Daisy Bell

Sharing you with my finding today.

Scrolling down to the end of the file "style.css" in wordpress source code, I find this section:

/* "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you.
It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage.
But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two." */


Oh yah, how moving it is, I scrolled up to check who is the author of this file and found a name "Michael Heilemann". I thought "daisy" is the one Michael loved, and want to check what's the final answer of daisy is. hah, I'm always fans of this kind of stuff. So I put these words in google, then google said:
Oh, it's just a song.

A little disappointed, however, perhaps Michael is singing this song to his girl:)

You can find a bit more of this song in wikipedia, like history, composer, etc.
A lovely song.

Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)

There is a flower within my heart
Daisy, Daisy
Planted one day by a glancing dart
Planted by Daisy Bell

Whether she loves me or loves me not
Sometimes it's hard to tell
But there are those that would share the lot
Of beautiful Daisy Bell

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
I'm half crazy all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two

We will go 'tandem' as man and wife
Daisy, Daisy
Wheeling away down the road of life
I and my Daisy Bell

When the nights dark, we can both despise
Policemen and lamps as well
There are bright lights in the dazzling eyes
Of beautiful Daisy Bell

I will stand by you in "wheel" or woe
Daisy, Daisy
You'll be the bell(e) which I'll ring you know
Sweet little Daisy Bell

You'll take the lead in each trip we take
Then if I don't do well
I will permit you to use the brake
My beautiful Daisy Bell.

Go payperpost, get paid of things you loved

Anne have make more than $2,000 as the top blogger this month of payperpost, it's almost the salary of normal hard working employees of high tech companies here.

When I started blogging in English, I saw a lot of colorful, lovely, charming stuff on the side bar from other bloggers, I picked up many of them, including best stuff, mybloglog, blogcatalog, Payperpost.

Payperpost is a site to let you get paid by posting. First you'll need an English blog site, then you'll need have this site running 3 months. So after I submited it, payperpost replied, that I'm not authorized to write post for payperpost yet, less than 1 month, but can start from PPP DIRECT, which is a way for bloggers to monetize their blog outside of the PaPerPost Marketplace. By installing the PPP Direct Code and placing the PPP Direct Badge on the site, a blogger is able to negotiate directly with advertisers on price and scope.

Back to my blogging experience, after several week's blogging, I found my English blog was a bit run-down. I ever started a series about my favourite band to keep blogging, also went to the discussion forum to find topics to blog. (Regarding why I blog in English and want to keep blogging, please refer to my previous postings.)

So when I almost forgot payperpost, finally I went to it again, browsing the opportunity list, I find a good topic about garage and submit a posting for it.

Very quickly it was accepted. In the later postings I was rejected several times, the correct link not included, words count is not enough, etc. All is very simply and easy. here are my sponsored postings so far (I tagged all of them with 'sponsored').

Interesting, to write the sponsored posting for blog reviews, I started from a reviewer's viewpoint to look at the stuff I'll write, and pay attention to the data provided,and payperpost will review your posting, keep the quality of that. I felt like I'm writing paper according to teacher's topic. This is the difference and the advantage of the sponsored posting. I learnt new things every day online. It has a firefox plugin, after you install it, it will have an option in firefox tool menu "I want to blog about this", by clicking this, payperpost know more about your preferrence. Not like other AD system, you can always select what you want to publish on your blog. it can pay to paypal, when you browse the perfumes on ebay, maybe you can go to payperpost to find whether there's some topic about it, post it, get paid, then go to ebay, get it by paypal.

Payperpost only run less than 2 years, but it has phenomenal growth and continued success in running its user community and AD system. It's connecting Bloggers and Advertisers to deliver compelling online social marketing campaigns, provides social marketing tools and strategies that empower the bloggers to value and exchange content, creativity and influence.

It's the world's largest consumer generated advertising network. I got a message at the begining of this month from payperpost that "Going forward our company will be known as IZEA, with PayPerPost as its flagship product and other properties including Blogger's Choice Awards, RockStartup, Zookoda and BlogInSpace under the IZEA corporate umbrella. "

There is two ways to make money using this system:

1. Create an account with PayPerPost – now advertisers in their system can find you and send money your way. The more readers the more money you make.

2. Post a small Icon on your website. Now advertisers passing by your blog can join Payperpost and send money your way.

Click here to register and explore more from it.

googlemap is awfully amazing

I devoted the whole day today to the html, javascript, xml, google map api, wordpress plugins, to figure out the way to embed the stuctured data in blog, though played chess in idle time.

since some plugin demo pages said "script busy " while they're open, finally I use the iframe.php independent from wordpress files. so other sites can also use.

and I saw the very clear picture of a place I'm looking for.

