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Summit Found

Summit Seeker — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:01:18 +0000

Summit found and it is Whistler

CNN asks: “Vancouver Too Perfect?

Summit Seeker — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:54:46 +0000

Vancouver boasts that it has it all, and many who live here on a sunny day like today will agree:

The outward-bound nature of the place is happily countered by a laid-back vibe — this is the West Coast after all — where pockets of hippie counterculture exists with counterculture of the consumer variety.

Jen looking out over Vancouver from Seymour Mountain

With all the tension and negative press regarding gang violence, isn’t nice to stop for a moment and realize that we still live an enviable life in one of the world’s most remarkable settings?

Read CNN’s take on Vancouver here

How NOT to enjoy BC’s Outdoors

Summit Seeker — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:56:57 +0000

Here at Seek the Summit, we’re all about celebrating the amazing outdoors British Columbia has to offer. But living next to nature means being aware that there are dangers inherent in outdoor sports.
Pretty logical. So, in the vein of “cautionary tale”, I give you the following (Note, the snowmobiler here did manage to get away from this avalanche safely.)

Blackberry App World doesn’t Support Firefox

Summit Seeker — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:29:59 +0000

Check it out: Blackberry App World doesn’t support the Firefox browser. Instead, they’d like me to go over to IE… Are they kidding?

Notice

This web page uses ActiveX controls that work only in Microsoft Internet Explorer. To ensure that BlackBerry App World is correctly downloaded to your BlackBerry, this site is not designed to work with any other Internet browsers. If you cannot use Internet Explorer, you may be able to download the software directly to your BlackBerry smartphone.

It’s Time to Take Canada from Harper

Summit Seeker — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:14:06 +0000

I need to expound upon this topic in much greater detail, but this is a very good start:

Thanks to Baba Brinkman, a Vancouver rap artist, for the above.

A memo: My Wife in Paris

Summit Seeker — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:48 +0000

Sometimes, when I’m at work and looking at my portfolio, I think of my wife and how much I enjoy seeing her smile. And it makes me think of her in Paris, how right she seems in the City of Lights. So, even though I planned on making a post about the TSX closing its best monthly gain since 2001 (let’s not – please – discuss year to date), I’ve decided instead to share this picture of Jennifer in Paris. This was a very good day, we were on our way to the Louvre.

TopLine is Now Live

Summit Seeker — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:01:57 +0000

Top Producer’s new real estate software newsletter is live and ready for prime time. For the sake of simplicity we’re using Wordpress to present content.

See it here:

I cheers alot

Summit Seeker — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:53:07 +0000

Apparently I like to cheers the camera. Well, suppose it’s usually my wife. Cheers just seems to capture the moment so well.

So, here goes:
Cin Cin

Cheers: Happy blogversary!

Summit Seeker — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:18:35 +0000

Happy blog-versary to my wife at Champagne Wednesday, who just celebrated a year of blogging.

Great work. Your words inspire me.

The Failure(s) of the Market

Summit Seeker — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:53:25 +0000

Is it any wonder that the economy is where it is today, given that behaviour such as is revealed in this interview of Jim Cramer is considered reasonable, excusable, required. What’s more surprising is that the whole system wasn’t brought down by hedge funds much, much sooner. While Jim Cramer tries to justify cheating and lying by saying everybody does it, and that the outcome justifies doing so, what he really highlights to me is one question: how can any of us small investors ever hope to get ahead, when the system is so obviously rigged.

He really gets into it around the 2-minute mark: