Tales from the Techside

Since he will almost certainly not publish my follow up comment to his intro post, I will publish it here.
First of all, proclaiming your blog as great doesn’t make it so. Secondly, we hardly need a self-congratulatory vitriolic venue to vent our frustrations at anyone… that is what yelp and other professional resources are […]

The National Association of REALTORS® put out a provocative new website last week. http://www.housingmarketfacts.com/.
I will address the ‘bad’ first.
It is barely a ’site,’ and can much more accurately be described as a launch page with a few paragraphs of new content and then a number of links to existing NAR services through their […]

This industry amazes me sometimes.
When I first traveled to a native fishing reservation off the northwest coast of BC in 1980 for the first of what was to be many glorious summers, I was immediately struck by the curious cultural echo. The music that I was really into 3 years before was popular there […]

Pretty cool.The Eye-Fi card won the Last Gadget Standing competition at CES 2008. Wi-fi meet memory, memory meet wi-fi.
I’m still not sure what I might want to do with it, but I am sure I can think of something. Direct applications for real estate are a bit narrow. Sure, you can send your pics of […]

Banking behemoth BofA purchased Countrywide financial for 4 billion and some change.
Ok, so what? Well, I actually think it is a very positive thing and a sign of hopefully more to come.
First, Countrywide apparently held nearly one in every six mortgages in America at one time. That seems high to me, so feel […]