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HIMI Moves!

Monday, March 5th, 2018

I’m back in my old neighborhood!

My new address is:

10 Page Avenue (near Jane & Dundas)
York, Ontario
M6S 2P5
CANADA

There are several “Page” thoroughfares in Toronto.
Specifying “York” as the municipality is good.
Specifying that I am “Near Jane & Dundas” is even better!

All other contact information remains the same:
jiHymas@himivest.com
416 604 4204

Toronto Rock Lacrosse Ticket Giveaway … Update #3

Monday, February 26th, 2018

I have four more pairs of Toronto Rock Lacrosse tickets to give away!

The games take place at the Air Canada Centre and the seats are very good. Just tell me which ones you would like. A decision regarding who gets tickets will be made two weeks before each game and I will mail them to the lucky winner; while preference will be given to customers and those who tell me they’ve got a kid who plays lacrosse, anybody can win. If you win and don’t want your name publicized, that’s fine.

The games are:

Toronto Rock Lacrosse Ticket Giveaway
Date Opponent
Saturday
2018-1-27
7pm
New England Black Wolves
Saturday
2018-2-3
7pm
Calgary Roughnecks
Saturday
2018-3-3
7pm
Georgia Swarm
Sunday
2018-3-11
3pm
New England Black Wolves
Friday
2018-3-30
7:30pm
Colorado Mammoth
Friday
2018-4-13
7:30pm
Rochester Knighthawks
???
???
???
Home Playoff Game 1
If there is one!
???
???
???
Coupons Redeemable for available tickets
Expires 2018-4-14

The tickets for the January 27 game were given to a non-client … see, anybody can win! Assiduous Reader fed received the February 3 tickets and Assiduous Reader CC will be going to the March 3 game. PrefLetter subscriber AC won the tickets to the March 11 game. The next giveaway is for the game against Colorado Mammoth on March 30 (Good Friday) … get your eMails in! Or, get an early entry in for a later game!

The games are a lot of fun. One thing that has impressed me is that these guys’ technical skills are so good they can concentrate on strategy … there are a lot fewer loose balls than I remember from my days of box lacrosse at age 10!

The redeemable coupons can be exchanged for tickets for any game, but there are no guarantees regarding just what seats you will get. Still, if you would like to plan an outing for four, rather than just a pair, let me know and … you might get two ‘real’ tickets and the two coupons!

The play-off game? There’s no guarantee that there will be one, but you could always cross your fingers and ask for them.

To try your luck at receiving a pair of tickets, just eMail me or comment on this post.

Toronto Rock Lacrosse Ticket Giveaway – Update #2

Wednesday, February 21st, 2018

I have five more pairs of Toronto Rock Lacrosse tickets to give away!

The games take place at the Air Canada Centre and the seats are very good. Just tell me which ones you would like. A decision regarding who gets tickets will be made two weeks before each game and I will mail them to the lucky winner; while preference will be given to customers and those who tell me they’ve got a kid who plays lacrosse, anybody can win. If you win and don’t want your name publicized, that’s fine.

The games are:

Toronto Rock Lacrosse Ticket Giveaway
Date Opponent
Saturday
2018-1-27
7pm
New England Black Wolves
Saturday
2018-2-3
7pm
Calgary Roughnecks
Saturday
2018-3-3
7pm
Georgia Swarm
Sunday
2018-3-11
3pm
New England Black Wolves
Friday
2018-3-30
7:30pm
Colorado Mammoth
Friday
2018-4-13
7:30pm
Rochester Knighthawks
???
???
???
Home Playoff Game 1
If there is one!
???
???
???
Coupons Redeemable for available tickets
Expires 2018-4-14

The tickets for the January 27 game were given to a non-client … see, anybody can win! Assiduous Reader fed received the February 3 tickets and Assiduous Reader CC will be going to the March 3 game. There’s not much time left until the game against New England on March 11 … get your eMails in! Or, get an early entry in for a later game!

The games are a lot of fun. One thing that has impressed me is that these guys’ technical skills are so good they can concentrate on strategy … there are a lot fewer loose balls than I remember from my days of box lacrosse at age 10!

The redeemable coupons can be exchanged for tickets for any game, but there are no guarantees regarding just what seats you will get. Still, if you would like to plan an outing for four, rather than just a pair, let me know and … you might get two ‘real’ tickets and the two coupons!