I'm wondering whether someday I can check whether we can visit people by googleearth, if it also provide time dimension, called google time. terrible.

there's a Chinese say called "头顶三尺有神明", now it would be nice that be reminded "far, far away, there's google satellites"

Recalled many years ago Motorla (or other companies) failed to run its Iridium satellites, google is admirable.

blogger is good

last time I said something good of wordpress, later I realized that blogger and wordpress maybe compititors, as I'm using blogger well now, I can't take its goodness for granted, I'd like to say some words for it.
the only think I did not like is that it's being very slow to login in and out, seems the analyzing is taking much time, I'm not sure whether this is caused my google Adsense AD in the side bar or because blogger belongs to google.
except this , all other is good. no need to install and free blogspot, remote ftp to your own data space (a cool feature I find very late), widget easy to add...
I did not want to remove the AD though it did not bring me a cent yet but it increase the page ranking, I just found this after I remove it from my chinese one.

What is abused

Blogcatalog is running a project of Blogging For a Great Cause, everyone who joined post a blog of Stop Abuse on Sep.27.

What did I abuse these years? what did the people around abuse these years? It's a good question.

The badge look great, so I put two of them here:)

Small tip to browse Pictures

Open a page with pictures , then put following line (ONE line) in the adress place. See what happend:) Hah, all pictures come together. This is useful when we're browsing pictures buried in the desriptions or comments. And It's easy for you to save as well. Appplicable to both Firefox and IE.

javascript:Ai7Mg6P=''; for%20(i7M1bQz=0;i7M1bQz<document.images.length;i7M1bQz++)
{Ai7Mg6P+='<img%20src='+document.images[i7M1bQz].src+'><br>'}; if(Ai7Mg6P!=''){document.write('<center>'+Ai7Mg6P+'</center>'); void(document.close())}else{alert('No%20images!')}

Enjoy.

Alex site stats

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Today when reading a B2B site change research report, I go to http://www.alexa.com/ to and check this blog, gladly find it return some result.

Seems my side bar matters the loading time much, need to be more friendly. Nice information.

Discussion about language

I met a lady from Vietnam, she can speak 4 languages, and read 2 other. admiring. Besides Chinese and English, I can read a very little Japanese.

The Chinese ~100 year old professor Ji listed 10 books he recommended, one of them is: Tocharische Grammatik. It's written by 3 German experts. They study this language from the scatter pieces of Medium Asian archaeological stuff about 20 years to read it through. like password translation. I guess less than 100 people understand this language:) To some, language is fun, to some, not.

Half month ago I started a discussion about languages, so here is some info from the discussion.

There's some relation between how many languages one own and where they live or what they like (travel, history, writing), finally, the language interests or capability can impact the career path. In India, around 40% will know at least 2 languages. (one their mother tongue and another the state they live in) and the third language would be English if they are educated in English, many IT global company like India engineer for the smooth communication. People in Malay can speak many languages,even in China, if a person can speak 5 Chinese dialect, he can be pround of that.

Computer language is mentioned, html is a worldwide language, can't imagine if the world don't have it now, how it will be. It makes the world small and close.

Babytalk is also mentioned, I remembered once my little nephew told me where was he been, it's a building name, but sounds very different from either the Madrin (Popular Chinese), or my hometown dialect. I cant udnerstand. later his mother interpret his language to me, I found he picked up some easy-to-pronouce letters to speak.

I haven't heard Some languages before, like ASL, xhosa, very interesting, opps, ASL is referring to another computer language?

Many language has it's own characters, Arabic may cause headache in global stuff. For an AD, in other languages, we only need change the text, but in Arabic, we need change the figure's order as well.

From the childhood, I heard french is the most beautiful language in the world, in the discussion thread, I found it also depends on the personal preferrence.

for the discussion , please go to BC



Following are all the discussion participators, and some of their words are referred here.

Caudo42
cooper
crispnet
decoratorinside
Fartmachine
ichaduma
MadameX
Serenacyh
xhacker
ghostytwofish


stoneman:
I live on the east coast of the United States, so Chinese is probably not in the cards.

Right now I speak, read, and write English and German, and I can read French with the help of a dictionary. In the United States this would seem pretty good, but by global standards its not, as your own impressive example shows.

I'd like to improve my French for Europe and sometime learn Spanish so that I can travel in this hemisphere.

bromoluz
I speak an read spanish, and I'm trying with english. Some of portuguese and french, but 30%. :P

sindoo20
I know Malayalam (my mother tongue spoken in Kerala), Tamil (I live in Tamil Nadu), English (I did my schoolings in English), Can understand Hindi (National language); Can understand Telugu( Language -Andra Pradesh)

In India, around 40% will know at least 2 languages. (one their mother tongue and another the state they live in) and the third language would be English if they are educated in English.

morinn
i live in mauritius. here we are taught to speak, read and write english, french and hindi at school. plus our mother tongue is creole.

so I can speak, read and write english, french, hindi and creole.

4 languages ;)

ThriftShopRomantic
I used to be pretty good at French... had about six years of it in school, though read it more confidently than I spoke it.

