Archive for November, 2007

Best Blogging Achievement

Friday, November 30th, 2007

What’s your biggest accomplishment with your blog that makes you feel very proud? Simonne from AllTipsAndTricks is hosting a group writing project where she asks this very question: “What is your best blogging achievement?”
For some bloggers the answer may lay in the amount of money they managed to earn with their blog, or the number […]

Musing On Off Topic Posts

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

There are a few off topic questions that I’d like to talk about today.

How personal one can or should get on non-personal blogs?
Should an off topic post be integrated with the blog’s theme and made relevant?
Should there be an apology for the lack of time or energy to write?
What do you personally think of Off […]

A Bit Of Literature - Harrison Bergeron

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

I’ve always been a big fan of science fiction stories. For several years during and after high school I was primarily reading only sci-fi books. My favourite authors were the ones who masterly blended science fiction with psychology, the ones whose writings carried not only prophetic but also subliminal messages.
Kurt Vonnegut is one of […]

Inspired To Write A Song

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

What happens to us when we get inspired? Why do we seek inspiration? Should we better leave it up to the muse to find us, or should we open our eyes wide and ears sharp not to miss a glimpse of inspiration that surrounds us in most unusual or ordinary places?
Is it true that it’s […]

A Bit Of Literature - The Open Window

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

When a long time ago I read a story by Saki, I wondered whether the author had Persian roots. As it turned out, Saki is a pseudoname of the nineteenth century British writer Hector Hugh Munro. But I was right about the origins of his pen name that Munro adopted from one of the characters […]

Image Manipulation Quick And Easy Way

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Nowadays you don’t have to be a graphic designer to have a need in manipulating images. Whether you have a website, or a blog to upload images to you, at least, need a quick way to resize the images to fit your site’s layout. But not everyone can afford or know how to work with […]

8 Bits Of The Historic Byte

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

If you are like me, you like time traveling. I often wish Time Machine did actually exist. I would’ve transferred myself to Arles in 1888, shook Van Gogh’s hand and bought his painting Sunflowers, then I would’ve paid him another visit in 1889 at the hospital in Saint Rémy de Provence and bought his “Starry […]

A Bit Of Literature - The Jewels of M. Lantin

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

After featuring last week one of the stories by O.Henry, who was called “the American answer to Guy de Maupassant” it’s only natural to showcase a story by the famous French short story writer and novelist, whose work influenced many other writers, like Anton Chekhov, W. Somerset Maugham. One of Maupassant’s horror stories, The […]