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Ever since the CRA News release October 23, 2007 .. Fact Sheet: My Business Account - October 2007 .. there has been buzz about the new RC50 Business Consent Form and the T1013 Individual Consent Forms.

According to my tax software company .. the software should be integrated either tomorrow or by November 15, 2007. But, you can always download or print right from your browser over the CRA site …. RC59 and T1013

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The following is now available on the CRA Web site:

Taxpayer Alert

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) reminds Canadians that the tax laws that apply to traditional commerce also apply to electronic commerce. Taxpayers who earn income through online commercial activity should review their tax situation to ensure they are accurately reporting their income and meeting their tax obligations.

The CRA continues to vigorously enforce the provisions of tax laws to ensure that all Canadians pay their taxes. This provides a level playing field for taxpayers who comply with Canada’s tax laws.

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October marks the second anniversary of my HART-Empire Network and I published my Year 2 in Review post over on the HART-Empire blog.

There are many people and bloggers out there ALSO celebrating their “Blogiversary” in October 2007 .. and most will hopefully be over at Liz Strauss’ Successful-Blog.com chatting on an all-day Open-Mike comment day!

An Ode To Liz Strauss

If you don’t know who Liz Strauss is, and you blog .. then you are blogging in all of the wrong places! Liz has always been one of my favorite bloggers on the internet. When it was “cool” to just delete spam comments in one’s blog .. she would talk to these spammers and get a conversation going! Soon, you might find that people aren’t all spammers, and some just didn’t know how to be socially active around the ‘net! Mind you, there are times.

Last year, in my Year-1 Annual review of my network .. I published a few poems that I wrote to describe her blog in 25 words or less. Today - a year later - they still apply.

HART’s Hypothetical Entry #1 - HAIKU FORMAT

The Successful-Blog
Your Host Is Always Friendly
Come! Join The Party

HART’s Hypothetical Entry #2 - LIMERICK FORMAT

Bloglines has all of my feeds
I use it to track all my needs
But If you’ve got a business
You too can witness
Why Liz is on my Daily Reads!

SOBcon Event

SOBCon ‘07 is now a part of blogging history, but Liz and a few friends really stepped up and made it a successful event in Chicago, last May 2007. There was about 15 speakers for the event and reading all the reviews about it, everybody had lots of fun! I wanted to go but couldn’t really afford the time to drive down there, or the conference fees. When I mentioned this in passing, Liz offered to make it an easy choice for me .. to drive down there and cover the cost of the fees for me .. and I really *really appreciated that, but still couldn’t find the time to leave.

Needless to say, I hope to see everybody down there for SOBcon Event 2008.

PS: her motto is: You are only a stranger once .. it’s true!

PPSS: Did you know that I am Liz’s Favorite? Yes. I am the ‘teacher’s pet’ if there was one .. as evidenced by the following:

1) I am NUMBER ONE and at the TOP of her S.O.B. list! WooHoo! (aw, don’t be jealous)

2) She acknowledges that I once asked her to fix her feed for her comments, because “half the show is in the comments” and seemed to really like that concept, when engaging with individuals in conversation in the comments!

3) Besides being an S.O.B. .. I”m also a B.A.D. Blogger

And that’s why I’ll be over at the party all day today!

But, in case you have a few minutes or hours of time .. feel free to jump in and say hello. If you want to read what other people think of Liz Strauss, you should get the idea by post #50! Or, by reading the following recent posts on her blog:

* www.successful-blog.com/1/a-party-wednesday-october-24th-youre-invited/
* www.successful-blog.com/1/minimalist-successful-wish/
* www.successful-blog.com/1/a-birthday-party-picture-invitation/
* www.successful-blog.com/1/dont-seek-success/
* www.successful-blog.com/1/the-currency-talent/
* www.successful-blog.com/sob-business/a-party-invitation-to-646-sobs-successful-and-outstanding-bloggers/
* www.successful-blog.com/1/voices/
* www.successful-blog.com/1/your-mothers-daughter/
* www.successful-blog.com/1/the-relationsheep-factor-a-successful-blog-birthday-bash-interview-with-the-phil-gerbyshak-and-lisa-gates/
* www.successful-blog.com/1/birthday-poetry-from-the-successful-blog-poet-laureate/
* www.successful-blog.com/1/eastons-something-successful-and-outstanding/
* www.successful-blog.com/1/success-in-the-middle-position/
* www.successful-blog.com/1/sailing-with-kirkness/
* www.successful-blog.com/1/keep-on-shining/
* www.successful-blog.com/1/a-tale-of-outstanding-smiles/
* www.successful-blog.com/1/in-the-annals-of-mists-of-blogospheric-pre-history/
* www.successful-blog.com/1/what-is-success-with-aloha/
* www.successful-blog.com/1/what-we-have-is/
* www.successful-blog.com/1/the-secret-to-a-successful-and-outstanding-blog/ *

So What Are You Waiting For? Drop On By

Today I received a FWD’ed email with a video file called “Drawing”. I was surprised it was so popular on YouTube and I never seen it before. I think it qualifies for my “Amusing Stuff” category! Although, I think I would add a disclaimer .. For Mature Audiences Only!

