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The blog this week – 27 Feb, 2014

Just a quick snapshot of the posts for the past week ;)

Mongrel Barks

Saturday | Donna’s reaction to the Nose command 
The Nose to Hand command can be so practical in situations like moving the dog around without tugging on the leash and also really cool in canine freestyle. But what does Donna say?


Sunday | Keep your eyes on the rope toy, human
Four simple lessons from 1stWorldDog, that Donna shows can be universal truths. :)

Keep your eyes on the rope toy, humans!

And don’t forget to treat. ; )


Wednesday | Reinforcing Heel and why she LOVES it!
One of the things I am inconsistent about, besides training, is reinforcement and proofing. I know trained behaviours need to be continuously reinforced so that it is proofed to stick under various situations and environments, but it is yet another thing that chips away at the limited time we have. That happy face is good encouragement though. ;)


Photography Bytes

Tuesday | Snappy H’appy Photo Challenge – Watercolour
I try to fill each Snappy H’appy Photo Challenge post with relevant information that I find interesting for the Effect that we are exploring for the week. This week’s theme is Watercolor. So if you love to do more with your photos on your phone and find it relevant, click here and check it out!


Monday | The Kitchen Table
Did you ever trying styling buffet items for a food shot. Not easy, but it was fun. And the good thing about food photography is always … well, the food that you get to eat.

I thought this one came out rather interesting with the watercolor filter.


I’ve started adding some affiliate ads from Amazon to a small number of old pages on the blog, where relevant contextually. You may notice this box on the sidebar labelled “Donna uses this”, which lists a few products that have appeared on the blog before. All such ads are labelled advertisement, so you know. :) I don’t know what I’ll get out of it, if anything at all. :P

The last two days have been mildly frustrating as this blog keeps going down, something wrong with the hosting server. So I do apologise if you were unable to load the site properly, if at all, at times. I noticed I have lost a draft I was working on and that I had saved before the server problem. But after the site came back up, that saved draft was gone.

Backup is just such a pain right, but it’s absolutely essential when something like “omg the server crashed” hits you. So I’m now on VaultPress. They backup my data daily for $5/month. So, if you do more on your site than I do, e.g. you sell things or you’re liable to deliver content or numbers to an advertiser or like me, you just care deeply about every “golden” word you type :P Make sure you have backups, and that the backups include your entire database, NOT just a few templates. 

Anyway, next week Thursday is our blog anniversary, so check back here and see what else is different!  

Some of the posts that got me thinking or cracked me up from other blogs this week:


Thursday Barks and Bytes is hosted by 2browndawgs  and HeartLikeADog. 2Browndogs compares the Chesapeake Bay Retriever to the Rhodesian Ridgeback this week and Heart Like a Dog talks about a little lump on her dog Delilah.

The blog this week – Feb 20, 2014

Just a quick snapshot of the posts for the past week ;)

Mongrel Barks

Saturday  Begging, it can be pretty cute and entertaining when it’s done to family who don’t mind, or in fact find it amusing. But it can also be downright embarrassing when your dog harasses a stranger who is pointedly ignoring her. Regardless of the human’s opinions, Donna did persist in testing every family member on their propensity to dispense food when they were here over CNY. This is an older video though.


Wednesday Donna was never a dog that loves the camera. She would always look away. A treat or two who have made her less sour, but too bad, the human was pretty happy with her grumpy face that day. :P I just liked the way she was resting with one arm on her bed.

Talk to the paw, human! – she says


Photography Bytes

Tuesday Week 2’s topic of HDR has got me excited, check out the Challenge post here. We’ve got a Challenge Pinterest Board just today! I think it’s a great tool to share good photo examples for the themes and also our work. Linkytools is popular for bloghops, but the Pinterest group board shows up our photos better with its bigger thumbnails, and makes our content more shareable. :)


Monday While on staycation at W Hotel, I had the leisure to try out Mr P’s Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and its panorama function. Here are some black and white photos from it.  And if you haven’t, check out the gorgeous iPhone panoramas on Tom Palladio‘s page.


Sunday Let me take you to the night I visited Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto. It was awfully dark and you can hardly see the people’s faces, but the temple buildings and surrounding trees were artfully lit. My camera is not great at night photography, but here are some shots from it. I probably will continue to put out the rest of my Kyoto pictures on and off.


Friday So Valentine’s day has come and gone. Here’s a last look at the Dogs of #DonnaGiveMeWings if you have not seen them yet :)


Next month is going to be exciting because this blog turns 1. And Donna turns 5 this March too. Just some random chitchat with 1stWorldDog today has got me thinking more critically about the blog content so far, and I realised that it really is still lacking in many ways!  

Some of the posts that got me thinking or cracked me up from other blogs this week:

  • The #WOOFsupport blog hop – totally in love with the concept of the hop. Blog about a challenge that you are facing/working through with your dog and get some support with the rest of the group!
  • “Touch” a must for any dog trainer – we’re a little slow, but we started training targeting yesterday. The human finds this video inspirational because the end shows what are the awesome things that can eventually be accomplished by training “nose” or “touch”! :D
  • Canine eye exam – good to know that eye health if one of the things tested to recommend for or against a dog being bred. And Melvin has such beautiful eyes.
  • Is my dog a drama queen – Zani is such a sweet little dog.
  • Going to Crufts – I really love the sheltie’s expression and how it all makes the story come to live. Great photos ; )
  • Impromptu totem pole – cool dog photo!

Install and configure wordpress.org on a shared host

got bug?We’ve moved! Yes, you know or you wouldn’t be here. :P

Here are my initial thoughts on setting up this new self-hosted blog using WordPress.org on a shared server. I will come back and update this at a later stage when the whole move is completed and I had had the time to crystallize my thoughts and also to correct on any factual errors.

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