Aaaahh! Do we have everything we need? Is the house clean? Did we pack diapers? Did we buy gifts for our host? It’s all coming down to the wire. So much to do.
So that is what we have been up to.
We will be at the top of Victoria Peak in Hong Kong in 5 days!
Here is a photo of the view:
Daniel and I love this song from Saturday Night Live. We always get the melody stuck in our heads. Dinka dink dink dinnnnk dinnnk….
Due to NBC being poo-poo heads the original skit with Horatio Sanz, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Kattan, Tracey Morgan, and Simon Cowell can not be played through YouTube anymore. Instead we get to enjoy the Source Guys.
I seriously love del.icio.us and I use it all the time. Del.icio.us is an easy way to bookmark all your favorite webpages online in one place. Sometimes I come across a site or a webpage that I will want to come back to later, so I will tag the page. You can tag pages when you are shopping online, researching a topic or a vacation, or saving cool recipes.
Del.icio.us works by integrating two buttons into your web browser. Don’t worry, installation is easy! I promise. One button is your “My del.icio.us†button that displays all your tagged webpages. The second button is the “Tag this†button that you click when you want to tag the webpage you are displaying. Using del.icio.us is cool, because it takes two seconds to tag a webpage after you have installed the buttons.
Bookmarking online is better than using your web browser’s book marking system, because you can bookmark all you want and it won’t fill up that menu window. I currently have 190 webpages bookmarked; that would be a really long menu window! Also, you can easily make notes, change the title of the bookmark, and specify tag categories.
Your homepage with all your tagged sites go with you wherever you go. They are always online. If you are at a friend’s house and you want to show them that really cool purse you were considering buying on Etsy, you could have bookmarked the page, and open the link from your del.icio.us account.
Setting up del.icio.us is incredibly easy. One of the things I really like about del.icio.us is that all their instructions are simple to follow.
The first step is to register with del.icio.us. After you fill out the six blanks on the registration form, you will then be instructed to install your two del.icio.us buttons. You will have to re-start your web browser after they are installed. Then, you can start using the buttons and saving the links to all your favorite sites.
Take a few minutes and set up del.icio.us. You will be glad that you did!
Del.icio.us homepage
Register
Installing into Internet Explorer
Installing into Firefox
A Guide to Saving Bookmarks
45 is the number of times that I have blogged this month between this blog and my other blog. I have enjoyed participating NaBloPoMo this month. NaBloPoMo is National Blog Posting Month and you basically post every day for the month of November. There is also a social network that you can connect with other NaBloPoMo-ers.
I joined NaBloPoMo on a whim. It has been fun working out my blogging muscle. I do think that I will blog more often than I did before NaBloPoMo. I also got inspired this month, by our redesign of the site. Thanks Daniel for fixing our blog!
Some posts have been good and some bad, but you guys have stuck with me through it all. It has been interesting to see what posts people like and those that couldn’t give a flying flip. Everyone wanted to know which European city they belonged in. I even had people come up to me that didn’t comment and tell me, “I belong in Dublin!”
So here’s to you faithful readers. Thanks for sticking with me. Here’s to the end of NaBloPoMo and to the continued whimsical, randomness of this blog.
Cheers!
I just wrote this amazing final post for NaBloPoMo and just has I hit save, my husband did something to the server and I lost my post.
Earlier in the night I was having trouble writing it and he said, “Just flow with it.” So I was flowing and writing. It was great. Then *poof* its gone.
He said he was sorry. I do forgive him. Venting to my blog has made me feel better.
I love you, honey. I forgive you.
It was a sad night tonight. The Packers lost to the Dallas Cowboys and Brett Favre got hurt. Hanging with our life group and watching the game was fun.
I have shopped till I dropped today and now I am seriously drawing a blank on today’s post. I went shopping to get some needed items for our upcoming trip. Right now I just want to get to bed and continue reading The Great Gatsby. I started it earlier in the evening while Daniel went to the gym. We lead such exciting lives, don’t we?
Here is a picture of the little shoes I bought Annabelle yesterday. I think that they are super adorable. She looked really cute in them today with her dark wash jeans and little pink top.
Oh and I felt a little sharp tooth in her bottom gums today! Soon, she will have her first tooth!
Daniel and I were sitting in the car stuck in traffic and he asked me, “If you could open up a restaurant of any kind, what would you pick?
I would love to open up a Dessert Bar. I would sell all kinds of desserts, coffee, and wine. You could order at the counter and then stay as long as you would like. It sounds so good. It would be a little like Candlelight Coffeehouse here in town, but with more dessert options and no food options. When Metropolitan was open in the Quarry, they were a little like this. A Dessert Bar sounds so great. An after dinner hang out place.
