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What is Blog?
Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. They are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.

Why Blog?
As its definition it helps to publish news updates, to promote new products & services as well as different opinion from various experts who participates in blogs. Many companies today open a blog section to sell products, for customer care and after sales support. Business blogs are the fast track to increasing a website’s link popularity and Google PageRank.The regularly updated keyword rich content offered by blogs score high rankings in the search engines as a direct result of their link drawing power.
Link exchanges between themes related blogs are frequent and not at all difficult. Note that bloggers mainly exchange links for visitor traffic purposes, and not for search engine optimization. Link exchanges should generally be approached from the shared traffic perspective.
Blogs also provide an exclusive list of high PageRank blog directories. While maintaining their exclusivity in the blog only Internet directories, blogs are welcomed in the mainstream Internet directories. In that sense, blogs receive the best of both worlds.
Website owners, who are serious about improving not only their quantity of incoming links, but their theme relevant quality as well, should seriously consider adding a business blog component to their website.

Blog Setup on blogger.com
Blogs can be created from bloggers’ site as well as from own FTP (websites). People who don’t have any website, they can create a blog directly from the bloggers’ site. But who have own site, they can also create blogs from own FTP with the help of blogger.com.
Blogger.com is the most popular blogger creater in the world of blogs. Although hundreds of site provide free blogs, but blogger.com is most popular due to its features and functions. Create a blog from own FTP using Blogger.com is somewhat technical and for the first time, it takes some time & try and error to upload to blogs from own FTP.

From this article, I would like to define step by step procedures with examples that help you to create blogs in few easy steps at less time.

URL to create free blog on your own FTP: http://www.blogger.com/
Steps to setup blogs on own FTP:
1. Create a new account
2. Choose a template
3. Redesign existing template
4. FTP setup

5. Post message
6. Published blogs

(1) Few steps to create a new blog as followed:

Click on the button “Create a New Blog Now”
Create an account
Give blog title like “PPC Articles”
Give blog address like ppcarticles.blogspot.com (Must be unique)
Choose the template & continue from the bottom click button
Get message “Your blog is created” & Start posting
Get Blogger editor to write the message
Give the title
Write the message
From the bottom click on the “Publish Post” button

(2) Customized Template Design:
After creating a blog as mentioned above steps,

First create own template. To do that, click on the “Dashboard” which will bring to the main page of our account.

Here, you find the “blogname” under “Blogs” category.

Click on any created blog that you want to edit with your own template.

Click on “PPC articles”

Here, you will find four main categories from the top navigation.
They are, Posing, Setting, Template, View Blog
Click on the “Template” which will bring you to the present template code.

Here, you can edit your template as per your site design.

You may create customized template using this html code-editing wizard.

Note: While designing the customized template, it is mandatory to place all “blog tags” in between & tags.

After, designing a new template click on the “Save Template Changes”.

After clicking, you get a message - “Settings Were Saved Successfully”
Below the message “Settings Were Saved Successfully” message, you will find two buttons “Republish” (to publish entire blog) and “Republish Index” (to republish only index page)
Click on the “Republish” button.

After clicking, you will get the “Publishing is in progress”.
After few seconds you will get the new message on the same page, “Your blog published successfully”.

Note: If you get an error, check the “details” after the message “blog could not published”.

(3) FTP Setup
Click on the “Settings” button from the top navigation of a page.
Here, you will find sub navigation under the “Settings” like, Basic, Publishing, Formatting, Comments, Archiving, Site Feed, Email, Members
Click on the “Publishing”.

Here, you will find two options like SFTP or blogspot.com
Again click on the SFTP, which will bring you on the page, where you can give your FTP server details.
Fill the complete wizard as mentioned below. This wizard appears on selecting the “SFTP” option.

Setup details to publish the content in a new folder named “blogger” under the root folder on the FTP of the website.
FTP Server: yourdomain.com

Note: Do not include http:// or ftp:// in the server address.
Blog URL: http://www.yourdomain.com/blogger/
Note: The web address where this blog is viewable. This should include http://

FTP Path: blogger/
Note: This path must already exist on your server.

Blog Filename: semarticles.html

Note: If this file already exists on your server in the path entered above, it will be OVERWRITTEN. Be sure to back it up.
FTP Username: abcd
FTP Password: *********
Working URL Like: http://www.yourdomain.com/blogger/ppcarticles.html (From the blogger folder of the FTP server)

Setup details to place the content directly in the root folder & publish it.
FTP Server: yourdomain.com Note: Do not include http:// or ftp:// in the server address.
Blog URL: http://www.yourdomain.com/ogger/ (Remove folder name “blogger” from this URL) Note: The web address where this blog is viewable. This should include http://

FTP Path: blogger/ (Keep this field empty) Note: This path must already exist on your server.

