We tend to forget that
Happiness doesn’t come
As a result of getting something we don’t have,
But it rather comes
By recognizing and appreciating all that we have
Entries from July 2008 ↓
Happiness…
July 31st, 2008 — Dizzy Dee
Some Flatmates Are Just So Cruel…
July 31st, 2008 — Dizzy Dee
Flops + Superglue = simple but effective
Dubai Magic
July 24th, 2008 — Dizzy Dee
If you’re looking for a vacation destination for 2009, you might just have stumbled across it now… Dubai is yet again astonishing the world with their creativity.
The fountains, which has yet to be named, will be capable of shooting water over 150 metres into the air – the height of a 50-storey building – and stretch over 275 metres – the length of two football fields.
The $218 million project will be 25 percent larger than the iconic fountains at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas
Like the Fountains of Bellagio, Emaar’s fountains will include an integral light and sound show and is expected to become one of Dubai’s major tourist attractions, drawing over 10 million visitors per year.
The fountains will shoot 22,000 gallons of water in the air at any given moment and feature over 6,600 lights and 50 colour projectors.
The fountains have yet to be named and a cash prize of $27,225 has been assigned to the winner of a competition to name the water feature
The structure is scheduled to be operational by 2009
Hello There, And Welcome To Me
July 23rd, 2008 — Dizzy Dee
I haven’t written for such a long time that I feel strangely out of place on my own blog. Like I need to introduce myself all over again.
I’ve tried to write countless times, but something more important always jumps my task queue, and I have to abandon my half written post.
Somehow, when going back, its never the same. I guess people who read it won’t know the difference, but to me it feels like sending an outdated letter. I prefer to start fresh and write from start to finish without any interruptions.
I’ve become increasingly busy at work these past months, so much so that it now feels like an avalance of new projects and docmentation and administration and who knows what else that has to be done, and with priorities constantly changing its quite a challenge to try and juggle everything.
However, I prefer working like this since I hate being bored, but it would be nice to get a break every now and again, just to get my mind around it all.
I’ve had some “good writing ideas”, but never manage to remember them when I sit here. I should get a notebook to write my thoughts down.
This post sounds a bit “hickuppy” – I can’t seem to find my old self, so I will get back to work for now. I just wanted to give it a try, and at least write something personal again.
Hope I can come up with something more interesting next time.
Take care.
If Life Gives You Lemons, Organize A Festival?
July 17th, 2008 — Cool, Dizzy Dee, Photo
The anual Lemon Festival also known as “Fête du Citron” in Menton, a town located on the coast of the French-Italian border, built these amazing statues made out of citrus fruits. Made completely out of LEMONS,ORANGES, GRAPEFRUITS, AND LIMES. This is quite something even on photo’s, I can’t imagine what it must be like in real life – imagine the flavours in the air?!
Web Hosting For Dummies
July 5th, 2008 — Job, Online, Sponsored, internet
Someone recently asked about webhosting. Not in those words though, but rather something along the lines of “how do you get a plain .com” blog instead of the blogspot behind your blog name. I tried to explain by telling him about hosting on your own domain, and how it all works, but it was kind of useless.
I’ve since tried to make it a bit simpler to explain to myself in plain terms exactly what ‘hosting’ means – trying to think what I would use if I had to give a comparison to something which is more commonly known.
Wiktionary defines it like this: “The service of hosting a site on the Internet making it viewable for other users on the net”
However, if you compare it like this, maybe it will make more sense: Blogspot accounts are free, because the main domain name, being www.blogspot.com has already been bought – however, they choose to give people free accounts, for whatever reason they have. Comparing this to market is the best I can do. You don’t pay for the space you use, but at the same time the space you’re using is very high quality. For some people this could work perfect. They don’t intend upgrading, ever. The cons of hosting with a free server such as Blogspot is that your website address might be a little bit difficult to remember if you intend to attract customers for that matter.
If you can run a successful business (or blog) from your free market space (or blogspot blog), you might want to consider upgrading. See this as moving into an office park, or maybe even a mall. This sounds wonderful, but you need to be able to justify the move. It doesn’t help you move to a mall if your income is so little that you’ll not even be able to pay the rent from your profit you make.
Its pretty much the same with webhosting in that sense. If you generate an income from your blog, that’s great, and if it could cover a proper .com domain (www.yourblog.com), and you still have a bit extra left, I believe that justifies it. However, if you want a .com domain name just for the fun of it, you’re going to be prepared to put cash into your hosting, without getting anything back – kind of like a hobby I suppose. This is still fine if you can afford it, but you need to understand your motivation for wanting to move before doing so. Also be sure that you are aware of the cost – there’s a registration fee, and also a yearly hosting fee. Be sure that you know what these are, and that you will be able to cover those. Its better to have free account which is hosted by a provider such as blogspot, and never move from there, than to have a .com domain, and only stay there a year, only to realize that you don’t want to pay for something that you can have for free in any case.
My reason for moving to a .com host is first of all, the free service that I was using before shutdown my blog, because they didn’t allow paid posts. And secondly, I make an income from my blog (however little it is) it still covers more than my hosting costs.
If you need webhosting advice, speak to a couple of different service providers, and make sure that you know about all the costs before making a decision. There are different types of packages available. Some give you more space (if you intend to host large files, such as images or video’s). For a normal blog you might not need as much space as a business would, so double check that you take the right package for your needs.
