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As I said before, I like visiting university websites for various reasons. Some of the reasons are to find what I can use to improve my university’s website, to get information about education in other places, to see student activities, to learn their structures and all.

These past weeks, I’ve visited UTD (University of Texas at Dallas) a lot. Although is university is not among the oldest in America, and of course not one of the Ivy League, this website very complete. You can find almost all things you need to know about the campus. Besides, information, you can also use some webservices for 1) getting admissions, 2) applying for scholarships, 3) registering to courses, 4) applying for university apartments, and all.

If you get an admission, you’ll receive a letter telling you to visit certain “a bit hidden” page where you are guided to take some steps to go before you attend the courses.

Besides, the site is well-updated and …. i believe … you can know a lot about the campus from this website… Well, in this case, a university doesn’t have to be an Ivy Leage member to have a good web presence. UTD is one of the example….

A couple of weeks ago I saw another “hard” movie. The title is “Little Children.” With Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson playing the female and male main characters, this movie to me shows its potential as a must-watch movie. Kate’s played superbly well in Titanic. And I do believe she won’t ruin her own reputation with playing in B-rate movies. So, I decided to watch as soon as I know the main female character and its category as “drama, romance, tragedy.”

When I watched the movie, I found that it was a “hard” movie in which the director takes us to think to solve what actually happen in the movie or what is there between the lines of the movie. Later, from a movie review in imdb I found that the movie is made from a novel. Well, no wonder if it feels nicely hard. I myself don’t mind watching movies from novels—well, I like reading, and even writing, literary works.

To me, the most unique part of this movie is the use of a narrator that intrudes the scenes and dialogs. It’s just cool to watch a novel like movie. It can balance the hard tone that the movie has from its scenes which sometimes lack dialog. A reviewer in the above-linked site said that this use of narrator gives a tone of children story to the movie. Well, it’s okay to interpret it as so. The unique thing is that I can’t easily forget this movie. I still can play vividly it’s parts in my mind.

All in all, I recommend this movie to you, only if you are above 18.

My wife and I have been a great fan of Hugh since couple of years ago. My wife liked Hugh Grant for the first time when he starred Notting Hill (hey, we just re-watched this movie on TV this evening!). And me, I don’t remember when I liked Hugh Grant for the first time, but up to this very date, Hugh’s movie I love the most is Love Actually, the greatest drama-comedy-romance movie ever!

What I like from Hugh Grant is the perfectness with which he plays as loosers. In About A Boy, he shows a marvelous loosery (hey… can I say so? hehehe) as a son to a popular child religious song who inherits its royalty and live happily without having to bother himself finding a job. He makes friend with an also-looser boy and together they do a great thing, making the boy’s mother happy. Another looser character that Hugh plays is the one in Bridget Jones’ Diary (1st and 2nd). However, his character here is not very vital.

AND, the best looser role of Hugh Grant is in his latest movie Music and Lyrics with the marvelous Drew Barrymore (wow, a friend of mine is, I think, the greatest fan of Hugh Grant! hey you Sonny, you’re still Drew’s fan, right?. In this movie, Hugh plays a former pop boy band member who has lost his fame due to the birth of better young singers. In this movie, Hugh only sings in high school reunions attended by “almost-menopause women who used to be his fans as high school girls”, and he also sings in zoos and theme parks to entertain kids and families who mostly know nothing about him and who he used to be. However, with the help of Drew, Hugh wins his re-fame.

W ell, last but not least, I will just say that Hugh Grant, with his casual style and still-British accent, is a perfect entertainer for those who cherish happy-ending stories. And his looser characters, wow, they’re just great to make us think of who we, sometimes, are and how to do great things if we are looser.

I don’t know much about e-commerce. What I know about it is that I can buy things without ever visiting the store, or even touch the things I want to buy. I used to get scared about buying things through e-commerce. However, I realize that e-commerce has made things in life easy to do, such as buying a newly released books (without having to queue in front of the book store—remember Harry Potter case?).

Couple of hours ago I visited Ashop, a website that provides e-commerce software. From this website, I could learn the whole idea of e-commerce. And, as I said before, it turned out that managing an e-store is not difficult at all. I also knew from the site that to manage a shopping cart we don’t have to have our own hosting, design our shopping cart software and all.

Another important fact is that nowadays we don’t have to worry about the security of online transaction because e-commerce software has made some inventions which makes it possible for us to leave the e-store without being afraid that our credit card account number can be seen by other people—there’s the so called check out security.

Well, it’s quite enlightening that this afternoon I visit Ashop. By the way, I think I begin to be interested in e-commerce. Hehehe…

If you have a conventional store, then potential customers you can expect to come are those who live around 0-20 miles away from your store. It’s not wrong to have a conventional store—which demands you to have a building, some people you should hire, some advertisements you need to make when the number of your customers decreases. No, it’s not wrong. HOWEVER, what if I suggest you to start expanding your business? Why don’t you try e-commerce, where you can expect anyone from any corners of the world to see what you’ve got to offer and can buy your goods easily. Okay, you might think that e-commerce is a hard thing to do. But NO! It’s not hard at all with this Ashop Commerce, hosted shopping cart software.

With Ashop Commerce, you can start your electronic store easiy. You don’t need to hire any programmers to develop and maintain your electronic store. You just need to login and pay some small monthly investment you can choose, and you can upload the list and pictures of your goods. And one of the best thing is that YOU DON’T HAVE TO HIRE ANY WEBDESIGNER to design a catchy website, because Ashop already provides you with such supports as store design.

And the best thing is that its engine in search engine-friendly. Hey, in this cyber world, search engine means alot, more than alot. When you’re on the top of the list (in the search results of goods), then you can expect customers come from, as I said before, any corners of the world.

Well, well, well, with this shopping cart software, you can start expanding your store without having to do such hard things as developing, designing, and maintaining your e-commerce software. You can do it even without any of your employees know.