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They’re going to sell!

August 17, 2007 by Tricia

Yesterday I awoke to the sound of tapping on my bedroom wall.

It was the neighbors.

As the day passed I don’t think there was a wall adjoining our house that was tapped,banged or hammered.

What on earth were the neighbors doing?

Chris happened to see our neighbor outside when he walked to the corner store in the early evening and he found out that they’d spent the day doing minor repairs to their home. We’d already figured as much, but it was nice to confirm the source of all the tap tap tapping.

Their real estate agent had given them a list of suggestions for repairs.

So yeeaaaaahhhhh it looks like the neighbors will soon be putting their house up on the market!

I’m not surprised that they had at least some minor repairs to do. Since they moved in five and half years ago they’d never done a thing to the house and I think it was badly in need of repairs. I’m sure there’s more that they haven’t got to yet and might not do.

Believe it or not the constant tapping throughout the day was no where near as irritating as the loud guitar, tuba or karaoke that we’re subject to from time to time. In fact the tapping didn’t even really bother me at all. Perhaps that’s just because I knew it might mean that our Karaoke neighbors would soon be moving on.





Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Home Renovation, Moving or Organizing, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: bedroom, Chris, constant, guitar, home, house, house repairs, irritating, karaoke, karaoke neighbors, moving, neighbor, Real Estate, repairs, selling house, tapping, tuba

Chaos in the office!

August 17, 2007 by Tricia

I was just speaking to my brother. The one that lives here in the Toronto area. He’s one of the senior employees at his workplace and they are renovating and revamping the whole office and their computer systems and software. By this I mean everything from new computer systems to the financial consolidation software they use, to the chairs they sit in.

Unfortunately for my brother, instead of closing down the office for a few days or moving the employees to an area that’s already been finished or that hasn’t been worked on they are trying to make them work in among the chaos.

He’s not able to get anything done so he decided to call me and see how things were going over here. We’re going to be having our big family reunion at the end of the month too so he wanted to square up a few details.

Poor guy. What else is he going to get done at work today – nothing! Hopefully they finish up his office over the weekend.

Filed Under: Family, Home and Lifestyle, Moving or Organizing, Toronto Tagged With: brother, Canada, chaos, computer, employee, Family, financial, moving, new, renovating, Software, system, Toronto, weekend, work

People say the stupidest things!

August 17, 2007 by Tricia

I was watching the Daily Show late last night and they did a segment on all the toy recalls that have been happening lately. Apparently a very high percentage of children’s toys are made in China. The toys being recalled have been found to have a high quantity of lead in them.

In one of the clips they showed a female reporter, she might have been on CNN or a similar all news program and she was talking about how this might affect the Chinese economy if they had to spend more money to produce toys without lead in them and …. as a result this would raise the price of the toys being sold in Walmart.

That’s not an exact quote but you get the gist. Yeah, so if the toys are made properly and don’t contain toxins we’ll have to pay more for them in our department stores. Well duh – so what! Isn’t that cheaper than paying unnecessary medical bills when your kid gets sick.

I just went looking for a clip on YouTube, but couldn’t find one. The reporters statement was so stupid it had me giggling. We have a PVR so I was able to rewind the segment and I watched it twice just to be sure I heard her dumb lines correctly.

Filed Under: Culture, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Television Tagged With: child, children, childrens toys, china, crohns, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, IBD, ill, Inflammatory bowel disease, lead, lead paint, medical, Money, news, news clip, night, pain, program, show, sick, stupid, stupid people, stupid statements, Television, The Daily Show, toxic, TV, Walmart, watch, watching, Youtube

The kindness of Strangers

August 16, 2007 by Tricia

A couple of days ago I wrote a post on my blog “My World“. The post was about my husband wanting to go to the Rick Wakeman concert (ie the band YES) at the Danforth Music Hall. The concert is this Sunday, and tickets were expensive so he delayed purchasing a ticket and for all we know the tickets are now sold out.

This is the second time that I’ve written about a concert my husband wanted to go to, and it’s the second time that someone has come along and offered tickets to the event. Unbelievable.

There are a lot of bad things about the internet, but then there are good things like what happened after I wrote my post. A man who happened to have a spare ticket wrote to me and offered the ticket to my husband – for free. He read on my blog that we’d both been sick on and off and this was his way of paying it forward.

Chris talked with the man on the phone earlier today and the two hit it off. They’ll meet before the concert for a drink and then go to the concert together.

