I have now found some software that allows me to run my blog on my webspace.
So I am going to stop this blog here and use mine.
Which is
http://www.dswilliams.co.uk/dip/
So see you there!!!!
14 March, 2005
13 March, 2005
Travel
Well my brother in law got to Branson MO by 1.30 am UK time, which when you stop and think of the distance that he has had to travel is really quite amazing.
What's more amazing is that we take it all for granted, that you can travel that kind of distance in one day.
What's more amazing is that we take it all for granted, that you can travel that kind of distance in one day.
Now What?
Well not really much more to say on the subject of travel, just that I wish that I could be on my hols now, instead of having to go back to work on Monday. But there are far worse things that you could end up doing so all in all I should be happy with what I have.
12 March, 2005
Early Mornings
Today picked up brother in law to take him to the train station with his wife at 5 am so the could train it to the airport
What do you think the chances are of meeting traffic on the roads, slim, no way, yeah good chance?
How about having to queue up to get into the train station?
Yep, even I was surprised, so was the other driver.
Brother in law caught his plane and is now on his way to the USA to see his wife's folks, only a 11 hour trip...
What do you think the chances are of meeting traffic on the roads, slim, no way, yeah good chance?
How about having to queue up to get into the train station?
Yep, even I was surprised, so was the other driver.
Brother in law caught his plane and is now on his way to the USA to see his wife's folks, only a 11 hour trip...
10 March, 2005
Project Part 1
As this is a place that I can store thoughts from a high desk I actually have one to store.
Idea 1
Do version 4 of the Citrus book
This is what happens when you change text colours, yes you start to feel sick....
Citrus Part 1
So things are still strange with the continued downloading of my Citrus book that I have on my web page at http://www.writing.dswilliams.co.uk/citrus.html the downloads are now running all most every day.
There are plenty of sites on the net that will give you far better information, so I have no clue as to what's going on.
I am thinking that I should perhaps do a version 4.0 of the book, the current version runs to 56 pages of A4, what the new version will run to I just don't know. What the current version would look like if published as a normal sized paperback book, and how many pages it would to run to I have no idea at all.
Why?
There are plenty of sites on the net that will give you far better information, so I have no clue as to what's going on.
I am thinking that I should perhaps do a version 4.0 of the book, the current version runs to 56 pages of A4, what the new version will run to I just don't know. What the current version would look like if published as a normal sized paperback book, and how many pages it would to run to I have no idea at all.
Checking
So here I am at the computer I have uploaded a new post to this Blog, what happens?
When I go to look at my Blog, no new post...
Whats going on?
I check several hours later and there it is
Why the delay?
Whats going on...
When I go to look at my Blog, no new post...
Whats going on?
I check several hours later and there it is
Why the delay?
Whats going on...
09 March, 2005
Blog RIP?
I was as I said the other day talking about if Blog sites die quicker on the net than your average website.
Will it got me thinking are there other reasons for why a web or Blog site only lasts a few months, is it a purely English speaking thing? Is it a purely western thing?
I am sorry to say that I just don't know the answers to these questions. But I hope that by keeping a good look out on the news sites on the net and the BBC, that some one some where will have the same questions and will be in a position to provide some of the answers. I think form where I am sitting( on a high desk) that the answers when they do come in will be interesting.
Will it got me thinking are there other reasons for why a web or Blog site only lasts a few months, is it a purely English speaking thing? Is it a purely western thing?
I am sorry to say that I just don't know the answers to these questions. But I hope that by keeping a good look out on the news sites on the net and the BBC, that some one some where will have the same questions and will be in a position to provide some of the answers. I think form where I am sitting( on a high desk) that the answers when they do come in will be interesting.
Spelling
One thing here that I have to say sorry for is my appalling spelling, having word blindness does tend to make the world an interesting place and having a spell checker is of no help when both the correct way to spell a word and the wrong both look okay!
08 March, 2005
China
I had this thought today all about China, and as this is my note book for ideas and all that sort of stuff I thought I would jot it down here.
So What's it about?
What I think will happen is that in the next 5 years e.g by 2010 China will become the most powerful nation on the Earth in economic terms.
WHY?
Well the rate of growth outstrips all the other countries in the world today, a trend that has been going on for 5 years or more so far.
One large province alone produces 5 million graduates in high tech subjects each and every year, that's only one of many more.
