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MapLoco visitor maps on your website are a breeze.
Click on the link below to go to their website. Select how you want the map to look, click a button, copy the code and your done.
Similar Tags: maploco, map loco, free visitor maps for websites, twitter visitor map, maploco wordpress, visitor maps for website, visitor map for your website, my site visitors India map, maps visitors website, maploco na wordpressDarren Rouse over at Problogger.net posed a readers question that started this post. I’ve been meaning to write on the topic for a while, so this was the prompt I needed to get on with it.
The question is “What do You Know About Blogging that You Wish You Knew When You Started”
For me, the answer is the importance of reader interation both with other readers and with the blog owner. Read the rest of this entry
Similar Tags: importance of reader interaction, reader interactionHeres a bit of fun.
A site called Linkiewinkie seems to have been setup to provide traffic back to people who link to it.
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I was sent this the other day and couldn’t resist sharing. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did
Subject: LIFE IN THE 1500′S
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be back in the 1500′s.
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell a little, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour.
Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.
Hence the saying, “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.”
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof.
Hence the saying “It’s raining cats and dogs.”
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