As you wondering where the term word, "blog" comes from, and I'm going to give you the definitions from webopedia.com website.
(n.) Short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly-accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author.
(v.) To author a Web log.
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As you wonder what daveynin's thing means to you, and I'm going to tell you the short story how I got it.
Seven years ago, during my first year of college in computer lab at Community College of Allegheny Country, I created AOL Instant Messagner screename, 'daveynin'. As you know my real name is David, and most of girls call me Davey. Now, you got it. And, the last three remaining letters, nin stands for Nintendo. Now, you got it too.
And finally, the last word term, 'thing' means to you and me, I am blogging and I am talking about thing, such as my personal, hobbies, school, web, coaster, etc. These are THINGs I would like to express my thoughts.
Also I forgot one more thing to say, I just borrowed the idea from my friend, Justin. Now, you get the idea.
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Are you tired to visit my blog homepage by yourself to find out if my blog is updated? Do you want someone to notify you on time when my blog is updated? Yes, you can!
If your AIM is active, go there below:
Created by Neuronwave project, a screenname 'blogchangebot' is a blog monitoring service which updates you via AOL Instant Messanger when a blog you are interested is updated. Subscribe via AIM or iChat to be automatically notified when the blog is updated.
Also, Don't forget to add blogchangebot in your AIM buddylists!
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I have seen the popular 80x15 buttons all over the blogger sites, and I found Kalsey Consulting Group site and it tells about the fast way to build buttons in the browser and grab the image button, and post it in my blog:
This file size is 212 bytes... I repeat, 212 bytes.
Hey, wait a mintue... Where the last three remaining letters, 'nin' inside the word, davey? Because of, not enough room to put it inside the button.
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Back on my blog entry in September 11, 2003, I created the black/white filter on blog browser screen for limited time and this is still and always amazed me to remember the silent of 9/11.
As you are using Internet Explorer 4.0 and above, you can see this like below:
Anyway, here is dirty and simple code how I created black/white: Here is the cascading style sheets code:
<body style="filter: gray;">
Thanks again to meg.
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I found XHTML Friends Network from geeky chick dot net.
I would like go give a try on my blog site. One problem, I am currently using Blogrolling.com on right side of navigation (see MY BLOGROLL), how can I put this 'rel' attribute in their blogrolling.com tools?
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One year.
Three hundred and twenty-eight entries.
One hundred and fifty-eight comments.
More than thirteen thousand visitors views on front page since June 23 2003.
Continue increasing the number of visitors every month.
Here is a special treat for my blog anniversary is what you seeing now: A little redesigned layout, version 2.1.
My first blog version 1.0, David’s Blog opened in RIT server an year ago.
I moved to my dfulmer.net web server, new blog name: daveynin’s thing version 2.0 in late June 2003.
A blog changed my life. My web, technology, humor and story.
Thanks to Liz Lawley taught our class the true meaning of the blog at RIT.
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I have been using Movable Type for one and half years. I love Movable Type (MT). Until yesterday, I read Jake of 8-bit Joystick and mamamusings’ blogs; they are talking about new version of Movable Type. It’s version of MT 3.0. It will be charged to get this; $70 for personal edition of five authors and weblogs. Can I afford this? I felt I am going to waste this money, because I paid web hosting: $70 annually. Well, MT is damn expensive, and I’m not going to sum the new MT 3.0 to install in my web.
Well, I learned that MT 3.0 Developers Edition: they have to get all the bugs out of the system, and still testing. Well, I can say MT 3.0 Developers Edition is not gold yet. I will stick with current MT 2.66, and wait to see if MT 3.0 price drops and could be affordable.
UPDATE (5/17/2004): I got Justin's words about getting free of MT 3.0 for unlicensed software, and it will not hurt to affect everything on my MT blog tools. Well, I felt like I am deaf and dumb.
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I knew it.
Blog.
