Archive for May, 2006

Closed until June 3, 2006

Temporary Notice …

Due to a death in the immediate family, I will not be posting any articles in here or anywhere around my HART-Empire Network of blogs.

I hope you continue to keep Our RSS Feed in your Bloglines or in your Feed Reader of Choice, and not remove the subscription .. as I should be back on track on or shortly after Friday June 2, 2006.

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GST Reduction July 1, 2006

Just a reminder … GST/HST Info Sheet about the Reduction of GST/HST ..

For those of you who will not be hiring technical support to change the rates in your Cash Registers .. you only have 35 days left to learn how to do it! So, you may as well start looking for those manuals soon!

The General Transition Rule states on Page 1:

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Map Clusters or rather .. ClustrMaps

I thought I would experiment with ClusterMaps hit counter .. where you can ..

Locate all site visitors. Fast. Free. (Get one…)

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An “Enclosure Letter” For The Taking

As an accountant and Income Tax preparer and E-Filer .. I have items that need to be filed with Canada Revenue Agency all the time. This is what I do.

I have a bin on an office shelf in my office that I keep everything that has to go to Canada Revenue Agency. Unless there are special deadlines or requests to file, I generally deliver all the documents either on the last day of the month, or on the weekend.

Sometimes, I’m just too busy to hand deliver and I call the courier to deliver an envelope directly, but with the price of couriers .. I prefer to just go on my own during the weekend and make an outing out of it .. where, if my wife wants to go for a car drive ..we’ll take Maxxie and Sophie for a ‘car-ride’ .. stopping at Tim Horton’s first. The store by our place has really nice drive-thru personnel so, when ever we drive through with our dogs .. they toss in a few extra TimBits! The drive downtown to our local Canada Revenue Agency office is just a 20 minute drive, and I am always more comfortable hand delivering packages with large amounts of money involved to the front desk or at the side wall “slot” drop off.

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A couple more Amusing Videos added today

From my Email Inbox .. (I was going through sorting out the 2700+ emails I received today and forgot about these ones..)

I have added the following two amusing videos to THIS PAGE (I know - they don’t fall between the letters of “O” and “Z” .. but, this ain’t the land of Oz..)

Update: May 19, 2006

http://www.the-singers.com/video/Ma___Pa_Kettle_Math.wmv

Ma and Pa Kettle split the 25% of the family fortune between the five children … that’s 14% to each of them!

http://www.the-singers.com/video/FLURL-dot-com-29163-fishing.wmv

This is how to catch some fish!

Two And A Half Hours Later ..

This morning .. like I do every morning (besides scratch, splash and flush) .. I grabbed a cup of coffee and then headed to my computer to start my day. And, like I normally do .. I check my email first thing in the morning.

Today I received 2713 Emails

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The Rules Of Deposit - Hypothetical Question

It was interesting .. I was doing some random searches about various topics .. and something caught my eye. I continued to do more searches .. and I found this:

SOURCE: Ministry of Government Services: News Releases

New Real Estate and Business Brokers Act comes into effect today

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For Those Easily Amused … Surf the HART way

For those easily amused .. there is a button in the top right of my sidebar .. called .. Surf the HART way

You probably noticed it, because it’s been there for about 11 months now. It’s a random script that will select a random category of this blog and you can randomly read various topics by pure chance. I have a few category names that have no entries, so there may be a few error messages during your travels .. just click the button once again!

Organizing Your Computer To Backup Your Computer

I have lots of data on my computer.

I keep all my phone numbers, my time records, my accounts receivable and billings information, my client’s data files for each year for each software that I use, my email records, my wedding pictures, my .mp3 and video collection, and other crap that is just too much to mention.

I am quite organized on my computer .. in fact, this is how I organize my C: Drive …. I am placing a | instead of the backslash so it will show up in here.

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Thanks to “Gerry” for pointing out …

… in an email I received this weekend…

Excuse me, did you know that your bloglines link and RSS feed button link to a petlover site?

D’oh!

It was .. linked to feeds.feedburner.com/Petlvrcom-theBlog .. THANKS GERRY! I must have done something sometime ago in my templates, and must have copied a section from my other blog over into this one .. According to my backups, it’s been at least 4 months like that - since January 6, 2006 .. the backup before that had it correctly listed … uggghh :(

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