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Effective January 1, 2008 …

I have decided to give up my Toll-Free Fax Line and use my local phone number as my fax number, as well

Since I went out on my own, I have been using TELUS FAX .. which is a fax to email service. I actually do have a 5-in-1 multi function fax machine/scanner/copier/printer/and something else/ .. but I only use it for sending faxes out on my regular home “lan” line.

It’s great to get fax to email .. it comes in a .tiff format, and I don’t have to print everything. I get to view on screen and print as often as I would like or need, or not at all. I don’t have to worry about being out of paper, and while I am always checking email .. it’s nice to know immediately if something needs my attention.

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Peter Merrick (BA, FMA, CFP, FCSI) .. President of Merrick Wealth Management, a boutique financial planning, employee and executive benefit consulting firm in Toronto, Ontario .. guest authored an entry here in the 1-800-HART Blog back in July 2005 called Individual Pension Plans - Upgrade Yourself.

He had informed me that the book on Individual Pension Plans that he has been working on for the last few years, has finally been published through Lexisnexis Canada has gone to the presses.

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I have added a nice little forum to this blog .. 1-800-HART-FORUM

If you didn’t know, I’ve had this page in my sidebar called 1-800-ASK-HART where if anybody had an accounting and bookeeping or personal or corporate income tax question .. all they had to do was post a comment and ASK HART (me) and HART (me) will find the answers for you.

There hasn’t been too much activity on that page.

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Thord Daniel Hedengren’s Digital Playground has tagged me this morning with one of those MEMEs you hear about. Basically .. it’s another chain letter out here in the blogosphere, and if I don’t respond within 24 hours .. something horrible will happen to me .. like I’ll fall down the stairs, get hit by a bus, swallow a marble, or some other wierd curse placed upon my family! Just kidding~ If you are really curious how this works, click on the link to Thord’s site, and just follow all the links back to whoever links the current person back to the previous person and so on and so on.

So .. without further delay ..here are five things you might not have known about me .. HART

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EGADS … sometimes I get SICK of reading all the tips out there on websites .. in blogs .. reading their lists .. their top ten picks .. etc etc .. Most are purely written because some ‘bloggers’ suggest to others that people really want to read tips and lists (do we have a short attention span?) .. and it will increase traffic.

Y E T … I’ve been quite fascinated with this site: Sound Money Tips … so, I guess I will make my own list.. since .. It’s got tips on everything! More →

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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Oh well … at least I can always have my Tim Horton’s Coffee …

Source - MSN

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tim Hortons Inc. is aiming to open up to 200 new coffee-and-donut stores in Canada and the United States and said it expected Canadian same-restaurant sales to grow 4 percent to 5 percent, slightly off its recent pace, executives told potential investors on Monday.

The Canadian icon, which also plans on opening a store in Afghanistan where many Canadian troops are stationed, is preparing to offer about $551 million in shares, representing a 15 percent stake in the company, this week in an initial public offering, as No. 3 U.S. burger chain Wendy’s International Inc. prepares to spin it off.

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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia describes social bookmarking as:

an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize (see folksonomy) a personal collection of bookmarks and share them. The use of social bookmarking is growing in popularity.

This new part of the web started around late 2003, when del.icio.us was launched. It quickly gained popularity, and as many similar services appeared online, tagging became widespread in some other online services. Yahoo agressively persued the trend, launching My Web 2.0 in mid 2005, and aquiring del.icio.us on December 9 of the same year. Thanks in part to Yahoo’s aggressive entry into the field, the practice of social bookmarking has moved closer to the mainstream.

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Ask away .. as a comment in this blog entry. I will try to provide an opinion, an answer, a recommendation, or just a suggestion.

Remember! HART’s mind works in mysterious ways .. someone should take advantage of that

Please note: That questions here will be used as a basis of topics in upcoming blog entries. If you prefer a private response, please advise in your comment in advance.

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