What peeves you off the most? I'll tell you one little thing that gets under my skin: People who wear socks with their jandals(thongs in OZ and flipflops in the UK and US). I detest it, my GS has done it, but I don't like it!! It doesn't seem much but it is one of the things that really do bug me. What do you think?
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
GBE2: Blog on. What peeves you off the most...
What peeves you off the most? I'll tell you one little thing that gets under my skin: People who wear socks with their jandals(thongs in OZ and flipflops in the UK and US). I detest it, my GS has done it, but I don't like it!! It doesn't seem much but it is one of the things that really do bug me. What do you think?
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
GBE2: Blog on: My blogging history...
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I fell into blogging when looking at writing sites on the internet. I decided that maybe these weblogs or blogs could be an interesting pastime. Now one of the first of my blogsites was the once popular WritingUp. It had great topics, great threads of discussion and comments. I caused a bit of an uproar on this site when I suggested that radical Islamists were actually Satanists. Why not? They couldn't possibly be mainstream Islam and Muslims could they, not if Islam is a peaceful religion? A thousand comments there on that thread alone! I was accused of hatespeech by a very silly woman there.
During this period Google Adsense advertising was also the way to go to make some money on your blogs - you could make hundreds of dollars, thousands even? Yeah right! But to even start earning you really needed a number of blogs going to get the traffic. I ended up with a number of blogs that I didn't really want in the first place. Some great sites came and went, Blogfeast, Blogcharm and WritingUp crashed. All for different reasons. Then Google suspended my account - I had earned about US$45.00 by that stage; no reason was given - I can only imagine I must have inadvertently clicked on one of my own adverts. I sent a number of messages to Google in the US but they never replied.
I have had a number of Blogger blogs going for a number of years and have a blog at blog.co uk, as well as a few groups I post and comment on there.
Community blogging has been ruined by the many sploggers and spammers who comment on your posts and start up their own blogs which just promote links to money making and at times unsavoury sites on the internet. Blogevolve.com and Blogger Party were two very good blogging sites to be affected. The Admin on Blogger Party eventually took some affirmative action, but most of the good bloggers had given up and gone elsewhere. Blogevolve.com is just the same it was a couple of years ago - its Admin disappeared years ago. Things just run on auto and have no human input. I think there are a great many in this category - just running on auto!
But now of course I can promote my blogs on my Facebook page and get some comment there. I use Twitter, but this site in my opinion is better used on a Smartphone. We now have a number of blogging groups on Facebook which can be used to promote your blogs as well.
I use my blogs to promote my writing and some linked websites which have stories that appeal to me and enable me to reproduce them on my blogs. Not a problem as long as you acknowledge the source and where they came from and what their URL links are.
So my blogging history is reasonably brief as is the history of blogging which commenced around 1999. The software on blogs is always evolving and can make your sites appealing and interesting.
I also value my blogging friends from a number of countries. Some I feel I know well, even if we are thousands of miles apart.
http://nymag.com/news/media/15971/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Does cannabis help MS sufferers...
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Does cannabis help MS sufferers...
Please read on;
Head of Research at the MS Society Dr Lorna Layward:
"This lends a lot of credence to all the anecdotal reports"
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The BBC's Christine McGourty
"There's been much debate over the potential benefits of the drug"
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Cannabis 'helps MS sufferers'
Cannabis has medical uses:
Cannabis has been proven, for the first time, to be an effective treatment for the symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS).
Many MS sufferers have taken the drug illegally, claiming that it has a therapeutic effect.
Now UK scientists have shown that a compound in cannabis can prevent muscle tremor and spasticity caused by MS.
Our research suggests that cannabinoids can play a crucial role in controlling some of the neuro-muscular problems seen with MS
Dr David Baker, Institute of Neurology
They also found that synthetic chemicals mimicking the compound have a similar effect.
This could lead to the development of commercially-available alternatives to cannabis that have the same effect.
MS sufferers usually experience episodes of paralysis, interspersed with periods of remission.
As the disease progresses symptoms of spasticity, or muscle rigidity, and severe tremors may appear.
The researchers, from the Institute of Neurology at University College London, tested cannabis on mice who had been given an animal equivalent of MS. Read on:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/662254.stm
http://www.naturalnews.com/028106_Cannabis_Multiple_Sclerosis.html - Source: Kiwipete
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
The Mayan End Age: Mayan predictions of what will happen on 12-21-2012...
