Partnership is one of the most worthful things in life. But all that worth doesn’t automatically turn partnership in an easy thing. Because you usually project your desires, values, frustrations, whatever, on the other person. When his/her true personality comes to the surface of your perception, it gets easy to feel deceived.

When you suffer enough in your relationships, you may begin thinking that you will never fall in love again. You may give up trying to accept the other person just the way he/she is, because you are scared because your previous experiences.

But suddenly, you find yourself somewhere, and sees those eyes gazing you, silently telling you are desired. You refuse the eyesight at first, but in less than one second you see those eyes are beautiful, charming. A shudder traverses your back, your heart jumps like a savage horse, your mouth dries and you can’t prevent a large smile from appearing.

You don’t know yet, but you are just one small step away from falling in love with that angel in human form.

Then you gather all your strenght and fights against fear and prejudice. You think that such a good sensation could not be wasted without at least trying to get closer, at least hearing how an angel’s voice sound like. You approach the angel, and pretending there is not enough room for the both of you to talk without being very close, you both gently touch each other.

Time passes by, and you don’t perceive it. A day ends, a night begins and ends, and another day begins, and you are still talking, laughing, sometimes crying, with your heart full of joy and amusement. And one of you has to leave.

That’s the moment you realise you are in love again. That’s when you understand that some part of you, that you thought of as a dead part, is alive, pulsing, and instead of blood what flows in your veils is fire, passion, lust and happiness.

The iminent separation makes you perceive details such as you partner’s breath, his/her voice pitch, the way he/she walks. You feel like an angel in love, spinning around like a tornado, like a feather dancing a Strauss’ waltz.

Then your heart squeezes inside your chest, tears roll down your face. Tears of absolute joy, full of feelings, make you think you know the other person from other lives, because it is impossible get to love someone that fast.

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Maceió, Alagoa, Brazil
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It’s enough for me. I’m tired, exhausted, I need vacations. Thinking better: not vacations, but moving to some paradisiac beach with warm and clear water, happy people, tanned bodies. I need a beautiful view every morning to make my day, I need summer all the year. No more gray days, please. No more heavy coats, no more flus.

But, calm down, don’t take me to a desert beach. I would love it. For one day.

I need a place where I can work on Internet everyday, wireless if possible. Where a I can go to the mall to eat hamburger and drink coke, to watch a movie (cult or blockuster — whatever). A place where people speak several languages, where there are lots of tourists to renew the town every single day.

I think I need to move to Rio de Janeiro!

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People often wish express what they think, how they feel, and the secrets journals are not always as fine as a Free Blog can be.

You know: writing at the computer, attaching music, videos…

But not everybody has the necessary skills to create a blog: domain registration, webhosting, programming languages, and so on; the majority of people want just sit in front of the computer and write what comes to their minds.

A new (at least for me) opportunity to have a free blog, with unlimited bandwidth and disk space, is the Thoughts.com service.

In fact, I don’t think it is the perfect service for everyone, because users are not allowed to promote affiliate programs, or any other money making scheme. And, for me, there is no point having a blog that can’t at least take advantage of the web traffic it generates.

But it is quite simple to use, and if you don’t aim becoming a problogger, it might be for you. Giv it a try.

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And, if like me, you write in some non English language, you certainly passed through the frustration on not getting your local words (like Spanish “niño”) correctly linked by it.

But your troubles are over. I found a way to put aLinks on the rails again, and if it worked for me, I am pretty sure it can work for you too!

Before beginning with the real fun, I must apologize for using images where you are supposed to read code. Unfortunately I was unable to make WordPress render the correct HTML for my code samples, thus I decided to use the images.

Warning: there are no warranties that the process described below will work with any blog but mine! By reading the following paragraphs you agree that you are the only one responsible for data losses, financial losses or nuclear wars this process can derive! It’s totally up to you, I have nothing to do! Back up your site before trying to mess with your database!

First, you have to ensure your wp-config.php states you are using UTF-8 in your blog. If you find two lines like the code below, then that’s OK.