By the way, the cost of getting the very best graduates is one third the cost of USA or Europe.
A lot of the very high tech R&D is on the move, yes you guessed it, it's in Asia or China, that is a trend that is getting faster and quicker.
The Chinese working population are a very flexible workforce, from what I have read, take on change better, quicker than most other workforce in the world.
So look out China is going to be the world's economic powerhouse.
Another Reason?
This is another reason that I came up with, I suspect that it's wrong or flawed in some way or another but I put it here just for the fun of it.
The USA is falling or slowing down as an economic powerhouse because of its claim culture, it's easier to sue some one than to make money by use of your hands or your brain. In other words the society has become cannibalistic in nature, so it's rate of producing new things, drops as people become wary of being sued in ways and means that they never thought possible.
Right Or Wrong?
Who knows? Much more clever people will talk and comment on China over the next few years and I for one will keep a look out, just to see how accurate my look into the future was and how off target I was..
So What's it about?
What I think will happen is that in the next 5 years e.g by 2010 China will become the most powerful nation on the Earth in economic terms.
WHY?
Well the rate of growth outstrips all the other countries in the world today, a trend that has been going on for 5 years or more so far.
One large province alone produces 5 million graduates in high tech subjects each and every year, that's only one of many more.
By the way, the cost of getting the very best graduates is one third the cost of USA or Europe.
A lot of the very high tech R&D is on the move, yes you guessed it, it's in Asia or China, that is a trend that is getting faster and quicker.
The Chinese working population are a very flexible workforce, from what I have read, take on change better, quicker than most other workforce in the world.
So look out China is going to be the world's economic powerhouse.
Another Reason?
This is another reason that I came up with, I suspect that it's wrong or flawed in some way or another but I put it here just for the fun of it.
The USA is falling or slowing down as an economic powerhouse because of its claim culture, it's easier to sue some one than to make money by use of your hands or your brain. In other words the society has become cannibalistic in nature, so it's rate of producing new things, drops as people become wary of being sued in ways and means that they never thought possible.
Right Or Wrong?
Who knows? Much more clever people will talk and comment on China over the next few years and I for one will keep a look out, just to see how accurate my look into the future was and how off target I was..
07 March, 2005
Dead Blogs
Dead Blogs
I did some surfing of the old web Blogs, and I have come to the conclusion that Blog pages die faster than websites, which when you think of how easy it is to make a Blog.
Just look at blogger for how easy it is to set yourself up.
The why should so many Blog sites end up with just a few posts?
Is Blogging a passing trend?
Was it cool to say to your friends, "Look at me I'm with it I have a blog nanh nanh"
So of the 20 or so Blog sites that I looked at, only two of them are what I would say were a live. (By live I mean a post in the last month or so) most of the sites I looked at, had between 1 and 5 posts.
Most of the sites seemed to have lasted some 3 months on average.
I did see somewhere on the net that the average website last 6 months, I suspect the reason being that you have to put far more effort into making a website than you do a Blog site.
I have not seen anything in the press about this Blog life span, gee could I be the first to have spotted this trend?
The other thing that I did notice was the trend towards photoblogs, spotting this trend is a no brainier, now that digital cameras have become so much cheaper.
I have yet to see a digital camera being given away with your cornflakes, but it has to happen.
I did some surfing of the old web Blogs, and I have come to the conclusion that Blog pages die faster than websites, which when you think of how easy it is to make a Blog.
Just look at blogger for how easy it is to set yourself up.
The why should so many Blog sites end up with just a few posts?
Is Blogging a passing trend?
Was it cool to say to your friends, "Look at me I'm with it I have a blog nanh nanh"
So of the 20 or so Blog sites that I looked at, only two of them are what I would say were a live. (By live I mean a post in the last month or so) most of the sites I looked at, had between 1 and 5 posts.
Most of the sites seemed to have lasted some 3 months on average.
I did see somewhere on the net that the average website last 6 months, I suspect the reason being that you have to put far more effort into making a website than you do a Blog site.
I have not seen anything in the press about this Blog life span, gee could I be the first to have spotted this trend?
The other thing that I did notice was the trend towards photoblogs, spotting this trend is a no brainier, now that digital cameras have become so much cheaper.
I have yet to see a digital camera being given away with your cornflakes, but it has to happen.