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In my post yesterday I wrote of predictions made by the ancient Mayans, and suggested that they predicted an 'end times' rather than some catastrophic disaster as allegedly suggested by Nostradamus and some biblical interpretations of impending disaster. So lets spend some time with the ancients and learn exactly what they foretold. But why 12-21-2012? That is when the Mayan calender ended in their year of 5126. An interesting comment that I picked up is this period could see the handing over of power to the feminine - "The reawakening of the divine feminine". What does this mean, I wonder? They also infer that this will be the last chance for humankind to follow the divine cosmic plan. So electing Hillary Clinton as president of the United States of America will not be the answer!
End Age 12-21-2012
Mayan Calender "An Apocalypse (Greek: “lifting of the veil” or “revelation”) is a disclosure of end of times rather than some something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted." — Wikipedia
"Both the Hopis and Mayans recognize that we are approaching the end of a World Age... In both cases, however, the Hopi and Mayan elders do not prophesy that everything will come to an end. Rather, this is a time of transition from one World Age into another. The message they give concerns our making a choice of how we enter the future ahead. Our moving through with either resistance or acceptance will determine whether the transition will happen with cataclysmic changes or gradual peace and tranquility. The same theme can be found reflected in the prophecies of many other Native American visionaries from Black Elk to Sun Bear."
— Joseph Robert Jochmans
http://www.adishakti.org/mayan_end_times_prophecy_12-21-2012.htm
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Just thinking out loud today - things may well be different by next Christmas 2012...
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So many of my posts here are introduced from my other blogsites, or from various websites around the internet.
But today you will get my thoughts directely transposed onto these blog pages. Is it because I have so much time; some might suggest too much time on my hands, but whatever I'm in a position to think about things. Two or three decisions have been made lately in a number of countries which are not directly connected in themselves, but are very similar in thought and proposed act.
I recently posted about New Zealand's intended, not proposed Food Bill. It has been sitting at a select committee for a year. With NZ not having an Upper House or Senate, all bills are sent through a select committee for consideration. This bill has been just sitting there, and the Opposition Labour Party didn't think it was appropriate or necessary to discuss it during our recent parliamentary elections. I suspect labour didn't want any such ammunition in an election it didn't want to win. These are comments I have already made.
Just a couple or so hours ago I learned of a proposed Bill to go before the US Congress: Allowing corporations or the US Government to control what is published on the World Wide Web - WWW, or the internet.
New Zealand passed legislation last year making it illegal to load down pirated music and videos. But it will take three complaints to be made to your ISP or account before action will be taken. Your internet account could be suspended or cancelled and your could be fined hundreds of dollars. But you could go to another internet provider and start up another account.
In Fiji the dictatorial Commodore Frank Baimimarama who seized power at the point of a gun a few years ago, has actually increased his dictatorial powers to the ultimate power, the ultimate dictatorship - suspending the power of the Fijian High Court, or whatever name it has there. Bainimarama wants to eradicate corruption in high places before returning the right to vote. Yeah right!
Right across Europe countries are in almost economic ruin. Billions of Euros are owed to the banks. The European Union has loaned member states billions of Euros itself. Europe is in danger of catastrophic financial disaster. The USA in in financial strife itself owing the Chinese billions of dollars, or is that trillions? Is there another way around all this?
This year is 2012,the year of predictions of disaster as predicted in the Bible, by Nostradamus and the Mayans. Is it a disaster emanating from deep space, UFO's and little green men? No, it may well be closer to home!
The Mayans predicted a change of times rather than actual physical events. And they may yet be proven closer to the mark.
Are we actually in danger from the implementation of a new political and finacial order - One World Government - New World Order. Debts would be abolished, as would political power and the rights of a a citizen journalist like myself, and hundred of thousands of other bloggers worldwide.
This post is a complete generalisation of course - its all about intense thought, letting your grey matter go in all directions and see just how its reorganised.So one + one = three? Hey it might by the end of the year brother and sister!
http://www.interviewgiants.com/interviewgiants3/index.html?gclid=CMjphNzEx60CFUJMpgodqnmzgg
http://www.interviewgiants.com/interviewgiants3/2012-newworldorder2.htm- Source: Kiwipete
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By Peter Petterson
First published at Qondio
The British Royal Automobile Club came up with a list of what a car's color says about the owner. Here is what your vehicle could be telling you.
Black: You're ambitious and status seeking
Green: You're very traditional and an elitist
Blue: You're a team player and very sociable
White: You're aloof dutiful and methodical
Grey: You're understated and cautious
Silver: You have a sense of style, but you can be pompous
Red: You're outgoing, impulsive and easily bored.
Acknowledgements: Chicago Sun-Times