Archives for December, 2008

What can I say – 2008 was a lot of fun 1) Music: That’s Not My Name by The Ting Tings [Audio clip: view full post to listen] 2) Images: 2008 Year in Review

The forecast for 2009 is out and it’s looking good if you have about $300K to throw at a home. The housing prices in Los Angeles County are expected to drop 25% in 2009. 10 worst real-estate markets for 2009 The housing market hasn’t bottomed out yet. For the third quarter, the closely-watched S&P Case-Shiller [...]

Yes – this is going to be a rant about AT&T Wireless. This will be an act in four parts – enjoy. The iPhone incident - when the 3G iPhone came out, I wanted one. So I took a half-day at work and lined up at the Apple Store in Marina Del Rey. It was [...]

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority announced that tourism dropped by 10.2% in October. The drop is the largest since October 2001 when Vegas saw tourism decline by 14.1% in the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks. In addition, the average hotel room price in Southern Nevada dropped by more than 14% to $115.68, and [...]

So Christmas is just around the corner. Most people have decided not to exchange gifts this year. But if you look real close, you can find some killer gifts for low low prices. However, if you have some money, there has never been a better time to be selfish. Here are some gifts I will [...]

So I have been using Yelp! for about nine months. It just keeps getting better. I first heard about Yelp! last November when I attended a Google workshop. At the time, Google was catering to small business and trying to get these business to spend some cash on ad words and ad sense (Google’s online [...]