That time of year again … for what seems like a day or two (to me) seems to have somehow mysteriously stretch out to a week - or longer!

The problem with having these “stress release” moments (between jobs, while new coffee pots are brewing, while printing, while multitasking, etc) is that there is not enough time to do the actual work. I surf a little, read a little, socialize a little, and so on and so on .. and then have to get back to work. I completely forget to actually do blogging work!

So - I guess it’s time to start this use spreadsheet again!

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* MyBlogLog - my PetLvr Member Profile

I was “HOT” for about 10 seconds yesterday February 24th .. probably because of my comment on their blog about limiting the joining of communities to 15 per day .. and my subsequent post about that

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* I have upgraded from wordpress version 2.0.5 to wordpress version 2.1

I have successfully upgraded 1800HART.com/blog/ to the latest 2.1 version of wordpress .. and it went well, without incident.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DIDN’T KNOW …

Despite having your wordpress or Feedburner settings to have Full Feed .. if you use the MORE button, your RSS Feed gets summarized. This is stupid .. really stupid to me. That’s because I have the EVERMORE plugin usually summarizing the front page for me automatically to make it more readable (in my mind) for those actually visiting my pages. However, that should not be the same for those NOT visiting my sites and accessing my feed via RSS.

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The RSS Feed has not been working since Sunday .. since I’ve upgraded wordpress from version 1.5.2 to the later version 2.0.5 .. but I’m please to say that I have finally figured out why … Conflicting Plugins..

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I’ve written before my situation with the dual host providers .. well .. upon renewal of Host Service Provider #1 last June/July .. I was ready to walk away .. until they “pulled .. me .. back .. in” (imagine some impersonation there).

What that resulted, was half price, double space, more features (somehow) .. and a Migration to perform the upgrade.

The account went into effect immediately .. although, it wasn’t until I started USING the extra space that I actually had to pass along an email asking WTF because I wasn’t allotted the space at that time. Today the actual moving and migration took place.

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My “host service provider #1″ had offered me a deal to keep me as a customer and I accepted .. for this upcoming year.

I was in the process of moving 100% from my Blacksun.ca (host service provider #1) mega account to my Ace-Host.net (host service provider #2) reseller account yesterday morning … because I feel that Blacksun.ca screwed me royally last year - in an an attempt to recoup monies made from a ‘bad deal’ one of their sales rep made with me.

What happened, is that two years ago .. I had many accounts with them and a sales rep negotiated a way to increase the size and bandwidth by consolidating all accounts into a mega-site (my PetLvr.com site). Immediately after, they fired that sales rep and squeezed more money out of me to accomodate my extra domain pointers and domain aliases that I needed. Last year, when it came time for renewal - I honestly thought that I would just pay what I did the previous year .. (the initial and the bump-up) - but instead, they held me hostage and forced me to pay almost double the price.

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I am currently in negotiation and reorganization and downsize of accounts with my “host service provider #1″ … moving the majority of my accounts to my “host service provider #2″ .. this includes blogs, domains, websites, ecommerce sites, and a few other pages … not to mention a vast redudancy amount of Megabytes of data of pictures, videos and other stuff that I have been accumulating since I’ve first created a website in November 1995.

Some may have experienced some downtimes as domains, data and MySQL databases are being moved .. beginning July 16, 2006. All should be well before the end of the week. The affected domains are as follows:

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Here are our picks for the period since we’ve last did this, up to January 29, 2006 - as determined by ourselves …

HART’s “sweet-HART” Picks

(1) 1-800-HART

* I talk a little about how Petty Cash Funds and using them in your business, with my “top five tips” about it

1800hart.com/blog/2006/01/petty-cash-fund-101-top-five-tips/

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Here are our picks for the period since we’ve last did this, up to January 22, 2006 - as determined by ourselves …

HART’s “sweet-HART” Picks

(1) 1-800-HART

* I talk a little about how I try to utilize Excel Spreadsheets in my monthly accounts to speed up the process and keep fees down

1800hart.com/blog/2006/01/monthly-accounting-and-excel-spreadsheets/

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Here are our picks for the period since we’ve last did this, up to January 15, 2006 - as determined by ourselves …

HART’s “sweet-HART” Picks

(1) 1-800-HART

* If you are self-employed or a consultant and want a simple spreadsheet to keep track of your billings, here’s a template I have created and use for myself - for the taking … help yourself and keep a 2006 invoice summary

1800hart.com/blog/2006/01/an-excel-spreadsheet-template-to-recap-your-2006-invoicing/

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