August 2008 Monthly Highlights
September 18th, 2008 Posted in Miscellaneous
I am little late this month giving you last month’s highlights. However, I am still posting it because monthly highlights posts seem to be very popular.
View all my Blue Mountain trip related posts on one page.
How to ride out market volatility
Concerned about the recent market turmoil? Read this timeless post.
33 million cool dollars to compete with Google
A new search engine Cuil was launched to compete Google.
Freakonomics book review
ADJ reviews Freakonomics. Can you guess what ADJ rating this book has received?
Imagine that an undergraduate engineering student is doing the following:
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Taking a year off
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Quitting school not once, but twice
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Skipping 85% of his classes
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Failing first-year English three times
If he is in a class of 250 students, what would you expect him to rank? The last possible rank (the 250th) or maybe the 150th?
Meet John Chow and Yaro starak
Meet these two dot com moguls.
CI Financial, Scotia Bank, and Sun Life
Is CI buying Scotia’s Mutual Fund section? But how about Sun Life? Are they cool with it?
How to protect your family from Listeria food poisoning
Save this article and ask everyone in your family to read it.
The Joy of Not Working
ADJ reviews the international bestseller The Joy of Not Working.



