at a local noodle house we frequent. We’ve gone to this place many times and the waitress knows us. We order our normal food but one of the dishes was too salty and sour for our taste. We told the waitress this and she took it back to get it corrected. […]

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Ramblings The Net

LaptopGamers.com Launched

Today I launched a new site, LaptopGamers.com. This site will provide mobile news and computer game reviews. The twist is we’ll be doing all our game reviews on a laptop and not a desktop computer. Laptop has really taken off in the past few years, with sales now exceeding desktops for the first time. In the past, gaming and laptop […]

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Fine Dining

Dine Out Vancouver

Vancouver’s most delicious, exciting and anticipated restaurant promotion is back again! Dine Out Vancouver 2006, Presented by Visa offers diners a record number of restaurant choices at three great price points over 14 days. From January 20 to February 2, food lovers will have the opportunity to sample an impressive assortment of menu choices from the 144 participating restaurants. The […]

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Ramblings

Cleaning The House

For no particular reason we picked today to clean up the house. The cleaning was long overdue. My office is a mess and I can’t be very productive with this much paper all over the place. I spent most of the afternoon going through the papers, trying to decide what to keep and what to toss. I tossed a lot […]

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Ramblings

The Wynn Garden Villa

During my week in Las Vegas I had a chance to check out the Garden Villa at Wynn Las Vegas. This suite is the biggest hotel room I have ever seen; two floors, 10,000 square feet and four bedrooms. Each bedroom has his and her bathrooms that are bigger than most living rooms! The above photo shows me in the […]

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