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May 15, 2008 News and Trends

Canada - Mortgage Insurance is NOT a sure thing

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:56:10 PST
"MarketPlace" was broadcasted on Feb 6 and re-ran on CBC NewsWorld on Feb 9. It was about claims made and declined by the major banks (and their underwriter Canada Life) regarding mortgage insurance that the borrowers took when they assumed their mortgage.Link: http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/in_denial/

Gant with Hudson in 5 steps

Wed, 14 May 2008 18:46:36 PDT
Gant is a Groovy-based build system that uses Ant’s extensive collection of flower power tasks without all of the nasty XML– this enables you to leverage greater flexibly when it comes to hiply assembling software. Capitalizing on this flexibility within a CI process, however, can be somewhat challenging, unless, that is, you happen to be using Hudson, baby! Hudson is an open source CI server that is particularly interesting given its ease of configuration and its compelling plug-ins, which

MUST READ: Right Blog and Radio Brilliance

Sun, 04 May 2008 08:52:14 PDT
This it too good to not take the time to read and follow. CBC staff should all read it since it involves at least a couple of “expert” correspondents at Huffington Post —which as I’ve pointed out is a far-left web site that state-owned CBC Newsworld likes to source for their guest analysts and “experts” on politics. Two blogs, the brilliant Little Green Footballs and Gateway Pundit, together with Fox News’ radio talker John Gibson, suss out a Huffington Post plant at a John McCain townhall

Travel Slowly In Australia

Wed, 14 May 2008 12:05:33 PDT
Have you heard about the Slow Travel movement? It is a trend that is growing and I believe it is a great thing. Too many people rush into a destination, run around for a day, and then rush to the next place.

This doc hip hops to the top of the world - Winnipeg Sun


This doc hip hops to the top of the world
Winnipeg Sun, Canada - Apr 18, 2008
On Sunday CBC Newsworld has the BBC documentary Massacre at Virginia Tech. It recalls the horrible shooting spree by Seung-Hui Cho on April 16, 2007, ...
CRITIC'S CHOICE Globe and Mail
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Friendly Global Warming, Linky Love

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:57:44 PDT
FRIENDLY GLOBAL WARMING! Vic Grace has started something that sounds nifty!"As we are all aware, blogging does give us the opportunity to reach out and yes, 'touch someone' by our words, pictures, links in our blogs and by our comments to fellow bloggers as well.Think about this - in a world today that is too often filled with news of wars all over the world, fears about terrorism, following newspaper and tv news reports about crime, gangs, and you name it of all the bad things we hear about ev

Gary Vaynerchuk on Mad Money

Wed, 14 May 2008 17:47:52 PDT
Is Gary the Cramer of Wine, or is Cramer the Vaynerchuk of Stocks? I’ll take the latter, and it sounds like Cramer will too:

Fall Fix: Accessories to Covet

Wed, 14 May 2008 11:15:46 PDT
For the fashion directors at Neiman Marcus, Fall 2008 marks a return to glamour, accessories-wise. Previewing some of the fall season’s hottest trends, the Dallas-based department store has its pulse on what styles you can look forward to once your summer clothes are packed.

Colorado at Arizona Preview Trends Free MLB Pick

Wed, 14 May 2008 16:11:30 PDT
The Colorado Rockies (15-24) are floundering right now. And they had better get things together quickly. They can take a step on that road in a Wednesday night sports betting contest with the Arizona Diamondbacks (24-15), the National League West leaders, in NL online betting action that is set to get underway at 9:40 PM ET at Chase Field (natural

AllHeadlineNews.com Debuts New“Happy and Upbeat News” Category

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:00:01 PST
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (PRWEB) January 16, 2006 -- All Headline News Corp., a leading news and content syndicator, today announced the launch of its“Upbeat and Happy” News content and...

Microsoft Office 2007 Design Families

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:01:15 PDT
The Microsoft Small Business Center is offering six free design families for Microsoft Office 2007 that can be downloaded directly from the promotional website. A design family is simply a collection of several templates for different Office 2007 applications that have all the same look and feel to them. I have to agree with Ryan from Cybernet News that Microsoft Office was missing templates that tie together the different applications. The six design families each contain a spreadsheet, prese

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