Home Beer Making

I first Started Home Beer Making a long time ago, in fact I was still at school when I started making homebrew beer.
There were dozens of different home beer brewing kits available in most of the supermarkets and pharmacy's a the time all of them promising to make the perfect home-brew beer.
My friends and I tried pretty much all of them. Some of the results were disastrous to say the least but as buying homebrew beer making kits was the easiest way for us under-age drinkers to get alcohol. We persevered until eventually the sediment full, murky river-water type brew that we produced (and got sick on) gradually became clearer and less vomit inducing.
Home beer making became more than just a means to get outrageously drunk and gradually became an enjoyable hobby and we learnt that homemade beer did'nt have to taste vile and we began to take pride in the quality of home brew beer.
We even started to buy some equipment; syphoning tubes, bottle labels, bottle tops, hydrometers and various other bits and pieces, even managing to get hold of a couple of kegs so we could have party's with beer on tap rather than having to mess about opening bottles.
We had come of age and people began to know they could come to our party's and have a good few pints of reasonable quality homemade beer without getting sick, it still was'nt as good as commercially brewed beer but it was pretty good, got you drunk, tasted reasonable and best of all it cost next to nothing to produce when compared to what you have to pay at the pub.
If only we had, had the information then that is available now. There are hundreds of books, courses and video's available that enable even the complete beginner to produce excellent Home Brew Beer that not only rivals but surpases many of the beers available commercially and with the current economic climate and high cost of going out to drink in the pubs and clubs there has never been a better time to try your hand at home beer making.

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Article Converter For Photo's

In evaluating an article converter and searching for the best all round performer based on:

Text To Voice Converter,
Web Video Production,
Function,
Price,
Results Achieved, ( click rates and back-links )
Service and Support,
Ease of Use.

My final choice of which product to use was very easy because the same product excelled in all areas.

My research did however put another exciting and very useful converter into my hands, this one, rather than being an article converter could better be described as a photo converter or alternatively a music converter.

Watch this video to see how it all works......... in 60 Seconds

For the photographer this converter will take your uploaded photographs and convert them into a video slide show synchronised to your favourite music. A variety of transition are automatically used and no two video's are ever the same. If you are not entirely satisfied with the first result you can edit your photo or backgrounds or simply hit the remix button, do it as many times as you want you get a different video every time.

Musicians, put some visuals to your music and post them as a video onto You Tube or embed them onto your web site to promote your band, gig dates or compositions.

Making a 30 second video is absolutely free and as well as using photos you can include a short video clip. I use this free version to make short, high impact video intro's for my websites.
I also always upload them to You Tube for the extra clicks and back-links.
There is a paid version of this program available which allows you to make longer video's and gives you all sorts of other goody's.

View some of the short video's I have made with Animoto Click Here

To Try This exciting program out for free Click Here

Article Converter

The Article Converter

The following article covers a topic that has recently moved to centre stage--at least it seems that way. If you've been thinking you need to know more about it, here's your opportunity.

Those of you not familiar with the latest on Article Converter now have at least a basic understanding. But there's more to come.

If You Write Articles you need an article converter to convert your articles to video.
For many the thought of entering into web video production is a daunting prospect however thanks to the latest technology in text to voice converters easy video production is now within the reach of anybody.
The reasons for using an article converter are the same as the reasons you started writing articles in the first place - to get traffic, both from the article itself and by increasing your websites appeal to the search engines by increasing backlinks.
Video marketing achieves both of these goals but much easier than articles and the results are multiplied many times over.

Go From This.................... And In One Click........................Go To This

The first thing you need to know is how to convert articles to video and it is so easy anybody can do it. Even if you don't have a video camera or hate the sound of your own the voice the text to voice converter included in all good article converters mean that even non English speakers can get involved in top quality web video production with an English language voice-over at the click of a button.

So why should you get involved with web video production?
Well you have already done all the hard work by writing an article, you then submit the article to a publisher and sometimes wait for days only to find out it was rejected on some technicality, you then re-write your article and resubmit.

Hooray! Your article get's accepted. Now, because all the good publishers run a duplicate content check you have to re-write it again before you submit it to another publisher.
Congratulations! After several hours work and perhaps several days of waiting you finally have an article ( Or variations thereof ) published on maybe half a dozen sites gaining you valuable back links and readers who may click on the links you provide in your resource box.

