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Well, it’s done … blog migration made easy!

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I have had an old blog located at http://www.my.investorblogger.com for quite some time. In fact, that was the original blog that was posted here, but when I decided to redo this blog (and blow my PR5 ranking in the process), I moved it the subdomain. It was a move that I deeply regretted for that reason… I didn’t realize what a PR5 actually meant! Oh, well. Easy come, easy go.

Anyway, earlier this year, I registered my new domain but was undecided what to do with that for a long time. I have had several ideas, including running muWordpress on it and creating lots of sub-blogs… but who has the time for more than two or three! Right now, I’m just going to keep it simple, though.

First, I’ll reestablish that blog with the required number of posts for Payperpost, tweak its direction so its a more general blog that can handle a wider range of issues. Still, I’m not sure what to do with the old finance/tech postings. Perhaps I’ll just leave them there.

Anyway, here’s my welcome notice for that blog… Do visit it!

Welcome to Obblogatory.com! This is the home of my ‘other’ blog! Originally, I started my primary blog at InvestorBlogger.com but I soon found that the topics I can blog about there were much more limited than what I was comfortable blogging about! So I moved my blog here with the intention that that space should take up the slack!

In doing so, I found that I sacrificed my PR rating on Google! My original blog was a PR5, and I didn’t know how to use it! Now it’s just a 3! Now I’m wiser, and just starting a new blog, that will allow me to build a blog that is more in keeping with my other interests! Moreover, it still didn’t sit comfortably!

That’s when I found a new domain based on the original name of the first blog! I managed to register it! And lo! I have a new blog! To welcome the visitors, I thought I’d add a nice photograph of a lovely restaurant that we went to! It’s called ‘Olive’ in SanChih in Sanchih County, in Northern Taiwan. While the food wasn’t that great, (so no photographs!), the environment was lovely, and the waitresses were very friendly and attentive to all their customers! We wouldn’t recommend the food, but the drinks should be okay, and the environment is wonderful!

Welcome!

Elaine Gilmour: Blogging for ESL

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I’d like to just say a big thank you to Elaine Gilmour for hosting her blog with me. Originally, she signed up some months ago with me, but because of her busy schedule, she didn’t have as much time to devote to her blog. In fact, I found that she has also been using a .mac website, quite a different animal to Wordpress.

Elaine is a professor in ESL in Sendai University. She is developing her blog to publish her research as well as reach out to other professionals in the ESL/EFL world (which is widely dispersed around the globe!).

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Of the 50 or so themes installed by default that she has to choose from, she opted for “Lush for Wordpress” which is quite an attractive website design. With her blog, she got lots of extra hosting power for her blog, including sub-domains to her main domain (a much shorter address than her .mac address!), a wonderful blogging tool – Wordpress (keeps getting better with every update!), lots of space and bandwidth, and as much help as I can give her! Good luck, Elaine!

Do you want to be your own boss? 84% in Taiwan…!

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Here’s an interesting story from the local press in Taiwan.

Over 84 percent of office workers polled in Taiwan have great interest in starting their own business, according to the results of a survey released yesterday by an online employment service provider.

Taiwan office workers want to be boss: poll – The China Post

As a part owner in my own business for the last seven years, I’ll say it has been a major challenge in ways that you wouldn’t expect, as well as ways you might realize.

  • It’s a time sink – Holidays and sick days are much fewer if you’re the boss;
  • Managing money is a continual activity;
  • You can never really take your eyes off the ball;
  • There’s no real sense of “I made it”;
  • and You have a lot more control of your day to day affairs!

Would I change it? I don’t think so. If I weren’t running this business full-time, I’d surely have something else up my sleeve (I have usually had several pokers in the fire at one time!). Are the sacrifices worth it? I don’t know. Yet. I hope so.