The Fox Blog

You may have noticed that the look of the page changed recently, this was part of a series of modifications and upgrades:
- Changed the blog’s name from The Fox Hole to The Fox Blog
- Got www.thefoxblog.com domain
- Upgraded to Wordpress 2.0.1, which seems pretty cool after you try a trick or two on it.
- Changed the theme. I got the original version from a site called SubNixus.

Anyway, let me get to the point of the Vegas issue.
The owner of SubNixus, Eric Reynolds, is holding a Vegas Giveaway, a competition for marketing his blog, as he mentions it. The winner will receive the following prize package (quoted):

1- A four-day, three-night trip for two to Las Vegas. Leaving on 3/30/06 and returning 4/2/06. The trip will include round trip airfare for two and a stay at the Aladdin Hotel and Casino […]
2- [..] Control of Subnixus.com for a full 24 hour period (starting 4/5/06 at midnight CST) [..]

There are two ways to participate in the competition, which are fully detailed on the web site. Neither involves signing up to some free or paid offer, or referring people or anything related to MLM (Multi Level Marketing)!
First, I though this giveaway was just another message like those you get by thousands in your Junk Mail folder. But after checking up the web site – which doesn’t seem at all to be some kind of dump site – I changed my mind and decided to give it a shot in the Vegas Giveaway…
After all, I did get a quality Wordpress theme from there!

Check the SubNixus web site for more information

Photos of the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas (from MorgueFile.com), I couldn’t resist posting:

By the weirdest of coincidences, someone mentioned that people on the internet have been broadcasting an International Language. So as usual, pointed the browser to Google and typed “International Language”. Results returned by the search awkward, since the term “Esperanto” appeared several times. Well turns out that that International language is called Esperanto (I recall seeing this term several times on some sites such as Wikipedia.org – 10 000+ articles in Esperanto), I always though it was talked in some Latino country probably in Southern America – well I obviously was wrong!

Esperanto is a constructed international language spoken by 100 000 to 1.6 million people worldwide. It was initiated by Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof (born in the Russian Empire in 1859) who wanted to create an international language with a relatively simple grammar but at the same time very rich by the use of suffixes – in order to make new words. The language can be classified as Romanic (Spanish, French, Italian, Romansh…) and best of all it’s easy to learn – considerably easier than other languages.

The language is regulated by the Akademio de Esperanto, based in Germany. Although the language has a flag, la verda stelo, representing it, it’s a language for peace and is not related to a single region, country or ethnic group in the world. Consequently, some international organizations have declared it as the official language.

You can learn the language for free on the internet on Lernu.net. The learning material is high quality, just great. I tried to read some of it, it’s really easy and you can learn it fast. I’m actually thinking about learning the language, 30 min a day or something – well I need to find the time first! People learning the language today could contribute in setting the bases of the language… think about Esperanto literature hehe
Maybe someday, it’ll be known by 500 Millions people and English or French will become forgotten language just like Latin and Ancient Greek are today.

After several days, which turn out to be several weeks of planning of updating The Fox Hole, I finally decided to do so. Well yes, the site doesn’t seem so full at this time, but you got to start somewhere don’t you?
I’m going to try to keep it up-to-date as often as possible. Except new stuff posted every day or so.