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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

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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I’ve been meaning to find a good place for this .. but - if you click on the TALKR button .. you can subscribe to the RSS of this feed .. and an .mp3 link appears at the end of each post (or it should be doing that anyway). This way, you can just click the audio and actually LISTEN to the words of each post TALKR itself!

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Darren over at Blog-Republic blog started an interesting post today .. (well, interesting to me anyway - go see my comment) .. Pre-writing Blog Posts And Posting Later. As you may have noticed that I have many blogs in the HART-Empire Network and I thought you might be wondering how I can keep up with them all .. Now I will tell you:

I’m having trouble keeping up with them all and have to pick and choose sometimes which ones to nourish and which ones to grow flowers and sit with no new posts. Fortunately, on the slower blogs I can thank the internet for NOT being loyal, so my lack of posting on a few blogs has scared readers and subscribers away and there’s lessor expectations.

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Mmmmm .. HART’s Famous Pasta Salad .. Yummy!

Well .. my wife thinks it’s famous anyway … Click on the picture for the recipe!

I have uploaded a revised listing of my Canadian Prime Rates excel spreadsheet to the internet, for the taking. It is current up to today’s date .. September 19, 2006.

Canadian Prime Rate is currently 6.00% (last changed May 25, 2006)

You can have for the taking … at the following location:

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Suppose you have an accounting blog .. like .. HART (1-800-HART) … and you want to show off your accounting knowledge ….

READER: Dear HART … I just purchased a new car that was financed over 3 years, for $25,000.00 .. I put down $3,000.00 which included the first month’s loan payment of $500.00. What’s my journal entry?

HART (1-800-HART): Congratulations on your new purchase .. I hope you have many years enjoyment with your new car. Here’s how to “book” the journal entry into your accounting records.

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This is Part (II) of two parts, because the original post seemed to be getting long. In Part (I), I had tried to identify some of the common difficulties that can arise and problems that can stir up during the bank reconciliation process. In this part, I will discuss ways in which I overcome each of those situations and provide you with some tips to help make reconciling your banks and cash accounts easier.

Reconciling - Computer Cheques

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I have many clients who have automated payroll services. By using the word “automated”, I mean specifically:

* Companies who use payroll services like Ceridian Canada etc.
* Companies who have accounting software with a Payroll Module and pay for periodic and/or annual updates

But, I also have many clients that are just single owner/shareholders or small businesses that only have 2-5 employees and find that that it is too costly to keep paying for an updated payroll service or hire a company like Ceridian.

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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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