A Better Solution: Write one article, then at the click of a button on your Article Converter and a few tweeks of your Text To Voice Converter and you have completed your web video production. If you want to make your video even more attractive you can add your own images or take the lazy way out and have images added automatically for you.
One More Click and your video can be automatically submitted to well over a dozen hosts (You Tube, Metacafe, Vimeo, My Space, etc. ) If you want you can manually submit to another dozen sites in about 10 minutes. No Waiting: video sites normally accept and publish your video in minutes.

The Result a highly viewable, animated video utilising the very latest text to voice converter technology giving you the very best way to directly reach your target audience and build backlinks.

That's the latest from the Article Converter authorities. Once you're familiar with these ideas, you'll be ready to move to the next level.

Create Video for your article with voiceover, animations, all the graphics and submit it to 17+ video sites.
Without leaving your desk or touching a camera in 3 minutes flat!

Confused Pilot?

Was this a very confused pilot or did he have advanced warning?

These photographs were taken of the sky above
Southern Withernsea in East Yorkshire, England

on the afternoon before British airspace was closed

due to the Icelandic Volcano erupting.
It appears to be the contrail of a jet circling overhead.
Had he seen the dust cloud coming?

Glynn Sole

Self Promotion

Being the shy and retiring type I don't usually go much for self promotion but as the
man said; "My only real fault is my excessive modesty" so I decided to start working
on that one fault and make an Animoto Video promoting Glynn Sole.
Yes I know it's strange for me to talk about Glynn Sole in the third person but you see part
of the self promotion is to get this page found on the search engines and if Glynn Sole
does'nt get a mention Glynn Sole does'nt get found.
If you like this video, why don't you get on over to Animoto and make your own short video about yourself (or any thing else you want to). It's fast, and easy and most importantly of all
Its Freeeee....
If you don't like this video about Glynn Sole and your not into self promotion make one about anything you want or just put some of your favourite pictures on there, set them to your favourite music and make an exciting slide show to send to your friends.
Here's another on I made, be careful with making these it gets addictive.

Make Money From A Dead Mule

Curtis &Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily News Newspaper in Starkville, MS. and bought a mule for $100.
The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day.

The next morning the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry, fellows, I have some bad news, the mule died last night."Curtis &Leroy replied, "Well, then just give us our money back."The farmer said, "Can't do that. I went and spent it already."They said, "OK then, just bring us the dead mule."The farmer asked, "What in the world ya'll gonna do with a dead mule?"Curtis said, "We gonna raffle him off."The farmer said, "You can't raffle off a dead mule!"Leroy said, "We shore can! Heck, we don't hafta tell nobody he's dead!"

A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into Curtis &Leroy at the Piggly Wiggly grocery store and asked."What'd you fellers ever do with that dead mule?"They said,"We raffled him off like we said we wuz gonna do."Leroy said,"Shucks, we sold 500 tickets fer two dollars apiece and made a profit of $898."The farmer said,"My Lord, didn't anyone complain?" Curtis said, "Well, the feller who won got upset. So we gave him his two dollars back."

Curtis and Leroy now work for the government.They're overseeing the Bailout Program.

Britain's Binge Drinking

Town Centres: Weekend No Go Areas
We've been hearing a lot in the press and TV news for months now about Britain's booze culture.
Every Sunday and Monday brings fresh reports of drunken youngsters both male and female marauding around Britain's town centres, puking, pissing, breaking windows, damaging cars and other property, fighting, and finally falling down in their own vomit and excrement and requiring hospital treatment for alcohol poisoning and other injuries.
The British Governments answer and solution to these problems are so ludicrous and unrealistic
that I can't go into them without feeling physically sick at the incompetence and stupidity England's politicians and police forces.
Just to give you one example so you don't think I'm being melodramatic, recently police were issued with flip flops (like a beach sandal) to carry around with them. This would have been OK if they were to beat drunken idiots around the ears with, but no they were to give to girls in high heels who in their drunken stupors were falling over and injuring themselves thereby causing an excessive burden on hospital emergency rooms.
Much debate has raged recently regarding the cost of alcohol, with the Govt. constantly banging heads with the drinks industry because they (the Govt.) want a minimum charge to be imposed on alcoholic drinks.
Now, although the government has not yet won it's war against supermarkets offering cheap alcohol and special offers it has managed to jump all over the already struggling pub's and club's of Britain by banning happy hours, or pretty much any other promotions that licensed premises traditionally use to try to bolster up their businesses.
The only people who rampage through our town's bringing social disorder are people with money so we can expect to see a zero positive impact on this ridiculous line of persecuting alcohol prices as a means of tackling a social disorder problem.
Amazingly the government has actually had the solution to this problem since the 1800's and yet it continues to argue for and impose ridiculous measures that restrict the freedom of law abiding citizen's and prevent the responsible majority from having an affordable night out.
Oh yes, the solution, it's perfectly simple and the inability of the Government to see it is just another damning indication of their incompetence.
It's called the LAW. Yes that's right for decades England has had law's such as;
The Drunk and Disorderly law's, the Being Drunk in a public place law's, Public Nuisance laws and many other's. In addition it is against the law in England to serve alcohol to anybody who is, or appears to be drunk.
There, simple solution prices and happy hours don't need to be messed with.
Just enforce the existing laws.

