Wow. It sure looks like I was holding my breathe for Fremantle, but the truth is that I have been sidetracked by much that was going on in my life, and have not had the energy to keep up this blog. In any case, the Dockers put up a strong courageous Finals campaign only to go down to the Sydney Swans in the Preliminary Finals. Maybe next year.. In the meantime I am setting the blog colors back to its orginal blue.

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My new tenant from BlogExplosion’s RentMyBlog program is Maldita, Bratinella, a fun blog by self-professed brat, Jen. It looks like a fun blog with updates from her life, pics and other updates. Please pay her a visit and add a comment or two. She even has a bribe for you if you care to click and comment on her tenant as well. So, do it now, click over and comment! And don’t forget to let her know the bloke sent you!

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I do have a blog tenant.

However, there is no image currently displaying in the space on my sidebar, that’s probably because the blog is new to BlogExplosion or because the image is being refreshed at BE. In any case, my tenant is “The Blunt Prophet”.

He has an interesting blog, looks like quite a new one, in which he shares about his life and his aspiration to live out his life’s calling. That part of his profile that grabbed me is his description of himself as someone who strives to display all the qualities of God’s love and that he is acquainted with grief and brokenness. I think this is one prophet you will one to get to know. I look forward to getting to know him myself.

So, please make him feel welcome, get over to his blog and say “Hi!” letting him know you came from …in the outer…

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Was snooping around Technorati today and saw a few brand new features (correction: newly noticed features, since the features might have been there for a little while, but I only noticed it today).

Included in the features that I noticed was this one: you can mark blogs that you like as your “favorites”, and the blog owner can then go to their “favorited” folder and feel the love. It’s easy, just click on this image here and you will have mark this blog as your favorite on Technorati, and then you will show up in my “favorited” folder.

Please do it, for I feel rather unloved, since the folder is empty as of right now!

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UPDATE: Someone reminded me that what we experienced here was not a “rolling black-out” but instead was a rude interruption to services. Since the blackout, my washing machine broke (it doesn’t spin anymore) and one of my microwave oven blew out. So, I could claim compensation from the power company. So, whatdya think?

It has happened before here in California during the anarchical days of the Enron-induced energy crisis. But this time it probably came through a more “natural” means. The heat wave that has sent the mercury topping over one hundred degrees for a couple of weeks probably also caused excessive use of electricity resulting in a strain on the supplies. It hit my area of SoCal yesterday and we were part of the inevitable “rolling blackouts”. We were without power for more than twenty four hours. Can you imagine it? Read the rest of this entry »

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Please help me to welcome back my blogtenant, Living With Multiple Personalities, run by Blogger Extraordinaire “Cat”.

Cat runs a great blog, which is updated regularly with interesting posts, and themes. She runs competitions, give away prizes and also keeps up the Monday Click and Comment promotion with great enthusiasm.

So, I am very happy to welcome her back as BlogExplosion Rent-My-Blog tenant of the week, and invite all of you to flood her blog cy clicking on the image on the right or here. Don’t forget to leave your mark (i.e. comment!) and let her know you came from …in the outer…

P.S. Sorry for the sparse posting these past week or so, I am drained both from life and work. Will resume … soon…

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It probably took more time to put this post together than it did to download, upload and upgrade the database!

There are some minor performance enhancements, so it might be worth it for you to also upgrade your sites if you are using WordPress.

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This is pretty cool. A few years ago I decided to catalog my books. So I searched high and low for a good personal library program and could not really find one. Finally I downloaded an older program written in an obsolete version of a database fourth generation language. It worked well as a catalog (sorta) but it was not very friendly and was rather difficult to maintain.

Then, today, browsing Phil Baker’s blog, I found the LibraryThing. It is a wonderful web thingy. You can use it to catalog your books, what you’re reading, and you can even link to your reviews. What is more, you can also share with others and see who are reading or have the same books as you. It’s also quite addictive! Which means, good for bloggers, espeically those who are avid readers. And, of course, booklovers!

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