Blog Filename: ppcarticles.html

Note: If this file already exists on your server in the path entered above, it will be OVERWRITTEN. Be sure to back it up.
FTP Username abcd
FTP Password *********
Working URL Like: http://www.yourdomain.com/ppcarticles.html (From the root of the FTP server)

Setup details to place the content in an existing folder & publish it.
FTP Server: yourdomain.com Note: Do not include http:// or ftp:// in the server address.
Blog URL: http://www.yourdomain.com/general/ (Place the name of an existing folder here)
Note: The web address where this blog is viewable. This should include http://.

FTP Path: general/ (Place the name of an existing folder here)
Note: This path must already exist on your server.

Blog Filename: ppcarticles.html Note: If this file already exists on your server in the path entered above, it will be OVERWRITTEN. Be sure to back it up.
FTP Username abcd
FTP Password *********
Working URL Like: http://www.yourdomain.com/general/ppcarticles.html (From any existing folder of the FTP server)
After giving a username and password of the FTP server, click on the “Save Settings” from the bottom of the page.

After clicking, it will give you a message - “Settings Were Saved Successfully”.
Below the message “Settings Were Saved Successfully” message, you will find two buttons “Republish” (to publish entire blog) and “Republish Index”(to republish only index page).
Click on the “Republish” button.

After clicking, you will get the “Publishing is in progress”.
After few seconds you will get the new message on the same page, “Your blog published successfully”.

Note: If you get an error, check the “details” after the message “blog could not published”.

(4) Shift Blog from one FTP to another FTP
To shift existing blogs from one FTP to another FTP, one requires changing only the FTP details in the admin panel of “blogger”.
For that,

Login into the same blogger’ account from where you have already published the blogs.
Click on the “Settings” button from the top navigation of a page.
Here, you will find sub navigation under the “Settings” like, Basic, Publishing, Formatting, Comments, Archiving, Site Feed, Email, Members
Now click on the “Publishing”.

Here, you will find two options like SFTP or blogspot.com
Again click on the SFTP, which will bring you on the page, where you can give your FTP server details.

Follow the steps mentioned in point no. 3 above, for changing the FTP details of the blog.

Replace existing FTP server details with new FTP details. This new FTP server details will create new URL to view the blogs.

For example,
http://www.yourdomain1.com/blogger/ppcarticles.html (URL after shifting to a new FTP)
http://www.yourdomain1.com/ppcarticles.html (URL after shifting to a new FTP)
Above exampled URLs replace the following URLs
www.yourdomain.com/blogger/ppcarticles.html (URL before shifting a new FTP)
www.yourdomain.com/ppcarticles.html (URL before shifting a new FTP)
After giving a username and password of the new FTP server, click on the “Save Settings” from the bottom of the page.

After clicking, it will give you a message - “Settings Were Saved Successfully”.
Below the message “Settings Were Saved Successfully” message, you will find two buttons “Republish” (to publish entire blog) and “Republish Index” (to republish only index page).
Click on the “Republish” button.

After clicking, you will get the “Publishing is in progress” message.
After few seconds you will get the new message on the same page, “Your blog published successfully”.

Any changes or post updates will directly reflect on URLs.

Harekrishna Patel
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It is important in this new paradigm of political correctness to tone down the language a bit. In this present period if you use such words like Bullshit, even when you are describing something that definitely is complete and total BS; it makes you look just as bad as what ever you are describing. Personally I could care less because something that is BS needs to be called what it is; after all why let the people who tout such malarkey get away with it.

In the old west we use to call it like it was; we called an ace, an ace and a spade, a spade. That is what it was, so that is what you called it.

However in this new world with whiners everywhere and political correctness you can be made to look like a fool for telling the truth. You will be called unprofessional for calling someone a liar or calling the words of a liar, bullshit. What is interesting is that the bullshiter is trying to stand on a pillar or podium of ethical and moral high ground and trying to have you believe their bogus notions do not stink. If you point out the BS’er is lying or full of bulloney or baloney, you are taken to task and told you are unprofessional. Which is better in my opinion than being an out right liar. However why be any of those things. Simply change your vocabulary a little.

In previous periods folks used other terms to describe complete and utter nonsense, as bullshit was not so prevalent. There just were not a lot of bulls around so the crap from them was so spread out, it did not pile up and stink in the humid air. Sparsely released piles of manure were spread over large areas and no one really used the term. They used other terms such as: humbug, poppycock, tommyrot, hooey, twaddle, balderdash, claptrap, palaver, hogwash, buncombe (or “bunk”), hokum, drivel, flapdoodle, bullpucky, etc..

When describing things that are bullshit such as this article, I often use terms like minutia, bull or BS instead of the proverbial bullshit. Oh and on occasion when you simply cannot describe the enormity of the crap being fed and you chose to use this word bullshit against my advice, be sure not to hyphenate it; bull-shit. That makes you look unprofessional, ignorant and too broke to afford a decent dictionary or copywriter, which you might want to look into either way. Think on this BS a while.

