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Dot Com Pho returns to Happy Pho for another excitement filled episode. This time we had seven people showed up to dine on a variety of Pho dishes (mostly consumed by Chef Aaron Koo AKA the new Stephen Fung). To makes thing even more happy, Michael Yurechko discovered that Happy Pho had wireless Internet access (not in the restaurant but nearby).
This episode of Dot Com Pho celebrates the heroes of entrepreneurship. Evan Carmichael came up a great idea for trading cards featuring famous entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurs were selected by 33 famous bloggers (of which I am one). The bloggers were asked to name their favorite entrepreneur. That entrepreneur is featured on the front of the card and the blogger who selected him is featured on the back.
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Got my last free credit report for the year, did you get yours? I hope by now everyone is accessing their free credit reports every year (are there still some states that dont let you do this?). Through AnnualCreditReport you are allowed 1 report from each agency every 12 months. So we schedule ours for one report every 4 months, and I just...... -
1 Year and Credit Card Debt Free! Pop the Champagne! It's time to celebrate!!! A little while back I posted about the fact that I have not used credit cards for 1 year! That trend is still going, but now it's time to celebrate an even bigger accomplishment. Being Credit Card Debt Free!!!! Yesterday my husband went......
I had to take my wife to a doctor’s appointment today and decided to hit up the Apple Store in Oakridge Centre since it’s just across the street from the doctor’s office. I generally enjoy going to an Apple Store. It alway amazes me that Apple would need such a big store to sell such a small line of products. The formula seems to work however. Apple stores are the most profitable stores in the world, with average sales per square foot of $4,500. The flagship store in New York does almost $1 million a day.
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Blueprint For How To Make Money With Your Blog - eBook Do you want to make money with your blog? You work your rear off writing great articles and designing your site. Would you love to be able to earn some income for your work? With the right steps you can build up a site that can supplement your salary, pay...... - Downsizing to a Condominium - Is it Too Soon? When baby boomers consider downsizing, moving to a condo is often high on the list of options. We have certainly thought about a condo as one future housing option. Thus, I have made it a habit to keep tabs on condo prices in our area. Starting 3-4 years ago, there......
Now that the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games are over, we’re all suffering from post Olympic blues. The blues have especially hit hard for Ed Lau, who has been cruising downtown everyday hoping to find a street party that is no longer there. Seeing the sad state everyone was in, it made sense to hold this edition of Dot Com Pho at Happy Pho because if anyone can cheer us up, it would be Happy Brian.
Related Websites - 6 Ways to Beat Fatigue as you Battle your Weight This post was contributed by Heather Johnson, who writes on the subject of online nursing school. She invites your feedback at heatherjohnson2323 at gmail dot com. If you are interested in contributing a guest post please send me an email at kevin [at] weightladder (dot) com It’s all very well......
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A Decade of the Internet [/caption] The decade did not begin auspiciously for the Internet; it opened not with a bang, but a bust. However, the 2000 dot.com bust, far from signaling the end of the Web, served as a much-needed “reset” for an industry run amok. Gone were websites with great ideas, fistfuls of......
Twitter is worth an estimated $1.5 billion. For most of us, it’s a figure that we simply cannot afford. However, if your name is Mark Z and you have $300 million in cash and $4 billion in Facebook stock, the story might be a little different. Still, Mark wasn’t sure if he could afford Twitter so he decided to call up financial guru Suze Orman during her “Can I afford it” segment to see if Miss Orman would approve of Mark spending $1.5 billion on the micro blogging platform.
Did Suze Orman approved or denied Mark’s request to buy Twitter? Watch the video to find out the answer.
Related Websites - Seven Powerful Steps That You Can Use To Save $14,341 in The Next 6 Months The following guest post if from Neal Frankle of WealthPilgrim.com. You can read more about Neal's inspiring story immediately following this post. If you’re lucky enough to be a huge, multi-gazillion dollar company like AIG, you can afford to make a few tiny financial mistakes. Lose a few hundred billion......
- New Moon (and Personal Finance Links) Today, I made good on my promise to take my wife to the Twilight / New Moon Saga. I'd put the first 25 or 30 minutes of the movie up there with the most boring of any I've seen. At least it picked up from there almost edging into being......
During the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, we had a chance to head down to the Yaletown Cactus Club Cafe and sample the new Rob Feenie menu items plus enjoyed some of his old favorites. Chef Feenie is the Food Concept Architect at the Cactus Club Cafe, a chain of 20 restaurants with locations in British Columbia and Alberta. Chef Feenie is Canada’s Iron Chef, a title he earned when he defeated Masaharu Morimoto in Iron Chef America, Battle Crab. To this date, Chef Feenie has been the only Canadian chef to ever win against an Iron Chef.
Heather In BC! Congrats to Heather for winning the Affiliate.com T-shirt contest. Your awesome entry has won you $1,000 in cash and $1,000 donated to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief Fund in you name!
