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CHRIIISSSTTMAAAS!

nuff said

bonds. comfy bonds.

i loooove this new bonds dress i got, super comfortable for the summer (s00n!) and perfect for over the bathers.
also i think taking pictures in front of a mirror is my new thing...its easier than asking for assistance or setting up a timer, even though i look like i have light coming out of my ear/eye

WHOOPS!

i tried to get a pic of me at this beach lookout.....the good news is, im taller than i thought!

yay winter's over!

i would put up some pictures from my last adventure, but they're all on my phone.
for some reason the usb cord thing gets confused when i try and load the pictures from my phone on to the computer.

HINTS ANYONE?

so ive drawn this artists impression, in paint.



EDIT 4/10/08 : is it even possible to load pics from your phone onto the computer or did i just imagine that? i should have read the book about my phone dammit!

righteo!

"Daily Overview: August 10, 2008

SAGITTARIUS November 22-December 21

You're filled with happy, buoyant energy and should rush out in to the world to discover new places, people and things. You should make new friends and find interesting new activities."

does leaving in the morning count as rushing out?

captain hooks cottage

i always confuse captain cook with robin williams, or more like captain hook! even though he played a long lost peter pan in that movie. but was that movie about peter pan or captain cook/hook? confusing...it was called captain hook...anyway i still think captain cook was evil, even if he wasnt. maybe i should have read all the info in the gift shop since i was in house? anyways, this photo is of me being royal in his bedroom/study place.

melbs in ju-lyyy

i think this should just be a place for travel pictures, since i havent really put anything on here since the last time i went to melbourne in march! i just went again to see Wicked. sooo wicked! piccies:

hotel view. yeaah!

oh. its just, RAMSAY STREET!

lovely weather for ducks eh

a freakin old tree in the museum!

plus old peoples hands and sleepy birds!

these are also a huge part of the culture in this hole.

moons and trees!

"Live in New York City once. Live in Northern California once. But never live in Adelaide - it's a hole."

- John Safran.

even if it IS a hole, we still have A) the moon, and B) trees.





locations of said phenomena: my street, botanical gardens.

to quote a quote :

"Not a shred of evidence exist in favour of the idea that life is serious."

- Brendan Gill


"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy."

- Florence Shinn



IN OTHER NEWS, apparently this is the word of the day :

'Weltanschauung'

(noun) [VELT-awn'-shou'-oong]

1. a comprehensive and usually personal view of the world and human life: "Selfless people don't fit into Sean's Weltanschauung -- he doesn't believe they exist."

Origin: Approximately 1850; from German: literally, world view ('Welt': world + 'Anschauung': view).

o rly?

courtesy of a fortune cookie.

tooooooooooooo cute

HAHAHA

'The Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic'

"Another curious feature of the social nature of laughter is its contagiousness.
In 1962 a small town in what is now Tanzania fell victim to a spate of contagious laughing called the “Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic“. A few weeks after the nation gained its independence three teenage girls in a boarding school in the isolated village began laughing and it spread to the whole town. According to a 1963 report, a total of 10,000 adult men and women and teens of both sexes caught the “disease” after coming in contact with an infected person.

The event is known as case of mass psychogenic illness and the modern explanations revolve around intense religious and cultural changes that were happening to the town at the time due to its new-found independence and the replacement of old spiritual beliefs with western religion. The laughter acted as a collective catharsis."

http://danzarrella.com/contagious-laughter.html

left-overs.....(?hyphenated?)

found whilst on shoe hunt!

cool bathroom....

for once scooters, vacation and fall actually applies! maybe it should be i-wish-i-had-a-scooter cos my legs are really sick of walking.

day second, night first

my view!

my view again with lights!

this is the scariest elevator on earth. FACT.

blur. 88 stories high! ahhh

they told us on the way down that the tower can move up to 6 inches side ways in the wind. THANKS.

P.S. making the floor uneven does not make people feel safe! gaaawsh.

hot hot hot

is what it is melbourne today!!
here is a photo timeline (?) of my travels:

on the way to the airport....

rent-a-car!

its a sign

the melbourne eye?

leafy streets!

darn they dont all fit.

things to do when bored or stupid

what to do when you bored at 12:30 am on a monday morning/ sunday night....go to digg.com! everything is there! if you feeling internet search lazy, which i am 70% of the time, it can make you feel informed with out over google-ing your brains.
sure you could just go to news.com.au or whatever else there is, but where else would you see THIS!

im pretty bored. something else fun is bored.com. pretty much all the games in the universe...or you could go to sleep.

tutting my heel and strutting my feet

runner-up title for this post : roound my hoooooome tooowwwwwn.