I remember I heard this first word two exactly years ago in 'XML for Web' undergraduate class at Rochester Institute of Technology, I have no idea in the picture what the blog does. I kept ignore this word from time to time, until the new year of 2003, I read mamamusings’ blog and her blogrolling, and it never look good to read. I’m became addicted to read blogs, more than playing video games myself. I remember I was stumped into Chris Prillo’s blog layout design and I decide to make my own personal blog which was created by Movable Type, a blog tool.
Yet, The blog changed my life, web technologies and social networking. Here are four questions why blog is the most important to you to understand:
What is blog? Click.
How I formed my blog site? Click.
Why the blog title, daveynin’s thing? Click.
What is my top ten great moments in the past year of my blog? Click.
Wait, there’s more. My good old deaf buddy, Paul and his wife Jamie moved to Georgia few years ago from Pittsburgh and they are very busy with their family life – new child, new job and new house, they do not have much time chat with their old friends include me via instant messenger. They decide to create their blog, One Big Saunders' Happy Family and could have their own time to post the stories, and everyone of their family, friends and co-workers can have their own time to hear how Saunders’ family are doing positively in their family life.
There you go. Now you might understand why blog is officialy number #1 word of 2004.
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Out: Blogrolling.
In: Bloglines.
Why: Bloglines is free and Blogrolling is not. I can make categories to organize my blog, and I also use Konfabulator's blogline notify when there's new blog entry links come in my blogline subscription browser. You can take a look in my bloglines Subscriptions.
My blog life is getting easier..
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I am killing my own time to surf the web at work. I am curious to google 'daveynin's thing' to see if the peeps from out of this world wide web labeled my blog name on their website. I see few of the blog strangers called my blog name, talked about my previous blog entires.
One time, I find myself very strange thing. Deafbase, the online deaf community posted the top 10 most popular sources (what sources?), my blog, daveynin's thing ranked 10th. How does they do that? I notice They added my RSS feed to post in Bloggings page. This section in their page is pretty outdated.
Interesting, as I said myself.
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Hmm, if you wonder which is one of best blog site to use? MovableType? Bloggers? LiveJournal? Blog Studio? Radio Userland? Oh, there are too many blogs, and you have to use Blog Comparison Table to find which is/are best? I can't decide, but I still like Movable Type...
UPDATE: Since I posted this entry in June 25th 2003 and the external link in this old entry is broken, so I decided to update this for a new link: Blog Software Breakdown.
Asymptomatic.net created Blog Software Breakdown table, which indicates the user-installed blog software tools. Asymptomatic.net pointed that WordPress is the choice of blog software tools. Hmm.
I have used WordPress in Western Pennsylvania School f/t Deaf Alumni Association News page site, to bring the front-end GUI entry for alumni board member users to publish their news on the website instantly. My opinion about WordPress, I find myself that it is pretty neat, the GUI of WordPress blog tool looks more simple and clear than Movable Type's GUI.
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My blog has turned 2 years old few days ago, and it's time for me to look one of my favorite entires from March 12th 2004 to March 12th 2005. I have lot of lists which is very tough decision for me to order Top Ten rank. Here is my final rank of Top Ten:
1. WPSD Yearbook - This is one of unique things I ever done in my life. I have scanned over 3,800 pages of 36 Western Penn. School f/t Deaf yearbooks in a month of July. Each yearbook becomes Adobe Reader to read on site in WPSDAlumni.org. I have accomplished this feat, and I put into the spotlight that happy WPSD alumnus to find long lost yearbook on website.
2. I got job! - One of the greatest accomplishment in my life to get true career job after long, hard and cold job hunting and interviews. I couldn't be more happier with that, and it fits me to have a brighter life in future.
3. Best Holiday Wishes - I worked all year-season to capture pictures of four seasons at my dad's home and gave this frame to them for Christmas. They were overwhelming happy, and hang up on the wall immediately.
4. My top 25 pictures of the year - I chose my top 25 favorite pictures with journey in my last three years, 2002-2004 to post in my Flickr. Watching slideshow is the nice things that Flickr can do.
5. Shigeru Miyamoto - Miyamoto does the video games what Spielberg did to movies. This entry brings the strong short history who/what/why Miyamoto makes games, and it given the enthusiasm for the many great gifts what Miyamoto given to us.
