Showing posts with label Misc Ramblings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Misc Ramblings. Show all posts

Thursday, May 24, 2007

May Blog Drive-Byes

First I would like to thank Lyn from Remarkable Bloggers for her kind review of my blog.

Also to mention two memes I was tagged for by Camille at her NOW blog and Theresa from Sleeping Kitten - Dancing Dog blog. I will respond in the next week.

Pearl from Interesting Observations has a Happiness Quiz that measures your happiness score from psychologist Edward Diener involved in happiness research.

Random Magus has an interesting post Mirror, Mirror about seeing ourselves through another's eyes.

Cosmicsurfer has some great digital art work at his Cosmic Photo Art  blog that I think Princess Haiku might like.

Jennifer at Goodness Graciousness has a good post on dreamers and transformers.

Last and certainly not least RT from Untwisted Vortex for teaching me about Blog drive-Byes

 

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Sunday, May 13, 2007

For Moms on Mother's Day

They guide us.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. - Alice Walker

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. - Pearl S. Buck

We are forever children in their eyes; never older than 12.

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. - Amy Tan

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests. - Spanish Proverb

That's a nice story, but now tell me where you've really been for the past 3 days! - Jonah's Mother

They want the best for us.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. - Phyllis Diller

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

They can be a pain.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother. - William Somerset Maugham

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. - Ogden Nash

They take us places.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car for ever after. - Peter De Vries

They share important things.

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. -Tenneva Jordan

They love us.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. - Aristotle

They get hurt by us

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. -Elizabeth Stone

We aggravate them.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. - Mark Twain

We are a comfort to them.

Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too. - Lionel Kauffman

We are their hope.

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. - John W Whitehead

But without them we would not exist and for that I am forever grateful.

Happy Mother's Day.

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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Blog Drive-Byes May 1

Today will be a drive-bye day as my computer crashed and I am reloading files and programs. Fortunately I have streaming online backup so it is just a a matter of retrieving and resetting up so should be back to normal by tomorrow.

Rt at Untwisted Vortex has a link exchange offer of 8-1. Good blog with interesting reading and a member of MyBlogLog. Be sure to check it out.

One blog I check out regularly is Dark Roasted Blend. Expect to spend some time here and definitely check out the archives.

For the animal lovers like myself check out Cute Overload

Read a hilarious post by checking out the 10 dumbest resume blunders on esofthub's Blog.

For scenic delights and photographs from Northern Norway check out Thomas Laupstad's Blog.

Always interesting reading is David's blog Thoughtspurs.

[note] correction on David's blog that I had misspelled. My apologies David.

Found a great blog for digital nomads about really tough notebooks at Rugged Notebooks

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Necessary Skills Blog Drive-Byes

Was over visiting Camille at her blog Now and saw a great shot on Being Organized and immediately thought how it represents our mind; at least mine and all it was missing was the cobwebs. I can always count on Camille for interesting finds.

As usual found some informative information at Google Tutor and for anyone interested in adsense he has a link for adsense policy lectures.

I was following links around to find new interesting blogs and I ran across a post written by Mike Crowl from New Zealand titled You learn something every day, but sometimes it doesn't much help which struck my funny bone.

[UPDATE] In rereading my introduction to Mike Crowl it may appear that I find his post funny which would not be true. I found it humorous because I often do the same thing myself. Pursue information which in the end I end up scratching my head and saying to myself - well that was interesting but....

Bee from Muffin53 is back from her trip and sharing her jokes again do drop by.

And speaking of comedy my perennial favorite Comedy Plus has a great video of a very smart dog. You got to see it to believe it.

Ilker at The Thinking Blog has a good post on Blog promotion.

A thanks to Pam from Writing, Work and Weasels and Beth & Rod from A Hero a Day for their reviews of my Blog.

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Mental Pointers

The reason I occasionally post about different blogs is to emphasize the need sometimes to get out of our normal viewpoint of the world. The easiest way to do that is by listening to others; (read a post), that we wouldn't normally talk to unless someone pointed them out. Just remember to get out and take a look around as sometimes we need to freshen our senses. So here are some mental pointers.

For Humor:

esofthub's 5 minute management course

Comedy Plus

meloncutter musings

Win some Gummy Bears at The Pisstakers

Always a good read the wanderer living in the Philippines who taught me about blog drive-bys

For info on mobility on the road Digital Nomad

A very interesting concept in Ugo Trade about technology and reaching across the digital divide. Make sure you read the About page.

I am a sucker for pets not sure about weasels at Pam's blog but some interesting reading.

Making friends online from a budding lawyer Legal Andrew

Tammara on pirates and tall ships as I want to sail to Tahiti or maybe the Caribbean

Must Read:

This last one touched my heart from Carol at My View of It it's about a birthday wish for Shane Bernier, aged 7. Shane wants to set a world record for the most number of Birthday cards cards received! His Birthday is May 30th and he has A.L.L. (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia). Go read then pitch in and help.