Daniel said that he would open up an American food restaurant with steaks and wings. A real manly man place. Maybe some large screens. He would also like it to be a place where you can sit around and have great conversations with your friends. Like an American pub.
What kind of restaurant would you open?
If you like Rock and Dance music, you must check out Electra Radio. It is a great mix of old and new hits. Do you remember that song that starts off “My name is Luca and I live on the second floor…”? They played it! I haven’t heard that song since I was a kid.
We listen to it through our itunes radio. If you go to their website you can use their Windows Media Player link if you are using Windows.
The just played 4 Non Blondes! How awesome it that? I so need to karaoke ‘What’s up’.
Here is a list of what they just played. Good stuff.
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4 Non Blondes What’s up Plus d’infos sur ce titre |
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Degrees Of Motion Shine on Plus d’infos sur ce titre |
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Lifehouse Unknown Plus d’infos sur ce titre |
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Rooney When did your heart go missing Plus d’infos sur ce titre |
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Cascada Everytime we touch Plus d’infos sur ce titre |
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Rage Against The Machine Killing In The Name Plus d’infos sur ce titre |
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I wrote this article for another blog and thought that I would share it here. It covers what RSS is, how to use it, and asks “Is RSS really that great?”
You may have noticed the little RSS icon on many websites with a statement that usually says, “Subscribe to My Feed.†The icon is also in the address window at the top of your web browser. The icon is typically orange with two white curved lines.
So what the heck is RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or “news feed.†RSS is the format that syndicates content from blogs, news headlines, and podcasts into a subscription. Then a feed reader will read the subscription and show you the content of the website’s articles.
An RSS blog format contains the text and pictures of a blog post. Then the feed reader will show you all the blog posts of all the websites you have subscribed to in one window.
Back in the day, you would have to Bookmark a page in your web browser and then manually click on each individual site. Now with a feed reader you can view all your favorite websites in one window. Saving you time and making it easier for you to keep up with your favorite blogs!
Here is a picture of what my feed reader looks like. (This is the list view.)
Here is a picture of what a blog post looks like in the feed reader.
Here is a picture of what that same blog post looks like on its own website.
How Do I Use RSS?
Step 1. Get a feed reader. There are many feed reader options. If you already have a Gmail account, you can easily use GoogleReader. Other popular feed readers are Bloglines, Rojo, and Newsgator. You can also add RSS to your MyYahoo! Page, but it only gives you the titles of the blog posts. The titles of the blog posts then link you to the actual site.
Step 2. Go to the website you want to subscribe to and click on their RSS icon.
Step 3. A window will open and ask you which feed reader you are using. Choose the feed reader that you have an account with.
Step 4. Set up any necessary preferences. GoogleReader asks you if you want to view it on your Google Homepage or Google Reader. Bloglines opens up some display options.
Step 5. Enjoy viewing the content of multiple blogs all at once!
Is RSS really that great?
I really like my GoogleReader. I could spend hours reading all the content in my reader. GoogleReader posts the time that the blog post was created, so I can know the second that my friends update their sites. It is really great to have all the posts on my favorite websites in one place. Sometimes I will miss a post when I actually view the site, but I will catch it in my reader.
A feed reader is great for friends who don’t blog often. Instead of going to a website multiple times only to be disappointed that they haven’t blogged in three weeks. You can subscribe to their feed and be pleasantly surprised when one of their posts pop up in your list.
The bad part of using RSS and a feed reader is that you can’t view the comments or write a comment on a post. You have to click through to the post on the website and then comment. For this reason, I still personally visit all my personal friends’ sites, because I enjoy commenting.
If a website has the option you can subscribe to the comments through RSS, but you still can’t write a comment. Also, I have found that popular sites will have many comments that pile up in your reader.
One problem that I have had using my feed reader is that I will subscribe to a blog that I think looks cool, but then I don’t keep up reading the posts and I loose interest quickly.
Another down side to using a feed reader, is that you can’t see a site’s design. You can’t view the fun treasures in the sidebars of your favorite websites. How else will I know what books my friends are reading or who else is in their blogroll? The flip side is that there are no pesky advertisements in the feed reader.
I enjoy using my feed reader to keep up with websites that are informative and where I don’t comment much, but I will still personally visit my favorite friends’ blogs.
Extra Credit:
If a site does not have an RSS option, you can plug the address (URL) of the site that you want to view in your RSS reader into feedity.com.
Further Reading on RSS:
Explaining RSS the Oprah way
RSS in Wikipedia
Easy RSS Explanation
Do you use RSS? Do you like it? Which feed reader do you use?
