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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Books about Blogging, Online Marketing and Investment
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How to Add Your Own Favicon to Blogger
What is favicon? Favicon is an image located at the most left side of your blog url. Normal or default favicon for a blog at blogger.com or blogspot.com is an image "B". Now, if you need to change that image to be something from your own creation, follow the instruction below:
1. You have to have your own image from somewhere else or you can create your favicon image. You can use Adobe Photoshop etc. Try to size the file into 100 pixels x 100 pixels. Then you need to change it into an image icon file. To do this follow the step 2 below.
2. Open URL address http://www.favicongenerator.com/ Then locate the image that you would like to use as your Favicon and make sure that the dimensions are perfectly square (ie. 100 Pixels x 100 Pixels). Press browse button to select the file's location on your computer and select the image.Then, press the Generate Favicon! button. If you succeed, a link below the button appears something like "Click Here to Download Your Favicon!" then click that link. After downloading, you need to save it and the next step is you need to simply upload your favicon.ico to an online host.
3. After you have the image you would like to use as your favicon, goto your Blogger.com blog and create a new post. It does not matter what you call it since you don’t need to publish it. Make it just as a 'Draft' (Don't publish it. Once you have created a new post use the image upload button to upload your favicon to your Blogger.com blog. Once you have uploaded the image, you will need to switch to “Edit HTML” mode if you are using the “Compose” mode. Once you are looking at the HTML you will see something like this:
Then copy that URL start from http:...until the end of that URL code. So, this is your favicon URL address.
4. Next, you need to copy this into your HTML source.
Such as:
5. Login to your Blogger account. Go to "Layout" and click "Edit HTML" button.
6. Paste the above code into your HTML editor just before the following symbol:
7. Click "save template" button and refresh your blog URL in your browser. Your Blog should now have your fancy new custom favicon showing on the address bar when you visit your blog.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Moving Ocean Containers using Giant Ships
In this page, you will see some pictures of giant ships and their loading. Do you know how big latest containerships ever built? How long the ship is? How wide the ship is? What is the draft or draught depth? Below is a Hapag-Lloyd containership with its container is being piloted by a tugboat to berth at a port. Can you predict its length, its draft, and its capacity? Guess!
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Perhaps, Emma Maersk of AP-Moller Maersk is the biggest containership ever built in this planet. Is that true? It has 397 meter length, 60 meter width, and 14 meter draft depth with a capacity of 11,000 TEU (Twenty Feet Equivalent Unit). The image below showing the "Emma Maersk", the giant containership.
However, other shipping companies are also competing. There are some shipping companies start employing giant containership, as big as Emma Maersk. Hapaq-Lloyd, OOCL, and many others pushing their competitiveness by operating these giants.
Below are two images of OOCL Shenzhen
Are all these giant ships safe for its containers as well as for the ocean? How about this picture!
(Images are taken from many sources)
Monday, September 28, 2009
F1 Team Investment 100 Times Better, Says Dr Mahathir
THE value of advertisement benefits derived from the country's F1 team is 100 times more than the cost of investment for the team, former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.
He said it was not a waste of money to invest in the country's F1 team as the advantages, including tourism and technological advancement, had always outweighed the disadvantages.
Even when the country was experiencing economic recession and negative growth, Mahathir said, there were industries that could flourish such as tourism.
"We viewed Formula One as an important instrument to promote Malaysia to the world," he said. He said Malaysia would have to pay US$1 million (RM3.5m) just for a three-minute advertisement in Japan. According to news reports, it is estimated that at least RM1 billion a year is needed to keep the FI team.
"With the F1 race, Malaysia is shown to the world for hours. We don't have to pay a single sen. If we were to calculate the advertisement in Japan alone, it may run into US$100 million or US$200 million.
"So imagine... more than 300 television stations telecast the F1 race. People will know more about Malaysia if we have our own F1 team," Mahathir said. He said investing in an F1 team was not merely about motor racing as technology developed for the motor racing engine could be applied for the country's automotive industry. Mahathir said that owning a team would also encourage the country to produce its own drivers to take part in the world-class race.