FAVOURITE SONG TODAY/yesterday/probably tomorrow...is Hometown Glory by Adele.

WOO!

also listening too Autumn Flow by Lior , cos its autumn now duh!
not that you can tell or anything. back off sun!

i was going to write a funny story that i had in mind just before...but i forgot it. darn!

whoa itunes is like psychic or sumpthin eh?

no it isnt. but this is funny.

i love doing this!
soundtrack to your life by iTunes.
Open you Tunees and set it to random. fun fun~!

opening credits: winding road - bonnie sommerville

waking up: this bottle of wine - maria mena

first day at school: if you love me - paulini (cover)

falling in love: goodnight goodnight - maroon 5

fight song: little house - the frey

breaking up: complicated - avril lavigne. omg this is a tad embarassing.

prom: lullaby - dixie chicks

life: oxygen - colbie caillat

mental breakdown: bad day - daniel powter

driving: silent sea - kt tunstall

flashback: seeds - brooke fraser

wedding: this house is not for sale - ryan adams....hm.

birth of a child: Symphony No. 9 (Scherzo) - Ludwig van Beethoven HAHA random indeed

final battle: you and i both - jason mraz

funeral song: some hearts - carrie underwood hahahaha what a rockin funeral

end credit: my traveling star - james taylor

one size fits all

this was the second. it doesnt fit but whatever.

a while ago i bought a shiny new sewing machine! yay.
this is the first thing i made :

skillz.........

what happens when theres a writers stirke......or the writers are just plain annoying:

he coded. he coded? he coded! he coded.....

taken from greys anatomy.

a poem stolen from randoms (emo) myspace:

There was a young lady of Wight,
Who traveled much faster than light,
She departed one day,
In a relative way,
And arrived on the previous night.


hehe

old pt 2...... maybe this was a bad idea, they're not what i remember...

TWO!

in relation to this in my first blog, "blahblah......i wont lose it if my comp dies, unless the
internet dies...."

The Internet will BREAK if you type 'Google' in to GOOGLE.

SERIOUSLY.

DONT TRY IT.

the interents WILL BREAK.

p.s. i love Maurice Moss....exclamation mark.


and THREE!

HO HO!!

my cat is psychictr5555555555555555555555555yuj.......< he wrote that by himself.

why does mathew mcconaughey always say " ho ho " when he means wait! or stop!
its real annoying, but i like his accent.

out with the old...in with the..old?

so anyway , i used to have this other blog which shall remain nameless, but deleted it cos it was annoying, i didnt up date it and frankly, no-one read it.
not like this one is any different....but you can post pictures here. and its easy. so there.
i grew attached to my old blogs....there were only a few...but i think im going to put them here.

ONE!

a blog eey.
i decided i wanted a blog of my own.
other than myspace....and facebook..?(can you even blog there? get with it facebook)
oooo jeez i really am too involved with the interents now.

anyway if anyone even reads this, who the hell would?
i think ill just use it like a diary..? like when i write on wordpad, except this will have a cool
background and i wont have to worry about losing it if my computer dies....unless the internet
dies?

why is everything i type coming out as a question?

OH WOW i just seeeded that you can post pictures?

im going to find some and post them later....? i should be walking to work, but no im on the
computer...at school...in the holidays!>!>!?!??? i think ive gone insane. maybe its the fumes
from the fake tan i shouldnt have put on. its also making me thirsty : /.......???

pumpkin soup...

...is a cool song.
im taking over this boring blog about blogs, since
*thank jeebuz* my classes are over for now.....from now on it will be my blog!
and have no educational value what-so-ever.

educational blogs

Aside from all the celebrity blogs, personal blogs, and comedy blogs etc. there are strictly educational blogs.

They're blogs that are designed to aid people in learning about a specifc topic.
There are 'EdBlogs' made for learning english, and other languages, blogs for learning about business and management, and even a blog titled "Mr. Halls Third Grade Class", where a teacher has creates a blog for his students containing a page that says what their homework is and a page that displays their creations.

