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Deal of the Day – Give a Laptop, Get a Laptop

Give One Get One The mission of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-age child. In order to accomplish this goal, they need people who believe in what they’re doing and want to help make education for the world’s children a priority, not a […]

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Quitting The Day Job To Pursue The Dream

I want to congratulate JD at Get Rich Slowly on making the next big move that many bloggers aspire to – the title of full-time professional blogger. Yes, JD is quitting his job at the box factory and will become a professional blogger. JD started Get Rich Slowly 18 months ago and has seen the site grow from a handful […]

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The John Chow Blogger Dinner Cost How Much?

I asked readers to guess how much dinner at Benihanna cost for 15 bloggers. The guess the came the closest to the actual bill without going over would win a signed copy of An American Hedge Fund by Timothy Sykes. The post received 159 replies with guesses ranging from $350 to $4150.10. One person guessed $1 million but I ruled […]

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House Shopping In Las Vegas

We had some time to kill before hopping on our flight back to Vancouver so we decided to do a little house shopping. It’s always interesting and fun to see what is available in other markets and compare it to the home market. The development we saw was call Finisterre, an exclusive private, gated, infill community featuring 95 large lots […]

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Blog World Expo – John Chow Blogger Dinner

On the last night of Blog World Expo, I hosted the first, and hopefully not last, John Chow Blogger Dinner by inviting some fellow bloggers to dine at Benihanna Japanese steak house. The blogs that showed up include Egontron, Zac Johnson, Darrin Carter, Gary Lee, Ms. Danielle, Mad Whips, Neil Patel, Nate Whitehill and the gang at Unique Blog Design. […]

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Blogging The Movie Needs One More Blogger

While at Blog World Expo, I got a chance to meet and hang out with Prija from Blogging The Movie. For those who don’t what that is you can check my review of concept here. Blogging The Movie is a film that follows the lives of ten bloggers, one of whom is me. It will be interesting having a film […]

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