Is it ok for a canonical link to point to itself?

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Published on 2011-03-07T19:14:22Z Indexed on 2011/03/08 0:19 UTC
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I've got the canonical:

<link href="http://www.Site.com/Blog/how-to-know-when-this" rel="canonical" />

Is it ok if this is on the page it is pointing to?

Also I'm putting it on all these pages:

http://www.Site.com/Blog/how-to-know-when-this
http://www.Site.com/Blog/how-to-know-when-this/
http://www.Site.com/Blog.aspx?ID=1
http://www.Site.com/Blog/how-to-know-when-this/?q=

Is this correct useage?

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