Heather’s entry was one of the five finalists from the hundreds of entries received. It was a tough decision because all the entries were so good, but in the end Heather managed to pull it out.
Thanks to everyone who entered and thanks for providing input on who you thought should win the grand prize. A big thanks goes out to Affiliate.com for sponsoring this contest. Look for another contest real soon!
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Why Cellphones Should Be Expensive And Not Free. 426,000 cellphones In the United States alone, 426,000 cellphones are retired each and every day for various reasons - but do you think that number would be that high if people actually had to pay for their phones? I certainly don't, and I would love to see manufacturers start charging......
The Shangri-la is the tallest building in Vancouver. The first 15 floors are occupied by the five star Shangri-la Hotel. Above the 15th floor are 306 residential units, consisting of 234 general live-work homes on floors 16 to 43 and 66 private access residential units on floors 44-60 and two penthouses on floor 61 and 62.
Of the two penthouses in the Shanghri-la, Penthouse 1 was the one to buy. Penthouse 1 offers 5,875 square feet of unparalleled living at the top of Vancouver and features a private lap pool and hot tub, Boffi cabinetry, natural oak hardwood floors in a chevron patter throughout, a private internal elevator, upper and lower master bedroom suites and distributed audio and lighting control systems. It was offered for sale at $17.3 million and was recently sold to an anonymous buyer.
Related Websites - A Hundred,000 Dust Mites In 1 Sq. Meter Of Carpet Leading allergists agree that wooden flooring are the proper choice for a healthy home. In keeping with the Yank Lung Association wooden flooring in your bedroom and other main living areas can drastically improve air quality. This is often not surprising when a large Yankee company that recycles recent carpet......
- Structural Insulated Panels Help Contractors Meet Challenges of Difficult Building Environments Most construction professionals are familiar with the "Project Management Triangle," a concept that ties cost, schedule, scope and quality together. Impact any of these project elements, and you impact the others. Academics frequently present the triangle as an inflexible set of constraints. Nonsense.Under any given construction practices, the Project......
For this final Dot Com Pho of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, we decided to head back to Pho Thai Hoa to try out more items from their newly revamped menu. We were joined by Ronald Lee from Man Meet Woman. Ronald said he’ll be bringing a couple of friends along. We assumed the friends would be some hot women since Ronald is a world famous pick up artist. Instead, he brought along two guys and our weekly pho meet up was once again male dominated.
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Weigh in #3 -- 5 Pounds in 7 days, 30 pounds in 3 weeks After 3 weeks on the Jumpstart Medicine medically assisted weightless program I have lost 30 pounds... Which is above my expectations... I highly recommed Jumpstart. I have a special offer for anyone in wanting to try Jumpstart in Redwood City or Mountain View: $25 off your first visit (just print...... -
A Worthy E Credit Loan -- Please Comment and Decide I recently had the pleasure of interacting with a borrower seeking a loan on Prosper. The borrower as E credit and 15% debt to income ratio and is a homeowner... He has 4 endorsements (3 from bidders including the group leader). However, he has an E credit grade. But I......
LiveCity Vancouver is one of two live cities in the downtown core (the other is LiveCity Yaletown). The two live cities have a big open space with a huge screen so people can watch the Olympic games live – the place is completely packed during any of the Canadian hockey games. In addition to the live viewing space, LiveCity Vancouver houses the Manitoba Pavilion, the Canada Pavilion and a beer garden.
Related Websites - Olympic contest: Are you the Face of the Games? The Royal Canadian Mint is sponsoring ‘The Face of the Games’ on the wake of the Winter Olympics to be held in Vancouver this year. The aim of the event is to find an ultimate Olympics Fan The event will select two lucky winners who will get their face embedded on......
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Open Season With fall coming, it is soon to be open season for many different animals for hunting. Seasoned and new amateur hunters will be out in force and will be scouring designated areas for live game in the hopes of a good kill that they will be able to bring home......
I want to thanks everyone who entered the Affiliate.com T-Shirt contest. We had a ton of great entries and Affiliate.com has chosen the five finalists and now it’s up to Missy Ward, Zac Johnson, Murray Newlands and me to pick the grand prize winner. The big winner will receive $1,000 cash and $1,000 donated to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief Fund in their name. Here are the five finalists.
Heather In BC
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Stog Blog
Joe Tech
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How To Build A Successful Blog ? Blog's are not just a domain to write on a topic but a lot more from setting up goals to increasing the revenue to make a living. The success of a blog and its topic purely depends on the readers satisfaction. In order to run a successful blog, you need...... -
Fynanz Review This year, it has never been more difficult to get a student loan, thanks to new federal regulations. Hundreds of lenders announced that they would no longer be taking part in federal loan programs and schools are struggling to try to offer loans directly to students. This opened up a......
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