The play-off game? There’s no guarantee that there will be one, but you could always cross your fingers and ask for them.

To try your luck at receiving a pair of tickets, just eMail me or comment on this post.

Toronto Rock Lacrosse Ticket Giveaway – Update #1

Sunday, January 21st, 2018

I have seven more pairs of Toronto Rock Lacrosse tickets to give away!

The games take place at the Air Canada Centre and the seats are very good. Just tell me which ones you would like. A decision regarding who gets tickets will be made two weeks before each game and I will mail them to the lucky winner; while preference will be given to customers and those who tell me they’ve got a kid who plays lacrosse, anybody can win. If you win and don’t want your name publicized, that’s fine.

The games are:

Toronto Rock Lacrosse Ticket Giveaway
Date Opponent
Saturday
2018-1-27
7pm
New England Black Wolves
Saturday
2018-2-3
7pm
Calgary Roughnecks
Saturday
2018-3-3
7pm
Georgia Swarm
Sunday
2018-3-11
3pm
New England Black Wolves
Friday
2018-3-30
7:30pm
Colorado Mammoth
Friday
2018-4-13
7:30pm
Rochester Knighthawks
???
???
???
Home Playoff Game 1
If there is one!
???
???
???
Coupons Redeemable for available tickets
Expires 2018-4-14

The tickets for the January 27 game were given to a non-client … see, anybody can win! There’s not much time left until the game against Calgary on February 3 … get your eMails in!

The games are a lot of fun. One thing that has impressed me is that these guys’ technical skills are so good they can concentrate on strategy … there are a lot fewer loose balls than I remember from my days of box lacrosse at age 10!

The redeemable coupons can be exchanged for tickets for any game, but there are no guarantees regarding just what seats you will get. Still, if you would like to plan an outing for four, rather than just a pair, let me know and … you might get two ‘real’ tickets and the two coupons!

The play-off game? There’s no guarantee that there will be one, but you could always try your luck and ask for them.

To try your luck at receiving a pair of tickets, just eMail me or comment on this post.

Toronto Rock Lacrosse Tickets Giveaway!

Wednesday, January 10th, 2018

I have eight pairs of Toronto Rock Lacrosse tickets to give away!

The games take place at the Air Canada Centre and the seats are very good. Just tell me which ones you would like. A decision regarding who gets tickets will be made two weeks before each game and I will mail them to the lucky winner; while preference will be given to customers and those who tell me they’ve got a kid who plays lacrosse, anybody can win. If you win and don’t want your name publicized, that’s fine.

The games are:

Toronto Rock Lacrosse Ticket Giveaway
Date Opponent
Saturday
2018-1-27
7pm
New England Black Wolves
Saturday
2018-2-3
7pm
Calgary Roughnecks
Saturday
2018-3-3
7pm
Georgia Swarm
Sunday
2018-3-11
3pm
New England Black Wolves
Friday
2018-3-30
7:30pm
Colorado Mammoth
Friday
2018-4-13
7:30pm
Rochester Knighthawks
???
???
???
Home Playoff Game 1
If there is one!
???
???
???
Coupons Redeemable for available tickets
Expires 2018-4-14

The games are a lot of fun. One thing that has impressed me is that these guys’ technical skills are so good they can concentrate on strategy … there are a lot fewer loose balls than I remember from my days of box lacrosse at age 10!

The redeemable coupons can be exchanged for tickets for any game, but there are no guarantees regarding just what seats you will get. Still, if you would like to plan an outing for four, rather than just a pair, let me know and … you might get two ‘real’ tickets and the two coupons!

The play-off game? There’s no guarantee that there will be one, but you could always try your luck and ask for them.

To try your luck at receiving a pair of tickets, just eMail me or comment on this post.

Toronto Rock Lacrosse Tickets!

Wednesday, December 28th, 2016

I have five pairs of Toronto Rock Lacrosse tickets to give away!

The games take place at the Air Canada Centre and the seats are very good. Just tell me which ones you would like. A decision regarding who gets tickets will be made two weeks before each game and I will mail them to the lucky winner; while preference will be given to customers and those who tell me they’ve got a kid who plays lacrosse, anybody can win. If you win and don’t want your name publicized, that’s fine.