Article Video Robot

Article Marketing On A Whole New Level

This fantastic tool takes article marketing to a whole new level.Article Video Robot took my blog and my website from obscurityto page 1 on both Google and Yahoo.Video marketing with Article Video Robot took just 3 days to put both, Glynn's Blog and EarnaLot onto page one of, google Yahoo and Bing when searching for their title tag.

If you do any kind of internet marketing at all you know the value of Aricle Marketing, did you also know thatVideo Article Marketing is many times more effective both directly and in the number of backlinks it creates.What may suprise you is that thanks to ArticleVideoRobot video article marketing is now faster, easier andmore fun than Ezine Article Marketing.You Don't need any special skill's,You Don't need much time,You Don't need to be an expert author,Heck you Don't Even Need a camera.

Use It Yourself And Sell It To Others

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The short tutorial lasting about 3 minutes show's in a clear easy to understand way how a complete beginerwho is camera shy and with no video making knowledge can, in just a few minutes create a short video with a professional voiceover.Simply download or cut and paste a piece of text. Coincidentally 250 to 800 word's (about the length of an average Ezine article)seems to produce the best results.The Article Video Robot will, if required split the article into paragraphs,each paragraph forms a page or frame in your video and can be edited forHeadline, subheadings and pictures.A voice to text voice is also added and can be changed for each frame.A background image and background music can also be added to your production.Your finished video can be previewed on Article Video Robots own player.It can also be distributed through Twitter, Facebook and other social media.When using the free version of article video robot videos can not be downloaded or distributed among video sharing sites such as You Tube.

Go ahead, give it a try, if you write a regular blog or ezine you're doing it anyway, putting it onto video and distributing it to more than a dozen sites just for an extra 5 minutes work is an absolute no brainer. ... Show Me More..

Getting Published

Hurray!

Finally, I Got My First Article Published. View Here

Well, it took a while to make a start on writing articles and submiting them for publication and when I finally did the first three were rejected.

First of all my article was rejected because it was signed off using a bz9 URL. I love using bz9 URL's because they allow me to shorten my URL's but more importantly they put an ad on the top of the page linking to any other website I choose, they also contain buttons to twitter my page and/or share by any other means. It's a great form of viral marketing, Quite why EzineArticles class all bz9 URL's as rogue sites I don't know but it is very annoying.
Another reason my articles were rejected was because they contained references to E-cigarettes,

another baffling reason, anything that allows smokers who can't give up the habit to have a healthier and more socially accepted lifestyle has to be a good thing as far as I am concerned, a view apparently not shared by the good people at EzineArticles, still, I don't care, there is a certain sense of achievement getting your first article published a a feeling of progression as it's another link to my prime site EarnaLot.org

Christmas Cheer

Happy Christmas

Crazy, Dangerous & Illegal

How Overcome Driver Boredom

Do NOT try this

Like me you probably get bored when you have to drive long distaces especially

late at night or when the roads are really quiet.

I rarely get bored on such journey's, I play games to hone my driving skills.

There are many games you can play.

• At night time try driving with no lights.
  
• This is not as crazy or dangerous as it may sound, on country roads with no overhanging trees to cast shadows and a full moon with no clouds it can be suprisingly easy to see once your eyes become accustomed to the limited light.

I forget the the name of motor racing legend who's wife used to complain that her husband regularly drove his Ferrari late at night without using lights because he claimed it enabled him to see if there was any oncoming traffic thereby enabling him to take corners on the optimum line without having to worry about oncoming traffic.

• Drive without windscreen wipers

During heavy downpours try to drive so fast the wind keeps your windscreen clear without having to use windscreen wipers.