Malaysia has been involved in Formula One since 1999 through the Sepang circuit which has been on the race calendar since then. Petronas, the national oil and gas giant, has made further advancements in this arena via its sponsorship of the BMW Sauber team for the last four years.
Mahathir, who is also the Petronas advisor, said it was cheaper for Malaysia to set up its own team than taking over the Sauber team after BMW withdrew from sponsoring the team.
"If we (Malaysia) can invest billions of ringgit for corridors which we can't see, why can't we invest for our own F1 team?" he said. The national F1 team will integrate a Malaysian technical and pit crew totaling some 200 people.
Six local and international drivers have been shortlisted for evaluation and the team will announce their two drivers by the end of next month. — Bernama
[The Picture of F1 circuit and the image of Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohammad are from aother sources]
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Asian Markets Fall on Weak U.S. Data
LONDON (AP) -- World stocks fell Monday after disappointing data from the U.S. undermined hopes of a fast economic recovery and a sharp strengthening in Asian currencies hurt confidence among the region's exporters.
Meanwhile, pledges from the Group of 20 rich and developing nations to keep stimulus plans intact failed to boost sentiment.
Germany's DAX fell 0.1 percent to 5,575.18, Britain's FTSE 100 lost 0.5 percent to 5,058.17 and France's CAC-40 shed 0.8 percent to 3,710.63.
Asian markets sank even more, with Tokyo slumping 2.5 percent on fears that a stronger yen will hurt its key exports sector. Wall Street was likewise expected to open lower. Dow industrials futures were down 23 points at 9,596.00 and Standard & Poor's 500 futures were down 2.50 points at 1,038.60.
U.S. manufacturing and home sales data released Friday stoked concerns over recovery prospects in the world's largest economy and pushed American stocks lower for a third day.
Orders for durable goods, a key indicator for the manufacturing industry, unexpectedly fell in August, declining 2.4 percent for the second drop in three months. The government also said that new home sales rose to 429,000 last month, which was less than analysts expected.
The G-20 summit that ended Friday in Pittsburgh gave little added support to markets despite leaders' pledge to maintain fiscal and monetary stimulus measures.
''It will come as a relief to markets that officials are not going to prematurely reverse such policies but the risk is that both fiscal and monetary policy is left too loose for too long, fueling potentially significant inflation risks,'' said Mitul Kotecha, analyst at Calyon.
The G-20 said it wanted to reduce imbalances in the world economy -- reducing U.S. consumers' reliance on foreign debt and boosting domestic demand in large exporting countries like China.
Kotecha noted that ''one of the key adjustments that will need to be made is a weaker dollar, especially Asian currencies, but there was no mention of this in the communique.''
That did not prevent traders from buying up Asian currencies aggressively on Monday.
The dollar fell as low as 88.22 yen Monday, its lowest point since December, but recovered losses to trade at 89.53 from 89.60 late Friday in New York. The euro fell to $1.4629 from $1.4698.
Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average fell 256.46, or 2.5 percent, to 10,009.52, at one point dipping below the 10,000-point level for the first time in two months, after the yen reached a nine-month high versus the dollar. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index declined 435.99, or 2.1 percent, to 20,588.41.
A stronger yen can hurt Japanese exporters by reducing the value of overseas profits when sent back home and can make their products less price competitive. Many Japanese exporters have based their earnings forecasts on the assumption that $1 buys an average of 95 yen.
Japan's new government, which took power this month, has expressed little concern about a stronger yen and even says it is potentially a good thing as it can boost consumer spending by making foreign goods and raw materials cheaper.
Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii on Monday said exchange rate stability was desirable but reiterated his opposition to intervening in foreign exchange markets to weaken the yen's value, according to Kyodo news agency.
South Korea's Kospi fell 0.9 percent while Singapore's benchmark declined 1.3 percent. China's Shanghai index surrendered early gains to fall 2.7 percent. Markets in India were closed.
In New York on Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 0.4 percent, its third straight decline.
Oil prices, meanwhile, traded lower. Benchmark crude for November delivery fell 58 cents to $65.44 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Friday, the contract added 13 cents to settle at $66.02.
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