How To Create A Blog With Blogger ?

Blogging online is popular nowadays. Even children as young as 9 years old know how to make a blog. It is like an online journal. A record of all your daily activities, a collection of poems, lyrics, your travel last summer and many more.

Wikipedia defines blogs as websites where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. The term "blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

In blogs, readers can leave comment about a particular post. There is an option if you want the comment to be approved by you before publishing or it can be automatically published. A blog can contain videos, images, or purely text. Many bloggers want their blogs to be more interactive.

Below is a video tutorial by Google on how to create a blog with Blogger.com. They made it so simple for you that it's as easy as 1-2-3.

Juliana's Contest

Hi everyone,

I saw this post today at Jenny and Belle and thought you might be interested. Well, I'm joining too. lol Who knows, I might win. :-)

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Juliana is running a blog contest. Come on and join in! :)

I am very delighted to let you all know, that I’m running my first ever contest on my three blogs: My World, My Library and Juliana’s Lair. I will be celebrating my first anniversary in the world of blogging this coming July 19, 2008. I can’t believe it will be a year soon, and I have enjoyed this experience immensely.

As my way of thanking my readers, my blogger friends and my constant visitors, I’ll be giving away cash prizes to contest participants with the highest accumulated points across all my three blogs.

1st place - $100.00
2nd place - $ 55.00
3rd place - $ 40.00
4th place - $ 30.00
5th place - $ 25.00

The contest starts today, as soon as this post is published and ends on July 19, 2008. Contest winners will be announced on July 23, 2008.

Here’s how to earn points:

1. Comment on my blog posts.
- Every comment is equivalent to 1 point. You can only leave a maximum of two(2) comments per post and the comments should be relevant to the post.
- Comments on my posts starting from entries written starting February 24 ,2008 counts. Only comments written starting today, March 2, 2008 are valid.

2. Copy and paste then publish this entry about the contest on your blog.
- You earn 30 points.
- Please inform me of the link so I can validate and add the points you earned.

3. Mention this contest on your blog by linking to this post.
- You earn 20 points.
- Again, please leave me a comment notifying me about this so I can credit your points.

4. To add an element of fun, since many of my readers have been asking about how old me and hubby are, let’s play a guessing game.
- If you join the fun, and make a guess you’ll earn 10 points.
- The right guess/guesses will earn 30 points (if both ages are correct)
Only one right guess will earn 15 points.
- Again, leave me a comment so I can credit your points.
(Hint: the pictures you see on my three blogs are all current except the wedding pictures, which were taken when we celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary three years ago.)

The running accumulated points across the three blogs, will be posted on the side bars of the three blogs to keep you updated on your points earned.

Should there be a tie in any of the prizes at stake, a drawing will be held to determine the winner of that prize, and the person/s not drawn will win the next prize.

Prizes will be remitted to the Paypal accounts of the winners.

Easy enough, right? I hope you’ll all join the fun.

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So, what are you waiting for ? :-)

FinalSense Templates for Blogger

Sometimes we want to change the look of our blog. The existing blogger templates are wonderful, however, I want to try a 3-column template. I couldn't find it from their listing so I searched on google and found a great site with very artistic and colorful templates. This site, FinalSense allows us to use their templates for free. Of course, a link back to their site is expected. The templates are intended mainly for blogger so it is compatible with the new blogger edit template button. I tried it but it doesn't work though with the beta blogger edit html format. Above are some samples of their templates. If you want to change the look of your blog, you have a great number with different to choose from.

I Got My First Assignment from Review Me

Well, I guess this message is not really that important by I'm just so happy to tell everyone that finally, I got an assignment from Review Me. The site is strict with ranking and traffic factors that's why I am trying so hard to make this blog popular. I was surprised to see an email this morning informing me of the assignment. I accepted it and will try to finish it before my due date. With this site's traffic increasing daily, I hope I could get more assignments in the following weeks. Wish me luck!

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What is a humanoid robot?

In my post yesterday, I posted about ASIMO, a humanoid robot. This post explains what is a humanoid robot.

A humanoid robot is a robot with its overall appearance based on that of the human body. In general, humanoid robots have a torso with a head, two arms and two legs, although some forms of humanoid robots may model only part of the body, for example, from the waist up. Some humanoid robots may also have a 'face', with 'eyes' and 'mouth'.

A humanoid robot is an autonomous robot because it can adapt to changes in its environment or itself and continue to reach its goal. Some of the capacities of a humanoid robot include:

* self maintenance (recharge itself)
* autonomous learning (learn or gain new capabilities without outside assistance, adjust strategies based on the
surroundings and adapt to new situations)
* avoiding harmful situations to people, property and itself
* safe interacting with human beings and the environment

Humanoid robots are created to imitate some of the same physical and mental tasks that humans undergo daily. Their creator's goal is that one day, it will be able to both understand human intelligence, reason and act like humans. If humanoids are able to do so, they could eventually work alongside humans. Humanoid robots are also used as a research tool in several scientific areas. The attempt to simulate the human body leads to a better understanding of it.

Humanoid robots are also being developed to perform human tasks like personal assistance, where they should be able to assist the sick and elderly, and dirty or dangerous jobs. Regular jobs like being a receptionist or a worker of an automotive manufacturing line are also suitable for humanoids.

They are becoming increasingly popular for providing entertainment too. One example is Ursula, a female robot, sings, dances, and speaks to her audiences at Universal Studios. Although humanoid robots have a realistic look, they have no cognition or physical autonomy.


References:
httP://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanoid robot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIMO
http://world.honda.com/ASIMO
http://asimo.honda.com/asimotv/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFgXEkzMq7A