Depends on who you are trying to attract...

Bufflehead! The white duck who dives alot that we saw at Bluffer's park is called a Bufflehead duck...There are three little ones at Bluffer's...They show up last if you feed the other waterbirds first...bring big bags of birdseed...Maybe some bread if you want to throw it...Mazuri Waterfowl food floats & is available at Ren's in Oakville...

The forum. I had a forum set up with medical information & research I was working on. Notes. Rough . When you did the switch, you didn't transport content for your customers. I was unable to migrate the content to the new site & maintain the same template. When I migrated to your new platform, I ended up having to dump the text into GoDaddy's forum template instead. It is now just a mishmash of unedited text I will have to sift through & edit someday. More likely I will just leave it in a lump. So instead of having coherent notes that I had gathered coherently on your template, trusting that even if something happened you guys would help to migrate seamlessly, I now have a lump of text that is in a foreign template at another website provider. The new template & server you provided is unable to accept text in the same manner. However, since I began with the grovecanada.tv address, after migrating from a Mac computer hosted site paid, to your site which you had offered free with the domain name, I have not migrated back to my Mac server- since it would be another change of location again- & another loss of information.
I have to get back to work now. this conversation is eating into my time. I am spending my time working on new information, & you never know, maybe the loss was a good way for me to move on to new ideas. No hard feelings. But yes. When things become incoherent, I lose customers. & when I say customers, I mean normal people who respect me. Incoherence is not always good for business. Joke. So, then, the "normal" people migrate to just medium is the message type thinking, which is, they buy from you a site & do things themselves. Which would be great if they weren't knocking off my content. Anyways.

Hello StatCounter.com customer service person, I am assuming you are not a bot,

The issue of whether or not to use the StatCounter service is one of paranoia...

You write something in your blog about bengal cats not wanting to be spayed, someone from a cat society (TIBCS) responds foaming at the mouth in your Comments on Blogger.com's service & you don't know which cat society or exactly who was the foamer...Some lady...Ok, so you hunt & find statcounter & notice it is free...You subscribe & put up the code & track your visitor...Then you block her...While you are doing that you feel very empowered...You become addicted to tracking your visitors...You put statcounter code on all your sites, blogs, forums...
Later, when so many people visit your sites, probably just to see your statcounter code button, you upgrade because now you NEED to follow visitors...It multiplies...People like to be noticed & tracked...It becomes a game...The statistics became art...Math...
When I put a Paypal button on my mac built website it crashed my system & I lost my whole website...What happened was that in order to get the power to put a PayPal button on my iMac iWeb website, I had needed to buy an upgraded iWeb package...When I loaded the package onto my Mac computer, yes, I got the PayPal button onto my iWeb website, but at the same time, all my other systems crashed...
Why? because the software needed was bundled into a package deal by the Apple Store at The Eaton centre in Toronto, Canada, & the store was so busy when I went to buy the upgrade, nobody checked with me whether my Mac could handle the upgrade...Turned out the Paypal HTML capability was fine for my computer, but the other parts of the bundled package upgrade were too high for my Mac computer...So, my other systems like iMOVIE crashed...Nothing else really worked...
So with Apple care, I did a full erase & reinstall as fast as I possibly could, to get my systems working again...In the process I accidentally erased my entire iWeb website...I had not been able to save it before erasing & reinstalling systems...The Apple care people did not bother to check with me whether I had saved my iWeb website or not somewhere else...Why? Because they were in a rush...Why were they in a rush? because they were in a rush to help me...Their rush caused me to rush, like a panic...Panic causes people to rush...
So I lost my whole iWeb website, carefully crafted over a few years...Just because I coveted a PayPal button on my iWeb website...

which one do I like the best from the 4 paintings mentioned above in blogpost...? well, I am lazy so the least amount of work makes me happy...doesn't mean it's the best.probably the worst...well, here is the list of easiest to do to hardest to do...
easiest to pull off? Number 2, bloomin' lilies...(see the Impressionists like Georges Seurat pointillist)
next easiest?: Number 1, Flow...(see modern art Cy Twombly a Dada-ist)
third easiest?Number 3 pussywillows...(see neo-post-modern-ist like Julian Schnabel)
hardest painting to paint? (hardest button to button...a white stripes lyric...) Number 4, pigeon & baker...(surrealism is tough-see Salvador Dali)

Our book The Talking Vegetable Garden used vegetables bought from Loblaws at Christie & Dupont & hand drawn by me from life, then filled in using acrylic inks, not Dr. PH martin's watercolour inks which I do like very much...in Toronto...

which one does Joseph my artist husband like the best? Number 3...Why? because he bought me the enormous GMO raspberries(horizontal) which were the underpainting...he also bought me the beautiful organic pussywillows from Whole Foods market which are the overpainting...(vertical)Note: not signed on front at all...
(Number 4 was the only on signed on the front...I did this because many Americans think that the signature on the front is an investment plus...)

