Posted on January 31, 2009 by Adrian Bashford
As an early celebration of Clint’s birthday, we went to the Sam Roberts concert at the Bronson Centre. I had lived next to the Bronson Centre my first 7 years in Ottawa, and had no idea that it was used for concerts. Perhaps that is a new thing? It turns out that it is actually [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2009 by Adrian Bashford
As he often does, my friend Omer pointed me to some great new ideas, this time from the TED conference which I hope to attend some day!
I really enjoyed these two videos of Dan Gilbert, when he presented at TED in 2004 and 2005. Both videos are really about happiness, Dan’s field of study, but [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2009 by Adrian Bashford
Since I really didn’t want to have to pay for them, I wanted to sell and take the gains from my shares I purchased yesterday, and left the rest in to take advantage of gains that will hopefully come over the next few weeks.
Based on pre-market trading, I was hoping for more of a pop [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2009 by Adrian Bashford
I am (almost) doubling my number of shares by picking up a bunch today at $80. Yesterday, the stock traded at its lowest value in 52 weeks.
Earnings are announced at the close of the markets today, and the analysts are very split on what the news will be. The stock has been seriously depressed by [...]
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Posted on January 18, 2009 by Adrian Bashford
Sorry for the redirect, but I see I am still getting traffic to this post, and it has been removed in favour of this one…
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