24 hours and 48 posts later, here we are. I have completed the Blogathon 2008. My body and brain have taken a toll, I have learnt a lot from the experience. My server went down, and I broke parts of the website trying to code while half asleep.

Special thanks to Elisa, Harry, Baba, Edward and Norm for the moral support and to all the bloggers who stopped by for comments, THANK YOU!

I wish fellow Blogathon bloggers the best of luck on their shifts and will check in tomorrow.

Don’t forget to pledge the BC SPCA Paws for a Cause and help BC’s animals and support the bloggers still participating in the Blogathon!

A nine-year-old girl whose parents named her Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii was put into court guardianship in New Zealand so that her name could be changed. I’m not sure how I feel about this. Why would you name your child this!? Though I think it is stupid to name your this or “Number 16 Bus Shelter”, but I do not believe the courts should be involved in changing ones name. What are these parents thinking? Full Article

How Censorship Can Go Wrong!

This picture is just awesome!  Just Smile

If you haven’t experienced Victoria what are you waiting for?

Victoria is a great city with so much heritage. Be sure to check out Hatley Park, home of the mansion used for X-Men. Have high tea at the Fairmount Empress hotel or just walk around the historic downtown. There is just so many little things to do I always find something new when I go.

Tourism Victoria will pay the ferry travel to and from Vancouver Swartz Bay terminal, but you must book from the Tourism Victoria website to qualify.

What’s your favourite thing to do in Victoria?

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• Each player must post these rules to begin the meme.
• Each player must start with what their Blogathon cause is and why they are participating.
• Each players starts with six random facts or habits about themselves.
• People who get tagged must blog about their six things and post these rules.
• At the end of your blog, you need to choose six people to get tagged and list their names.

Six facts you need or don’t need to know about: Danny Dang

1. I am participating in this years Blogathon to raise money for the BC SPCA Paws for a Cause. I was introduced to this organization by my work place and will be my 2nd year participating in the walk. In my childhood I always had animals around from chickens to dogs. Since moving to Vancouver, I have not be able to have any pets.

2. I have my 1st degree black belt in Taekwondo, but I am not actively training. I believe it has been over 8 years. Since joining fitness bootcamp I am trying to get back in shape and maybe take up another martial art.

3. I love computers and have been working with them since I was 5. My first computer my parents bought me, I took apart on the first day and put it back together without a sweat. All my technology\computer knowledge has been self taught, learned by doing is what I believe in.

4. My favourite cuisines are: Italian, Vietnamese, and Japanese. Living in Vancouver I am exposed to and have easy access to many ethnic delicacies.

5. I have never been drunk or sick from drinking, but it has been a while since I drank hard. I know my body is not like my young self.

6. I was born in beautiful Creston, British Columbia, home of Kokanee beer. I use to stay at my babysitter during the day who lived beside the plant. Her house was in a field byitself, so as I play in the fields with the chickens with the towering silos above.

Blogathoners that I’m tagging: Raul, Rebecca, Barbara, Duane, Karen, Mehnaz

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If you want to virtually relive your childhood, Lego provides a program called the LEGO Digital Designer to virtualy create your creations.

Have you considered an alternative vehicle type like a Hybrid or electric vehicle? The Tesla Roadster is one the world’s only electric vehicle capable of accelerating from 0-60 mph in 3.5 seconds. That should satisfy the gear heads for performance.

I have been thinking a lot about creating a hybrid vehicle that runs on vegetable oil aka Frybrids. There are several companies offering the conversion kits, which will convert a diesel car to run on both vegetable oil and diesel. A 2000+ model VW Jetta is capable of running close to 1000km per diesel tank and add 900km on the frybrid system, that is some very good fuel economy.

For more information on electric alternatives I suggest visiting Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association

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If you have seen any of College Humor’s Jake and Amir’s pranks on each other check out their site.

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Why can’t we solve office disputes this way?

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Airwolf

MacGyver

Knight Rider

Do you have a favourite 80’s TV Show Theme?

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Introducing Travelzoo:
Travelzoo is a hotel and airfare deal newsletter with over 12 million subscribers wordwide. Travelzoo’s deal experts source, research and test-book recommended deals before publishing. “We also provide our subscribers tips on when offers are available and where to find the best deals.”