06 March, 2005
Picture No 1
The Elephants came marching
Dave
At last I have got a picture to load into this thing...
I was starting to think I was doing something dim. Turns out that my firewall was stopping things from happening, all without telling me.
So you know what that means...Yes more pictures
So what's with the Picture?
I must admit that I just grabbed the 1st picture I could, to see if this thing was working. The picture was taken as a test for the Nikon 870 camera that even after 9 months I am still learning how to use.
What's much worse, is that I have owned a Nikon digital camera before, so I really should know how to use it.
Still the results from it are, when I get it all setup right very good.
Still?
Yes still?
Not sure about?
but its' far better than ! or < or even &
Re-reading this I don't have a clue what it is all about either!
Not sure about?
but its' far better than ! or < or even &
Re-reading this I don't have a clue what it is all about either!
Checking
Why?
just checking to see if this blog thing is updating correctly and my last page does not appear why?
just checking to see if this blog thing is updating correctly and my last page does not appear why?
Strange things
Strange Things
Just been looking at my web site logs, like you do, that is if you have a website, for some reason looking at your site logs can be fun and also just slightly an addaction.
Anyway what I was going to say was that looking at my logs I have a website that has no links to it.
I have never put any adverts for it yet one of the pages on it is now getting downloaded some 20 times a day.
Now you might say so what!
What you don't know and I am now going to tell you is what the masses are downloading, and that's the bit that made me rise the odd eyebrow, that I have, (your number may vary) is that the file is call citrus and is a small book that I wrote, just for the fun of it.
The book runs to thirtyA4 pages and talks about all the differant citrus fruits that you can get and what they are and in some cases what they look like.
One of the strange things about the book is that first version gets downloaded more than the third version and thats the version that has the most information and some pictures.
I have yet to work out how people are finding the page , because as I said earlier I have never asked for if to be put on a search engine.
I suppose you want a link to the page
well here you go try this one http://www.writing.dswilliams.co.uk/citrus.html if you have a look do let me know what you think if you have the time and the energy, I do know just how nacked you can get wizzing around the internet.
You have to keep yourself fit, and make sure you drink plenty of fluids!!!
One last thing about the citrus books is that the number and types of citrus fruits that are outthere did to me surprise me. Here in jolly old England we are lucky if we get half of the fruits I have found and wrote about. One of the reasons appears to be that there is no market for the fruit. The other reason appears to be that the fruit does not appear to travel very well.
I am not sure if those two reasons are the whole story, if like real life I suspect that the real reasons will be far more complacted ( spelling) so thats all I have to say at this time on my books called citrus.
Just been looking at my web site logs, like you do, that is if you have a website, for some reason looking at your site logs can be fun and also just slightly an addaction.
Anyway what I was going to say was that looking at my logs I have a website that has no links to it.
I have never put any adverts for it yet one of the pages on it is now getting downloaded some 20 times a day.
Now you might say so what!
What you don't know and I am now going to tell you is what the masses are downloading, and that's the bit that made me rise the odd eyebrow, that I have, (your number may vary) is that the file is call citrus and is a small book that I wrote, just for the fun of it.
The book runs to thirtyA4 pages and talks about all the differant citrus fruits that you can get and what they are and in some cases what they look like.
One of the strange things about the book is that first version gets downloaded more than the third version and thats the version that has the most information and some pictures.
I have yet to work out how people are finding the page , because as I said earlier I have never asked for if to be put on a search engine.
I suppose you want a link to the page
well here you go try this one http://www.writing.dswilliams.co.uk/citrus.html if you have a look do let me know what you think if you have the time and the energy, I do know just how nacked you can get wizzing around the internet.
You have to keep yourself fit, and make sure you drink plenty of fluids!!!
One last thing about the citrus books is that the number and types of citrus fruits that are outthere did to me surprise me. Here in jolly old England we are lucky if we get half of the fruits I have found and wrote about. One of the reasons appears to be that there is no market for the fruit. The other reason appears to be that the fruit does not appear to travel very well.
I am not sure if those two reasons are the whole story, if like real life I suspect that the real reasons will be far more complacted ( spelling) so thats all I have to say at this time on my books called citrus.
