Morph Chess: A Chess Variant Where Pieces Change After Every Move
I made a new chess variant called Morph Chess, and you can play Morph Chess against the computer here. The board starts from a normal chess…
Read articleIdeas, experiments, and notes collected over time.
Software and AI sit beside dance, travel, language, health, and personal essays. Search the full archive or choose a thread to follow.
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Still Building: A Professional Update
I realized recently that I have not written much publicly about what I have been working on, even though behind the scenes this has been one of…
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Why AI will not replace humans anytime soon
Here’s your text with only typos and awkward sentences corrected. I preserved your style and phrasing as much as possible. Corrected Version AI…
Read articleCoding big projects with AI
A common complaint about people who want to do “vibe coding” — which is basically using AI to write code interactively — is that once the project…
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Dao De Jing translated
The Dao De Jing is a writing that can be interpreted in many ways and each time you read it you may find that you see it in a different way. It’s…
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Why I settle in a less developed country?
Well, I still plan to spend plenty of time in the United States in the years. I also want to spend some time and other places like Thailand and…
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Bill and Bobbie Irvine | The Ballroom Elite Legends
Ballroom Elite Legends honors two of the most famous names in ballroom dance — Bill and Bobbie Irvine. Known for their perfect technique, amazing…
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Any human studies of Calcium AKG and increased lifespan?
I recently have been interested in longevity which I believe is a field that will be massively growing in the coming years, and one supplement…
Read articleLongevity studies: what’s hot right now?
Longevity seems to be a really fast developing field and of course, at my age, I want to do the best I can to live a long and healthy life. Some…
Read articleLongevity escape velocity roadmap 2025
The Road to Longevity Escape Velocity: A Strategic Framework for Staying Alive Long Enough to Reap the Benefits of Radical Life Extension As…
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Tips for reducing usage in cursor and avoiding repetitive loops
How to Avoid Wasting Credits on Cursor AI When You’re Stuck Someone recently asked me how to avoid getting into those repetitive loops where you…
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How money laundering works with fentanyl
Money laundering is complicated, which is one of the reasons it thrives. Let’s look at fentanyl, Mexico, and China… There are many Chinese…
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The universe is not shaped like a ball
Often when people think of something like the Big Bang, which is still highly speculative, they imagine the known universe starting as a single…
Read articleComparison: healthcare in the United States versus Canada
Something is not adding up… America vs. Canada: What Are We Paying For? In 2024, the U.S. spent $14,570 per person on healthcare—nearly 1.6x more…
Read articleGoogle losing search share?
Is Google finally going to start to decline? They have dominated search, and along with it, paid ad advertising, for more than a decade. Apple…
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How to Rehome a Cat: A Complete Guide for Responsible Pet Owners
Rehoming a cat can be one of the toughest decisions any pet owner will face. Whether due to unexpected life changes, financial difficulties, or…
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Nocturia in Men: Why You Wake Up to Pee at Night — and How Melatonin and Magnesium Might Help
Waking up to use the bathroom occasionally isn’t a big deal, but it can become quite frustrating when it happens every night. I had been having…
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Thai learning app: Thai letters and words
I built a new … Thai language learning app … mainly for myself, but I thought I would share it with the rest of the world. There are two main…
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Travel Hacks to Save Money as a Digital Nomad
Life on the road can get expensive, but with a few clever strategies, you can stretch your budget, enjoy better experiences, and travel longer…
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Are you superstitious about numbers?
When you’re presented with a set of numbers or you have to choose one, are there certain numbers you avoid? For me, I tend to do the opposite. I…
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The water in our body comes from everything
How Many Water Molecules Are in Your Body? The human body is about 60% water by weight. If you weigh around 185 pounds (~84 kg), that means: ~50…
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Determining the strike zone
I never realized that the top of the strike zone was between the top of the shoulders and the top of the pants on a baseball player. I thought it…
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Affirmations in English, Chinese and Spanish
Daily Affirmations for Strength, Clarity, and Growth Most days when I get on the elliptical machine at the gym, I use a set of affirmations like…
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Yoga and longevity
I started practicing yoga because I found there were certain parts of my body that were becoming less flexible such as my upper thoracic spine…
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Meta AI using content from LibGen and Z-Library?
