Okay so I took the advice I had been reading about automating your finances from I will teach you to be rich and modified them slightly to work with my situation and The Canadian banking/saving systems. Well as things are different on this side of the border, as with all things there are slightly different [...]
Archive for the ‘General Life’ Category
June 22nd, 2010
World Cup Fever, who do you go for and how are you keeping up
photo by rapidgamer03. Well as I mentioned in my earlier post Boxee Beta and apple TV I have not had cable or Satellite service since moving back to Canada which will be almost a year now. The only stumbling block I have found as well as many others is when it comes to live sports [...]
Posted in General Life, TV, sports, technology 
Tags: FIFA, Soccer, vuvuzela, World Cup 2010 
No Comments »June 14th, 2010
Travelling and Using a Cell Phone to Keep in Touch, How To Do It Right
As Many North American’s it can be hard to travel and not bring along your cell phone, or Mobile phone, regardless of what you call it most people have become attached to their cell phones and it is a center for all their communication needs. And as a result if you bring it with you [...]
Posted in General Life, Travel, technology Tags: Cell Phone, Mobile phone, SIM Cards, Travel, Unlocked Phone No Comments »June 11th, 2010
How I eliminated my Credit Card Fees and made Some Money on top of It
Well As I mentioned in my other post “How 15 minutes saved me $151.90” I did a similar scenario with the credit Card Company as well and managed to save on my annual fees as Ramit Sethi Mentions in his book I Will Teach You To Be Rich . Well to give you a bit [...]
Posted in Finance, General Life Tags: Banking, Credit Card, Finance, Money, Save money No Comments »June 9th, 2010
How 15 Minutes Saved Me $151.90
OK you might say $151.90 is not a big deal. But I have been reading regularly the post from Ramit Sethi over at I will teach you to be Rich and he makes a great case to try and negotiate on everything you can. So I have been getting things in order on the financial [...]
Posted in Finance, General Life Tags: Bills, Finance, Internet, Money, Negotiate, Save money 2 Comments »April 22nd, 2010
San Francisco Travel Pictures
As I mentioned many times one of the things we (my wife and I) enjoy is traveling. So this is a little late going up but our latest trip was to San Francisco, this was our first trip to the city. we had been to San Diego which is a little further south in California [...]
Posted in General Life, Travel Tags: Alcatraz, California, Golden Gate, San Francisco, Travel No Comments »April 17th, 2010
Windows Server 2008 and service accounts for Scheduled Tasks
while trying to migrate a scheduled task from a windows server 2003 machine to a 2008 server ran into a little issue. for some reason when I would create the task and try to change the user account to use, it would allow me to browse the network and select the account but when I [...]
Posted in General Life Tags: scheduled tasks, Server, Service accounts, Windows 2003, Windows 2008 No Comments »April 10th, 2010
Housing, Buy vs Rent? the eternal question!
Well as many people in Montreal are getting into the season of Apartment Hunting now as this is the time when you either need to renew your lease or start looking for a new place. After living in many places around the world over the last few years it is a curious ritual, that I [...]
April 9th, 2010
Back in the Exercise Groove
Well with everything going on lately staying in shape and exercising has been low on the priority list. But now we have decided to stop the excuses and get back into the routine. Right now the plan is to exercise in the mornings before work. So the first challenge to be able to accomplish this [...]
Posted in General Life, Health & Fitness, sports Tags: Exercise, fitness, Health & Fitness, P90X No Comments »April 7th, 2010
Sorry! Not That Ricky Martin
As Many who have arrived here will quickly find out I am not the Ricky Martin that made the announcement of coming out of the Closet and openly Admitting he is a homosexual. I think many people have found my blog as a result of his announcement and doing a search on Google or any [...]
