Network Solutions Web Hosting
Posted on December 17, 2007 - Filed Under computers, Internet | Leave a Comment
If you’re planning to do any sort of work online, whether it’s selling products & services, blogging for money or even just as a contact page then I recommend having your own domain name & paid web hosting. There may be a ton of free sites available out there, but most of them [...]
Read More..>>Draft Stopper
Posted on December 15, 2007 - Filed Under building, Weather | Leave a Comment
One of the biggest problems we have with this house in the winter is that all the interior doors have a large gap at the bottom of almost an inch. So even if we try to keep the heat down in most of the house, whichever room we are currently in always has a [...]
Read More..>>Other Junk on Sale
Posted on December 15, 2007 - Filed Under Business, sale | Leave a Comment
Among some of the stuff I’ve been bringing up out of the basement are a few cases of
8 piece safety utility knife sets which I have on sale for just $2 a set. They’re not real high quality but for 2 bucks you certainly get your money’s worth. Also we still have lots of [...]
High-end Time Pieces
Posted on December 15, 2007 - Filed Under gadgets, Internet, shopping | Leave a Comment
For the person on your Christmas list with expensive tastes in watches, Essential Watches is just what you need. Carryihng top brand names such as Rolex, Franck Muller, Omega, Concord and many others, you are sure to find the perfect gift for that special someone, or even yourself. They even carry a selection [...]
Read More..>>Cleaning the Basement
Posted on December 15, 2007 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
I’ve been working on cleaning out the basement here, throwing out old junk that either doesn’t work or will never sell. Lots of old dot matrix printers went out in the last batch since a lot of computers these days don’t even have a parallel port on them anymore (and no one’s asked for [...]
Read More..>>Surprise Painter
Posted on December 15, 2007 - Filed Under Business, Holidays | Leave a Comment
When we went away to Halifax a couple weeks ago we left Kate in charge of the store for a couple of days and asked her to decorate the windows if she had time. When we got back we were pleasantly surprised to see that she had painted the windows, we had no idea [...]
Read More..>>A Busted PS3
Posted on December 14, 2007 - Filed Under gadgets, gaming | Leave a Comment
So last night I bought a broken PS3 for a somewhat low price. Supposedly it had fallen off of a coffee table and hasn’t worked since, but judging from the damage I see it must have been a 5 foot high coffee table onto a cement floor. I bought it anyway for parts, [...]
Read More..>>So What happened?
Posted on December 13, 2007 - Filed Under Business, This Town | Leave a Comment
As the story goes, the reason the guys next door are closing is that there is a pending lawsuit against them by none other than MicroSoft. It seems they were installing illegal copies of MS Office on computers they were selling, and a secret shopper for MicroSoft bought one of those computers. I [...]
Read More..>>They really are closing
Posted on December 13, 2007 - Filed Under Business, This Town | Leave a Comment
Looks like the rumors were true, Computer Are Us is closing. I was talking to our landlord today about other locations available for rent since we’re considering moving into something smaller/cheaper/easier to heat and he mentioned that the guys next door were going to be out by the end of the month. That [...]
Read More..>>Stickers and Labels
Posted on December 13, 2007 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
If it’s one thing I go through a lot of in this business, it’s labels and stickers of various types. On the rental movies there’s a number on the display box and a full size address label on the rental box. There’s price tags on everything that’s for sale. There’s also logo/address [...]
Read More..>>Finished Re-pricing
Posted on December 13, 2007 - Filed Under Business, gaming, shopping | Leave a Comment
Yesterday I spent a couple of hours repricing all the used XBox, PS2 and Game Cube games in the store. 99% of the games went down in price anywhere from $1 to $12 so nearly all of them are now $15 or less with a lot being in the $10 to $12 range. Next I’ll [...]
Read More..>>Neptune’s Balance Update
Posted on December 13, 2007 - Filed Under Business, Life, Neptune's Balance | Leave a Comment
We now have the 4L refill jugs in stock for $34.98. The 1L spray bottles are $9.98 each. Things are progressing nicely for this company, they now have a promotional video done up on a looping DVD which I’ve converted and uploaded to YouTube for them so it can be displayed on websites [...]
Read More..>>Another One Bites the Dust?
Posted on December 12, 2007 - Filed Under Business, computers, This Town | Leave a Comment
Not sure whether to classify this as good news or not, but someone just came in to ask if Computers Are Us has closed up. They said the doors are locked and the store is empty. I’m rather surprised since I know for sure that everything was looking like business as usual just a [...]
Read More..>>Niagara Falls
Posted on December 12, 2007 - Filed Under Contests, Travel | Leave a Comment
Many years ago when my wife first came to visit here, it was just before Christmas in the year 2000. She was here for a month and then when it was time to go back to Singapore for work, I went back as far as Toronto with her and we spent a few days [...]
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