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At 11:07pm on July 27, 2008 (while on vacation) I cleaned up my Gmail account, and went into all of my cPanel accounts and began to forward all of my email to the Gmail address. I wrote about this on my post called The GMAIL Experiment and I will now display the results.

First Of All …

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I work in my home, on the second floor. During the summer, it gets too hot - because heat rises. In the winter, it’s quite the opposite - I’m freezing! We keep our natural gas fireplace on most of the time, and the thermostat is on the main floor. In order to bring heat up to the second floor, the main floor has to either turn into a furnace .. (which, I don’t mind) .. or we have to spend money redoing our heating system and maybe even consider dual furnaces and the like!

So .. I have been using a “Space Heater” for the past 4 years. Last week - it died on me! I finally moved up from the cheaper $19.99 space heater to the $59.99 model at Canadian Tire, although with the accumulated Canadian Tire Dollar money I have .. it only cost me $35.00. This is FAR WAY SUPERIOR than the other one, and oscillates nicely to keep my legs warm, and my office in my home comfortable to work in. If you are looking for a heater for under your desk - and I know how confusing that can be with all the choices - I would recommend you try the one I’ve got pictured below!

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My father-in-law is Herbert König, proprietor and owner of Corydon Clock Repair here in Winnipeg. He recently turned 73 years old and has been working full time in his leased premises 5-6 days a week, commuting back and forth from his apartment. His stated hours are Tuesday to Friday, Noon to 6pm .. but he was often at his shop before 6am starting his day repairing clocks. Other days he was available by appointment only, but sometimes went into the shop to catch up on his work. He is a busy man!

On November 7, 2007 at 10:30am in the morning .. he was in a car accident.

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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

There is an interesting article in the July issue of TaxMatters@EY (from Ernst & Young), including information about transferring the cottage to the next generation.

From the July Issue:

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In my quest to get internet access at the beach this summer .. I mentioned earlier that I wanted to “Join the EVDO Revolution” .. because …

*Mobility High Speed is the latest evolution of North America’s leading cellular digital technology standard
* I think that’s pretty cool
* Dagnabit! I need Internet Access at Victoria Beach!

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Have you been following the Exchange Rates Lately?

Here are the average annual exchange rates for the following years by CRA

1995 - USD - 1.3726
1996 - USD - 1.3618
1997 - USD - 1.4267
1998 - USD - 1.5422
1999 - USD - 1.48584024
2000 - USD - 1.48520240
2001 - USD - 1.54841633
2002 - USD - 1.57035976
2003 - USD - 1.40146175
2004 - USD - 1.30152024
2005 - USD - 1.21163240
2006 - USD - 1.13409360

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Heads up from: Curtiss Thompson over at 901am

Google Labs has launched their latest experiment; Google Voice Local Search. This is a free automated phone service that allows you to search for local businesses.

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This post is more for myself, as I am posting a reminder for me where to find the following links next month!

* www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/hip/cslp/ImportantLinks/02_il_MasterListIndex.shtml
* www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/hip/cslp/ImportantLinks/17_il_International.pdf

The above links show “The Master List of Designated Educational Institutions” across Canada and around the world.

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The Voluntary Disclosures Program (VDP) allows taxpayers to come forward and correct inaccurate or incomplete information or disclose material they did not report during previous dealings with the CRA, without penalty or prosecution.

Did you know that other people can disclose information about you too?

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