6. Aluminum in Love - I was totally overwhelming happy that I finally got my new Apple Powerbook 15 that I have been waiting for two years. I can handle the web development work easily on both Win and OS X.
7. David Triplets - Three David Fulmers in one picture. It's called composite. Photoshopped. Flawless. I showed this to people, and I have seen the same question all over again: HOW DO YOU DO THAT?!?
8. USFFD - I volunteered the deaf flag football organization to take all pictures of every women's and men's team pictures. Total of 41 team pictures of hell work with spending a whole day under sun and clear, I even got sun burn on my face.
9. RIT diploma! - Finally, it's greatest accomplishment to own Information Technology bachelor's degree from Rochester Institute Technology.
10. Luigi and David Look Alike? - Remember the hilarious entry, Luigi knows ASL? Now, it's getting weird -- Luigi looks like me in my senior picture in a year book.
The rest out of top ten is also my honorable moments:
Can We Live Without Subtitles for Games? - This is very good article about compliant to the company about subtitled on video games, I helped Sam Carriger to put words together in the article. Sam won this entry for Electronic Gaming Monthly Letter of the Month after me.
Sign Language not universal? - It's interesting to see short movie clip that my dad use his home sign language.
Is daveynin original to you? - The answer lies in the entry how I founded 'daveynin'.
VRS: Sorenson vs. Sprint & CSD - Videophone debate. Both have positive and negative feedback, I still like both.
That's a wrap. Now, if you have missed the Top 10 Blog Entries of 2003, check it out if you have time. You gotta check the number one entry, Luigi knows ASL is one of the most hilarious and it never gets old today.
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Via Boing Boing, how brilliant that littleoslo whipped up a clever board game, BLOGPOLY, a Monopoly based on blogging social networking. Neato!
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Google launched the new engine: Google Blog Search, this also helps weed out the spam that have made many blog searches engines almost unusable.
Chris Pirillo noted that he is not the only one who are very excited about this tool.
There's everything u need to learn more about this new blog search engine: FAQs, these are for you.
Google, you had me hello!
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My blog is worth $14,678.04.
How much is your blog worth?
Hmm... Just fun thing to see what is the price for my blog: 14k. Add this to your blog to show the world how much it is worth, based on Tristan Louis's analysis of the AOL-WeblogsInc deal using Technorati's data.
I checked the most popular blogs to see the price: Boing Boing had 9 million dollars. Chris Pirillo's blog, $617K. Engadget, $7 million.
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I blog, am blogging and blogged. Blog is hot as here that you're reading in my very blog entry. Blog has become the most popular choice for web today.
Now, Blog has become a problem due to overwhelming popularity in technology culture. Comment/Link Spam. Lawsuits for secrets. Destruction of personal privacy. Splog. Splog? What the heck is that?
Splog is the short word for spam blog. Those are blogs that does not provide any real content for users. They exist solely to game the search engines. These splogs may exist just to have links to other websites or, they may have ads on the blog itself. The splogs can make money from having ads in their splog.
Splogs have become a major problem on free blog hosts. These fake blogs waste valuable disk space, bandwidth, and pollute search engine results.
How to stop splogs? Visit the Fight Splog to report the incident if you find something suspicious on blog sites that are very similar entry/words from you or someone's original blog sites.
Want to see what splog site looks like? Terrible.
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Via E tenebris, lux dormiens > Grant Laird Jr Blog:
I remember few years ago there are Weblog Awards, and I am wondering, will there be a Deaf blog awards? Yes, it's finally here!
I liked Lux dormiens' testimonials about this, and it could be rewarding if you are winner -- the more visitor visit your blog site, the more spreading your blog links. I consider myself as an analyst, I am wondering how many unique visitor visit this Deaf Blog Awards site, how much the number counts in the ballot across the globe?
Spread this word; bring up the nominations before it ends at midnight on Monday the 19th of December. It's going to be interesting..
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I'm back. I promised most of you as blog visitors that I will be back. I have been absent since May 2006.
