Leon’s Blog

DAY 3 - PHOTOS IN SMUGGLER’S NOTCH

More photos of the family on our third day of our ski vacation in Smuggler’s Notch, Vermont.

Merry Christmas!

and

Happy New Year!

Here are photos of the family on the first day of our ski vacation in Smuggler’s Notch, Vermont.

Here is a great site to share with your kids this Christmas Eve. How would you like to know precisely where Santa Claus is at any given moment this Christmas Eve? Well, using NORAD’s high tech radar system called the North Warning System you can do just that. Actually NORAD uses 4 different high tech systems to track Santa - radar, satellites, Santa Cams, and Jet Fighter Aircrafts. Check out NoradSanta.com this Christmas Eve to track Santa as he makes his journey to deliver gifts for millions of children all around the world. Complete with videos throughout the night of Santa flying in his sleigh with his reindeer over cities across the globe.

Other things you can do at NoradSanta.com:

• Send Santa an Email
• Find out how many cookies Santa eats during his trip around the world
• Play a Santa Puzzle Game
• Listen to Christmas music performed by the United States Air Force Academy Band
• Download a 12 page Santa Coloring Book
• Watch a promotional Norad Santa Tracking video
• and more…

Now you have a way of knowing when Santa is close to visiting your home.

Last year, I could have sworn I heard jingle bells over my house just as Norad was tracking Santa in my area.

Have a Merry Christmas!

I am relatively new to blogging and noticed over the past few months several posts with the title “Speedlinking: and the Date“. I had an idea of what it meant but I was curious to find a definition. I did a search on Google for “What is Speedlinking?” and I was surprised to NOT find a clear definition in the results. Then I tried Google Blog search, Yahoo!’s search, Microsoft Live search and many other search engines and still none of them had any definitions that jumped out at me. So, here is my definition of Speedlinking.

Speedlinking:

• What is it?
  Speedlinking, aka linking, blog-linking, or linkblogging is the practice of writing a brief post with hyperlinks to favorite websites or blogs. Usually the post will contain anywhere from 3 to 5 links and each link will be accompanied by a one line description and a one line personal opinion.

• Why do it?
  Many bloggers use this technique to quickly share links to blogs or websites that they found useful or relevant that day or week with their readers.
  Basically, it is a way to bring the growing community of bloggers closer together.
  I have come across speedlink posts that have more than 50 links. However, it is not a good idea to post that many links at once because it will be considered information overload and your readers will just skip over all of them.

• Who is doing it?
  Darren Rowse at ProBlogger.net
  Gleb Reys at PerfectBlogger.com
  Aaron Brazell at Technosailor.com
  Andrew Wee at WhoIsAndrewWee.com
  Glenn Wolsey at GlennWolsey.com

• Is it Dangerous?
  Only if you go too fast by linking sites that are not worth reading. In that case your blog may find itself alone on the Internet superhighway.
  And if that happens who cares how fast or how much you speed link, no one will be there to see it.
  Make sure the sites you link to are relevant and worth the time to read.

Calling for help. Leave me a comment if you want to add to the definition or have come across the origin of the term Speedlinking. I would also like to know if there are other terms with a similar definition or if speedlinking has other meanings than the definition above. Thanks.