Halloween Safety precautions

Now that we have finally reach Halloween, I know you must have read or at least heard about these safety precautions from all sorts of media. However, I really would like my readers a happy Halloween, and therefore am repeating these 10 Safety reminders again.

1.   Do join your children when they go out for ‘Trick or treating’
2. Make sure you sort the candies for possible allergic sources, eg Peanuts.
3. Look for possible blades in candies, every year some one would find some sharp blades in Halloween Candies.
4. Avoid drinking and driving at Halloween Parties, there will be children on the roads.
5. Avoid dark alleys, three jobs that have no holiday, peace keeping, people saving, and criminal activities. Avoid being a victim of the later two.

Funny Animals

I found some collection of Funny Clips of Animals on youTube. Let’s enjoy.

Computer Animations – too real!

I found two very interesting video clip on youtube,

First is an introduction video about SIGGRAPH

This one is just for the cool music and animations used.

However the second one, I chose it because I found it pretty realistic. It is difficult to tell whether this was animated or not! Oh it is silent.

Widget bucks – review after joining for a month

Widget bucks, a program that allow bloggers to post graphical advertisements on their web page to earn some extra money. It functions on a Pay per click system, so you can have as many readers on your site as your servers can handle, if no one click on the ad, it is earning you nothing. I first heard about Widget Bucks in the first week of October. Since they were promising a 25 dollar sign on bonus, I just join them for the fun of it, who knows, maybe I’ll make some money off them.

After using them for nearly a month, I am not sure if its the attractive graphic ads or the low priced merchandise on their ads, some of my readers started clicking their ads. Initially their pay per click rate is defaulted to 0.28 cents per click and would be marked in Red. After a few days, it would turn black and the number would change. In Widget Buck’s terms, they call it finalized. The black numbers are what I am being paid.

After joining them for a month, I’ve seen several pretty amazing PPC rate, my current highest is around 64 cents, and the lowest is at 18 cents. It seems to be my current most profitable source so far, even better then GoogleAds.

The special is still on, if you want in, you’ll still get that 25 dollars bonus if you following this link to join them.

Homosexuality and J.K. Rowling

Homosexuality, something that have existed in human society since there was recorded history. Some say Shakespeare surrounds himself with young handsome men, while others believe that King Edward II is in love with Piers Gaveston. As a fan of English literature, I merely laughed and accepted those facts as alternative history. Especially on topics related to historical figures that none can be of certain, unless we somehow invents a time machine of course.

With the recent revelation by the world famous author J.K. Rowling, Potter fans world wide now either accept that Albus Dumbledore is gay or started on a hopeless journey to fight it. The real question that remains is, what was her motive?

In today’s societies, homosexuality is not a common accepted trend. It might be in some nations, but there are still crowds that fight it. On the very top of the ‘against’ list is Vatican, capital and country to all the Catholics world wide. By drawing attention to the homosexual lifestyle of a character in her books, J.K. Rowling might have made an opposition of the Catholics.

There is a fair chance that this is not the effect Rowling had planned. These words could bring forth the down fall of the Potter franchise, if she did not handle them carefully. The Harry Potter series is a successful enough franchise that its marketing budget can be leveraged. So successful that it is no longer necessary to draw attention to the series by starting an argument on a jerkwater character.

However, if you think about it a bit, is it possible that J.K. Rowling is planning for a new book? One that predates all the Potter books. Famous authors such as C.S. Lewis have used this style of series continuation. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia started off with ‘The Lion, the witch, and the Wardrobe’. However, that is the second book of the series of seven. The first book, Magician’s Nephew, was actually the second last one to be publish. What if J.K. Rowling is planning a new, eighth addition to the now ended Potter series, by inserting a book before the very first.