The games are:

Toronto Rock Lacrosse Ticket Giveaway
Date Opponent
Saturday
2017-1-28
7pm
Rochester Knighthawks
Friday
2017-2-3
7:30pm
Buffalo Bandits
Friday
2017-3-3
7:30pm
New England Black Wolves
Saturday
2017-3-11
7:00pm
Calgary Roughnecks
Saturday
2017-3-25
7:00pm
Vancouver Stealth

The games are a lot of fun. One thing that has impressed me is that these guys’ technical skills are so good they can concentrate on strategy … there are a lot fewer loose balls than I remember from my days of box lacrosse at age 10!

To try your luck at receiving a pair of tickets, just eMail me or comment on this post.

Upgrade to PrefBlog Software; Problems with eMail

Monday, December 5th, 2016

Assiduous Readers will remember that I had problems with Live.com’s spam filters in February, 2016, which I addressed.

I now have more problems with these spam filters. I have been advised that the likely cause of the problem is registration-spam on PrefBlog; spammers open accounts with fake addresses and try to post comments; they are frustrated by earlier measures I took to eliminated comment-spam so they keep trying; and end up generating eMail sent to their fake addresses to tell them about their input errors.

For instance, late on Saturday evening, I had 143,601 registered users; now, about 38 hours later, I have 143,781 registrants. Canadian preferred shares have a global popularity I had never dreamed of!

So I have had to install another layer of protection around PrefBlog and in order to do this I had to upgrade PrefBlog’s software. I hate doing this because the WordPress organization is crammed full of teenagers who have never done a day’s work in their lives and therefore love to add features … ‘Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if we required all inputs to be in Hungarian and then applied automatic translation to them? Awesome!’ So I’m probably in for another month of frustration as nothing will work the way it has before. Can’t wait.

However, my eMail problem will probably be solved, for a little while, until the industry’s big boys figure out a new way to force independent operators to use their services. All this nonsense could have been avoided twenty years ago by instituting a nominal charge for eMail, with a refund granted for eMail receipts (with various limits) that, for individuals, would almost always net out to zero. But the hippies didn’t like this; they interrupted their dope-smoking free-love vegetarian bead-making orgies for just long enough to whine that the Internet should be free and as a result we have expensive annoying messes like this. Hippies ruined the internet!

If you have any problems registering or signing in, please let me know and I’ll try to figure out how to fix it. I am hopeful that I will again be able to send eMail to live.com addresses in the near future.

eMail Cash Transfers Enabled for MAPF Distributions; Fees; PrefLetter Subscriptions

Thursday, December 1st, 2016

I am pleased to announce that I have now enabled electronic banking for Hymas Investment Management Inc. (HIMI) in a fairly modest way, and can now transfer small amounts of money by Interac eMail Transfer. Not large amounts of money, because I remain deeply suspicious of the security and guarantees protecting against fraud and hacking, but small amounts are just fine.

If you wish to transfer money to or from HIMI, please contact me for details. Note that having MAPF distributions sent to you in this manner will require some paperwork for which I require originals by mail.

Server Problems Mostly Fixed; PrefLetter Coming Soon

Tuesday, September 13th, 2016

Well it’s been a nightmare, but my month-long server problems appear to be coming to an end.

The problem, I believe, was Plesk, a server maintenance utility that works with Windows. Fixing my eMail did horrible things to all the server’s other functions. I have now moved back to Linux/cPanel; I have much more faith in cPanel as a server utility because it’s a purpose-built programme; my understanding is that Plesk is largely a collection of third-party utilities licensed and gathered under one roof, with the result that not only are things not always in alignment, but that problems tend to bog down in spaghetti code.

But my server now seems to be fixed except for one problem: I can receive eMail, but I can’t currently send it! I hope to have this resolved shortly.

On a related note, PrefLetter for September is now at the typesetter’s office and will be ready soon. The long-overdue August edition will be appended to it – subscribers will be charged for only one issue.

Continued Delay For August PrefLetter

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016

As previously noted, my server has recently been “upgraded” ha-ha.

While my regular eMail now works the PrefLetter functionality, which uses PHP code on the server to send eMail, has been broken by this upgrade.

I am working to get PrefLetter out as soon as possible.