On June 8, 2006, a friend asked the easiest way to make a website. I told him=>
(1) Go to Godaddy.Com, and find a website domain name you like.
... Start with a "dot com" suffix.
(2) Check on Vox.com to see if the "dot com" domain name is available.
(3) If not, repeat (1) and (2) until you get a match for other domain names ending in "dot net" or "dot org" or other endings.
(4) Claim the domain name at Godaddy.Com
(5) Open the blog at Vox.com. Add at least one page.
(6) Wait a day or two, then make the domain at Godaddy.Com "redirect" to your new blog at Vox.com.
(7) This should suffice until you are ready for a commercial website.
History Channel show on 25April2007 on inventions of the medieval Islamic countries from 800AD to 1600AD.
- Tea Serving Girl: Robot that serves tea every 7.5 minutes
- Antikathera Mechanism
- Al Gajera: Rebuilder and modifier of analogue time computer of brass wheels based on ancient Greek design. Like a modern mechanical watch, except 50 cm diameter (18 inch).
- Taki Al Din: Water drawn pump with six camshafts on a water-run piston.
- Al Jazari: inventor of improved pumps based on "shadoof"
- Water raising device No. 3: old design found in modern Damascus. Used from 1300s to 1970. Uses complex gears.
- I missed the vocal on a segment on an islamic sextant, the device for shooting the angle of the sun to determine longitude.
- Book of Knowledge of Ingenuos Mechanical Devices: Islamic book of blueprints of 50 inventions.
- Includes Al Jazari's clock run off candles: uses lead weight connected to pulleys.
- Elephant clock in Dubai. Similar to celestial clocks of China in 1300s. 8 Meters tall.
- Weapons from China. Trebuchet. Gunpowder. Fireproof uniforms. Torpedo that is a stingray-shaped rocket that skims above the water to attack a ship at waterline.
- Hassan Al Rama: in 1200's summarized state of gunpowder invented in China to be able too power rockets and cannons in 1377.
- The "St. Petersburg Manuscript" shows fireproof uniforms: sink underneath, cotton padded in middle, and wool outer. Small flammable bundles of linen attached to firecrackers where attached to the wool outer layer. These were lit as the soldiers charged into enemy calvary to scare horses.
- Stingray shaped torpedo that skimmed along surface of water. Richard Windley, UK model builder, build one.
The Tumon Beach tourist area, along with Marine Corps Drive north and south of there, may be the night time party zone of Guam.
But a mid-day tour on Sunday through Merizo (Malizo) shows this strip was the Day Time Party Capital of Guam today.
At least a dozen family gatherings must have been celebrating this afternoon. It may have been the festival of Saint Dimas.
Today I went to a smashing great party there, complete with one roast domestic pig (70 Lbs) and one roast wild pig (30 Lbs). The host shot the wild pig as it was invading his garden.
Received an invitation to a fiesta next week in Inarajan, in honor of Saint Jose.
Documentary of Japanese film maker who visits China to finish a documentary started by his soon-to-be-deceased son. Shows how a stubborn Japanese elder fisherman acts like a culturally-insensitive American when faced with the reality of another country's culture.
In this case, how a Chinese prison was double crossed by a foreigner who made a film the previous year, and portrayed the local bureacracy in a negative vein. Thereafter a second foreigner insists the only person who can portray a certain traditional tale is in an individual in prison. Finally the local prison and authorities are shown in a favorable light, and the foreign visitor looses his hard edge as well.
Realistic portrayal of Yunnan Province, the place in China with the largest ethnic diversity. And the former home of the real-life Bigfoot giganticus.
Chinese name is "Qian li zou dan qi" (2005)
..... http://imdb.com/title/tt0437447/