What does that mean to me?
It’s the strength in numbers! With an audience of 12 million subscribers, hotels and airlines with unsold rooms and seats looking for some last minute business work an arrangement with Travelzoo. To the businesses this is one tool that will get your special out to a lot of people fast!

You may not know where you are going for vacation but you do know that you want to go somewhere, this newsletter is a great way to save some money and pickup a last minute sale.

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Introducing Airfarewatchdog:
What makes this site different from sites like Expedia and Kayak, it is actually run by a small handful of people who keep an eye out for travel deals. “We do not use automation or computer programs to find the fares we list.”

How it works?
The way it works is you tell the site what your home airport is and how often you want to be updated. Bowser does the rest!

Where are you going this summer? Do you have a travel tip to share?

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Introducing Kayak.com
Kayak is the Google equivalent in travel search engines and was started by founders of Orbitz, Travelocity and Expedia who believed in a better online travel experience. Kayak is not here to try to sell you something, it goes out and finds all the best possible rates available from hotels, flights, cars and cruises.

YVR to San Francisco

Another great feature is the Trend Chart. This gives you a better picture on how prices are if you were flexible on your dates. For example, if you know you want to go to San Francisco for the WordCamp, Sunday August 10-14 would be cheaper.

Kayak makes money from the Google Ads you see around the sites and click through from the results. They do not monetize the results so companies can not “Pay” to land on the top spot.

Where are you going this summer? Do you have any other travel tips?

Hello Kitty Exhaust

My sister is a huge fan of Hello Kitty stuff, but this is a little ridiculous no?

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Jeepers! I just got slapped with a wet salmon – really – I have not updated this since Hammertime was in the charts… You would not believe how insane my life has become. Apologies to my regular readers! Even the little blue ones!.

I am totally exhausted with keeping up with my favourite daytime soaps, watching the grass grow, just generally being a biatch to anyone unfortunate to cross my path, my day is long and tiring from the first cockadoodledoo from the rooster to I run out of alcohol. I am putting money aside so I can run away. can’t they see I am blogging.

I hope that one day I will try to remember my blog password more often in future. Well, I’ll try. What do you mean you don’t believe me?

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Subsequent dolls are only $39.99.

Anyone want to fund the Danny Dang super hero doll?

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ccaviness - Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheeseburger

As it nears lunch and my stomach is starting to growl with all the mouth watering photos at Tiny Bites, I thought I would search for burgers in Flickr.

Never would I have imagined finding this concoction.

Would you eat this??

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Here is a bar in Silicon Valley. Because its Windows does it mean that it will never open?

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Just recently online social networking has become more of the norm, but is this creating more less sociable people? Are “geeks” more socially awkward as before or more so now?

I’ve noticed with speaking to students or younger co-workers that they will go to the internet for their answer for almost everything. Which causes me to cringe when sites like Wikipedia become the authoritative source.

“What really pisses me off” (ode to Adrian) is how people wont pick up the phone and interact with another human anymore. My little sister does not like ordering pizza and now that she can do it online she probably never speak to a live human again.

I heart the ‘net! Without it I would not be sitting here blogging, conversing with people I would never have crossed paths with, and I would be out of my daily work. We need to find a balance though… put down the “crackberry”, laptop, etc. Do we really need to be constantly connected to the internet receiving status updates 24/7?

I am not sure where I was going with this post as my mind is becoming to jumble from the lack of sleep. My point is get some face time with a loved one or friend, as technology and the internet can not replace the human touch.

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Do you hunch forward with your neck down? Is your wrists all bent out of shape because your keyboard is at the wrong height? Our bodies are not meant to be in this hunch over position for long periods of time.

Make sure you are walking around, standing and even shifting your position from time to time which will allow your muscles to relax so that they will not get stiff from being in the same position all day.

Here’s a set of excellent good posture tips from Ahtim.com

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Thank you Baba for the great timing of your guest post! I was feeling a little lost and disoriented this morning. Thank you Harry for keeping me company last night and providing a guest post to give me a break. Also thank you’s go out to everyone who stopped and commented on the blog!

Some advice to future Blogathon bloggers, do not muck around with your site during the blogathon… There is no time and things start to break when you haven’t slept all day. Technical glitches aside, my posts should be in sync soon.

I have about 10 hours to go and I will get through this! Thank you for all the support everyone!

Duane Storey has graciously setup an RSS feed of all the blogging going on.

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