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Web Hosting Tutorial – How To Sign Up For A BlueHost Account?


If you have been using a free web hosting such as Blogger.com, you should know by now that you do not have much control over your Blog or website. Furthermore, Blogger.com has the right to shut down your Blog anytime if you did something wrong that violates their terms of use.

The best option is to switch it over to a self-hosted web hosting that requires a monthly subscription so that you could do whatever that you want on your Blog or website. Of course, the things that you do on your website have to be something that is done right morally, legally and ethically.

One of the most outstanding web hosting services, as recommended by online experts is BlueHost. In fact, BlueHost is well-known for its ease of use for hosting WordPress Blog. Furthermore, you get your own domain free when you sign up for the BlueHost service.

Bluehost offers installation script called Fantastico Installer. This is a good service that enables you to install quickly and easily wide verity of scripts, content management systems, blog and forum platforms. WordPress is the most popular and easy-to-use Blogging platform and it is among those scripts available for easy installation via Fantastico Installer with BlueHost.

However, the downside of using Fantastico is that it does not provide the latest WordPress version. Good news is that BlueHost has included another installer that is similar to Fantastico. This installer is called SimpleScripts that allows you to install scripts or the latest WordPress version of your website or Blog within minutes.

Here is a web hosting tutorial that shows you how to sign up for a BlueHost account :

==> Click here to SIGN UP

Breath-Taking Bicycle Stunts By Danny MacAskill


I didn’t know that there were so much that we could do on a bicycle until I watched a video clip featuring an amazing and breath-taking bicycle stunt.

A 23 year-old young man named Danny MacAskill has produced a set of stunts on his bicycle. Most of the moves are very breath-taking and they include riding across spiked railings, leaping across three-storey buildings, backflipping off a tree and so on.

Danny MacAskill is a street trial biker who rides for fun hoping that other riders would like his video filmed by his flatmate called Dave Sowerby. The filming was taken place in Edinburgh over a few months to capture every tricks done by Danny MacAskill.

Apparently, he has mastered an incredibly dangerous form of Bike Parkour (the art of movement) that people use every available urban or rural platform to choreograph a set of stunts.

The bicycle that Danny MacAskill uses to do his biking stunts is specially designed for street trial riding. I wonder how many bikes he has had replaced so far whenever a mistake is made 🙂

Enjoy the amazing video clip entitled “Inspired Bicycles” :

Three Reasons As To Why We Must Always Be Learning New Skills


As mentioned in my previous Blog post, we must always be ready to learn new skills especially when we are experiencing a major shift into technology-driven economies. Otherwise, those things that we know might soon be out-dated or irrelevant.

We have got no choice but to follow the trend if we wanted to stay up to par with the latest techonologies in order not to lose out to others.

There are thousands and one reasons as to why we have to learn new skills. I’m going to list down 3 reasons only over here. If not, the list can go on and on.

Firstly, it is good to learn new skills because this will make you a more versatile person who is often if not always ready to work on any kind of projects that might be assigned to you.

Secondly, the more skill sets that you have mastered will help you to pick up new ones easier and faster. It is like learning cooking, once you know how to cook 3 or 4 recipes, it becomes very easy to learn a new one.

Thirdly, if you are working online such as doing Internet marketing stuff, it is essential for you to learn how to design websites, design graphics, write simple programming codes and so on because the web is the fastest changing environment that we have.

So, it is time to have a good thought and stop your procrastination right now. Do your own brain-storming and start picking up a few new skills right away.