Space Heater

space heaters
My wife smokes outside on the patio. I've always felt sorry for her because she has to sit outside in the cold. I'm thinking of getting her a patio heater.
This one is propane and it's refillable, clean, and convenient. I think it's a good investment. It's not too big and cumbersome. Plus it's good for when we want to be outside in the spring air at night sipping beer or bbqing. :)

epica journal

http://ducly.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/epica-i

It’s been an uneventful morning until I open up my gmail on this fine Friday. Thank you Tari (and the fine folks at Epica) for your Generousity!! Some times I feel like a monk with an alm bowl extended asking for samples of luxuries. I’ve asked Epica to sample one of their fine fine journals and I’m excited to report that Tari has agreed to let me have one of the journal to review. I look forward to having the journal to sample and write about it here. It’s an adventure. Sometimes we are affraid to ask for what we want in life. I am terrified of rejections. But I think that now I must earn it through hard work.

I came across this bit of about the Benedictine libraries and their use that I wanted to share.

The vow of poverty forbade individual monks from owning books (Christ, 19)

The use of the library by monks and nuns was regulated by Benedictine Rule, which permitted only one borrowing per year, at the beginning of Lent. Otherwise, books were distributed each morning and returned each evening (Christ, 45)

The librarian was a well-educated monk who reported directly to the abbot (Christ, 27)

The installation of a libraian was a festive religious rite (Christ, 19)

Box net

I like widgets. Because I don't have a Mac, I try to get widgets for PC. Here's a cool widget for music.

http://box.net/widget

Its a flash player that streams podcasts, music, photos, videos, and any other type of file. They are offering unlimited bandwidth with this widget, and they also will host up to 1gb of files for free.

Please consider putting a live widget on your site and trying it out, so that you can give us an honest opinion of it.

Here's some embed code in case you'd like to save time making one yourself:

Get your own Box.net widget and share anywhere!

Box.net Widget

Get your own Box.net widget and share anywhere!

sing poetry

Listening to Ms. Bruni sing the gorgeously romantic opening stanza of "Lady Weeping at the Crossroads," one of two Auden poems on the record, it seems entirely possible:

Lady, weeping at the crossroads
Would you meet your love
In the twilight with his greyhounds,
And the hawk on his glove?

Build Traffic

There's a new feature on PPP which allows readers to Review My Post. The new PPP program pays you to build your own blog traffic.
"PayPerPost is pleased to announce its new Review My Post program. The Program pays you every time someone signs up and reviews a post on your blog. It's a great way to earn money while increasing the traffic and interest in your own site. This program is open to all bloggers and is great for bloggers who aren't interested in doing sponsored posts. Bloggers can simply add this badge at the end of their post and easily earn money and build traffic with no additional effort. This program is exploding let's help to grow it even faster! Click "Affiliate Tools" in your blogger interface then, select review my post for details. Let PPP know what you think about this new program that pays you and others to blog about your blog."
Well, I am interested in building traffic to this blog. It's one of my goals. It's a great idea as some bloggers perfer no ads on the page. It gets the community involved and be for active, interactive with their opinions and express how they feel about a certain post or blog. For example, I'm always curious about the post that I put up. Is it relevant? I'm going to test this feature out on my blog.

advertise on blogs

Tschai Handmade Books for Purchase

I know it takes lots of labor and love to create such a lovely book. I’ve always wanted to make one myself but don’t have the patience or time to do so. Fortunately, there are those skill enough to make and carry on the tradition of book making for us to enjoy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/papersandtschai

Tschai makes handmade leather journals; hand-cut and hand-sew them… he have so many supplies right now, that i want to get a lot of journals done for the first quarter of 2007 and sell on the second quarter. He can give bulk prices.

Please contact Tschai : chai1505@gmail.com

Make Money Blogging

Sometimes, the post opportunities really ignite my imagination and memories about travel, food, or goals that I have. Recently, I wrote about Italian Villas, Asian Food websites which offers delicious recipes, and one of my goal is to increase traffic to blogs. I'm learning how to do that slowly through PPP. It's getting increasingly harder to find good post which my meger traffic qualifies. So hurry before it's too late. Get your traffic going and blog with the easy not so demanding PPP. On the other hand if you are a Rockin' blocker then you can really earn American Bucks fast. Oh why has Borat influenced my speech? I wish there was a PPP about Borat and his new DVD out. See I can't help myself, I'm always plugging things that I see or in on everybody's mind. So naturally why not put your mad bloggin' Skillz to work? Your Nogin' will thank you. Your Wallet will thank you. Your bank account will thank you. I got my interest earned income from my saving's account and it was a total of $14 woopin' dollars for the whole entire annual year. You can easily make that kinda do in a week or day. I'm not as prolific as some. I think there are bloggers out there with lots of blogs who have earn well over a thousand, maybe two thousand. I feel that I'm earning a higher interest in the bank every time I blog. If I get rip off at the cleaners for charging me too much and not getting that spot out of my suade jacket, well then I know that I can get him back by blogging for about $30... there I hope to have convinced you. What's more you can go off on the cleaner or someone that makes you made and get money out of blogging about it as long as it fits the requirements of the PPP. See I can release my stress and put myself in the win win situation and feel good that I make an extra dollar for voicing my opinion about a product. Maybe I'll look for a better cleaner business! Maybe I have friends out there with a similar problem. I'm killing two birds with one stone!.

