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In January 2008 I discontinued use of my Toll-Free Fax to Email service, with Telus Canada. I really liked the service and the idea of getting faxes sent directly to my email. There are many times that I scribble notes on incoming faxes received, and it’s nice when you get to a point that when you start scribbling phone messages, grocery lists and other doodle art .. that you can just go back into your email and reprint a clean fax!

Background why I used a Toll-Free Service

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Well, surprising .. it’s still the same ‘ole usuals …

#5 ….. CIALIS SPAM - WITH 769 SPAM EMAILS RECEIVED

#4 VIAGRA SPAM - WITH 1537 SPAM EMAILS RECEIVED

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I might have to retrieve all of the news, and keep them as a DRAFT before publishing them .. there are a lot of news releases issued every day, and duplicated through out various government agencies (of course!).

I’m still working on trying to get the permalinks to work. I have hit an obstacle by the optional requirement to include provided updated files in my ../wp-admin/.. folder - however if I do that, the next time I do a wordpress automatic update to the latest version (using InstantUpgrade plugin) those files will be deleted. I’m looking for an out-of-the-box solution.

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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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FINALLY!

The DNS and nameservers “appear” to have kicked in. This means that my “planned” migration from the June upgrade to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) to the new Dedicated Server plan August 1, 2007 .. has finally been made.

I say “appear” because I still do not know for sure. All my reference sites that identify the IP of the address of, say .. THIS blog for instance .. show up as the IP of the old server. Yet, if you can see a message at the top of this post proves that it is on the dedicated server, because it was added only to the dedicated server’s version of the template.

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I received my first EVDO (MTS Mobility) statement today. It is for the period June 29, 2007 until August 7, 2007 - and geesh that screws me up. First of all, this bill was for $145.77 allocated as follows:

Activation Fee (Jun29) - $35.00
Service (Jun29-Jul07) - $34.00
Service (Jul08-Aug07) - $60.00 (discounted from $90 for next three months)
PST 7% and GST 6% - $16.77
>> Total $145.77

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Good News: Part 3 - My Laptop Arrived Today!

Yaaaaay .. it’s a beaut! I’ll take pictures when I set it back up again

Bad News: EVDO Revolutionery Obstacles

Naturally, the second thing I did after receiving my new laptop today (the first being me taking it out of the box) was to install the software and check out the EVDO Wireless broadband internet connectivity.

Well .. the light was on the card, showing power, but the software was saying there was no power. Rather than fiddle with it, I decided to just pack it up and take it down to the MTS Connect Center where they promised they would help get it set up if I needed it .. I figured .. why not?! It would probably be faster than me reading instructions, trying to figure out Windows Vista Business, etc etc.

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My brother does not have the ability to have high-speed internet access at his location, so we were checking out options. He ended up choosing Netscape Internet Services from Netscape.ca … Unlimited accellerated dial-up service for $18.95 plus taxes.

As a birthday present last May 2006, I offered to sponsor him 1-2 months of access on my credit card and then he will be reimbursing me cash every month for the access. My hopes were to be able to keep in touch via email and to give him access online to help assist me with the CurlingBlog.com development - which has basically been idle since end of last curling season.

Billings are on the 2nd of each month and payments are made on the 16th by my mastercard. I have now received the 3rd pro-forma invoice dated August 2, 2006 … But, here’s a screen shot of the statement of the previous two billings - which shows …

NETSCAPE.ca is STILL CHARGING PEOPLE 7% GST DESPITE THAT THE GST RATE IN CANADA WAS REDUCED TO 6% ON JULY 1, 2006

I wish I knew someone at Netscape who can bring this to their attention .. I couldn’t figure out the way to contact anybody through the new Netscape.com portal. Although, I did email Netscape.ca support this Sunday afternoon. It’s not much .. (1% = $0.19 CDN per month) .. but I hope they adjust my account and everybody else’s that they are overbilling.

Should Netscape.ca know better? I think so.

Oh .. Here’s a site that I could have just said .. “DITTO” …. so, I commented over there and you can read all about it (if you are interested)

“Commission Junction Abuses Small Publishers”

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Beavis and Best-Butt-Head … aka the Story of HART’s Misadventures at Best Buy

[Click Here to Jump to UPDATE April 7, 2006]

Here is a nice long bedtime story .. highly recommended to read before you go to sleep, because it is so boring and long, it will put you to sleep .. no need to use any artificial sleeping aids tonight! Just read this blog entry!

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