Monthly Archives: May 2010

What if I had not run into WordPress?

Posted on May 28, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Believe it or not, I have been blogging for three or four years. And I started with free website.

As first, I used blogspot. Because it is free and google allows its user to put adsense on blogspot so that bloggers could earn money online. But later, I found blogspot had many limitations. If you are familiar with blogspot, you probably have noticed they only provide a limited number of templates. Considering the large number of people blogging on blogspot, it made me uncomfortable to see people blogging with the same template as mine. But if you have some knowledge about, say html, you could design your template. And unfortunately, I did not know anything about that. So I had to leave.

Then I found wordpress which is also free to use. As you can see now, I bought my own domain and have my blog on Hawk host. Personally, I have to say wordpress is really powerful. It is open source software. Besides, there are many beautiful templates online. Some of them are free to download; some of them are designed for purchases. In addition, all functions that I want on my blog could be powered by different plugins and they are free too. This is the real amazing of wordpress.

But sometimes I ask myself how should I continue my blog if I had not run into wordpress. So again I searched on google and I did find another free website builder, which is called Wix Flash website builder.

The Wix Flash website builder allows its user to create free website. And bloggers could have total freedom to design whatever they like while achieving professional looking results. The biggest advantage the Wix Flash website builder has I think is the category of its templates. The first thing bloggers do is to choose a template. But they may be confused at what kind of template to use on their blogs. Simply because they are now too many templates and bloggers change template in accordance with their purposes of blogging. So WF website builder categorizes their templates into eCommerce, Business, Consulting, Desing and Photography, to name but a few. Of course the templates are creative and beautiful and easy to use. So if you are new to blog, you may have a try of Wix website builder.

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The cost of success

Posted on May 25, 2010 by | Leave a comment

As a young fellow, I was in a hurry to hit the top. Like a horse wearing blinders, I raced ahead seeing nothing but the finish line. The years flew by. I had fame, financial security and a devoted family. I raced on. I needed more success.

And one day it occurred to me how much I had missed! I thought of friends collected, and then neglected; of my library, full of books with uncut pages; of the first faltering steps of my little girls; of their tears I had not the chance to wipe away; of the bright sayings heard only from their mother over a phone; of the vacations promised to my wife and children. All these resulted from my mere vain pursuit of success!

Ever since that dawning of the truth, I have made it a point to pause now and again to enjoy the scenery. I have come to realize that by going too fast I have missed too much. And how fortunate I am to be aware of the precious truth in time!

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Looking for advice

Posted on May 17, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Most Americans don’t like to get advice from members of their family. When they need advice, they don’t usually ask people they know. Instead many Americans write letters to newspapers and magazines which give advice on many subjects, including family problems, the use of language, health, cooking, child care, clothes, and how to buy a house or a car.

Most newspapers regularly print letters from readers with problems. Along with the letters there are answers written by people who are supposed to know how to solve such problems. Some of these writers are doctors; others are lawyers or educators. But two of the most famous writers of advice are women without special training for this kind of work. One of them answers letters addressed to “Dear Abby”, the other, “Dear Ann Landers.” Experience is their preparation for giving advice.

There is one writer who has not lived long enough to have much experience. She is a girl named Angel Cavaliere, who started writing advice for newspaper readers at the age of ten. Her advice to young readers now appears in the Philadelphia Bulletin in a column called “Dear Angel”.

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A Melting Pot

Posted on May 16, 2010 by | Leave a comment

The United States is currently shifting from being a nation of immigrants of mainly European descent to one of immigrants from other parts of the world, such as Asia and Latin America. The number of recent immigrants has skyrocketed. They desire to escape economic hardship and political oppression in their native countries as well as the desire to seek a better education and a more prosperous life in America, “the land of opportunity”. Although there are frequent conflicts between the cultures they have brought with them from the “old country” and those found in America, most immigrants learn to adjust to and love their adopted land.

Americans have also learned much from the customs and ideas of the immigrants and are often influenced by them in subtle and interesting ways. Immigrants bring their native cultural and political attitudes, social patters, varied academic and religious backgrounds, and their ethnic arts, sports, holidays, festivals, and food. They have greatly enriched American life.

For immigrants from all parts of the world, the United States has been a “melting pot” in which they have sometimes remained culturally and linguistically what they were in their native lands even as they move toward becoming citizens of the United States, a country whose people share a common cultural outlook and set of values. A melting pot does not melt away all recollection of another way of life in another place—nor should it. On the contrary, immigrants should maintain the languages, skills, religions, customs and arts of their own heritage, even while they are working towards entering the mainstream of American culture.

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Several Common Eye Disorders

Posted on May 13, 2010 by | Leave a comment

People who are nearsighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Everything else seems blurry. Many people who do a lot of close work, such as writing, reading and sewing, become nearsighted. Then they have to wear glasses in order to see distant objects clearly.

People who are farsighted suffer from just the opposite problem. They see things that are far away, but have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm’s length. If they want to do a lot of reading, they must get glasses too.

Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. They have what is called astigmatism. This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people’s eyes become cloudy because of cataracts. Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.

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