Regrettably over the years, my command of the language has really deteriorated with lack of use. So while I can still understand much simple French, it's not what it was. And I'm left with a smattering of random words, too-- like those for "fish," "sheep," and entirely too much of the text of Le Petit Prince! :-)

Tobsy
Only German and English. Hmm, and because it's related to German I can read Dutch a little bit *g*. Tried to learn French in school, but after two years French and me had an agreement: I try not to speak it, and in exchange I don't have to learn it.


RTCunningham
I was fairly fluent in Spanish until I got married at 24, even with the southwest U.S. Mexican slang (I learned the grammar aspects while in high school), because I had a lot of friends during my younger school years who spoke both English and Spanish.

After marriage, I started learning my wife's language of Tagalog (Pilipino). Much of the language incorporates Spanish, but pronounced differently. Needless to say, I have to think before I can speak the Spanish correctly around Spanish speakers.

confessing7girl
Portuguese and English... i totally understand Spanish and Italian and (French)..... French is def not my thing!!

bnsullivan
English is my native language.

I lived in Greece for a long time, so I learned to speak, read and write Modern Greek. It's my best language, after English.

I used to know quite a bit of French (also lived in Paris for a bit), but I have not had occasion to practice speaking it in a long time. I can still read, though.

Chiamano
I read and speak Dutch, English and German. I learned French but never liked the language. And because it's related to Dutch I can understand South-African.


Norski
I grew up in a place and time where the closest spot where English wasn't the only language in use was hundreds of miles away, and on the other side of a national border.

American English is the only language I'm fluent in. I used to speak and read a little Spanish, but have gotten drastically out of practice over the last three decades.

I can make out a few bits and pieces of most of the Germanic languages, because of English has retained so much of its character despite the 1066 incident, and because they incorporate bits of Latin, which I started learning in high school.

Don't let that fool you, though: I'm pretty useless outside the family of English languages.


In my youth, a family acquaintance who came to the States as an adult had the habit of starting a sentence in, say, English, switching to Norwegian when he hit a word that he felt was better in that language, and staying in Norwegian until a word worked better in English, when he'd switch back.

He was a little unusual. Many Norwegians dropped their language rapidly and stubbornly (of course), in an effort to acculturate. The big concern was that de kits vud be able to speak goot English.

helloitsme
I speak Dutch and also understand drug slang, which is a language in and of itself; I blogged about it. Let me clarify, I'm not a drug dealer, just a crime analyst. ;)

creative666
English
A little French
A little Italian
A very small amount of xhosa (South African language)

neoauteur
I speak three languages (two fluently). I like French the best though. It's such a beautiful language.

Anniepooh
Un, deux, trois! One fluent, several others in bits and pieces-enough to ask for the potty! lol

Aira
Italian (my first language), English and Spanish (I study them at the university). I also read French and - if spoken very slow :P - I can understand it.

podhead
eyez speked pritty gud inglished! an rite evan gudr! HA HA

English, German, Spanish, and Italian. I would love to learn Chinese (mandarin dialect).

esbjorn
Learning languages was my worst subjebts in school, in Sweden.
But I must have learned something, because apart from swedish, i write and speak some bad english, understand spanish, a tiny french and german. My teacher in german said that teaching me in german was like pouring water on a goose.

But she said it in german so I didn´t understand what she meant.


Mahesha
I am from Sri Lanka and my mother toung is Sinhala and we were taught English as our second language. I can understand and speak hindi. Not very fluent.

So I can speak three languages and read and write two languages.
johnoates
English, French from my school days, and Russian - decent vocabulary, terrible grammar but enough to communicate (I learnt it for/during a 6 month trip to ex-Soviet Central Asia).

Polls

I find the poll function from blogflux. It's the first time I use such function since I came online more than 10 year ago.

Difficult to make polls questio and options, a very ordinary poll I got at the sidebar, and I forget one last option: never have breakfast:)

Anyway, it's my first poll.

Technorati claim

I often see others talking about technorati and clicking from technorati . Today I try to put some blogs into my technorati, found that I've not register there. And to claim this blog is mine, I post this link here: Technorati Profile. It's an interesting authority checking method.

Technorati is a good blog search engine. It now records about 60 million blogs.

It's said previously the top Chinese blog is a blog from USA, boing boing. Now the movie star and director Xu's blog take over it since May this year.

Search engine's ranking

I wonder why either google cn or yahoo cn did not put the updating to latest into consideration. So as a trust to google, when I try to search English content, I always use google at first. but It's quite disappointing for the result sometimes, sounds like the AD it provide beside is better than the search result.

The Number one site "www.toysource.com/" of the searching result with "toy B2B" keywords hasn't been updated for at least 5 years. It's fortunately that I browse the events and news collumn at the beginning and realized it, otherwise it would waste my time.

yahoo cn show the same Number one in the result.

I think the content keeping updated should rank upper. Share this concern here.