Daily musings on stocks…
July 30, 2014 | In: Consumer - Non Cyclical
I love Target. I do a lot of shopping there and I'm really happy that they opened, late last year, a decent branch in downtown Montreal. I have to admit that I love Target more than FutureShop. But why? Well, the first thing that is great about Target...
July 29, 2014 | In: Opinion
Before starting this post I want to stress the point that neither I'm against motherhood nor I'm against reasonable subsidy for mothers and a reasonable time off when becoming a mother. I'm against using and abusing the system. Maternity leave is...
July 24, 2014 | In: General
Webspammers are creative people. They really are. They work really hard to circumvent Google's algorithm changes aiming to block them, sometimes they don't succeed, sometimes they do. But on the long term Google will take notice of their change in...
July 14, 2014 | In: Trivia
Canadian banks are finding that Twitter is a powerful platform to gain more clients by going casual with their existing/potential clients and pretending that they are the nicest people on earth... Anyhow, I found it interesting to know how many Twitter...
July 8, 2014 | In: Technology
My main job is IT consultancy (I do stock trading for fun) and, for a year now, I haven't used, on any of my machines, any Microsoft product besides Windows (and its built-in applications). Let me explain... The last 2 Microsoft products that I used...
July 8, 2014 | In: Financial
Most of us Canadians deal with the United States and get paid with US Dollars. Many Canadians receive payments to their PayPal account in USD, and are forced, when transferring the money from PayPal to their bank account, to exchange the money first to...
July 6, 2014 | In: Technology
Mobile carriers hate Whatsapp, they also hate Viber, Skype, and Tango. They hate them because the former stripped them out of their SMS revenue (SMS revenue has fallen for the first time for 4% in 2013), and they hate them because the latter stripped them...
July 4, 2014 | In: Opinion
I do some serious online shopping every month. One thing that I have learned is not to buy anything that is not on discount, unless I really need it, and unless I really need it now. So, I see something, and I wait for it to go on discount, and once it...