Now, ensure your database is in UTF-8, too. If you can see the correct special chars when you read your posts, it’s quite sure the database is correctly set up. If you need help converting your database, use the UTF-8 Database Converter plugin. Again, it is totally up to you, using it or not. It worked for me, but this means nothing at all.

Now you are almost on your way for working special characters in aLinks.

Now you have to hack three files from the aLinks original package.

First, you have to edit the file includes.php, located inside the subdirectory views.

Then, using your text editor, change every instance of “escape” (but not “unescape”, take care) by “encodeURIComponent”. The snippet below shows the commented code (the original form) and the actual code (the hacked form) from my own include.php.

Second, open the classes/aLinksBackend.php file, and locate the lines where the variables $phrase and $description are encoded to UTF-8 before being sent back to the grid. This is not necessary, because they come correctly encoded from the database already. In my case, those lines are 199 and 200. Just comment those lines (like the snippet below).

Almost there!

Now you have to open classes/aLinksController.php and find the line where the function utf8_encode() is called, and again you have to comment it. You don’t need this function anymore for the same reason you didn’t before: your database is already correctly encoded. In my case, it was line 305.

And you’re done! Now your aLinks is totally able to work with your beloved special chars.

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Right now this blog can be read from the new server (that will move, itself, in a few days, to a better hardware).

Considering I was moving the blog, I took the chance to migrate from sarmento.org/english to englihs.sarmento.org, what makes me feel better about SEO and indexing.

The next step is to move my root site (my blog in Portuguese) to the same server.

Wish me luck.

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Thanks for your patience.

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I was just taking a look at the merchants at Pepperjam and faced a very nice idea: a special “blanket”, with an inflatable pillow attached, and “feet pockets”, that keep your feet warmed and comfortable during travels (but it is nice for home, too).

You can find this great product at CabinCuddler.com, the official website for this very nice gift. There you’ll find a lot of images and more detailed information.

It is cheaper than I could even imagine, and Order 2 or More Travel Blankets and Get Free Shipping at CabinCuddler.com!

Of course, if you plan giving me one or two of them, they send the packages worldwide, you have nothing to worry about!

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There are several dating services all around, and sometimes not that paradise, specially if you think in terms of Internet (see The Online Dating Scene for more information about that matter). That’s exactly when a solid company, with a large experience helping people to get closer, could make the difference.

Singlesnet.com is an online dating firm, with over 14 million members. Enjoying the free trial you can in minutes find several good matches for your profile, with pictures, thanks to their enchanced match finding algorithm.

Don’t wait anymore. Act. Click the picture above, and give happiness a chance. You deserve it.

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Two reasons make me write more here.

First, I need to improve my English, and writing a blog is an excellent exercise.

Second, I earn more writing in English then in Portuguese, and the earning possibilities are so much impressive. Yes, I’m talking about money.

There are several affiliate programs I am not allowed to promote, just because my site in English doesn’t have enough contents. And there are the paid reviews, too.

Yesterday I wrote a review (Webhosting: find your perfect match) that took ten minutes to get published, and earned me more than a whole day in my whole blog network in AdSense.

So, count on reading more from me here, from now on. I hope you like it.

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When one desires to set up a domain and a website, often gets lost in the middle of tons of webhosting providers, offers, acronyms, technical jargon, and so on. What if the poor future webmaster could find in a well organized directory all the information needed to choose the right webserver for his new business or hobby?

Well, there is such directory.

Web hosting sources is a comprehensive directory of web hosting providers, segmented by its kind: e-commerce webhosting, FrontPage webhosting, ASP webhosting, Oracle webhosting, and so on.

It’s worth a note the fact that the listing is maintained by human beings, not a stupid form that saves information to a database and voilà . There is intelligence classifying the offers, and all one needs to find a good choice is to be able to read in English, and to be able to click with the mouse. No more than three clicks. That’s what they say, at least, and if I were you, I would give it a try right now.

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