Gold trading live calls

I have been playing at gold trading on and off for some years and am now live with real beer tokens. I am posting my trades in the comments section of this post. This last week has been pretty good, around 40% profit. I am using an oanda account geared at 10:1, so I'm buying an ounce of gold for about $100 and make $10-15 per trade. I can't share my trading system because I'm not sure I understand it. Most trading systems can work as long as you have covered the what if I lose scenario..Most people don't like to think about that...and when I say most people I mean you, me, citibank, lloyds, bank of scotland and other amateurs. Anyway what with the ups and downs of the world there's money to be had. Of course this is not a recommendation to trade and my trades are as a record to myself only so I can analyse performance. I would not encourage anyone to follow what I do, but they're there if anyone has any feedback on the performance etc..

Costco cashback

So afer a year I got $200 back from Costco and $250 from the Costco Amex (see money for nothing post) which is about a month of 'free' groceries.  I use the Amex all the time when I can.

I guess it almost makes up for having to visit the 7th level of hell once a fortnight and having a feeezer full of frozen pork or whatever I can't eat from the $20 megapack...

My additional challenge is to get a free lunch there, the pizza samples are OK but it cracks me up seeing grown men and women queuing up to try a 1 inch square of mmmmmmm bread and  butter or AN olive, you have to be discerning and take like 5 samples of the good stuff and come round and do it again...

flock of crows

This has nothing to do with money but has anyone else seen thousands of crows flying at night around Park King George?  I am sure I'm not imagining it, every now and then there are swarms of them at night

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They are quite eerie but somehow beautiful to see as long as you don't think about the film...

When I saw them people were nearly crashing the car as they were driving around looking up out the windows..

The trees were black with them, pretty cool..

See Doctor Today

So another recent find was the McGill Sports clinic. If you are physically injured and say it was sport or exercise related you can see a doctor very fast here.

(514) 398-7000

http://athletics.mcgill.ca/sportsmed_home.ch2

It is not free and McGill people get it on insurance apparently but it is quick and if you are in pain maybe $50 is worth paying....basically they offer lots of physio after check-up by doctor.

It is open to the public.

Dying for the snow to go away, fatal 'accidents' an annual event.

Well I warn visitors to Montreal that the snow removal people are total cowboys who are irresponsible at best and darn right aggressive at worst. I have to dig out press clippings to prove that they kill someone every winter and after visitors have had the pleasure of some prick ing a mini snow tractor AT them at 60 km/h., they soon realise that snow clearance is best avoided if you'd like to live.

Well this winter they surpass themselves, 4 dead and 3 more months to go. It is pretty clear what that limp dicked mayor needs to do but of course he'll do nothing, because what's a few dead when there are private drives to be cleared...

They even have the nerve to give us instructions on how to assist them. My only interactions with them have shown them to be rude, agressive and ignorant, so I say do what you can to piss them off, like hit the emrgency off button, throw snowballs at them and drive really slowly in front of them..Mind you they might kill you for daring to inconvenience these overpaid morons.

Talking of pavement clearance I want point out that the quality of it depends on where you live. Westmount is a pleasure to go running in on clear ice and snow free pavements and NDG has a 5 inch thick layer of perma-ice welded to the pavement. I am sure if those lazy buggers tried clearing it instead of trying to beat the land speed record for minitractor racing then we could do crazy shit like go for a walk. Perhaps they should be paid on square feet of clear pavement, then they's be pretty cheap. Oh, hang on these are the guys who smashed the windows of the homes of councillors who tried to sue them for not doing their jobs properly about 4 years back...Errr..Sorry then I meant great job, worth every thousand of those reasobale city taxes.

restore, photos, undelete, pictures, memory card recover, Picassa, Google, picassa help, Camera get back my photos fotos videos

So I borrowed a camera and the new version of Picassa made it look like all the photos had been uploaded to hard drive, I pressed delete...and in one click and woosh had erased all my friend's photos and videos. No, not in recycle bin, gone.

Sadly for me they had great value and I had to get them back. Picassa help page recommended a program that cost $110. No fanx.

Anyway I found a good program PC Inspector Smart Recovery which is free and works.

Just select JPG or AVI and off you go, takes a while but who cares?

XXXXXXXXX2 APRIL 09XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Just found a better one called Recuva
http://www.recuva.com/
It is a ton quicker and has quite a good function to make deleted files unrecoverable, quite useful if lending out memory sticks cameras etc

Also they do a defrag program that helps freshen up a bulging computer HD.
http://www.defraggler.com/

And of course Ccleaner is nice...

reservation rewards tiger direct

So I was buying an external harddrive when a window at tiger direct pops up...would you like $20 off next purchase?

Yes please I say and get rediected to Reservation Rewards I get mildly suspicious when they ask for a credit card number to 'refund' me with. Turns out the whole fkin thing is a scam and the only thing you get is a monthly fee of $12. Silly me for not reading pages of small print and assuming Tiger Direct would deal with reputable firm.

What assholes they are...I will complain bitterly.

DO NOT SIGN UP TO RESERVATION REWARDS
****UNLESS YOU UNDERSTAND YOU WILL BE CHARGED MONTHLY****

A quick google search will show them up to be total crims. Now I see why the UK card was refused and only residents of canada could apply...because only Canada is so backward that it does not prosecute these peenarses.