Years ago in Saskatoon, they brought out containers for garbage pickup. They were awesome and in Lawson Heights each home had their own garbage container. When Wendy and I bought a house in Mayfair, we had a massive one but it was shared between four houses. If you waited more than 8 seconds after the [...]
February, 2009:
Best Pay As You Go Network?
I have been a long time SaskTel customer since Motorola came out with those massive flip phones back in the mid 90s. I used SaskTel because of the coverage between here and Spiritwood which when you are driving that road 100 times a year you want good coverage. After I quit Spiritwood, I didn’t have [...]
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Google kicks newspapers while they are down and starts advertising on Google News Clean coal is two decades away from being a reality How did your CEO donate during the last Presidential race? Is missile defense on the chopping block? British soldiers are engaged in “a surreal mini civil war” with growing numbers of home-grown [...]
$7000 per home in Detroit
Wow, CBS News is saying that the average home price in Detroit is only $7000. Detroit real estate broker Ian Mason currently has 200 listings, largely foreclosures banks are desperate to get off their books. And that desperation is making for some incredible deals. Bowers asked him how much he sold one house for. "One [...]
The upside of down
This is a great photo by Bobby Yip/Reuters of unused shipping containers piled up at a storage depot in Hong Kong. The Chinese government is looking for places to store hundreds of thousands of unused containers expected to flood Hong Kong in the coming months due to China’s slow exports. As long time readers [...]