• Drive in reverse

Too easy you may think but do it without looking back, using only your mirrors......at night.

• Drive using mirror verge's

Very tricky this one, drive by using only your wing mirror to see what has gone behind you.

• Blind Driving

By far my favourite, this one allthough interesting just by itself can be made even more exciting with simple variations and challenges.

To play simply check your speed then close your eyes and start counting backwards from 100.

When you open your eyes you should still be on the road and your speed should be within 10% of when you closed your eyes.

Now, every time you close your eyes try adding 5 to your count. You will find this game getting more and more difficult......but wait it get's so much better.

When you see a corner in the distance close your eyes and don't open them until your in the braking zone for the corner(too early and your a wuss, too late aaa.. nnn..dd.)

To make the game more intresting try to time it so you open your eyes just when you have to brake for the corner.

On roads that you know try taking the corner with your eyes closed.

There is an old Austrilian game whereby you have a case of beer on the passenger seat and you see how many you can drink before crashing. I recommend combining this with blind driving( I prefer a bottle of whiskey/rum/vodka or whatever between your legs as this takes longer to fill the bladder but heightens the your driving skills quicker). The other advantage is that any pain resulting from the inevitable crash is minimised.

I've written off several vehicles in some spectacular crashes whilst playing these games but each time the pain has been nullified by being completely inebriated.

Indeed, there are many occasions when I have'nt even been aware of the crash until regaining conciousness in a police station and for this reason it is reccomended that you get completely intoxicated before attempting these games.

As I do a lot of travelling your comments and your own road games would be greatly appreciated

How To Embed Links Onto You Tube Video's

Embed Your Own Link Into Almost Any You Tube Video

The video I used for this demonstration has been viewed over 128,ooo,ooo times.

That's not a typo it really does say over 128Million times. To put that into context,

that is about double the population of the UK. Imagine the viral advertising possibilities with your link embeded into a video this successful.

To see how embeded videos can help with your marketing just click on the title to this article

Sorry that the audio goes out of sinc, I used "Camatsia" for the first time

and did'nt quite get it right, still, the method for doing this is so easy I

don't think you'll have any trouble, if you do let me know and I'll go over it with you.

Sorry Folks

This video has now been moved and

is password protected.

To view it you need to go

http://bz9.cc/083X

Sand Art

Stunning Sand Art

I was lucky enough to have a friend who posted a sand art video on my facebook wall, I was absolutely enthralled to watch this incredibly skilled (and very pretty) girl depict various scenarios through her art and music.

Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine's version of "America's Got Talent." She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and "sand painting" skills to interpret Germany's invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.

I was absolutely enthralled to watch this incredibly skilled (and very pretty) girl depict various scenarios through her art and music so went to my you tube channel and put Kseniya Simonova's Amazing Sand Drawing 2 on this page to compliment the one I was sent, please leave a comment to tell me which one you prefer, I think her show winning work is the best.

Sorry Folks I just noticed,(feb 2010) this video has been removed from you tube, I've no idea why, maybe the delectable Kseniya only want's us to see her winning work.

Personality Quiz

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm a

Risk-Taking Fun Loving Extrovert

Monday Morning Blues

Banish The Blues

I consider myself very fortunate because I don't get the "Monday Morning Blues",(MMB's)

that's probably due to a number of reasons.

First of all I've always had a job where the day of the week was largely irrelevant, being

in the tourist and service industry's has meant that working Sunday's and holidays has

been the norm. Monday has in fact often been the day to look forward to because that is

the day that I've been able to take it easy.

Secondly, as in most things in life it's all a question of attitude and mind conditioning.

Training yourself to look forward to the challengies of getting back to work (even if it's the challenge of battling monotony) is important in order for many people to eliminate the MMB's.

In fact developing a Positive Mental Attitude is something that will enhance your whole life and make you a happier and more likeable person.

I don't know if I was blessed enough to be born with a positive attitude, probably we all are

but then most people lose it as a result of life's knockbacks, as for myself I have managed to maintain mine because of a conscious effort to do so.

Anyway I'm starting to ramble and I don't have time for it today so let's get to the point,

which is very simple.

If your feeling a little bit of those MMB's watch this video,

If it does'nt bring at least a small smile to the corners of your mouth I'm sorry I misjudged the strength of your MMB's.

Remember:

You are wonderful and somebody somewhere loves you and want's the best for you.