Now I’d better find a way to keep paying it forward so good thing will keep happening to us. 😉 Maybe I’ll donate to a good cause or a school like this one here, or randomly find someone posting about something that I’ll be able to help with like our kind stranger just did for my husband.

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Music, Recreation, Socializing, Toronto Tagged With: band YES, Chris, concert, concert ticket, crohns, danforth, Danforth Music Hall, free ticket, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, Internet, kindness, kindness of strangers, man, Music, offer, offered, pain, post, random acts of kindness, Rick Wakeman, Rick Wakeman Concert, sick, sunday, ticket, tickets, YES

Be sure that your articles are free from plagiarism use iPlagiarismCheck

August 14, 2007 by Tricia

If you’re a blogger or website owner I wouldn’t doubt that you’ve experienced plagiarism of some kind by now. Perhaps you aren’t aware that it’s happened, but there are people out there stealing our posts and articles and placing them on their own sites and calling the work their own.

Many years ago my exotic pet website – prints out to 400 pages! – was entirely copied by someone who at the time I thought was a friend. Well she was up until she pulled that move. I caught her quickly and got her to rewrite her site in her own words, but it was a terrible thing to have happened and caused me a lot of unnecessary stress.

I’ve heard it said time and time again that plagiarism is a form of flattery. I suppose in a very shady way it is, but it’s a crime. It’s theft. Someone has stolen another persons copy written work. That theft could result in loss of income for the original author and it can even cause problems when trying to verify who the original author was in the first place.

Plagiarism has been going on for centuries. It happens on the internet, it happens in music, song writing and with screen plays. It happens in the corporate world, and it happens in lower school, high school and universities. It’s serious!

People who’ve been caught plagiarizing an article can end up being fined, perhaps even jailed and when it happens in the school system students can end up failing their course or being expelled from the school.

I’ve been asked to tell you about a website called iPlagiarismCheck, you can visit the site by clicking the follow link – iPlagiarismCheck.com – Click here to visit us today!. This website offers a service that will benefit students and teachers alike.

I’ve already given you my opinion on plagiarism and the theft of copyright material. The iPlagiarismCheck website offers a solution to the problem of plagiarism. They’ve created their site in order to allow people to submit their documents and have them checked for even the most subtle signs of plagiarism.

Their software checks publications – soft and hard cover books, journals and articles, it also checks the internet by searching directories, online publications, blogs, websites, PDF articles and so on. The software has millions of places and articles to check, but it does so quickly. The software has a patented algorithm that checks the sentence structure and word synonyms in the submitted article against all those I’ve listed above on the internet and hard and soft cover publications.

I said earlier that the iPlagiarismCheck website will benefit students and teachers alike because it’s possible for a student to research an article and end up using work that was already plagiarized in their own work without knowing that they’ve accidentally used a research paper that’s been plagiarized.

I haven’t been in school for a long time, but I do remember that essays made up a large portion of a courses credit. Can you imagine accidentally using plagiarized work and failing? What if it was your thesis that ended up containing plagiarized work! A thesis would be one of the best examples of an important document to have checked using the iPlagiarismCheck website.

Students can protect themselves by opening an account at iPlagiarismCheck. I see that they currently have a special on their Startup Package. It’s only $5! The starter package allows you to have one document checked for signs of plagiarism. Other packages range in price from $20 right up to the unlimited submissions for one year SuperSaver package that costs only $65. I could see students signing up for the $5, $20 and or $35 packages, and teachers, professors, and other professionals signing up for the $65 supersaver package.

Once a document has been checked via the online plagiarism checking service an iPlagiarismCheck report will be provided. The report provides a list of all the external sources that have been included in the document. I suppose a student could even hand in a copy of the iPagiarismCheck when handing their article or essay to their teacher.

Visit the iPlagiarismCheck site to learn more about how the software works, to see an example of an iPlagiarismCheck report, and all of the options included in each of their packages.

I really do think this is a worthwhile service for students and teachers. I can also see how it can be used to benefit businesses, professionals and even website owners.

Filed Under: Education, Internet, Services, Software, The Blogisphere, Web and Technology, Writing Tagged With: account, article, articles, author, blogger, blogs, business, check articles for plagiarism, checks documents, copyright, credit, crime, essay, expelled, fail, failed, fined, hard cover books, Internet, iPlagiarismCheck, iPlagiarismCheck report, journal, millions of documents, Music, offer, online, online publications, package, packages, patented algorithm, PDF, plagiarism, plagiarized, posts, print, professional, professor, report, service, soft cover books, Software, stolen work, student, students, teacher, theft, thesis, website, websites, write, Writing

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