Friday, March 30, 2007

EduBlogger Event'07

Just a reminder that my post for today will be on the Supercool Blog. So please join us and ask your questions and make comments.

It´s all about new & revolutionary education concepts & ideas

First Session: 10am - 1pm Pacific Time (GMT -7hrs)

Second Session: 2pm - 5pm Pacific Time (GMT -7hrs)

WHO:

10:00 - hj barraza on Decentralised Learning Services for Developing Countries

10:30 - Jon Bennett on Differentiation for Dummies

11:00 - Florence Meichel on New technology and knowledge accessibility

11:30 - Peter Haslam on The Need for Self-Directed Learning

12:00 - Liz Strauss on The Ergonomics of You

12:30 - Michael Beck on Long Term Memory / Human Computer Storage Techniques

- break -

02:00 - Joshua Hwang on Zen of Studying

02:30 - TONNET on Socialnetworking Phenomena & the Impact on Education

03:00 - Pat Aroune on Community of practice as a model for change in today's schools

03:30 - Steve Dembo on Is anonymity critical to the success of the edu blogosphere?

04:00 - Steli Efti on The 7 lessons we learned at school that could possibly ruin our lifes

04:30 - Tiara Shafiq with a bonus post

05:00 - Open discussion about education...

Bring a link to leave that shares something you know about education, learning & life!

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

MyBlogLog Community Items



This coming Sat March 31 Steli of Supercool School is hosting an all day event where he has different bloggers posting throughout the day on new and revolutionary education concepts and ideas. (disclosure- I am one of the participants). If you can stop by and ask questions and post comments and show your support.



I want to thank Digital Nomad for sending me a heads up on Link and Blog Challenge site. It is a community of bloggers who help each other by creating links between relevant posts on each others blogs. As you know this makes both blogs better in the eyes of the SEO engines. If you want to build links you will find it is an easy and fun way to do it. Check it out for yourself.

For any members of the MyBlogLog community that wants International exposure should check out the Ziki community again from Digital Nomad. Increasingly we need to pay attention to our International audience and so my thanks again to digital nomad for the translator widget.

If you want to see what you could win in ilker of The Thinking Blog contest; just check out FreshBlogger.















Monday, March 26, 2007

Cyber Stalkers

This is an unusual topic for this blog but ever since I read the post on Creating Passionate Users blog written by Kathy Sierra today; it has disturbed, upset, bothered me and made me angry. It is a post about death threats, sexual references, and uncovers some very sick minds. Kathy's posts have always communicated a passionate belief in making a difference. One of my favorites is You can out-spend or out-teach which certainly made me think.

The saddest part about this episode that it may result in never hearing from Kathy again. What a loss that would be for the huge community of self-motivated learners that look for and enjoy someone who makes them think a little more deeply than we usually do about a topic.

Out of the millions of users on the net it takes only a tiny handful of bullies to destroy a person's feeling of safety. I wish I had the skills to help track them down. But I don't. All I can do is show my support for Kathy and spread the news in the hope that that someone somewhere knows some information about this and will come forward even anonymously and help put an end to this tragic episode.

Kathy, I wish I could do more. My thoughts are with you.

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Evil John Chow Review

I love reading John Chow dot com because I think it is just a hoot to watch him out perform almost all of the blogs on how to make money online. It's fun because he tells you exactly what he is doing and why and then best of all; with an evil grin he waves for you to jump on his jet propelled band wagon; trumpets blowing and with screams of delight race towards first page ranking. Who can resist? All you have to do is make a post including the following

John Chow dot Com is a blog that helps you make money online. He is offering to link to your blog if you review his blog.

But sad to say John is not totally evil. Prove it you say!

Read Helping To Feed The Hungry This Easter and the results and A Time To Give Back. John also gives great advice under his top posts tab for anyone looking for information about making money through their blogs.

I can't wait to see next trick evil John comes up with.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Goings On in MyBlogLog Community

An extra post today


First I would like to thank ilker for my new favicon which you can see when you are on my blog up by the URL. Win yourself one or a site makeover.( contest details)

muffin53 has been ill and missed a cruise but is entertaining her visitors with a virtual cruise with lots of pictures and commentary. Check it out and say hello.

Reiki Blogger has a good post on how Reiki can help with children.

Camille on her blog NOW shares some provocative thoughts on spring and men. Makes you think and she is looking for comments.

Steli and his Supercool School will be going live this year and you can get signed up to be notified when it does. Great concept. Check it out.

Internet Safety Queen has a blog dealing with Internet safety for kids and a must read for any parent.

Tony D. Clark's blog Success from the Nest has a good post on how to determine whether or not to give up your own home business.

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