Another Baby is Born

babyNow, here is the thing. Vienna (my Fairy Godmother in cyber-blogger-landia)helped me create another blog. Yep, you heard/read it right. Yes, another blog for me to manage. Well, this one is just like any other blog in the cyber-world. The only difference is… it is my dream blog. I have been dreaming about it for the longest time. I was dreaming about it since I learned to use Microsoft Publisher. I was dreaming about it since I enjoyed exploring the internet. I was dreaming about it all the time.

A couple of months back Vienna promised to help me with this “dream blog”. And for that span of time this baby was already conceived in my mind in terms of lay-out, design, concept, theme and everything else. Now, that my Fairy Godmother is “business as usual” I finally gave birth to my new baby… RUTHILICIOUS. She is only a week old and still in the incubator because she needs a lot of nourishment. But she is doing ok and I guess in a few weeks or so… she will be kicking hard.

Some Things Have Changed

I blame it on not being able to blog for almost two months!

Yep, all my blogs PR suffered because they were not updated for 6 weeks or more.

Also, I want to say that although I will not drop this blog completely, I would like to leave this blog slowly so  if you still want to read about me, please visit me on my new personal blog ViennaLopez.com. See you there.

Blogging Updates

I am trying to work on my main blog, viennalopez.com, because God knows that blog has been neglected for a very long time. I am trying to put some things on it like a gallery showing photos I shoot and a separate gallery showing my sketches. ;) . I like to draw. I have no formal education on Arts but I like drawing.

I have been working on that blog for two days trying to figure out how to put a separate gallery page like what Matt have on his blog (www.ma.tt). No success until now but I will keep trying. I hope that someone will develop a plugin (or is there already?!?) that does this to make it easier for people like me who have too little knowledge on coding and tweaking PHP files.

I also changed the theme and later on, I will change the header for a little personalization.
Once it’s all done, I will start working with blogleafs.com and see what I can do with it.

Meanwhile, posts will come regularly here and in thetwogeeks.com.

Some Updates

I have been busy for the last few days until now because I am changing the theme of my The Two Geeks and my BlogLeafs blog plus, I also started a new blog bearing my own name, Vienna Lopez.

In other news, I am disappointed to find out after Google updated its Page Rank last week that the PR of this blog went down from PR 6 to PR5, Penny Wise and The Two Geeks got PR 0 from PR N/A. Ha!

But I got a consolation.  My Pink Notes got PR3 from PR N/A and some of my blogging friends got some nice PRs too like Jessie and Juliana. Congrats to your PRs. You both deserve it.

And to my critique, I still take it that you are criticizing my works and me personally and that you make fun of my posts and my blog no matter how you explain otherwise.

On the brighter side of everything, I went bowling with my husband and few of our friends. Don’t be fooled by my pro-like bowling positions showed on the pictures below. In reality, I truly suck in this game.

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Trying to get an artistic shot of the balls.

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Anne and Me

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First shot

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Anne’s turn

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like a pro

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Pinay beauties

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Players competing in Bracket 1

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Players competing in Bracket 2

The Solution to Internet Censorship

I got the solution to my biggest blogging problem! I got tired of those proxy sites that limit what you can do with blocked sites so I asked around. I asked people (ex-pats and Chinese citizens) who are having the same problem and viola! I got a software (from a Chinese friend of a friend of mine—hehe) that allows me to surf blocked sites. I can now load, edit, customize, manage, and view my WordPress.com blog without a problem. It’s like surfing a non-blocked site.

It is a small program that you can run only with Windows Internet Explorer (sorry to firefox users). Freegate6.6Professional is a software that allows you to surf blocked sites. It’s so easy to use. I don’t know if it is working in other countries but it is very effective here in China (evil laugh at GFWC). And I also don’t know if you can download it from the net. I tried to search for it but I just got two results from Mr. Mighty Google so anybody who is interested, you may leave a comment under this post and I will email you the software and don’t worry because I won’t charge you. I got it for free and I am passing it for free. If you can find it anywhere in the net then good for you but if not, don’t be shy to ask me.