Another example is this blog made by a teacher in portugal who is teaching her students english and has created an english speaking blog.

blogs and journalism

The blog is a new way for people to publish their own work, as i mentioned in an earlier post, they allow writers to gain recognition from readers and other writers.
In an article found on ABC.net.au, Richard Aedy and Jason di Rosso are discussing the way in which serious journalism in Australia and America is being threatened because of blogging.

"The growth in blogs is happening at the same time that audiences for mainstream news media are falling, especially in America." - Richard Aedy

Jason di Rosso gives a possible explanation, saying that after the tsunami (december 04) people searching on the interent for information were presented with blog sites.

John Burton replies:
"...The idea that a normal person in the middle of this chaos, telling this world about what’s happening is something that blogs can do really well."

reflections

When I first wrote on blogger.com I understood the more personal type of blog. Where people had created them as an alternative to bulk emailing or writing a letter to all their friends and family. I had also read a few blogs created for other specific purposes, but none of them what you would call professional.

I wasn’t too sure how they were structured, what type of language was used or how the layout differed from a regular blog.
All these differ from blog to blog but throughout the course, the idea of writing about one topic, or one topic in a specific way has become easier to understand.

top blog

"As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs."
- from Blog's wikipedia

The number of people that run a blog is ever increasing, as with Myspace, after a few years every second person had one.
People are also becoming successful and popular through their blogs, the same as people have with Myspace and Youtube.

Forbes.com created a list of the best blogs in the following catagories :

· Best Politics Blogs

· Best Photo Blogs

· Best Medical Blogs

· Best Travel Blogs

· Best Movie Blogs

· Best Food Blogs

· Best Sports Blogs

· Best Tech Blogs

· Best Media Blogs

· Best Economics Blogs

· Best War Blogs

· Best Celebrity Blogs

You can vote for which in each category you think deserves the top spot.

Apart from these blogs, there are many others that are getting recognised.
Such as Jake and Amir, who work for the website collegehumor.com. Aside from already making videos for their work, they decided to make their own staring themselves and post them on their own blog, as well as on college humor.

Another is the popular celebrity gossip blog perezhilton.com.

comments please

The comment option within the blog has become an issue on many blogs.
With arguments starting between the user and viewer because of blog content, and also between readers that have differing opinions. In many cases though they help connect the writer with the reader, and the reader with the writer. Some people may choose to turn the comments off because they don't want any interaction, also because of spam comments. Although there is now a letter/word verification tool that can be enabled to determine weather or not the comment is authentic.

According to Darren Rowse "only 1 out of every one hundred readers (of his post specifically) will leave a comment." He then goes on to tell his readers how they can get more comments on their blogs.

Example:

1. He says to include an invite for people to leave the comments, and mentions how doing this in the past has worked on his blog.

2. Ask questions - when people are asked something specific in the blog, obviously they will have something to comment on when they otherwise may not have.

3. Reward comments - this can be done by either replying or discussing them in later posts.

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/10/12/10-techniques-to-get-more-comments-on-your-blog/

blog VS website

A blog page differs from a website in the following ways:

1. a website (for some/most) is hard to design, if you want it to be one worth looking at.
2. a certain level of technical skills are often required.
3. the langauge is more conversational, a website may be more formal...depending on which website.

Ultimately it depends on the purpose of the website or blog. If the websites purpose is to advertise something and get feedback then it might be beneficial to also set-up a blog, to allow people to easily give feedback (comments etc.). If the purpose is to keep people up to date with something, or find/publish information on something then a web page could be made. It also depends on the type of image the person or group wants to have.

publishing

The blogging revolution has enabled many young writers to publish their work somewhere where it will be idealy read by lots of people.

In an article by Owen Gibson, he says, “Millions of young people who have grown up with the internet and mobile phones are no longer content with the one-way traffic of traditional media and are publishing and aggregating their own content, according to the exclusive survey of those aged between 14 and 21.”

He goes on to say what the most common uses of the Internet for people this age are.
They include communicating with each other (MSN messenger etc), online communities and downloading music.

Blogs have become the easy alternative to designing a whole website. People who didn't speak HTML, were put off of becoming internet savvy becuase it was all too hard. Blogging is an easy way for people to publish their work online.

Article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/oct/07/media.pressandpublishing

Owen Gibson, media correspondent The Guardian, Friday October 7 2005