Space saving digital frames

Two weeks ago my sister was having a dilemma with her huge photo albums she accumulated for 17 years of stay here in Thailand.  Her family is migrating to Finland in few days time and she wants to bring the printed photos with her. It’s not easy to let go of the good memories we’ve shared with friends and families.  We try to linger our togetherness and cherish the happy moments that has transpired in the past.  Recalling faces we encountered in our life’s journey.

For now her baggage already exceeds the maximum amount required.  So she settled with scanned photos to add with her existing digital photos and shredded the printed ones right after. 

As I help her cut those pictures into pieces I manage to recall the scenes I saw in Harry Potter wherein old photos  of Lily and James come to life similar to that of putting video clips in a frame.  Now my imagination zapped me back to reality thinking of the possibility of having digital frames instead of thick albums.  Excited over my idea. I asked uncle Google straightaway.  To my surprise I have found the answer.  Digitalframez.com is the name of an online electronic store which specializes in lcd digital photo frames. There frames comes in varied sizes of 7 to 10 inches in width and memory storage. It also goes with a remote control for easy viewing of favorite albums.

My fascination saved the day. Now I can save a bigger space at home in purchasing this digital picture frame online. 

Wanting to Have a Valuable Solid Net Presence?

These days more and more people are finding the value of having a presence on the net. Companies small and big alike are rushing to make their presence known. The internet becomes an undeniable force especially in this times of globalization wherein reaching out markets beyond borders is a must.

Having a mere net presence is easy but making it big is a different thing. I myself have done some web projects. One would need though the likes of Dev3 - Web Design Services which provides professional web design and web programming services to make it big. They provide a wide range of services. If you need a personal/corporate website developed they have Website Development services. They also offer Database Design services and E-Commerce Solution to cater your online store needs. If you wish to have your site visible on the top of Google search they offer Search Engine Optimization. If you have some special application needs they provide Custom Web Applications services. Moreover if you still haven’t got any presence on the net they have Corporate Identity services. The company caters clients from small, medium and Fortune 500 listed companies. What’s good is the prices for the services they offer is very reasonable and affordable to as low as 250$ you can avail already of professional Web Development services.

Availing of this wide range of professional services will surely make a great difference in your net presence. As evidently seen on their projects with first reliance bank, wilkinson good neighbor communities, centerbase, blockisland and the edge to name a few. If you wish to make your presence be known, do it with the professionals from Dev3 - Web Design Services.

Easy approvals with smorty

Yesterday, Thailand was in glorious celebration commemorating Mother's Day in honor of Her Royal Highness Queen Sirikit's birthday held  annually every 12th of August. People here have been pretty emotional this days. Majority went home to their provinces to spend time with their beloved moms to pay respect and offer special gifts of fresh or fancy Jasmine flowers which is the symbol of motherhood in Thai. 

Today is our compensatory holiday. Since Friday afternoon my friends went rushing for a vacation to Krabi in the south and others  in Rayong near the gulf of Thailand.  Whereas me, leisurely enjoyed by treating myself for a sleeping spree or a day of a sleep-all-you-can in our peaceful mountain-resort-like abode and make some blog for money with smorty.  After long hours of sleep I was able to get reconditioned. Revved up to discover new paid to blog opportunities. One of which I encountered is smorty.com. Smorty is a service connecting advertisers with bloggers. Advertisers can pay bloggers to write opinion posts with links back to the advertisers site mainly for the reason of increasing their site's traffic.

I find it pretty fast to get connected and start up with my newly discovered site. No more thrilling days to wait if my blog site will be approved or not.  It saved me a lot of time for it's only a matter of signing up and the system automatically detects if your site is qualified.  Not just that, I think the advertisers are fair enough to allocate three days time to comply with their requirements.  I'm confident that smorty will attract more blogging enthusiasts in this sense.

Search Engine Death Penalty?

I was wondering if there is such a thing as Death Penalty in cyberspace. Have you ever heard of Google’s Death Penalty? At first, I thought that information is free on the web and that every page is entitled of being accessible in search engines. Until I came across with the list of  Search Engine Optimization related terms from Apogee Search site and I begin to learn more about terminologies from Apogee Search’s Search Engine Marketing Glossary. 

