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About time

8 February, 2008 (16:51) | Business, Political, Sociology | 1 comment

The CBC announces today that B.C. is planning to license .
The government is moving to protect consumers by requiring to have a license.
The decision follows repeated calls for tougher regulations and is welcomed by John Grasty, the acting president of the Consumer Advocacy and Support for Homeowners Society.
Grasty says he regularly hears from [...]

The Market at a Glance

31 January, 2008 (08:54) | Business, Miscellaneous | No comments

The best explanation yet for the that is the , compliments of one wise man -
… I could have shown them the “best case” example, where investors buy a stock and sell it for twice as much. In other words, I buy a stock for $1, and then sell it for $2 (making [...]

Can’t we all just get along ;)

16 January, 2008 (16:57) | Business, Computer, Technology | No comments

[snicker] Scott takes yet another swipe at Bill Gates [/snicker]
Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to buy open-source software maker MySQL AB for $1 billion, beefing up the server maker’s database offerings with a company whose is used by some of the world’s biggest Web sites.
[snip]
Santa Clara-based Sun is paying $800 million in cash [...]

Organized Crime and Extortion on the Web and You

14 January, 2008 (16:39) | Blogging, Business, Economics, Technology | No comments

It’s no secret that is a . From to the net has provided an enormously useful organizational and action tool. For the most part it has been a way to easily hide from authorities. What is somewhat surprising is how little most people know about it. If you are the average person [...]

Viral

12 January, 2008 (12:15) | Business, Humor, Sociology | No comments

First watch this video

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then read this
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Bob - it was all his idea

10 January, 2008 (16:20) | Business, Computer | No comments

Too much - great of ‘ from this year’s CES

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Sears caught with their hands on your data!

7 January, 2008 (19:58) | Business, Technology | No comments

It appears that Fortune 500 company did not learn anything from the Sony/BMG fiasco a few years back. A SearchSecurity.com blog reports that
It seems that Sears, which sells just about everything under the sun, has decided to get into the business too. The retail giant recently has come under fire from a researcher [...]

Naturally Juicy

30 December, 2007 (09:58) | Business | No comments

Via Tom at comes this that is outrageous and probably . I doubt this will ever make it on to TV in North America

[tags]sexually explicit ads[/tags]
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The Best Beer Ad Ever

7 November, 2007 (17:50) | Business | No comments

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Zenn gets going

6 November, 2007 (18:17) | Business, Economics, Environment, Political, Sociology, Technology | No comments

Last week the CBC did a great program on the made in Canada Zenn electric car. It’s a great city car and popular around the world but the bureaucrats in Ottawa were throwing roadblock after roadblock in the company’s way to get approval to sell it in Canada (if it were me I’d be looking [...]

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