Interesting story where Meta torrented nearly 100 TB of books from the pirate site LibGen and Z-library. This is virtually ALL books. It would…
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Sichuan-Italian Fusion
Sichuan-Italian fusion. Bowtie pasta with assorted vegetables and sichuan peppercorns. If you have never had Szechuan peppercorns, it’s…
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Common Greetings for the Year of the Snake
Well, the Chinese New Year just past, and it is now the year of the snake according to the Chinese Lunar Calendar. And this is a time when…
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Top WordPress Alternatives 2025
Very interesting to see that ChatGPT is mentioning phpLD as a top Wordpress alternative! This is a PHP CMS that I created with the help of a team…
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DeepSeek vs ChatGPT: China is catching up
Last night I installed the new LLM chat tool called DeepSeek, and I found it to be quite awesome! First of all, it is much faster at replying and…
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AI Viennese Waltz: Erie and beautiful
Well, I made a Viennese Waltz song with AI and I am pretty impressed. I’m not sure that I would be able to tell that this was made with AI, which…
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Lacy Park Closed so walked up the staircase to see the nearby neighborhood
I went to a couple of places I haven’t been to in a long time because I haven’t been in California recently. But today I went to a Thai…
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Migration from TikTok to Little Red Book.
I’ve been getting some messages from my Chinese friends that everybody is switching from TikTok, over to a Little Red Book 小红书. I’ve used it…
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Remembering my lesson with Andrew Sinkinson
So yesterday, a great dancer by the name of Andrew Sinkinson passed away and will be greatly missed. There’s a big RIP Andrew Sinkinson thread on…
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S&P 500 P/E ratio in near record territory
If we look at the price to earnings ratio or P/E ratio for the S&P 500 right now it’s right around 30 which is nearly unprecedented. It was only…
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Icy conditions in Buford Georgia
It snowed yesterday, followed by some freezing rain and sleet, and the roads were not very safe to drive on. A lot of people were getting stuck…
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Success with the 16:8 Intermittent fasting diet
I first started hearing about intermittent fasting a year or two ago. I believe there were some people like Rich Roll, who were making some…
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Step on Small People 踩小人
My friend sent me a picture of the socks, and I had a little difficulty finding the meaning. Especially the first character was hard to read, but…
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Crêpe with egg, cheese, ham, and some more goodies
This came out pretty good. It’s a crêpe with scrabbled eggs, black forest, ham, multicolored peppers, some pepper, jack and cheddar cheese mix…
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Too many ads on Facebook and Google means declining market share
Is it just me or is Facebook putting more ads inside the feeds these days? When I scroll down, I feel like there’s more ads than before. I just…
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Personal care home in Buford, Georgia
Well, my mom has been living at generous care personal care home for nearly a month now and I’m pleased with the results so far. There’s many…
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AI shoes: some amazing styles to choose from!
Perhaps 20 years ago I worked for Showtime dance shoes in Atlanta, Georgia and I learned a lot about dancing shoes. Many moons ago there was a…
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Overcoming procrastination is part of most New Year’s resolutions
I think everyone experiences the feeling that they are procrastinating sometimes. That’s often just because the path to completing something or…
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Painting of an old mill in the fall, likely somewhere in North Carolina
This is a painting that hung in my grandparents house for many years and was hung in my parents house. My grandmother, Mary Vogt DuVal painted…
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Marriage of Mary Bonita Vogt and James David DuVal
I don’t know whether to call this a plaque or a surfing tray, but this hung in my grandparents house for many years. I can see at the bottom of…
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Using ChatGPT to assess CT scans of the brain
It’s interesting how if I ask ChatGPT about the scans, it basically tells me the same thing the doctor told me and maybe a little bit more. It…
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Sweet Hut in Buford
This café has a little bit of a 85° bakery feel and they have a section of baked goods where you can get a tray and go choose the ones you like…
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Joro Spider
This appears to be a Joro spider weaving a web in the backyard. It seems the spiders came from East Asia, but have been more and more common in…
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Most expensive pretzel
Most expensive pretzel $14 Yes, for the heck of it we ordered a $14 pretzel. I bought it at a place called Parma’s Tavern in Buford, Georgia. It…
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Travel idea: Kazungula quadripoint area
This seems like a cool idea and I’d get the opportunity to visit four countries. It looks like it would cost somewhere around $1300-$2000…
