At an undisclosed “family eatery” in Ottawa an argument broke out between warring factions of the Financial Blogging world, when Active Investors felt they had been pushed over the edge and fought back against the… Read More »Active Investors Fight Back
Student lines of credit are another way for students to pay for the post-secondary education, if they cannot get grants or loans from the government.
It’s becoming evident that Canada Post’s Epost service is losing its appeal among customers. I received a note from Bell, stating that they will no longer be using Epost to send my bill, and that I should retrieve it from their website instead. As a major client of Canada Post, it’s possible that Bell’s move might inspire other companies to abandon the service. I don’t hold the service in high regard, personally, as it doesn’t integrate with Outlook or any other email reader.
The March Madness Tournament is known for producing unpredictable and exciting results due to its win or go home format. The recent upsets have left many brackets in shambles. It’s unfortunate that the Buffett Bracket, which was a lucrative offer by the Wizard of Omaha for anyone who could predict a perfect bracket, isn’t happening this year due to legal issues. The chances of that is:
To calculate the total number of ways to fill out a bracket take the total number of possible outcomes for each game (2) and multiply it out 63 times: 2 x 2 x 2….x 2, or 2^63. The odds come in at one in over nine quintillion – odds that don’t seem very promising.
And my favorite team at March Madness? The UC Irvine Ant Eaters with their 7’6″ Center Mamadou Ndiaye, great team name and a mountain in the middle, wow.
Do you have your taxes done? It is time to get it done, no time to lose on this important task. It’s also Palm Sunday this weekend, so if you were thinking of going back to Church, might want to start this week, and beat the Easter rush.
Only in Ottawa would you have folks so excited about a hockey game that they throw hamburgers to celebrate (and the players eat them):
Spring 2015 started out as a snowy time, but the snow eventually did go away. How many times I celebrated writing this tome.
Thank you TD for giving me a bill paying tool that tells me the last time I paid a specific Bill. ALways quite helpful.