About This Video:

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Well .. I’ve got 5 types of folders in my Bloglines filled with RSS Feeds

(1) ARTICLES FOR EACH BLOG TOPIC

These are feeds of articles that are subject oriented, and affect one of my blog. I might name a folder called “ARTICLES For PetLvr.com” etc. There may be searches included for specific keywords that are around the ‘net, or a collection of other people’s sites and other tidbits that helps me blog about that topic. Generally I don’t open the folder for review until I’m ready to deal with everything inside the folder, because with Bloglines .. I try to “KEEP” articles until another time I am fully ready to use or discard.

(2) ARTICLES FROM OTHER BLOG NETWORKS

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.. According to Deloitte’s October 2007 TaxBreaks Newsletter

It’s a good read … here’s just one of these 15 tax tips .. #10 …

10. Pay a bonus

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GOODBYE OLD HEADER LOGO

The above picture was captioned as “Electrical Storm over Provencher Bridge in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada” and first displayed in my blog September 20, 1995 in this post: 1800hart.com/blog/2005/09/electrical-storm-taken-over-provencher-bridge-in-winnipeg/ … the image was FWD’ed to me in a mass email and I thought it was pretty nice, with the electrical storm. Over the years, I tried to determine where the original source was for this picture, but I never did found out (until recently).

You see, on August 2, 2005 I was looking for a new logo .. and by November 11, 2005 .. readers voted this header logo to be the new 1-800-HART header.

But, it turns out that this image was taken by Dan Harper who wrote in his site on September 20, 2005 (the same day I received this original image and posted it in my blog) …

September 20, 2005

A little over two weeks ago at about 3am I was high up on a parkade taking pictures of lightning while getting pelted by small hail on the same night that all the planes where blown over in Southern Manitoba.
At 4am the same morning I posted the photo shown below on several local forums just before I went to bed. It was also used in the Prairie View School of Photography September newsletter.

In the last two weeks several people have told me that the photo has made its rounds in Winnipeg by e-mail. Thanks to all those who sent it out, I’m happy everyone enjoys it. That’s exactly why I got into photography, to take pictures of things that others haven’t seen yet and just fun stuff. I always like hearing from people who like my photos so feel free to e-mail me at dan@danharperphoto.com so I can see how far this photo has traveled.

The photograph will soon be available for sale at the Wayne Arthur gallery, 186 Provencher in different sizes. You can also have a copy for your computer desktop by going to my desktops area.

Enjoy the Winnipeg weather! =->

Source: www.danharperphotography.com/oldnews_05.html

Well .. Dan phoned and emailed me yesterday asking me to remove his pictures from my website, because apparently he sold this picture. I offered to provide a link in my footer for continued use of his image, but he refused. Despite this, to thank him for taking such a nice picture and because I have used it ever since, I have linked back to his site anyway! And, except for my mock image above, and on the November 2005 voting entry .. all instances of this picture will be removed from this site permanently. I’m pretty sure there are mini screen view images around the HART-Empire Network and on various domains and pages, and I will endeavor to replace these images in due course, as soon as practical.

Meanwhile …

HELLO NEW HEADER LOGO

By now - this is the image on top of my blog!

This picture was found at Stock Exchange .. and was provided by Erica Burrell with website Stock By Kai over at Deviant Art site. It is called “Lightning” taken 6/3/2007. As a new template rolls over the HART-Empire Network in upcoming weeks, I do not know if this will be a permanent logo or not. In the meantime, there is a credit in the footer and will remain as long as the picture is up.

I call it .. my “LeisureSuit Logo” due to the picture on the right side - which was a photoshop blurrg of my 1996 passport photo, when I was wondering what I would look like with green hair and red eyes. I thought it looked like LeisureSuit Larry, so I named it “leisuresuit.jpg” I’ve recreated the text site name and tagline in the new header logo to be similar to the colors found in the old header logo.

* I was going around my usual everyday online business today, and decided to purchase something for $100.00 USD

Image source: Wikipedia

* It cost me $97.43 CDN

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