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Posts that are related to the blog and the act of blogging. Includes Blogging Challenges and blogging-related tips.

I was *this* close to selling The Giving Hands!

The Giving HandsA couple of days ago I announced on two blogging forums my decision to sell The Giving Hands. It was a very difficult decision to make because I initially started it to do what I really loved to.

But due to the lack of attention that I’m putting into the blog, I thought perhaps somebody out there could dedicate the time and energy into the blog that I couldn’t. But thought otherwise. He doubted that I could find a buyer who is “as passionate as I am, and who is willing to write on a subject that doesn’t pay.”

So I thought, OK, perhaps I should give it another try.

So right now, I am looking for guest bloggers who can commit one post per week to The Giving Hands. As a guest blogger, you may write about anything at all, pertaining to the environment, or charity, or health, or nature. Your posts can be in the form of a blog post, or poem, or an image with some description, or a list of tips, or a list of links. So you see, it is really very flexible.

If you can’t commit to one post per week, what about 2 posts per month? You could send me your write-ups, and I would publish them, with full credits back to you, of course..

However, as a guest blogger, you will not be paid a dime because I can’t afford to pay you. I wished I could, but I can’t :( However, you could be proud to be doing something that your son/daughter would come across one day many years down the road, and they would be proud that their Mum/Dad championed for the environment/charity.

Please let me know what you think, OK?

Waiting in anticipation..

Photo Hunt: Pink

Photo HuntIt’s Photo Hunt time again, and this week, our theme is PINK. If you haven’t noticed it (don’t just read from your feed reader, come out and say Hi), I have turned my blog pink beginning October, in conjunction with . Moreover, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month!

Pink for October theme

I am beginning to love this pretty flowery pink theme, and I have done some tweaking here and there. I even got a friend to help me add another column to the original 2-column theme. And at the moment, I am contemplating whether to switch back to my previous Mandigo theme (image below) come November, or continue using this pink theme.

Mandigo theme

What do you think? Flowery pink or Mandigo red?

Do you clear your cookies?

If you haven’t already noticed it, I have recently activated a plugin called What Would Seth Godin Do? Well, basically, what the plugin does is that it uses the presence of cookies to treat returning visitors differently than newbies.

Thinking Like Seth Godin

Traditionally, you will see the following welcome message the first time you visit:

“I will not be as ridiculous as to ask you to subscribe to my RSS feed since this is your first time here. Please grab a cup of coffee, make yourself at home and feel free to browse the archives :) Thanks for dropping by!”

And the next time you drop by, the message will no longer be visible.

However, if you’re a FireFox user and you “Clear Private Data” each time you close your browser window, you clear your cookies as well. Hence the next time you drop by, you will see the above message once again. To avoid seeing the welcome message everyday, you can exclude your cookies from being cleared by going to Tools > Options > Privacy > Private Data > Settings > Uncheck the COOKIES checkbox > Click OK.

Clear Private Data

So, my dear readers/visitors, how many of you clear your private data each time you close your browser window?

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