My Dog Is Back

Vicious Pit Bull
Here he is again, that terrible vicious pit bull.
I made this a while ago but saved it in the wrong
format so I had'nt been able to do anything with it, and I
mean nothing, could'nt post it on You Tube, could'nt E-mail it,
could'nt do anything.
Luckily I found "Camatasia", a free way of making video's by capturing your screen. Voila! half an hour later here is the result,
the original video was made by using another free program
"Live Avatar Creator".
All the problems are entirely my own fault because not only do I not like paying for anything
I almost never read any instructions and just kind of muddle my way through stuff.
Anyway I'm sure you can get much better result's than I have so far. If you feel like giving
it a go, go right ahead both program's are a lot of fun and like most stuff I recommend
They are both......FREEEeeee!
I got "Live Avatar Creator" Here
I can't remember where I got "Camatasia" but you can get it Here.

Free Stuff

Why Don't You Use Free Stuff?

I know we are all different, and thank goodness for that but I just can't understand why people don't use some of the really cool free stuff there is available on the internet.
Maybe it's a genetic thing and it's true that Yorkshiremen are tight but I just love free stuff.
whatever I need I try to find how I can get it for free before I pay for it and sometimes if I can't get it for free I just do without it or find a close substitute.



One freebie is something that was promised to us on science program's over 25yrs ago, and we've had it for a many years now is free communication. Oh yes everybody uses regular email but it's so outdated and old fashioned I simply don't know how it still manages to survive or why anybody still uses it.


For E-mails I use "The Worlds Coolest E-Mails" It allows me to track when my mails are opened, call it back if I make a mistake, send video mail, and the list goes on. You can read all about it in the review I wrote about it here.


Even More Amazing Is That I Get Paid Just For Using It.

Sign up for it now by clicking one of the liks in this text or go to the Free Stuff box near the top of this page and click on the Mailbox Casbox icon.
Another freebie I cannot understand why everybody does'nt use is "Skype" It is quite simply the best free communication medium on the 'net.
The other night I played backgammon, and had a conversation and a beer with a friend in Ireland, it was almost the same as sitting in a pub with him.
I had a IM (instant message) conversation with my brother who was sitting at his desk at work in London.
Best of all I had a video call with my wife who is in the Dominican republic, but I won't be telling you about that.
This will amaze you....are you ready to hear this?..I GET PAID FOR USING SKYPE..
Surprised? So was I. If you did'nt know you could get paid for using Skype ask me about it in the comment box.
Did you know people are still paying hundreds, sometimes thousands of Pounds/Dollars to learn about Internet Marketing, it's laughable I mean come on guy's really. There are thousands of people and company's out there begging you to sell their product for them (Yes me included, look here) Some of these people and company's will teach you everything there is to know about Internet Marketing (Me too! Heres some free videos to get you started).
Maybe you already have a business to promote or a product to sell. Perhaps you've heard about the fortunes being made in Internet marketing but thought it was difficult and did'nt know how to get started.


Whatever the case you should read this book
Like Everything Else Here, It's Free

Benson: The Talking Dog

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Out Of Sequence

Here's my wonderful talking dog again, he should have been placed
just above the monkey joke but for one reason and another
he ended up in the wrong place.
Not like him at all he has allways been incredibly
obedient.
Actually, now that I think about it, it's really the
monkey's who got into the wrong place not Benson.
The trouble is those mischievous monkey'swere so eager
to show off their joke telling prowess
they persuaded me to post them before I
had got Benson ready for his debut.
Phew that's a relief I did'nt think Benson could have made such a dumb mistake it was all me and those crazy monkey's

Anyway here he is on his second performance. In this one he introduces the Monkey's telling the Penguin joke. After you listen to him you'll just have to scroll down to the monkey's to hear their joke. Alternatively you can click the link to the website Benson made and there you can view everything in context.

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Cick here to view

Benson's First Promo Website

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Talking Dog

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Well it took quite a while,

I did'nt realise that the free version of the program I'd used to

make this video had expired and being a tightassed Yorkshireman

I'm not ready to pay for it just yet so this practice attempt

(done without reading the instructions)

was'nt really ready for use and took over 4hrs, no that's not a typo,

4hrs to download onto You Tube, that's about an hour for each minute

so don't worry it's not going to take you long to watch it.

Then I spent another couple of only partially successful hours trying to

put a couple of links on it and messing about with my You Tube account

Anyway here it is, let me know what you think.