Reposting information from Joanne Walmsley about the Dragon in Chinese astrology. Joanne also wrote on HubPages when I was there.

Years:
1904, 1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000.

Hour:
7am to 9am (07:00 to 08:59)

Unlucky for:

• financial decisions
• making commitments

Keywords:

out-going, helpful, vitality, occult powers, intuitive abilities, influential, self-confidence, insecurities, energy, temper, hidden passion, trust, stamina, creative energy, concentration, original, resourceful, brave, direct, enthusiastic, adaptable, creative.

Negative:

arrogant, tactless, critical, quick-tempered, unpredictable and unreliable.

Loves:
Rats and Monkeys

Dislikes:
Dogs

The Dragon is a helpful creature, blessed with occult powers and vitality. The Dragon marks auspicious events, from births to deaths.

People born under the sign of the Dragon have an intuitive ability to understand any situation, and this puts them in a position to influence events. More often than not though, their in influences are not wanted nor warranted.

Dragons often have their heads in the clouds.

Dragons are full of over-self-confidence, and most often they believe they are infallible.

Dragons start relationships and projects with youthful, boundless energy, only to abandon them halfway through when something else captures their attention.

Dragon's superficial show of bravado often disguises an insecurity, which the Dragon will go to great lengths to cover it with a wide smile or flashy material items.

Dragons have so much energy that much of their focus in life goes to trying to channel it constructively. They often feel frustrated when things don't go their way, and have a volcanic temper to show their displeasure.

Relationships:

Dragons need love and affection and they find these attributes in the Rooster and Snake. The Tiger and a fellow Dragon also make suitable partners. Horses are too quick and sly for the Dragon, whilst the Dog clashes in quick time.

Joanne Walmsley via Chinese Astrology - Dragon.

November 25th this year (2012) will be the 100th year anniversary of the Grey Cup and the Canadian Football League (CFL).

Congratulations Canada across the land, football fan or not. The 100th Grey Cup Championship will take place at Rogers Centre at 6:00 P.M. on Sunday, November 25, 2012.

If you can't be there you can still watch on TV, listen on the radio or live vicariously through Twitter.

100th Grey Cup Sites to See

• 100th Grey Cup
  The Official Tumblr of the 100th Grey Cup.

• CFL on Twitter
  On Twitter, type the hashtag #100GC

• Canadian Football Hall of Fame and Museum

• CBC Digital Archives - Grey Cup: The Fans and the Fanfare

• Grey Cup - Wikipedia The first Grey Cup game with the early Grey Cup to the side.

If it all began in 1909 how is 2012 the 100th Grey Cup game?

Yes, 1909 wasn't 100 years ago but, for the Grey Cup, it was 100 games ago.

In 1916, 1917 and 1918 there were no Grey Cup games due to World War I. Also, due to a rules dispute there were no play off games or Grey Cup in 1919.

So the CFL is calling the game this year (2012) the 100th Grey Cup game.

How did the Grey Cup Festival itself begin?

In 1948, fans of the western champion Calgary Stampeders partied in the streets of Toronto dressed in western gear, square dancing, flipping flapjacks, and even riding a horse through the lobby of the posh Royal York Hotel.

The 100th Grey Cup Coin from the Canadian Mint Lord Earl Grey's trophy will be presented for the 100th time

In 1909, Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, (the Governor-General of Canada at the time) was an ardent sports fan. He commissioned a trophy and planned to donate it to Canada's senior amateur hockey championship. However, the Allan Cup had already been donated there. So, Grey gave his trophy to the Rugby Football Championship of Canada. The trophy became known as the Grey Cup. The first Grey Cup was played in 1909 on Rosedale Field in Toronto and won by the University of Toronto Varsity Blues.

Originally, winning the trophy was only for teams registered with the Canada Rugby Union. Eventually, the Rugby Union evolved into the Canadian Football League and the Grey Cup became the property of the DFL. Since the 1920's, the Grey Cup is given to the winning football team in a final contest between the east and west. Since 1954, only the teams of the CFL have played for the Grey Cup.

The trophy has a silver chalice attached to a large base on which the names of all winning teams, players and executives are engraved.

