I am still In the process of re-adding lost posts and ofcourse new posts are being brought to you as well. Whats still in the box of updates? let me see.. ah, quite a lot. Let me list them for you.

• Re adding more poems that got removed in the database crash.
• Fixing/replacing my community news box that has issues!
• Re adding the get back in shape posts.
• Re adding lyrics from my play list on the lyrics page.
• Changing the name “lyrics” to “music”.
• Re adding lost posts that I found back in Google cache
• And much more….

You might have noticed our new category “Where are you from?” That category is all about you. Well not directly about you, more about the place where you come from. Or actually ONLY about the place where  you are from.

On my blog I have a nifty tool that logs my visitors IP, with one simple click I can see where that IP is located. NAH dun worry I am not seeing where you live exactly, just the country and city. I simply google the city name and post some of the information I have found with ofcourse listing  the  sources where I got the information from. And that’s basically it. I thought it was a fun and interesting way to see a little bit more from our world. There is so many things I want to see and visit and explore and i have no clue where to start. Well this is a start, right here on my own blog and I will share it all with you! If you see your city listed and want to share something about the place where you live? Please let us know! I love input from my readers :).

One of my recent visitors, I do not know who, comes from Mountain View in California. Don’t worry I am not a stalker, I just wanted to travel arround the globe virtually and I virtually visit the places where my visitors come from.

From the information that Wikipedia gave us we now know that: “Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 70,708.”.

After Googling this city and looking at the many pictures I found, I can tell you it looks like a very nice and friendly place to live :). Mountain View have there own city website where you can find lots more information what this city has to offer.

Mountain View houses many of the notable companies that Silicone Valley has to offer, For example we find here the headquarters of Google, also called the Googleplex. Mozilla Foundation can be found there as well and a couple of Microsoft divisions and Symantic, you know from the antivirus software and such…

Ofcourse I can Google a lot more information and pictures from Mountain View but none if would be really very original. Instead I invite you, my visitors, to provide me with the kind  of information that I won’t be able to find that easely on the web. If you are from Mountain View and can tell us a story about the city then please do not be shy and tell us. Me and my readers like to know more about this city.

Ever tried to cut out a furry animal in photoshop to copy paste it onto a different image and did it look like the animal has been hit by a grass mower?  Now you can keep from this sort of digital animal abuse XD. Simply follow the steps in my tutorial and keep our pets save and happy :).

In this tutorial you will learn how to re-draw the fur on animals you have masked or cut out and chopped. This tutorial also includes the use of quick-mask, more uses for the “fur redraw trick” a different way of making a shadow in grass, and many other tips and tricks.

Don’t mind you, I am still in the progress of restoring this tutorial so If it is not completed yet with all images, please check back in a day or so. Thank you!!

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As you can see I have started to rebuild my blog. A lot of my poems have been re-added and I added a new section aswell.. Jokes :). I thought we all can use to laugh a little once in a while and I may not always have the mood to make a post depending on my time aswell.

Soon my blog will be ina top condition again once I have once again restored my photoshoptutorials and the lyrics too. Ofcourse my love story will be updated too some time but I am not sure how i will portrait that so I am holding the writing of that a little off yet.  Thats all for now since i’m a little tired with all the work i have allready done today on my blog. Take care all!!

I  found this poem somewhere on a website a couple years ago. Loved the text and thought it was a poem really fit for me. Since I do not know the author I can not credit it. The original place where I found this poem did not displayed an author either. Apologies for that.

I CAN

Can’t is a word that is foe to ambition;
An enemy ambush to shatter your will.
It’s prey forever to a man with a mission;
And bows only to courage, and patience, and skill.

So hate it with hatred that’s deep and undying,
For once it is welcomed twill break any man.
And whatever the goal you are seeking, Keep trying!
And answer this demon by saying, “I Can!”

Author Unknown

Today 01-02-2013 I did a search once again on this poem and I got a match that lead me here: http://sofinesjoyfulmoments.com/quotes/cant.htm

This poem above here was not a poem on its own it is two verses of a much larger poem. Since I like to keep it complete, I will post the complete poem with of course the authors name 🙂 Enjoy 🙂

Can't
Edgar Guest - 1916 - A Heap o' Livin'

Can't is the worst word that's written or spoken;
Doing more harm here than slander and lies;
On it is many a strong spirit broken,
And with it many a good purpose dies.
It springs from the lips of the thoughtless each morning
And robs us of courage we need through the day;
It rings in our ears like a timely sent warning
And laughs when we falter and fall by the way.

Can't is the father of feeble endeavor,
The parent of terror and halfhearted work;
It weakens the efforts of artisans clever,
And makes of the toiler an indolent shirk.
It poisons the soul of the man with a vision,
It stifles in infancy many a plan;
It greets honest toiling with open derision
And mocks at the hopes and the dreams of a man.

Can't is a word none should speak without blushing;
To utter it should be a symbol of shame;
Ambition and courage it daily is crushing;
It blights a man's purpose and shortens his aim.
Despise it with all of your hatred of error;
Refuse it the lodgement it seeks in your brain;
Arm against it as a creature of terror,
And all that you dream of you someday shall gain.

Can't is the word that is foe to ambition
An enemy ambushed to shatter your will;
Its prey is forever the man with a mission
And bows but to courage and patience and skill.
Hate it, with hatred that's deep and undying,
For once it is welcomed 'twill break any man;
Whatever the goal you are seeking, keep trying
And answer this demon by saying: "I can."