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SafelySourcingChina.Com Is Launched

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same – When Is A Blog Not A Blog?

Well, I decided that although I like the look of the blog here at yourchinatradingpartner.com/blog, and that WordPress has a great deal to say for itself, as a very manageable blogging tool; I just felt it was a wee bit slow. I mean, you come to the YourChinaTradingPartner.Com page, and you get a very nice fast load. However, when you drop down a directory into the blog, I found it to very often take a monumentally long time to load the page, and it was driving me nuts. So, to solve the problem, and generate a lot of new work for myself, I built an HTML version of the blog, and slapped it on its’ own host at www.SafelySourcingChina.com. Of course, this has presented me, the novice, with certain issues, such as how to make an RSS feed of my new HTML version of the blog. However, after a little searching I managed to find a way of doing it which suits me down to the ground. Indeed, once I’d organised my RSS, I then went and tried feeding it to FeedBurner, and it went through far more smoothly than the horror story that was my feeds, here on the blog, just a week ago, when i had to hire someone to sort it out for me. CLICK! and I was done. I couldn’t believe how easy it was. I’ll continue to post here, but I’ll also post the material on the new blog too, for those who prefer a speedier, if less glossy, access portal to my stuff. If anyone’s interested in how to set up an RSS feed for their blog, then I suggest you simply go where I went, and all will be made clear. Here’s the link: rapidfeeds.com By the way, I just tried putting the annimated feed link bar in here from FeedBurner, but WordPress just wouldn’t have it, and I’ve had to rewrite, and delete this article 4 times to try and dump the scramble of code left here. I like the UTILITY of WordPress, but I prefer the ease and speed of HTML. For me, WordPress has presented me with a number of issues, a few of which are still unresolved. That’s it for now, folks. UPDATE I managed to get an HTML blog sorted quite nicely, but found updating feeds to be a bit of a drag, and so finally decided to move the WordPress version of the blog here, as you can now see, and have probably noted.

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Do You Have A Passion?

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

What’s Your Passion?

Somebody recently emailed me via one of my social networks and asked me, “What’s your passion?”

I suppose I’d never really considered it very much before, as I’m pretty passionate about everything I find myself involved in, from what kind of shoes I wear, to why I have a particular disrespect for people of certain cultural or political standpoints.

I had to stop and think for a minute, and then I composed the following answer, which I feel should make quite clear to people, exactly what kind of man I am.

Anyway, since I have this little section of my blog set aside for me and mine, I thought I’d include it for others to read, comment on, and consider for themselves, just what it is they’re passion might be.

So, here’s my response, then, to the question, “What’s your passion?” for all to see.

My passion is making sure that when I exit the world, I leave behind a chain of people who are not the same as they were when they first met me; who feel better having known me, and, moreover, whose minds I’ve changed from a state of sociological and political inertness, to a stance of active participation; whilst instilling into such, the invaluable understanding that ONE person CAN make a difference to the world, today and tomorrow, – ONE person at a time; and penultimately, that things don’t have to be the way they are now,  or the way they seem they may  or might be tomorrow, because we CAN change the future ONE person at a time.

To think any other way, to believe ONE can do nothing because ONE is JUST ONE person, is to enable the nastier section of humanity to win at their game.

And, finally, as a father, a husband, a brother, and a friend, I don’t want them to win.


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Setting Up The Blog

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Setting Up The Blog, And All The Fun It Wasn’t

Well, what can I say? Setting up this blog has proven to be easy in some ways, but extremely difficult and annoying in others.

A Few Hours In To Stting Up The Blog

A Few Hours In To Setting Up The Blog

I’ve tried so many different skins for the forum, it’s starting to become tangible, and I feel like I’m changing my own skin, in a weird chameleonic way, and now I’ve started to hate themes.

Sour grapes, of course!

I’m discovering simplicity is what one needs, when dealing with themes. Those themes that throw up a “Home” tab, but then you can’t find a page called “Home” anywhere on your site, and which have bugged the hell out of me for seemingly endless hours.

In the end I found the current theme, and felt it provided me the easiest route into establishing a blog on which a) I could operate with relative ease, and b) where visitors could navigate their way with equal ease.

It’s all so crazily addictive, as I find myself sitting here like a man possessed, trying to figure this whole thing out, as I miss my meals, and unwillingly drag myself off to the toilet, afraid something will happen to my set-up. Perhaps I’ll buy some of those underwear being sold in Japan, into which you can calmly pee, and then later empty somewhere?

Still, one sore bottom, one splitting headache, twenty-three cups of ‘Pu-Erh‘ tea, and fourteen trips to the toilet later, I have a working blog!

I must look like a junky by now (I feel like one), what with my waxy, wan, drawn face, and my bulging staring eyes ogling the screen, whilst my hands shake and tremble from massive tea ingestion.

I think I can safely stop now, and take break before putting in any further additional content.

I’ve just been to the window for a quick look outside. A storm is brewing, as is evident by the very thick and low cloud, bring visibility right down. The sky has that electric green-grey look to it; and one has the feeling that should though anyone light a match in the city today, they would ignite the whole thing and we’d by wiped off the map.

Get the Canary and the cage!

And freak of freaks!

After getting the site just how I wanted it, I then thought to myself that my URL was just a tad too long. So, I thought I’d try and move it to another directory, which didn’t work, then I moved it back, and something got lost, and I buggered the whole thing up, and had to start again.

There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

At 44, having survived a multitude of physical and mental calamities in my life, I find myself almost broken by my …. Blog… Aghh…. Sob.. Sob…

Then, on the positive side, I have learned a lot, and now get to have my blog with a greatly reduced URL.

Choirs Of Heavenly Angels, Replace The Wailing Of Banshees In My Head!

Choirs Of Heavenly Angels, Replace The Wailing Of Banshees In My Head!

Yes, folks, that’s life!

Sometimes it really does give you what you want. Just not in the way you wanted or expected it.

Still… Destination reached, and goal achieved, from the darkness comes the light.

Now all I have to do is put back all the content I’d so wisely saved.

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