A few good notes

Either you think

positive

‘bout yourself

Either you think

negative

‘bout yourself

Either way

you’re right

It’s how you see

yourself

That’s how the outcome

will be

So, keep thinking!

Think!

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The report that he had

touched her

sent me

walking down a path.

Past anger hate and rage

to a deeper

purer wrath.

There is a darkest corner

far beneath

emotions veil,

Where the calm

of deadly vengeance

gives no quarter

for betrayal.

There’s no remorse

or fear of consequence,

just a hunger for a kill,

The report said

he had touched her,

and touch him back

I will.

Submitted by the Rogue and Poet, http://www.johneyler.com

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i also have a few good notes and finally i found a site to write them.

Edit by Stretsh:

This is nice. But let us try to only post the poems here, and have discussions in the comments.

So when you register and login, use the Site admin area to post your poem. If you want to say how you feel, ask questions, or contribute other than posting your poem, please look for an appropriate post and add a comment.

This is the way we shape it together!
Stretsh

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Today is World Poetry Day. According to Wikipedia

World Poetry Day is on March 21, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999. The purpose of the day is to promote the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry throughout the world and, as the UNESCO session declaring the day says, to “give fresh recognition and impetus to national, regional and international poetry movements.”

Let us all enjoy this day appropriately. Write some poetry (and post it here), read some poetry for an audience, visit poetry readings somewhere in your neighborhood.

If you’ve had a nice experience today, let us know about it.

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I am in the process of changing my blog to a poetry blog, where everyone can post their poem to be rated and commented on by visitors. What are the benefits for you?

1. Your can have a free link to your own blog/site when you register as author.
   When visitors click on your name under the title of your poem, they find your information with a link to your site.
2. You stimulate your creative writing abilities
3. You could possibly win some prizes, who knows. Who knows what good being the poet with the most votes can bring you.
4. You could get discovered for your hidden poetic abilities
5. You are helping me to build this poetry blog

Just make sure you read the rules, so you know what the boundaries are.

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Why are roses red?
Why are violets blue?
There’s on thing for sure
They don’t look like you

Roses and violets can’t match you
in beauty, and radiance
They don’t even come close
in softness and fragrance

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Yeah you too!

This blog is now open to everyone with some poetic feeling to get their poetry on. Just post your poems, or vote for your favorite. This poetry blog ill shape itself eventually.

Things you should do
You should start by reading the rules. Then you can either write your own poem or vote and comment on poems by others. To write your own poem, you need to have an account.

I also would love to hear from you if you know ways to help build this poetry blog to become the place for poetry online.

Now, go ahead and write your few good notes!

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I recently joined Bloggst, a forum for bloggers.

This is a nice simple forum where bloggers share ideas and help eachother. It’s not your busiest forum yet, because it seems to have just been started, but it has something attractive to it.

I enjoy it. Maybe you will too. If you decide to take a look, just go ahead and mention my username (Stretsh) as referrer.

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The world is looking a lot smaller because the Internet connects people and businesses around the world to eachother. The use of a computer is becoming part of our life, just as the telephone did. And having a computer goes hand in hand with being connected to the Internet.

Suriname seems to be a decade behind these developments. now we are at the point where people are starting to understand the good use of a computer. More companies and households use computers nowadays. But the awareness of the power of the Internet still needs a lot of work. A lot of people talk about how important the Internet is. But maybe the local Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can be partially blamed for not giving the Internet the place in society that it should have.

Our options
We have 2 ISPs in Suriname. One is Telesur, a government owned company and the other is CQ-Link. Telesur actually has the the telecom monopoly in Suriname, but CQ-Link found a way to bypass that monopoly and provide Internet services. After that it has been made impossible for anyone else to start an ISP.

Telesur offers 2 types of Internet connection to the regular consumer: Dialup and ADSL.

• Dialup: This connection type has no setup fees. There is a monthly fee of US$15, plus you pay for the time you spend using your telephone line. Of course this connection is limited to a maximum of 56KBit/sec.
• ADSL: This connection type requires a total of US$315 to set up. In this price the purchase of a modem is covered. This modem, however, is protected by Telesur, so there is virtually nothing a customer can do with the modem. Then there is a monthly fee of US$55 for their smallest package that provides the consumer with an up/down maximum connection of 128KB/64KB. There are other, more expensive packages. The corporate user for instance will pay a lot more for a basic package, because these accounts are in a smaller pool of users, and they get a free .sr domain name and hosting.

CQ-Link also offers dialup connections but is left to use wireless technology for broadband. Telesur will not license them to use the existing infrastructure for cables services.

Because of these high prices, considering that an average person gets a salary of about US$150 a month, people don’t get themselves a connection to the Internet. The Internet Cafés do offer a way out, and they do provide a great services, but even they are limited by what the ISPs have to offer. But leaving the home to visit such an Internet café presents other limitations, so Internet is used a lot less then it should.

Hope
Our ministry of Transport, Communication and Tourism (yes, I know, a weird combination of responsibilities) is now working on the liberation of the telecom sector. This liberation was promised to be in effect as of January 1 2005, but it’s still not done. 2 new companies have already done everything for their part, but we are waiting for the government to make their move.

Even though these new companies will mainly focus on mobile technology (probably without Internet), this gives us hope that in the not too distant future we will also have some relieve when it comes to using the Internet.

PS: now when I need to submit this article, it looks like the DNS servers of Telesur are down again! Karma?

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Right now I am at a crossroad when it comes to my career. I need to decide whether I keep designing websites or change to a more troubleshooting and problem solving related career. I seem to be better in that area.

Read about my dilemma in my other blog.

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