The Grey Cup has been broken (and repaired) several times, stolen twice and held for ransom. The Grey Cup survived a fire in 1947. Other artefacts in the same building were destroyed.

In 1950, a player came close to drowning in a mud puddle at the "Mud Bowl".

In 1962 the game was halted during the final 9 minutes due to fog. The "Fog Bowl" was finished the next day.

In 1977 they played the "Ice Bowl" on the frozen turf at Montreal's Olympic Stadium.

The CFL (officially founded on January 19, 1958) is the second oldest, continuously-operating Gridiron football league in North America.

Designing for the Slowing Web

Jonathan Bailey of the Blog Herald wrote about Surfing the Slow Web, a summary of his recent experience trying to connect to the Internet as an evacuee from Hurricane Gustav. While most web designers are pushing the limits of heavy handed design towards high bandwidth, the world still doesn't work that fast or wide.

I've been reading about the lo-fi web (media files created for low end technology). They are able to open faster and they work for people who haven't bought a new computer system/ media reader in the past six months or less.

My own computer is a few years old, though not so old I expect it to stop running. I find my computer runs slow when it comes to sites using Flash or videos. I tend to skip them or shut them down rather than waiting for them to load. Usually, there isn't anything I really needed to see as most of the Flash are ads. This means all that extra time we pay to our ISP (Internet service providers) is at least partially for viewing ads. I think it's pretty poor that part of my bill for the Internet is so I can pay for the time I view ads I'd be quite happy not seeing.

So far I haven't had old software issues. But this is because I changed to Ubuntu Linux instead of sticking with MS Windows. My previous computer was a terrific IBM which ran on MS Windows ME until it just couldn't work with most of the software I was using. I never had trouble with Windows ME. Ubuntu has been good too but I've had to learn how to use an new OS (operating system) of course.

Anyway, I think the slowing web will become a bigger issue and cause a wide gap to crop up between people who have money to burn on the latest software and hardware and those who don't. Also, if there were a disaster or some other event which caused a lot of the computers that keep the Internet running to go down, what would happen to the communication online? So many people rely on the Internet to keep in touch and know what's going on in the world and their local community.

Write about three people you appreciate. If they have a site link to it. If not you could post a photograph or in some other way represent them.

What is it you appreciate about them? How long have you known them? You can write a mini interview with each of them and let them speak for themselves.

Pick a time frame, a month, a week, 2 weeks... and ask yourself a question each day. Post it to your blog and see what your readers will answer as well.

I'm going to write a self questionnaire and leave it here for anyone to add their own answers.

1. What would you choose for your first name if you could choose anything to replace the name you were given?
2. Do you believe there really is a Lost City of Atlantis, a Loch Ness Monster or life on other planets?
3. If you were a shapeshifter, what type of animal would you choose to become and what would you do while you were that animal?
4. What do you really want for Christmas this year? Don't give the world peace type of answer, be selfish.
5. What book (of all those you can remember reading) have you never forgotten?
6. What legendary character (pirate, ghost, vampire, old world explorer, mad scientist...?) would you be if you could be in the pages of a good book?
7. Which is your favourite season and why?

Here are my own answers:

1. As a kid I thought I would like a different name but I really do like my name now and wouldn't change it to anything else.
2. I do believe in Atlantis, Nessie, Bigfoot, aliens and almost all the rest. Is it ironic that I don't believe in the more accepted things like heaven and hell?
3. I'd like to be a crow or some type of raptor bird that can fly very high and see the world from above. I'd like to explore places no human usually sees, the high floors of old buildings, tops of bridges and so on. I'd also like to be a shark and explore old shipwrecks too.
4. Usually there isn't anything I really want other than to be slimmer or something like that. This year my brother may be getting me an ebook reader/ Kindle and I've started getting interested in that. I'm thinking I will also look at a handheld scanner after Christmas when the Boxing Day sales start.
5. "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" by Shirley Jackson.
6. It's hard to pick one but I think a witch combines most of the things that interest me.
7. Winter because Summer is too hot and I like walking through the snow on a day when it all sparkles in the sunlight.