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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Don’t rent out a new home…or blog about it either

October 23, 2008 Property Management

I was going to write a post giving some kudos to Sara MacLennan’s great post about the hazards of renting out a new house. I went and re-read the post. But then I got distracted by the giant string of comments. Holy crap.  What is it about real estate that makes people act like fools?  [...]

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We’re Not Mothballing The Oilsands

October 23, 2008 Oil

From an Reuters’ article I found today: “Given the current situation in the financial markets what we are doing is announcing a change in how we execute this project. We are not mothballing it, we’re not stopping it … We believe this will give us reduced risk on a go-forward basis and increased flexibility.” – [...]

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Blood, it’s in you to give!

October 23, 2008 Personal

Your Public Service Announcement (PSA) of the day: Go donate blood! (and sign up for the Stem Cell and Bone Marrow Registry too) I went on Tuesday. We do it as a group at work through the Partners for Life program. I’d be amiss if I didn’t say thank you to Enquiro for giving us [...]

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