As you are wondering what is the matter happened to me? I'm fine, no, I am really doing fine. Since I left my old web hosting provider, personalsites.org for three years, because of, I faced several issues with their server and errors on my blog back-end management system, Movable Type. I had several server downtimes on my website since early 2006 (can't remember how many times, but I do know MANY!) Also, other issue are the disk space & bandwidth are increasing month to month, almost reaching maximum and I might need to cash out the extra on this on my three-year-old hosting provider.
I have been thinking and looking several web hosting provider meet my needs - no down times, reasonable price for larger disk space and bandwidth.
I tried out the second web hosting provider: Yahoo. I have been spending much time learning experience to move all of my web stuff from old hosting provider to Yahoo. Then few weeks after using Yahoo hosting provider, I don't like this, there are strict limitations on Yahoo such as cannot to have to add new web languages modules/packages, lack of SSH access on telnet, and few others I couldn't remember.
I decide to disconnect Yahoo web hosting provider and look another different web hosting. Then, something unexpectedly happen on me in ahead of my life during early summer. I have to taken care of myself, which is my top priority and had to step away from my web hosting and blog for a while.
I was thinking how and when I will be coming back, I was told that I will be back in October 2006. My decision pushed to month of November 2006 - then again, pushed to December 2006 and then now this month, January 2007. Because of I spend so much time with my pastime - vacations and playing Nintendo Wii, it kept me delaying the time to bring my blog back.
During last seven months, I realized that I missed my blog - enjoying my time to express my own new entries, sharing my thoughts & feedback with technologies. During my absence, my time has passed through the web times - Google acquired YouTube, death of Steve Irwin and Saddam Hussein hanged, Gallaudet protest, new era of deaf blog network, DeafRead.com.
After learning bad lesson about selecting bad web hosting provider, I have researched over the web sites to look the highest quality and accolade for web hosting provider. I made my final decision: Bluehost.com, closest competitor over Dreamhost.com.
I signed two weeks ago, and I had much pleasure with new web hosting provider and been so busy importing (moving) my old blog archives, created my own blog template design, and most importantly, security. The web has changed a lot since May 2006, there are so much time for me to choose and adding new features in my blog and what else can I say more?
Welcome to fresh new look, daveynin's thing! That's-all-folks!
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If you are long visitor to my blog for three years, then you might remember my most memorable humor video clip in my previous entry, Luigi knows ASL I wrote the letter to Nintendo about this situation, and Nintendo replied back to me.
Three years later, Deafjoke.tv, a first and only humor blog for Deaf culture, published the same video clip on their blog site from my weblog! Yeah… oh wait, it was me who I published this on deafjoke.tv blog site.
I requested and joined as volunteer in DeafJoke.tv this month with team of DeafJoke editors/bloggers to monitor and operate. DeafJoke.tv is running the web server under Crazy Webhosting, owned by deaf business in state of Texas area.
DeafJoke.tv shares the laughter in your eyes only, but not ability to hear, capture you the imagination the Deaf culture jokes that we borrow and share from outside sources.
What are you missing? Jump into Deafjoke.tv and make you the best laughter of the medicine!
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Been there, done that, and wrote this blog entry. On Saturday February 3, I participated the conference “Vlogging and Blogging the Future of Gallaudet” in Gallaudet, hosted by Coalition for Critical Inquiry - the first one of a kind for deaf webloggers (vlog/blog) conference, and I am much delightful this conference is splendid – it is worth for my time in four-hour-drive through wicked weather from my hometown near Pittsburgh, PA.
I met some A-list deaf bloggers, old and new faces, learned and shared the valuable words from panels, impacting the technology for Deaf people to share the information about the weblog.
Unfortunately, I cannot make the DeafRead's 2006 Blog awards, due limited seats (appx 30s) in conf room reservation outside from Gallaudet. Here are the list of winners (I am not in the list, due my blog absence during deafread.com era).
I also snapped the photos from the conference and like to share my pictures with you in my Flickr collection. NOTE: To Panelist and presenters, I have missed the photos from first panel since I arrived late before second panel begins.
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