This site could be handy in understanding various techie terms. Nah… save me from those geek terms. I never thought there is such a thing as Google Death Penalty. Anyway there is after all. Read it from Search Engine Optimization terms from Apogee. Avoid being punished of Death Penalty in cyberspace. Know about it.

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Missing this family from then on

 The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your barns,
and in all that you undertake;
and he will bless you in the land which
the Lord your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 28:8 RSV

Thanking You All for Everything

a day to go and you’re off to your land of dreams
a place where aurora borealis exist
with fewer sunshines and lots of twilights
i know it will be freezing cold in there
just always feel our hugs to keep you warm.

me and tony have always been grateful to have you handy
for the free breakfasts, lunches, dinners we savored
for great laughs, kids petty quarrels, and togetherness in adventures
for the many fruitful years of having you all in our life here in TH
Thank You!

~<~>~

I’ll be missing
Kuya Boyet’s kind words and generosity
Ate Cookie’s support and body jam sessions
R-vin’s hip-hop updates and pesterings with his lil’ bro & sis
Anzel’s sweet smiles and thoughtfulness
R-jed’s innocense and fondness of the things he calls "mine"

~<~>~

i’ll stop for now. i’m getting carried with my emotions.
whew! life is really a constant change.

Sports event of the year

Time to break the ice. Summer Universiade is officially open today held in our neighboring campus Thammasat University Rangsit, North of Bangkok, Thailand. Activities will be from 8 August 2007 to 18 August 2007. Delegates came from as far as Europe, North America, South America, and Central Asia as well.

It’s probably exciting to witness the events considering this University Sports is almost equivalent to Olympic Games.

Related sources:

Host Cities each year 

Universiade 2007 Bangkok Site 

Related videos:

1. Universiade Opening Ceremony at Hua Mark Stadium
2. Magnificent Fireworks Display

Building Dreams with PPP !

I started blogging since 2004 in another blog site. I never thought that I could ever get paid when I blog until I discovered P.P.P. through my sisters Carey and Daisy. Both shared to me the idea about my blog earning some bucks like they do. They encouraged me then to have my blog registered in an ad post. At first I was hesitant due to my schedules at work. But I later reconsidered the idea after finding that it's a lucrative thing to add to my hobby of blogging.

My imagination started to soar as to the possibilities available. I think of building my dreams just little ones to start with. The list on my mind starts with buying something like a digital SLR Nikon D40X camera. On my estimates this small endeavor would require me something like 50 blogs or more to have it. Mind you I have a busy schedule at work and at home. But I have spared time for the past years to blog. Who knows after 3 months I will finally have my most coveted dream digital SLR camera come true.

So while I enjoy blogging, I have something to look forward as a reward for myself of the simple pleasure in life. Whew! that seems to be a pressure on my part. How about you? Have any dreams to build on? I think it's worth a try.

the forbidden food

I find work pleasurable this days.  Off duties as project administrator as we’re approaching the interim stage for another regional level.  Now I have lots of time to post a part of my simple pleasure which is cooking.  Last night I decided to cook a forbidden food for Tony.  Though he’s got allergies with shrimps he seemed not to mind the after effect and just savor the once in a blue moon treat. Next time I’ll be cautious enough to secure an anti-allergy medicine first before preparing the same menu.  Load of thanks to Ate Cookie who gave the recipe book.

Gambas recipe (good for two)

200g deveined shrimp
garlic finely chopped
onion thinly sliced
1/2 tsp. hot sauce
1/8 cup tomato sauce
black pepper  and salt to taste
1 tbsp. butter
1/2 tbsp. bread crumbs

Saute garlic and onion with butter.  Add shrimp, tomato sauce, hot sauce, pepper, salt and bread crumbs.  Easy!

Upgrading skills

If you might ask me what skills would I like to upgrade,

my answer would be playing guitar/tennis, desktop publishing and photography.

Among the rest, photography is where my concentration is geared to lately.

Some say this hobby is expensive but for me it’s priceless.

The happiness that I get out of this is a gift.
 
I like to capture stories, beauty and memories behind every shot that I make.
 
This is how I appreciate God’s creation in the most special way.
 

Photo taken by Carey during one of our trips to Ayuttaya