Technology
Checking today’s Dell 12 Days Of Deals shows Dell has put their top of the line 30″ LCD on sale for just $1,499CDN. That’s $800 of the normal price. This is a fantastic deal and you should jump on it if you’re thinking about a big LCD. How good of a deal is this? Well Dell USA is selling the […]
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Investing
I’m sure everyone has heard the old financial saying “Save your money, don’t get into debt.” Sounds like good financial planning doesn’t it? After all, how can one get rich if they’re up to their eyeballs in debt? Well I’m here to tell you that advice is the worst piece of financial advice ever given. To get rich you must […]
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Ramblings
Today I swapped out the Crossfire video card setup in Sarah’s comp for a single Sapphire X800 GTO2. What a difference in noise level! The nice thing about the Sapphire video card is the TriXX overclockers utility that allows me to overclock and underclock the card. I put it in silent mode, which slows the fan to 20% of maximum […]
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The Net
Out of all the thousands of pages on The TechZone, one page stands out head and shoulder above the rest in terms of profitability. How much am I talking about? Many publishers make less than $1 CPM from their pages. They’re doing jumping jacks if they can get $5 CPM and back flips if they can get $10 CPM. Well, […]
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Investing
In a nutshell, a tax shelter allows your investments to grow free of tax. Many people think tax shelters are only for the rich but the biggest users of tax shelter is the middle class. When you buy a RRSP (IRA or 401K in the US), you are in fact buying a tax shelter. The money made inside the RRSP […]
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Ramblings
So yesterday we went to Saigon Fusion for Paul’s welcome back home party. Saigon Fusion is a restaurant/bar/club/karaoke. It’s a very unusual mix for sure but it’s a fun place to go to. The food really isn’t that good, which is why we went to Memphis Blue for dinner and then drove over to Saigon for drinks, dance and karaoke. […]
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The Net
It looks like Google site targeted campaign is in full swing. And it looks like some of the advertisers using site targeting are very big, tier 1 advertisers. Right now Google is running a site wide 729×90 ad for HP on The TechZone. I discovered this while reading the TTZ Forums and noticed the ads. I don’t run Google 728 […]
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Investing
Today I came face to face with the Gun and Butter theory. This theory goes way back to the founding of America. The Indians had butter, the settlers had guns. We know who took over. Today the gun and butter theory is used as an investment analogy. Basically, we can buy two things with our money; gun or butter. What’s […]
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