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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.

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!

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!

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..

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.

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.

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!

• Protect your identify. Never share the sensitive information such as your social security number, phone number, address, full birthday date, mother's maiden name, city of birth, and your financial details to post in blog.
  
• Confidential your valuable information. Never put information pieces of its draft in entry blog from time to time to put these together later into final draft. Or they might steal your information before posting into your final blog draft.
  
• Respect the people. If you felt the information from the people is very valuable and rare story, ask them for the permission before posting this in your blog. It could avoid you getting into trouble.
  
• Keep blog fresh. Never post graphical images and offensive words. If you did: The governments, schools, and corporates might block your site from their network settings. You might lose the visitors going into your blog.
  
• Update your blog version. Check if your pervious version blog tools (e.g. Movable Type, WordPress, b2evolution) have serve vulnerabilities, you should update the newer version of blog tools to install in your web server to avoid the hacker making malacious stuff in your blog site.
  
• Block the comment spam. If you had your first comment spam in your blog, immediately install plug-ins to block spam. I usually had Mt-Blacklist and i had 2,083 comment spam blocked from 2855 Blacklist strings, and the numbers keep rolling.
  

Via Boing Boing, how brilliant that littleoslo whipped up a clever board game, BLOGPOLY, a Monopoly based on blogging social networking. Neato!

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.