Well.ca goes Free Shipping. for all your drug store needs. great work ali.

Torontoist: Feist Really Likes the Number Four. on seasame street. that’s awesome. via ram.

spain, rubyfringe, iphone

I’m back from Spain. It was awesome. Barcelona is my new favorite city. Also, the Citroen C2 is amazingly roomy for a tiny car and has an insane turning radius. Hopefully I’ll steal Auriol’s photos soon and you can all see them.

I landed at 9pm on Friday and headed immediately to the opening night event of RubyFringe, Unspace’s punk-rock tech conference. The whole thing was an unmitigated success (in my humble opinion) and I was very glad that everyone I asked seemed to agree. All of the presentations ranged from “awesome” to “best I’ve ever seen”. The food and parties set a new bar for tech conferences (in my humble opinion). Though lots of people helped out, my fellow unspacer Meghann deserves an insane amount of applause for doing such an amazing job organizing and planning the event. Checkout what people are saying about RubyFringe on Twitter here and tons of photos on flickr here.

And now that I’m back, I went out and bought a 16GB iPhone. $90 a month to the man (Ted Rogers). Maybe I should buy like $1000 worth of Rogers stock just so I feel like I’m not getting completely screwed by this GSM monopoly.

RuinedIphone.com | Screwing Canadian iPhone customers since 2008. i agree. but come on people, there’s better things to protest.

Unbundling the iShares CDN REIT Index Fund (XRE). how it might be cheaper for you to own separate stocks than an ETF with only a few stocks.

Quick Tip: Order Your Credit Reports. some links for getting credit reports on yourself in canada.

frustration list #1

I just paid $8 for a pint of guinness. Eight fucking dollars! On the plus side, leaving work to go watch Eurocup is quite easy.

Identity 2.0 Startup Sxips Into the Deadpool. sxip seemed like one of the cooler startups in vancouver. they’re dead broke.

Volatile TSX still beat investment pros. They did even worse than last year. another reason for buying index funds.

Tax Implications of Foreign Dividend Investing. stuff to know for canadian investors.

When Crowdsourcing Fails: Cambrian House Headed to the Deadpool. calgary based startup seems to be done.

City Cafe in Kitchener, ON doesn’t have a cash register. another example of simply trusting people to pay and focus on what actually creates value.

CBC News report about Canadians buying foreclosed property in the US. I can understand the appeal of buying a home for half price, but do you really want to live in a neighborhood riddled with foreclosure? And I guess this is big, bhen I was in Vegas I even saw signs that said “#1 real estate agent for Canadians”.

Global Housing Bust. so when’s the other shoe gonna drop in canada?

Updated info on fixed versus variable rate mortgages in Canada. in short, most people save money with variable.

Weakerthans acoustic performance at KEXP. i listened to this while i drove up to vancouver for thanksgiving which is funny as kevin cole mentions how the new album is “great for driving”. the interview about 11 minutes into the set is quite good too.

Sixteen ways to beat the taxman. you can always count on the national post for stuff like this.

Health Canada bisphenol A announcement imminent. time to get rid of your nalgene bottle.

Blank. American Apparel-esque clothing company producing cotton clothes in quebec.

Michael Geist - CRTC To Face Net Neutrality Issue as CAIP Demands Bell Cease and Desist Its Throttling Practices. hopefully this works and it seems simple enough. why doesn’t government work like that here?