05 March, 2005
Idea Part 1
Idea
Rewite the chemistry pages of the website so that I make it clear to one and all that what I have written may have to be checked to see if
1. It's right
2. It's correct
3. It's in English
4. It's of any interest to anyone
The link to the site is http://www.writing.dswilliams.co.uk/chemistry.html
Will have to do this soon, as the page has not been updated for 3 months.
Rewite the chemistry pages of the website so that I make it clear to one and all that what I have written may have to be checked to see if
1. It's right
2. It's correct
3. It's in English
4. It's of any interest to anyone
The link to the site is http://www.writing.dswilliams.co.uk/chemistry.html
Will have to do this soon, as the page has not been updated for 3 months.
Templates
All Change
Had to happen
I have now changed my templates for this blog 3 times in two days, its a pain as I have yet to find one that I like a lot.
So I suppose that I will just have to keep on looking for just the right skin.
There just changed the text colour just to see if I could....
Had to happen
I have now changed my templates for this blog 3 times in two days, its a pain as I have yet to find one that I like a lot.
So I suppose that I will just have to keep on looking for just the right skin.
There just changed the text colour just to see if I could....
Does it all work
Well, its slow but things are starting to make sense I think.
Wll I can know most of the time log into this blogger thing...so that's got to be an inprovement hasn't it?
The advert thing from Google, well not sure that I like how it has set it's self up.
The serach bar for Google I like but not were it has put it's self not sure if I know how to change it yet.
I was going to talk about the fact that tomorrow here in the UK its Mothering Sunday and Mother's Day at the same time. I then find out that the UK has always celibrated both days( which are seprate else where) on the same day whay that should be I don't know.
I do know that the sales of Mother's Day cards must be great for profit. The types of cards that you can get, that some how pass for a Mothers day card is , well unbelveiable.
I am sure that even 5 years ago you could not have sold some of the cards as Mother's Day cards
some are out right rude, silly, stupid some are even nice!!
And yes if you ask I did get a card
Wll I can know most of the time log into this blogger thing...so that's got to be an inprovement hasn't it?
The advert thing from Google, well not sure that I like how it has set it's self up.
The serach bar for Google I like but not were it has put it's self not sure if I know how to change it yet.
I was going to talk about the fact that tomorrow here in the UK its Mothering Sunday and Mother's Day at the same time. I then find out that the UK has always celibrated both days( which are seprate else where) on the same day whay that should be I don't know.
I do know that the sales of Mother's Day cards must be great for profit. The types of cards that you can get, that some how pass for a Mothers day card is , well unbelveiable.
I am sure that even 5 years ago you could not have sold some of the cards as Mother's Day cards
some are out right rude, silly, stupid some are even nice!!
And yes if you ask I did get a card
04 March, 2005
Get a Life
What
So you look at all the posts to this site and you see that they are all within the last two days, and you say to yourself
Loser !
This might be true, but then as I am using this a a notebook to myself, its of no intrest to me what you think of all the posts that I have done in the sapce of a day or two.
One possable reason for all the posts is that I have a lot to say
Another is that I have to test this software and the system to see if I like it and that I can get on with it.
The testing so far is going well I think.
well I have made alot of posts...
An earlier post started to talk about the DDW and I plan to talk about it again soon. I think its something that I need to get down in written form. Having an online notebook is great as I can look back and see how my thoughts on this subject have changed and deleloped over time.
If I am lucky my typing and spelling might even get better( I dotue it) or I learn how to use the spell checker that is installed as part of this blog software.
As you can tell I am not doing very well....
So you look at all the posts to this site and you see that they are all within the last two days, and you say to yourself
Loser !
This might be true, but then as I am using this a a notebook to myself, its of no intrest to me what you think of all the posts that I have done in the sapce of a day or two.
One possable reason for all the posts is that I have a lot to say
Another is that I have to test this software and the system to see if I like it and that I can get on with it.
The testing so far is going well I think.
well I have made alot of posts...
An earlier post started to talk about the DDW and I plan to talk about it again soon. I think its something that I need to get down in written form. Having an online notebook is great as I can look back and see how my thoughts on this subject have changed and deleloped over time.
If I am lucky my typing and spelling might even get better( I dotue it) or I learn how to use the spell checker that is installed as part of this blog software.
As you can tell I am not doing very well....
The Digital David Williams
The Digital David Williams
Now that's a really great title, well I think it is.