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My Zodiac Sign: Cancer, Ruling Planet: the Moon
I won't say this is all true, but this is a technical analysis of my Zodiac sign. It is interesting to read. :) My Zodiac Sign: Cancer (June 21 -…
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My trip to Paris and the Eiffel Tower
Below are some pictures from my trip to Paris and the Eiffel Tower. A lot of people were telling me that Paris had become a lot more dangerous…
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Replit review
So after hearing some good things about Replit, I decided to give it a try. It’s basically an AI application for building apps and writing…
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ChatGPT speaking Thai and Cantonese much better
One improvement that I haven’t seen mentioned by many is the improvements ChatGPT is making on a wider and wider array of languages in terms of…
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Language Learning Apps (private lesson teachers)
So for a long time, I was taking lessons on Italki. During Covid I took a Chinese lesson every day and I remember at that time I was paying…
Read articleA caregiver for the Kurklis family
So after I got the news that my mom had been in the hospital, I soon came back to my hometown of Atlanta. This is not something I was expecting…
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Embracing Ai (or not)
As I think about the influence AI has made on the digital landscape in a short period of time, and factoring in the speed at which things are…
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Work-Life Balance and Personal Growth: The Key to Staying Resilient
As an entrepreneur, balancing work and life can feel like walking a tightrope. It's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day of running…
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Core Web Vitals and Adsense seem to correlate
I just made an interesting discovery about how Google’s Core Web Vitals can impact AdSense earnings—and it’s not what I expected! Here’s what…
Read articleBig Dalton Wilderness Area (Shady Hike in LA)
Of course Los Angeles can get pretty hot in August, so I was looking for a shady hike not too far from where I live in Azusa, and I was…
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Amateur Luna Cats Pencil and Pen Drawings ルナ
I actually didn't know about about Luna Cats (ルナ, Runa), but when I had covid in 2021, I drew a lot of drawing including these of Luna Cats…
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Who Am I? 我是谁？
This was one of the slides at an event I attended last night. Everyone spoke Chinese, and the speaker gave a lecture for more than an hour about…
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Commemorating the Monterey Park Shooting
I had the honor (finally) of coming to see many of the survivors of the Monterey Park shooting that occured on January 11, 2023 in which 11…
Read articleChinese and English Meetup group in Irvine
It's been about 3 years since I became the organizer of the Irvine Chinese and English Meetup group. Not only do we have a Meetup.com group with…
Read articleBought a New Car
Well, I finished my trip around the world, and I was in Los Angeles for a month without a car. I rented a car and I decided it’s better. I go…
Read articleFinding Hope: My Journey to Tinnitus Habituation
In early 2021 I got Tinnitus, which is a constant ringing in the ears. The tinnitus was probably triggered by one of three things: Stress Covid…
Read articleMarvelous Hiking and Ziplining at Waterfalls near Yaremche, Ukraine
I had a great time hiking with Volodymyr and Julia to a waterfall near Yaremche Ukraine. The night before we spent the night at a resort in…
Read articlePost-Soviet Palace of Culture: beautiful relic or symbol of communism?
I had a great time taking these pictures and talking with a couple of locals. I asked them if the Soviets built it, or the Polish, and they said…
Read articleDiscovering the UAE: Surprising Freedom, Diverse Cultures, and Modern Marvels
A Welcoming Blend of Cultures and People The United Arab Emirates is an amazing place, and surprisingly open and free. of course it’s two main…
Read articleCelebrity Moment: Hobnobbing with Tom Arnold and Gwen Stefani at a Cancer Benefit
It's been a while (2018?), so I don't remember all the details, but I recall this was a Cancer benefit, and perhaps it was the Fred Hutchinson…
Read articleAmateur Drawings of Harry Potter Characters
Back in 2021 when I was having sleep problems during Covid, I made a series of drawings, including the below Harry Potter characters: Harry…
Read articleA Lifetime of Connections and a New Era of Exploration
Early Life and First Steps in Travel Recently I heard someone say this is the Age of Travel, and talking about how easy it has become to travel…
Read articleIndia Culture Shock: Food Poisoning and Trash Collection
Balancing Respect and Sharing Experiences When it comes to posting about my travel experiences, I feel like sometimes there’s a balance I have to…
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The Societe of Mareen Duvall Descendants Document
This document is a scanned September 1983 issue from The Societe of Mareen Duvall Descendants, preserved here as part of my family archive and…
Read articleOur cats photos from Spring 2002
Captain Eartha Kitty Prissy Prissy-Captain Prissy-Captain Prissy-Captain Eartha Eartha-Prissy Captain Captain Prissy & Captain Prissy These are…
Read articleVogt Photo Album
Albertus Vogt 1907 Jessie Moorer & Lillian Corrine Chapman Jessie Moorer 1954 Albertus and a Chapman Albertus Vogt 1885
Read articleJohn M. Voght and Miss Maggie Vassie – Marriage Certificate
John M. Voght and Miss Maggie Vassie Marriage Certificate