To buy "Magnolia" go to http://www.grovecanada.fm & look for our (online retailer) Buy Now From CCNow button ...CCNow is based in Eden Prairie Minnesota & is handling our online secure server credit card transactions...They will process the transaction on our behalf, add tax if necessary (if you live in Ontario, Canada), & send you a receipt...Refunds, disputes etc. are all handled for us by CCNow...You can also buy a 6 thousand dollar painting with no spending limit...CCNow sends us a cheque after all transactions have safely cleared...This makes an internet purchase much safer for everybody involved...We cannot accept credit cards yet in person, because Square & or other providers who handle that sort of thing, are not yet available in Canada...So, if you want to buy from us, a credit card transaction has to be done on the http://www.grovecanada.fm site using the Buy Now from CCNow Button...The only painting available right now is Magnolia & it is $6000.00 Cad currency...A full refund is possible...Not a problem...Shipping, packing, packaging, insurance are included to anywhere on the earth...if you want to see the work in person before buying it, contact grove@sent.com (Sari Grove) & she will meet you at National mailbox, 33 hazelton avenue, with the painting...National Mailbox has a hanging system & a hanging rod, so the work can be easily hung there without nailing into the wall...
National Mailbox also has a nice dog named Diesel, a black poodle...National Mailbox also has a son named Don, a sister named April, & a father also named Don...These are honest hardworking trustworthy people who will make sure your art gets to where it is going reasonably & safely...I am giving 1/3 of any sale to National Mailbox for the privilege of working with them & being able to use their space for collector-artist appointments if necessary...Please honour this commitment by not asking for a discount on a purchase...A discounted price would just cut them out of the mix, & I need to work with people in order to better my oeuvre...I also ask that National Mailbox NOT be solicited by other artists who would like to duplicate my relationship...This is a delicate & new thing & other artists mucking up the concept by offering alternatives or other commission structures or otherwise will just screw it up for me...This is a serious & important paradigm that I am trying to establish...Please do not experiment with this business model by dropping in unexpectedly to suss out an opportunity for yourselves...Find your own pond to swim in...Thank you...

(I am republishing another comment I made on "Echo Enduring Blog" see link at left in Blogs section...:Ok, I'll bite...
What your talking about is design logistics...My brother runs a company called Metro Canada Logistics- essentially what he does is help foreign companies come into the Canadian market- he helps them figure out where to store the product, how to distribute it, & some of the issues that need to be considered in the Canadian marketplace...Design Logistics is planning the path something will take, from creation to consumer, & possibly adapting the integral design to accommodate size or climactic constraints, for example...
Your analysis that apps are the future- showing people how to do something is similar...Apps deal with the flow of a product, not as much the product, or content itself, though flow will influence subtleties of the product's life...
Yes, I agree...Flow, design logistics, apps, are the new future...I do think they are a form of content, but it is easier to speak of them separately, for the sake of argument...
I recently reactivated my audiovox thera 2032 pocket pc on a free pay as you go phone plan but with a 10 dollar a month unlimited browser capability feature added...I put a button on one of my websites that says "Buy Now from CCNow" which is a server like PayPal but offers direct credit card transactions without having to "join", also with no spending limits or otherwise complex registration on the part of the client...I got this service for 40 dollars initial, a 5% commission on any transaction, & no merchant account needed...
My idea was this- if I ( a fine artist), am showing a painting to a collector & her or she wants to buy the painting from me using a credit card, I can pull out my pocket pc, surf the net to my website with the Buy Now from CCNow button on it, click the button, take the customer's credit card, input the numbers, name, etc., for the customer, process the transaction on the spot (with credit card verification happening in real time) & they get an invoice emailed to them immediately...It also adds appropriate taxes & takes shipping addresses if needed...Now that is flow...
I haven't altered the content of my paintings, but I have improved customer flow at a relatively low cost...(The pocket pc was bought in 2002- a hardware cost, but these are much cheaper now)...
I think that things like that, are getting easier for people like me who can't afford the overhead of traditional merchant trade...
My modus operandi for conversion is to send people to my online presence, have them view works & prices online, make an appointment if they want to buy something, view it in person at a bricks & mortar place that lets me use their viewing room in exchange for a commission (1/3 is what I give), & handle the transaction myself...Controlling all aspects of the sale...Instead of the old artist paradigm that has the money flowing into a gallery owner's hands, then the artist waiting for their share...
Design Logistics, flow, Apps, these will set free artists, self-employed people, who need to figure out ways to get their product to a client, without too many middlemen...of course, if I had a retail location, I could drum out paying a commission for meeting space...(have done it before, though cafes are not always the classiest offices...)
The future will be better for the teeny tiny business person with all these apps...I think this may be a quiet revolution against big business monopolies...The meek will inherit the earth...

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