The idea behind DDW as I will now call it is to use the internet and anything else I can get my hands on, and that I have worked out how to use, to record in some way or other part of me.
EG how I think, what I think about this and that. I have come to realise, as I get older that how much of yourself do you leave behind you if you are an average Joe( person)?
The answer that I came up with for me was very little. I have stored on the wayback machine my very early websites, mainly becuase I started on the web just after www became possable, and the very first web browser, that worked was around
Now that's a really great title, well I think it is.
The idea behind DDW as I will now call it is to use the internet and anything else I can get my hands on, and that I have worked out how to use, to record in some way or other part of me.
EG how I think, what I think about this and that. I have come to realise, as I get older that how much of yourself do you leave behind you if you are an average Joe( person)?
The answer that I came up with for me was very little. I have stored on the wayback machine my very early websites, mainly becuase I started on the web just after www became possable, and the very first web browser, that worked was around
Hello.com
Aggh
Why why can't I get this hello.com software to work?
All I wanted to do was use it as an easy way to upload my photo's intoo this blog/notebook, can I get it to work?
No No No
I am so ***** about it
Well, if at first you dont' succeed, give up, so thats what I am going to do
I will have to come back to trying to put a photo up.
I other news I still have to decide if I want to put this blog/notebook on my own domain/website, I do have pleny of room. At the last count I still had some 1.5 gigs of webspace left.
The figure above should be more inpressive when you see just how large my websites are and the number of pages they have on them. At the last count it was over a 1000.
Have a look http://www.dswilliams.co.uk don't be fooled by there only appearing to be only two sites, click on the master link and you will find more.
These other sites are only the public ones there are several more large test sites that are locked from public view.
I was just thinking, as this is also a notebook to myself I can make as many entrys as I want, this is cool I think
Why why can't I get this hello.com software to work?
All I wanted to do was use it as an easy way to upload my photo's intoo this blog/notebook, can I get it to work?
No No No
I am so ***** about it
Well, if at first you dont' succeed, give up, so thats what I am going to do
I will have to come back to trying to put a photo up.
I other news I still have to decide if I want to put this blog/notebook on my own domain/website, I do have pleny of room. At the last count I still had some 1.5 gigs of webspace left.
The figure above should be more inpressive when you see just how large my websites are and the number of pages they have on them. At the last count it was over a 1000.
Have a look http://www.dswilliams.co.uk don't be fooled by there only appearing to be only two sites, click on the master link and you will find more.
These other sites are only the public ones there are several more large test sites that are locked from public view.
I was just thinking, as this is also a notebook to myself I can make as many entrys as I want, this is cool I think
Photo or not to photo
Its something else that has been going through my mind. Should I put up a photo of yours truley?
I mean would it make a big differance if you could see what I looked like?
Can your stomach take the shock?
Will you view of the world be forever ruined?
Can my spelling get any better?
At this rate the answer to all these questions has got to be no.
The other very slight problem is I have yet to read the instructions on how to upload photo's, so I guess that will at this time be the main reason why there is no photo's
I mean would it make a big differance if you could see what I looked like?
Can your stomach take the shock?
Will you view of the world be forever ruined?
Can my spelling get any better?
At this rate the answer to all these questions has got to be no.
The other very slight problem is I have yet to read the instructions on how to upload photo's, so I guess that will at this time be the main reason why there is no photo's
No I don't
Well I suppose it had to happen, yes thats right some how or other I lost my links to this blog, and then just to add to the fun I did not remmber what my username for this account was.
It does not help that having a real common surname means you end up trying some strange name combinations to get an account to work.
Not much else at this time I want to say, mainly because I am still trying to work out if I want to keep this account. Or try to run it on my own webspace with my own domain.
It does not help that having a real common surname means you end up trying some strange name combinations to get an account to work.
Not much else at this time I want to say, mainly because I am still trying to work out if I want to keep this account. Or try to run it on my own webspace with my own domain.
03 March, 2005
Two Posts
I seem to have managed to post 2 blogs at the same time, which for a first time user is pretty neat I think. not sure how it happend but it did.
I think I shall now and go read the manual and see what I can and can't do with this system.
I think I shall now and go read the manual and see what I can and can't do with this system.
So Now what Again
So if this works I should now habe 3 whole post's, that makes me a Blogger, wow now I really have joined the big time!!!!
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