Read articlePearl N. McEwen – History Needs Attention
How fitting it is, after so many years, for our families to meet hereduring Dunnellon's celebration of its past, to which our Vogt family…
Read articleAlbertus Vogt – Moving Notice and Obituary
From The Leesburg Commercial (1904) _____ By _____ NE South & East Fla. Publishing Co.JOS. H. C. PRATT, - - Editor. We notice by the Bartow…
Read articleAlbertus Vogt – To My Sweetheart
North StreetLakeland (FL) 1914 To-my-Sweetheart (Dedicated to Marguerite.)now my wife God's truest artist wrought your formWith subtle graces in…
Read articleAlbertus Vogt – Article from Ocala Daily Banner
This is taken from a newspaper article, written by Albertus Vogt, and publishedin the Ocala Daily Banner, Wednesday, August 10, 1910. Albertus…
Read articleLife in Florida – by Albertus Vogt
Copy ofNewspaper Clipping, dated June 28, 1889 LIFE IN FLORIDA by ALBERTUS VOGT THE WITHLACOOCHEE "The water-lily dips its vase of snowOn many a…
Read articleAlbertus Vogt – Excerpts from a personal autobiography
Excerpts from a personal autobiography of Albertus Vogt, which was printed in the Ocala Banner in 1893. "In my memory there is a sacred picture…
Read articleA Tribute to a Benefactor – by L. L. Aiken
From: The Dunnellon Citizen C. Y. Miller, Publisher Published Every Friday Member of the Florida Press Assn.Ore Dollar a Year Affiliated with the…
Read articleFrom Grandmother Marguerite Vassie Vogt’s Bible
FAMILY RECORD Marriages Page 1: John W. Vogt and Maggie Vassie, married November 21, 1889 at Dunnellon, Florida. Adelaide Bonita Vogt and Claude…
Read articleA brief description of a beautiful lady our grandmother Margaret Vassie Vogt
Below follows an article written by my grandmother, Mary Vogt Duval. I never new I had ancestors from Hamilton, Ontario! A kind, loving…
Read articleJohn Walker Vogt Letter August 17, 1901
JOHN WALKER VOGT Margaret Vassie's first husband was a tall, handsome man with blue eyesand black hair, who was known to be a gentle…
Read articleWhat Is David DuVal doing now?
many people have been asking what David Duval has been doing recently. I'm not sure which David Duval they're talking about, but since people are…
Read articleDavid DuVal Net Worth
So being in digital marketing and web development, of course I am always studying websites to see what attracts people to them. Unfortunately, I…
Read articleAuroIN
It has been a great please to come to Bhubaneswar, India to visit one of the Auroin offices. 20 years ago I met the owner, and he was just…
Read articleDomeey
I don't always post about software projects that I am involved in, but this one is interesting, because it is the first app our company created…
Read articleMorning Prayer
This is a prayer my grandparents read to me by my bedside as I was preparing to go to sleep as a child: "Father, we thank you for the night and…
Read articleMonterey Park Shooting
In the blink of an eye 20+ people were shot at the studio where I worked for 10 years. The manager that hired me, Mr. Ma, who I knew very well…
Read articleChinese Dialects Project
I always try to keep one fun project for myself that consumes around 10% of my time. Over the years I have dabbled in many different software…
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Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes
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The Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie
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French Buttercream Macarons
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The BEST BBQ Chicken Pizza
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Smoky Chipotle Burger Patties
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Chocolate Spice Cake
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Read articleFourth Chinese Novel – 骆驼祥子
Mostly I write here simply to document my progress in Chinese. With each book I read, I look up fewer and fewer characters, but it still requires…
Read articleVogt Family Documents
My grandmother maintains many records about our family, which I believe my mother has now, but here follows a little bit of what I have: John…
Read articleHow Vietnamese nail salons got their start in America
I never realized that there is an actress named Tippi Hedren who was in the movie The Birds, and who was an inspiration to Vietnamese people who…
Read articleI’m related to Charlemagne
Perhaps there are millions of people related to Charlemagne, but I am one of them, and my grandmother was an avid genealogist, who spent hours…
Read articleMy First Post in 2002
Just made a couple of small edits (I don't like broken links or bad formatting). At the time, I was probably using Dreamweaver. June 4th, 2002 -…
Read articleThe TIGER Approach to Life
My grandfather told me long ago about the TIGER approach to life, and it is as true today as ever. I hope you will think through this for your…
Read articleFailed Ideas
Failed ideas are great if you went through the process of trying to make something work, but you learned a lot in the process, and I suppose in…
Read articleDispel Melancholy Grocery Store
Well the name doesn't translate very well (Amazon books uses this translation as well), but I just finished reading this book. It the second full…
Read articleEnjoying my New Chromebook
In internet years, I think a long time time passed during which time there was no suitable alternative to Windows at a good price. Sure, there…
Read articleActivating your Creative Mind
This is something I wrote May 11, 2007, and I've "revived" it (hopefully my creative mind too!) :) Part 1 You are looking at the computer monitor…
Read articleMy Cats in 2006
In 2006, Shelley and I had 3 cats: Captain, Prissy and Eartha. Here they are... :) Prissy is Orange. Captain is White and you can see he lost an…
Read articleDo you love your enemy?