The new segmentation system awards bloggers with high traffic blogs. You could make $1000 for a single sponsored post! Spread the word!! Unforturnately, the traffic to this blog is not much. But I'm trying to get the traffic flowing.

Also...Did you know that PPP only charges a 35% service fee compared to ReviewMe that charges a 100% markup. They are taking half your money for every post! You can get high paying opps more often and put more in your pocket with PPP. PPP makes sense for high traffic and lower traffic bloggers alike.
make money blogging

Bookography

I’ve always wanted to buy or create the ultimate journal to keep track of the books that I’m reading. I found this the other day. This system uses the Circa rings which easily allows one to move the pages from one section to the next.

I also checked out from my library Steve Leveen’s book “The little guide to your well read life”.

Hi Eunice,
I have a blog which I write about Circa Levenger Products: http://ducly.wordpress.com
I would like to receive free samples of your Levenger Products to review on my blog. Some of my post have been featured on notebookism.com.
I’m really interested in trying out the ‘Bookography’. I would like to test this product out and persuade my readers of it’s virtues.
-Duc

Update: 2/13/07 no response from Levenger yet.

I’ve decided to use Squidoo as a form of Bookography using the Levenger organizational ideas: squidoo.com/bookography

SI Valentine

Back in the days when I was a single man, Valentine day meant many things. Sometimes good and some times bad. But let's not get into that mess.
besides for Valentine's Day, the other big "holiday" on that date is the release of the 43rd annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and all the hype, history and controversy that surround it each year.
Feb. 14 is also the release of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. This year, SI is going high tech and it's about time too. There is an exclusive cell phone wallpapers of SI swimsuit models available at SI Mobile (www.simobileswimsuit.com). In addition to checking out the issue, people can see their favorite SI models at any time by downloading cell phone wallpapers from SI Mobile.

"These images come straight from the photo shoots featured in the magazine, are only $1.99 each and are available for all major wireless carriers. Over 50 supermodels are featured on the site, and bloggers are encouraged to name drop some of the more popular ones in the posts including Victoria's Secret model Heidi Klum,
Marisa Miller, Ana Beatriz Barros, tennis star Maria Sharapova, Molly Sims and 2005 SI cover girl Carolyn Murphy. Classic SI cover girl wallpapers from past years that are also featured on the site include three-time cover girl Elle Macpherson ('87, '88, '94) and Kathy Ireland ('92, '94). SI Mobile users can also download video clips from the photo shoots, "video ringers" (ringtones with video), animated screensavers and more. Bloggers are required to include an image in the post.
NOTE: If you choose to purchase cell phone wallpapers off the site, you will be asked to provide some personal information to ensure delivery. Your personal information will not be disclosed to any third party.
Bloggers are required to include an image in the post."

Marisa Miller

Valentine Ecard

http://www.realestateecards.com/214/yang

Every one is getting flowers at work, well most of the girls are. I sent my wife flowers as well. It was delivered when I drive my wife to work. She was totally surprised.
I wore a cripy white BCBG shirt with a red print tie and an Armani Exchange blue with brown pin stripe suit to work for picture day. It was like first grade all over again :).

mytimetoquit

Lighting

If youve ever considered upgrading your home lighting, indoor or outdoor this post is for you. Shoppremier sells a large variey of home lighting fixtures.

I've been eying this light-wall-sconce for a long time now. We have two sconce in the T.V. room. Sometimes, we just don't need that much light while watching t.v. I've taken one light bulb out. Now the living room lighting looks uneven. I wish to install a new light sconce so that it can be on a dimmer switch and I can have a remote control for the light and adjust the level for reading or watching t.v.
The other problem I have is that the lighting in the eating area is in the very high ceiling. When the bulb goes out, I'll have to upgrade it to something practical. Or maybe I can install another wall sconce at the low level next to the dining table.

