My husband and I are planning our next trip. We have a daughter working in Nagaoka in Japan and so we're going over to visit her for a couple of weeks Aug/Sept. I'm wondering if there are any VAs in Japan that I could meet whilst I'm there. We're planning to also visit Tokyo, Kyoto and hopefully take in a day of the world athletics in Osaka. If you know of any VAs in Japan, please do encourage them to make contact with me as I would love to meet them. When we travelled to Ireland, UK and … [Read more...]
More on Top Aussie Bloggers
Further to my recent post about the Top 100 Aussie Blogs list, The Age (Melbourne Newspaper) has an article out today - page 9 I'm told, but it's also available online about Aussie bloggers. Worth checking out the links they have attached to the article. http://blogpond.wordpress.com/top-100-australian-blogs-index/ and http://problogger.net/ I wonder if this means Australia is now regarded as 'coming of age' with blogging? What got me about the article was their reference about 'an … [Read more...]
Ultimate Aussie Blogroll Top 100
A year ago I saw a post on Duncan Riley's blog about the A-list of Australian bloggers and he talked about the lack of Australians in the top 100. He started to mention bloggers he thought could be on that list. I came across the post and made a comment that there were no women on that list but that I planned to be on it. A couple of other women also posted similar comments. Well, this morning I see that Des Walsh has a new post referring to a list of the Top 100 Australian bloggers (on Craig … [Read more...]
Changing Feed Provider
I'm changing over to Feedburner so if you are receiving this via Feedblitz, please do re-subscribe at the link on this blog - I am seeking to shift the list via export but until I have approval to do this (Feedburner needs to be assured my list was opted-in) it would be good for people to re-subscribe. Why am I changing? I've been trying Feedburner out on another blog I own and like the delivery format better, and the options for managing my account online. If you haven't yet subscribed, … [Read more...]
Fridays vs. Mondays
I knew there was another reason why I left the corporate world. I love working at home and this might help explain why. My husband sent it to me and I couldn't resist sharing it. To get an appreciation of what I'm talking about: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! KMT work from home, Kathie Thomas, virtual assistant, work at home … [Read more...]
2 Years of blogging!
This month marks the 2nd anniversary of this blog, the first of many. When I started it was to try out this new medium for a client so rather than learn on her time, I learnt on mine, exploring the blogosphere, joining communities and commenting on other people's blogs. It was several months before I really 'got it' and understood what blogging was about - by then I was hooked. I started up a family blog several months after this one to replace the annual family Christmas newsletter and … [Read more...]
Hieroglyphics and mixed up words in spam
What is all this ridiculous stuff that makes no sense that comes in spam? Is it some kind of secret code that only the exceptional few know and understand? Perhaps there's some global thing happening where groups of people around the world are planning things and the information is disseminated by the code in the spam? Who knows? Spam is bad enough at any time but it used to make some sense - it was pretty much trying to promote something or lure you somewhere to suit the sender's needs. But … [Read more...]
Linking to lots of blogs
If you haven't heard about the 2000 Bloggers' Project, you need to head over to my blog at SOHO-Life and read all about it. If you are keen to get listed on a blog that is being listed in lots of places, then it's not too late and you could be one of the 2000. Interesting experiment. Make sure you have a photo of yourself available too - they will only link if your blog has a photo, and not a caricature or logo. KMT blogging, 2000 bloggers, blog network … [Read more...]
Clothing Change
I love working with Wordpress. So many templates available with options for 1, 2 and 3 columns and a whole lot of extras. Makes changing the look of your blog almost as easy as changing your clothes - you could do it daily if you wish(the blog I mean)! And so, my new look blog - for a while at least. On my 'to do list' when I have nothing else to do :-) I might actually spend sometime learning php and then create my own template from scratch. But for now there are enough choices out there … [Read more...]