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David — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:49:12 +0000

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My Cafe

David — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:18:15 +0000

As you may know, my day job is running a couple of Cafe’s.

I am the manager of The Well Cafe. The Cafe is a peaceful little cafe that offers a place to take a break from daily life and enjoy a good cup of coffee. We brew Caffe Umbria coffee, a wide bodied Italian Coffee, which, surprise surprise, is roasted in none other than Seattle.

If you would like to come by and check out the cafe, let me know, your coffee will be on me

The Cafe is located at 3271 Dunbar St. in Vancouver, BC.
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Planting Bamboo

David — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:18:47 +0000

One day a man planted a bamboo seedling. He cared deeply for it, so each day he watered it and tended to it, always making sure it had the proper sunlight to grow. After a year’s time, the man saw that the plant had not grown at all, but he continued to water it, tend to it, and make sure it was nourished by proper sunlight. Again, after the second year the plant had not grown. He watered and tended it through the third year and the fourth. Suddenly, as if by magic, in the fifth it began growing. In fact, it grew two and a half feet a day until in six weeks it was ninety feet tall.

The things you start in your life – relationships, businesses, new endeavors, new projects, are all bamboo plants. This illustration is very closely mirrored in Network Marketing, except that if you’re in the right one, you can start making money fast, and when you hit critical mass you can’t believe the growth. Those who make twenty or a hundred thousand dollars a month are not smarter than anyone else – they just kept on when all the others left.

Calvin Coolidge said, “Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; un-rewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.”

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Winners NEVER quit. With a winner, it’s not about “IF” – it’s about “WHEN”. What will YOUR life look like in five years?

Happy New Year!

David — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:08:04 +0000

Happy New Year!

Here’s to a great, fun, profitable, and healthy 2010!!!

Who Am I

David — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:18:11 +0000

I finally did a “who am I” page.

Check it out! Click on the Top right corner to find out who I am!

My Links to Friends

David — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:56:31 +0000

I have decided to update my list of Friends in the Blogging world.

The List as of Now:
Friends

Derrek Semmler:

Derrek doesn’t post as much as he used too, but he’s got a special spot on my friends list. He and I started our blogs at the same time. The only difference, he was more consistent and more successful. Well, at least in the past

John Chow:

When I was first starting out, I would read John’s blog several times a day. I learned tons from him, and still do every time I go to his site. I have met him on several occasions, and he’s a super nice guy.

Stephen Fung:

Stephen Fung is a Local Techie. He was born in BC and rides around Vancouver on a scooter! Who wouldn’t want to link to his site!

I will be adding as I go, if I am intrigued by your blog, and become a regular reader!

Firestats wrong?

David — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:44:31 +0000

So I haven’t been on my own blog for a while, and just logged in and noticed that my firestats are claiming that I am getting about 70-80 unique visitors a day!

That’s even better than when I was blogging daily! Wow! This not paying attention is really paying off!

However, Google Analytics is telling me that I am getting about 0-2 visitors a day. Sadly, I’m going to go with Google on this one, I’m pretty sure that’s a bit more accurate given the amount of posts in the past year or so

Stay Tuned!!

David — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:26:42 +0000

I am in the middle of a busy little bit of life, and although it’s full, I’m thinking up posts to write! Here is what is coming up!

Yesterday I took in the Super Ironman Finals of Storm the Wall, a small report and a video will be posted soon
Tonight I am going to the Vancouver International Auto Show, I’ll share my thoughts and pictures with you all
I’m playing with my new toy, my Nikon D80 and intend on writing a review on it, why I chose it, why I like it, and share my experiences with my photography course that I am taking.

Stay tuned!!

A Long Break!!

David — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:20:35 +0000

Well, lots has happened over the past two months. I have been busy, school, holidays (whoever said holidays meant more time??), the new year, school starting up again. The list goes on. My blog has suffered, and it bothers me. However, apparently not enough that I can consistently keep my blog active. I have been blogging for just short of a year now, and have had several months in there where no posts whatsoever have appeared. Other months, on the other hand, have had a post a day. One of the problems with doing this, is that every time a break happens, visitors decrease, and I have to build up traffic again when I start again. This is not the way to keep regular traffic.

All this being said, I would like to be a regular blogger, but with my school schedule this term, add in a part time job, and it doesn’t leave me much time. And I am one who will always make time for fun and friends, so blogging may not be a regular thing. I will, hopefully be fairly regular, but we shall see how that goes. It mostly will depend on the work load from my studies.

Akismet Spam update

David — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:49:37 +0000

Five days after setting up and running Akismet Spam, I am pretty much spam free. I did get one spam comment, but that’s ok, I can deal with that. According to the Akismet plugin, it has stopped 368 spam comments since I activated it.

Best of all, it does all this in the background, without making my readers decipher a Captcha image every time they want to comment.