Frank Buchwald Lamps

Disclosure: This is a pay per post post, it has been sponsure and paid for by shoppremier.

uncyclopedia

designnight.com/products/li-xi-gift-envelope

"I had fallen in love with the movie A Room with a View that year, and was especially taken by Julian Sands "declaring the universal Yes" as he ran, ecstatic, through a field of wildflowers. "On the other side of the everlasting 'why'," his character's father had said earlier in the film, "there is a 'yes'. And a 'yes' and a 'yes'!"

-Gayle Grandeis

quote

Italy

I remember watching Dian Lane in 'Under the Tuscan Sun' and thinking I would like to get a villa next to her. Well, now with property in Italy I can dream about it and possibly make it a reality.

In college, I had a chance to go to study abroad in Rome. The University of Oregon offer an architectural program to study for a semester. At the time, I had passport problems. Some students decided to stay and miss graduating in time. They brought back sketch books full of buildings, ideas, and personal discoveries. They wore Italian Leather Jackets.I even enrolled in an Italian Class. The only thing that stuck in my mind now is the words for bicycle, gelato, and ciao. Italian is a beautiful romance language base on Latin. I coveted a few of the old Latin tutorial text from the local library discards.

The Italian weather is great for bicycling or hop around in a Vespa like you see in the movies. Oh talk about great sceneries of Italy in the movies! I could watch 'The Talented Mr. Ripely' again. How about 'Room with a View' or 'Wings of a Dove'? I think I worn out the VHS version.
My favorite parts of the English Patient is when they are in the abandon Villa. The author read books about life of the villa as research.
A holiday to Italy would be fine to see the Pantheon, on my list of wonders of the world.
Italian food is my favorite because I love pasta. I believe that Marco Polo brought noodle from China during his visit and has influence Italian cuisine.

The names of their cities: Tuscany or Sicily or Lake Como is soft and evocative on my tongue.
The actor George Clooney's was so enamoured with Italy that he bought a house.
The real estate market for unique property is there. Keep looking, Keep dreaming.

property in Italy

ppp

Tisimi

Hi Lexly,

I am about to launch a new site for design and innovation. The site is www.tisimi.com and is planned to go live on March 1st.

The problem I have is that for me to launch the site, I need to have something up there.

If you are interested in showcasing your designs and winning prizes (up to $1,000) by doing so, check out the site.



Thanks for your time.

-Robin
I would love for you to upload some of your images to the site, so you can showcase your talent, and maybe win... i particularly like these ones:

www.flickr.com/photos/ducly/tags/drawings/
www.flickr.com/photos/ducly/tags/fashion/
www.flickr.com/photos/ducly/tags/sketches/
www.flickr.com/photos/ducly/tags/architecture/

cheers!

misc

carnegiehall in an effort to attract younger hip crowds invites alternative folk song artist like Banheart.

metameat.net/kafka-while I was in Hungary, I missed a chance to see Prague. I skim and skip around Kafka's diary.

One of the diary prompts from TJ4 asks what makes you happy today?
One of my post is featured on: notebookism.com

What made me happy yesterday? Armand from Notebookism invited me to be featured on Notebookism. I also got a $20 coupon for diner at a fancy restaurant.

veryshortlist.com/lists

Windflower

Windflower combines Capolan, TFR

There are the elements: earth Sirocco, Wind- Zephyr, Water Mr. Ham

The characters represent the elements.

What about the drawing paintings at the bottom of each page? One almost don’t need a bookmarker because, the images trigger the words, it acts as it’s own bookmarker. But there is no coralation between the image and the images on that page. It is only after you read the description and imagine it in your head that a few pages later it shows up. The image doesn’t dictate your imagination.

I came to the Retro Traveler through the Notebookism.com, which also has a group on Flickr. The Retro Traveler uses Journals to keep track of his travels. He uses the pocket Moleskine.com hard paper and soft paper plain collects postal stamps from the different countries that he has been to.

Official Google Blog: New sunrise layer on Google Earth

Official Google Blog: New sunrise layer on Google Earth

flash

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thumb drives

Realestate

Current concerns about realestate.
johnlscott.com
johnlscott.com/PropertyDetail
jade
amyyang

Tips for Tax time:
epowernews.com/articles/art0702/04vat_0702.htm

Current Concern about Art:
pulliamdeffenbaugh.com/Artwork
There was a course at PSU taught by Joseph Beil call "current concern". I thought this was a good title and topic. My inspiration moves with the time. One day to the next, what is current on my mind should be visually documented. Currently, I'm interested in the drawings on Vellum.

banksy.co.uk/drawing/index.html

financier who snatched up “No. 5, 1948” for $140 million last November

artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/karlins/karlins7-10-00.asp