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Perhaps you are having grandchildren or your friends children spend a few days with you. If so, I have some great ideas about entertaining them and at the same time, this is an opportunity to spend time with them.

Go out and find an inexpensive photo album for each child. Just get a medium sized one and something colorful that will catch their eye. Also, buy a frame for each child (optional). This project can be called, ‘My Christmas Vacation” or “My Vacation Visit with Grandma” or whatever you want to name it. Kids are creative and they may come up with something great and want to name the project. This is even better.

Next, if you have a digital camera, take a pictue each day of their activites that day. My husband and I would sometimes get the camera out before they get out of bed, while they were sleepily clutching their stuffed animals. Sometimes our dog, Sunny would be in bed with them.

It’s amazing how many things you can think of to snap. How about when they go next door to see the new kittens or helping you cook in the kitchen? I like to buy matching outfits for my two granddaughters (they are cousins) or matching pajamas. This makes a great photo. Parents usually love this project because they are so busy taking the kids to their various activities, they don’t always have the time to make photo albums.

If you do not have a digital camera, this project will take more patience, but it could be done. I haven’t had film developed in a long time, but maybe it wouldn’t be too expensive to have a 24 hour time frame for having the pictures developed.

If you have a digital camera, you can print the pictures out daily and let the child insert them in the album each day. Make this a daily fun thing that they can look forward to. You can make this as simple or more detailed as you desire. For instance, maybe the child would like to write something next to the pictues or insert dried flowers. However, if you just go with the photos and nothing extra, it will still be great!

As an extra special touch, the child can pick out his favorite picture and frame it in the frame you have previously purchased. He or she will LOVE choosing his/her BEST picture!

I believe this project teaches patience because it wouldn’t be finished until the end of the week or whatever time frame you have projected. It also helps the child to see and remember the wonderful moments of the vacation/visit with you.

This would work well with Christmas Vacation also. Think of all the new toys and clothes you could photograph. I think this makes the child feel thankful. As my 6 year old granddaughter said to me, “this is the best vacation I have ever had!”

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Constructing a Moral Universe

Lothar Cerny asserts that Fielding is “not a moral philosopher,” but rather he is a “poet providing his readers with images which ‘possess the sight of the soul’” (Cerny 313). I have to disagree with that statement, because though Fielding may be presenting ‘images of the soul,’ he is also ensuring that his readers interpret those ‘images’ in the way Fielding desires. Fielding does not limit himself to only showing us the moral conduct that he promotes, but also sharply satirizes and criticizes the opposites of his moral philosophy.

One example of Fielding’s satirical analysis of other moral philosophers is presented in the prefatory chapter to Book VI, “On love.” Here Fielding likens “certain philosophers” who maintain that love does not exist “in the human breast” to “finders of gold,” i.e. men who clean latrines (Fielding 233).

In reality, I am inclined to suspect that all these several finders of truth are the very identical men who are by others called the finders of gold. The method used in both these searches after truth and after gold being, indeed, one and the same, viz., the searching, rummaging, and examining into a nasty place; indeed, in the former instances into the nastiest of all places, A BAD MIND. (Fielding 233)

Fielding then continues to grant “some concessions” to those philosophers, and to state that “esteem and gratitude are the proper motives to love, as youth and beauty are to desire” (Fielding 235). Then he uses his rhetorical skills to persuade readers to embrace his views on love: Fielding exhorts readers to “examine” their hearts, and see if they will discover the truth of his view (Fielding 235). If we do, we can continue reading. If not, we are admonished that it would be better for us to put the book aside than to “throw away any more of [our] time in reading what [we] can neither taste nor comprehend” (Fielding 235). Fielding most likely begins with promoting his views on love because that is the easiest aspect of moral philosophy to obtain agreement from others.

In the introduction to Book VII, Fielding invokes the terminology of the theatre as an extended metaphor for discussing the conflict between passion and reason in humans.

A single bad act no more constitutes a villain in life than a single bad part on the stage. The passions, like the managers of a playhouse, often force men upon parts without consulting their judgment, and sometimes without any regard to their talents. (Fielding 286)

Thus, we the readers are encouraged to identify with “the man of candour and of true understanding” who “can censure an imperfection” without condemning the “guilty party” rather than aligning ourselves with the “worst of men” who “generally have the words rogue and villain most in their mouths” (Fielding 286). The proper conduct that Fielding is advocating here is that people should place a higher value on mercy than on justice, or at least, to temper justice with mercy. Fielding depicts this tempering of justice with mercy in the character of Mr. Allworthy.

Bibliography

Cerny, Lothar. “‘But the Poet…Never Affirmeth’: A Reply to Bernard Harrison.” Connotations 3.3 (1993-94): 312-17.

Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

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