There was a piece of news that happened here recently in regards to the celebrity chef Rob Feenie who ran an upscale restaurant here called Lumiere. For various reasons, there has been a fallout and he is no longer with the restaurant. In the article I was reading it talked about how he started the
I was reading in the Vancouver Sun newspaper today which has an article about the 100 most common surnames in the BC lower mainland area. While I guess this isn’t exactly mind blowing information, I thought it was kind of interesting to read about the origins of various surnames. I thought I would post the
I was told today about a radio talk show that apparently had callers phoning in about their financial situations. One person apparently phoned in about how they had trouble spending so much money. When it came down to it, it was discovered that he/she kept buying things mostly to impress others. In general, isn’t it
It’s been awhile, but I finally decided to update the design of the blog as well as the program itself. Looks like there are some new features to play around with as well such as the cloud tag feature where I can now use keywords to label a post. The only drawback to that is
I was checking my e–mail and noticed that I got an invite to beta test a new ad program called shopping ads. Basically, it’s for web publishers to display ads on their site. The way this one works from what I read is that it revolves around finding items from price shopping comparison sites. In
I was just reading the news today on how in the beginning of next year there is apparently a plan in place to cut our GST tax rate from 6% to 5%. For those who don’t know, we pay two types of sales tax here. Kind of surprising I thought considering we just had it