My New WordPress Blog - Exploring Blogosphere

Hello, everyone! I've been working on my new WordPress blog - Exploring Blogosphere -since last week; that's also why I didn't get chance to visit your blogs lately. There are a few things I need to handle - register a domain name; find a good hosting company; install WordPress software; change the blog template; set up widgets, etc. It's a time consuming learning process. I've considered having a new blog for a long time and I am glad that I eventually made it.

Exploring Blogosphere will focus on blogging tips, tech news, gadgets, ebusiness, entrepreneurs, and everything else happening in the blogosphere. I will share what I encounter in the blogosphere and topics that might be interesting for bloggers. Below is a list of recent posts for you to get started.

• Checklist for Starting a New WordPress Blog
• About Blogger Custom Domain
• WordPress Vs. Blogger
• What's Web 2.0 ?

By the way, Exploring Blogospher is hosted by DreamHost who provides great customer service. Sunflower highly recommends DreamHost for your websites or blogs, since DreamHost offers one-click installation tool to help you install Wordpress blog in seconds. ALso you can upgrade your Wordpress to the latest version easily. Remember to use Coupon Code Sunflower to get $50 off when you sign up any plan from DreamHost!.

I will highly appreciate if you could stop by Exploring Blogosphere and leave your smiles there, just like what you always do on Sunflower blog. If you have any questions or concerns about hosting your blog on your own, or things like that, you can leave your comments too. I'll try my best to answer them -I am still learning :-)

Thank you for your support!

Mural - Hastings Sunrise

I orignally thought this mural is in East Hastings, a not-so-nice area in Vancouver. One of readers pointed out that it is acturally in Nanimo and Hastings, which might be one of nicest areas in Vancouver. Anyway, I like this mural and it represents the diversity of Vancouver.

Beautiful Vancouver Landscape

Have you been to Vancouver, Canada, one of the best places to live for human beings? You should come visit at least once if you have chance. Below is a photo Bob took last month. It can give you a general view of beautiful Vancouver in early spring.

New for Blogger - Scheduled post publishing

Goog news! Starting from May 1 2008, Blogger blogs can schedules future-dated posts!
You can set a post’s date into the future and the post won't be published until that time comes.

If you want to announce something on a certain date but know you wouldn’t be at a computer to make a post; or you wanted to keep posting regularly but know you’d be on vacation for a few weeks; or you have a lot blogging ideas on one day while you have nothing to blog on other days, Scheduled post publishing is the feature to help you out.

Here is what you need to do if you want to future-date your post - on the post editor page there is a “Post Options” link; click the link to show the “Post date and time” fields. Then, type a desisred post date and time in the future. When you click the “Publish” button, you will see a message " Your post has been scheduled”. When the date and time of the post arrive, it will be automatically published on your blog.

It's a nice handy feature, why not try it out yourself?

Resting Duck in Lafarge Lake

It was a sunny day last Sunday. We had a small walk along Lafarge Lake, Coquitlam, BC. This little duck was resting on a small rock in the lake. It is a nice portrait behind the sunset in the early spring.

Cherry Blossoms in Vancouver

It's still cold and rainy in Vancouver. However, the Cherry Blossoms just can wait to smile to us......

Maui Sunset

We went to Maui in January 2008 for a one-week vacation. It was nice getaway from home and it's totally different climate. Maui is one of our favorite place and we will definitely go back there next year :-)

Ocean, Coconut Tree & Sunset in Maui

The Life Cycle of a Sunflower

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Cats - Memory

Since tonight, Thursday night, we are going to watch Cats, one of the most popular musicals of all time having been performed around the world in numerous theatres - Cats is on its 25th Anniversary Tour in Vancouver. I Google Cats song liric on the Internet. I love the Memory lyrics and would like to share it with you. So here goes my special TT :-) Hope you enjoy it!

Memory
Daylight
See the dew on the sunflower
And a rose that is fading
Roses whither away
Like the sunflower
I yearn to turn my face to the dawn
I am waiting for the day . . .

Midnight
Not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling aloneIn the lamplight
The withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan

Memory
All alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful thenI remember the time
I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again

Every streetlamp
Seems to beat a fatalistic warningSomeone mutters
And the streetlamp gutters
And soon it will be morning

Daylight
I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I musn't give in
When the dawn comes
Tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin

Burnt out ends of smoky days
The stale cold smell of morning
The streetlamp dies, another night is over
Another day is dawning

Touch me
It's so easy to leave me
All alone with the memory
Of my days in the sunIf you touch me
You'll understand what happiness is

Look
A new day has begun

Baby Bird

Spring is comming...

Power Lines

This photo was takedn by Bob at 5:21 AM, Trans-Canada Highway, Chilliwack, BC .