I wrote this a long time ago, June 3, 2007. Some of my writings were lost, but I wanted to revive this one. I liked what I wrote at the time: In…
Read articleYou want to hear me speak Chinese?
So with that exciting homepage where I told you I speak Chinese, you probably were curious to hear me speak Chinese, or else you wouldn't have…
Read articleA nice poem I got from the Beijing Daily Newspaper
去交让自己开心的朋友 去爱不会人自己流泪的人 去向自己想去的方向 去完成不论大小的梦想 生活应该是美好而又温柔的 你也是 To make friends with happy people To love people who won't let themselves cry To go…
Read articleDSM Summer Update
We are about halfway through the Summer, and DSM is going as smooth as ever. Last year (2017), we put a lot of work into improving the stability…
Read articleVietnamese Typing Practice
Khi rảnh rỗi, tôi thích học tiếng Việt và tiếng Trung. Để trở thành thành thạo, đó là một con dường dài,nhưng nếu tôi luyện tập hàng ngày, tôi…
Read article好久不见
The title of this post means: "Long Time, No See", and it is pronounced: "Hao Jiu Bu Jian". This was one of the first songs I learned to sing in…
Read article就写中文一点
今天我决定做新的设计在网站。 如果你是中国人，我觉得你会注意我的语法有几个错误。对不起！但是我真喜欢学习中文。所以我就练习写几个不同的信息。在这个信息从来我不用词典，就写几个句子。我的词汇不大，所以我就写知道的单词。谢谢！现在我要写几个越南语的句子，因为我喜欢学习越南语。哈哈😄 Tôi…
Read articleLanguage Studies
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Read articleWhatever Happened to David DuVal?
You might have found me here because of my email address, or maybe you were searching for the famous golfer, David DuVal (I am not him). You will…
Read articlePortfolio
For more information, be sure to check out the NetCreated Projects page. Honestly, I have been involved in the creation of so many websites…
Read articlePrivacy Policy
Who we are Our website address is: https://david-duval.com. What personal data we collect and why we collect it Comments When visitors leave…
Read articleToday is my Birthday
Today was a relaxing day, and I enjoyed it very much. It wasn't that different from other days, but had some nice surprises, and I was around…
Read articleDeveloping the Core Groups for Running Your Website
If you ask some of the great business leaders of our time, and times past, what made them so successful (?), you will find very often their…
Read articleImproving Link Quality
When a site reaches a large size over time, it is very easy to accumulate lots of dead links. For example, on a forum, users may include links in…
Read articleTaking Advantage of the Down Times
My wise grandfather told me that it is easy in the good times, but it is the people that can keep their wits in the down times that will do the…
Read articleGrowth of the Directory Industry Continues
Thanks to a new report from Web-directories.ws, it is possible to see that the directory industry is still going strong. Sometimes as we see…
Read articlePatience with Search Engine Optimization
I find so often people ask questions related to how they can quickly "optimize" their site to rank highly. And what is also very common is people…
Read articleMaria Callas
I first heard the song watching a ballroom dance couple from Italy dancing a Waltz to it. The dance was so beautiful because it was enhanced by…
Read articleSmoke in Atlanta
I've never seen anything like it. There is smoke throughout the city. You walk outside and the visability is very low. For me it is causing my…
Read articleBath in Epsom Salt
I just had a nice, relaxing epsom salt bath. It really does wonders in making the body feel better. I never really knew much about what it does…
Read articleWorking with Nice People
I was speaking to a lady who had run a multi-million dollar translation service the other day. She has decided to sponsor us in he relatively new…
Read articleRoyal Ancestors
Charlemagne(768-814)=Hildegard Pepin, King of Italy Bernard, King of Italy Pepin de Peronne, Count of Vermandois Pepin de SenlisHerbert I, Count…
Read articleMount Vernon, Jamestown, DC Trip – Summer 2002
Shelley-Whitehouse Shenandoah Washington-monument. Capital David-Garden-MtVernon David-Mount-Vernon David-Whitehouse DaVinci Dorothy-slippers…
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