Posted in Weather & Climate on June 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Everybody’s shivering since yesterday. True it’s winter time; but it’s not that cold. The lowest temperature recorded last night was 13.7 deg C on the central plateau (middle and higher region of the island). It was hardly one degree below normal. Night temperature has often dipped to 10 degrees C in the past.
Day temperatures recorded [...]
Posted in Writing on June 25, 2007 | No Comments »
I just wanted to share what I picked from Nick Daws’ latest post at mywritingblog.com. You remember Nick, the freelance writer, editor and coach I interviewed some time ago?
Nick alerts us on Fifty Tools Which Can Help You in Writing. This is a set of articles written by Roy Peter Clark, Senior Scholar at the [...]
Posted in Writing on June 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Everybody wants to become a writer. Everybody cherishes his name in print. But you got to start somewhere. Every beginner often gets stuck right at the start. He’s lost. The first step is the hardest, isn’t it?
Is writing a big deal? …Ummhh. That’s a big question. It depends. Perhaps not for those I’d call erudite. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 20, 2007 | No Comments »
The above carnival is up at Life Insurance Lowdown. My Give… a drop of life posted a while ago is listed there. You may wish to submit yours here.
Posted in Uncategorized on June 19, 2007 | No Comments »
My “Is there something like a strong password?“ is listed in the Carnival of small business issues edition 7.
Take a peek. For any submissions click here.
Posted in Journalism on June 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Some time back I wrote about the ill-treatment journalists are subjected to worldwide in the performance of their duties. I was particularly concerned about attacks, verbal or otherwise, from so-called respected and respectable people. In my Reporters and Journalists, beware I mentioned the case of a journalist treated as “stinky Gypsy” by a head of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
My Budget Day is listed in the Carnival of Cities for June 18, 2007 at “Home Turf Media” and in the Carnival of Budgeting #8 at “Payday Loan Lowdown”.
In one of the posts for the Carnival of Cities Vanessa Latimer tells us that Puerto Piramides offers more than just…whales (Southern Right Whales, that is) posted [...]
Posted in Political & Economic on June 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
It was “budget day” today; the presentation of the national budget for the year 2007-2008. It’s a tradition now to have it live on TV and radio. So I rushed back home after work. I didn’t want to miss it. Nobody seemed either as the traffic was particularly jammed this afternoon. I managed to make [...]
Posted in Health & Safety, Hygiene on June 13, 2007 | No Comments »
Let us stop a moment in remembrance of the millions of anonymous, voluntary and unpaid people who donate their blood to save lives and to improve the health of others around the world. Let us recognize their efforts for a good cause. Let us thank them from the bottom of our heart for their altruism [...]
Posted in Articles on June 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Few years ago one of my mail accounts was hacked. I could no longer access my mails. Fortunately it was not a business mail. I used it for casual contacts. One day I received a mail from the same mail account. I just giggled, helpless. I queried the sender with no avail. How many of [...]
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