Tweet About Fo-Guang Shan Monastery Venerable Master Hsing Yun founded Fo Guang Shan in 1967. Since then it has evolved from a mountaintop bamboo forest to the largest Buddhist monastery in Taiwan. Master Hsing Yun has inspired the selfless devotion of over 1,000 monastics as well as the ardent support of many lay devotees to [...]
Read more...February 6, 2010 | 1,461 views
Tweet First of all, I would like to congratulate the busy beavers for their great effort in supporting the local communities in various fund raising projects, thumbs up!! Who are the Busy Beavers? Talented Arborists & Landscapers serving the Canterbury region, visit this page and meet the Busy Beavers. I first met Bryce when he [...]
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TweetMy good friends James & Ruby are getting engaged in Feb 2010, I took great pleasure in designing their engagement party invitation. The invitation needs to be special with a personal touch, and we want it to be different to the generic cards you buy at the shop. Since only 50 cards are required, each card [...]
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One of the earliest was the simple signature which gave credibility to documents and easily identified the owner. This was/is a unique drawing of the letterforms involved. One's name is insufficient, i.e. there are an awful lot of people with the name 'Smith', but is highly unlikely that two of them would sign their name in an identical form...
Read more...November 22, 2009 | 14,979 views
Tweetkudesign website update In order to keep a sparkling clean set of URLs, and SEO friendly, I have decided to change the permalinks structure of the kudesign site. In my previous configuration, each post had a long URL name: kudesign.co.nz/studio/2009/11/article-name/ This was due to the fact that my WP was installed inside a sub-folder, and [...]
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Tweet What are Chinese Name Chops (name seals)? What? Lamb chops? No, not something you bought out of a butcher shop, a name chop is developed in ancient Chinese times to symbolize and validate a person’s identity. A name chop is an artefact hand crafted out of a choice of beautiful precious stones; the full [...]
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A website is more than just a holder of your company information and contact details. It is important to understand that a website is not a static entity, but a living thing, and should constantly grow and evolve. Your company doesn’t stay the same, it is constantly changing, improvements are being made, new product or services are being offered each day, so why your website should stays the same?
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Tweet Filming location of the movie “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” Magnificent Limestone Outcrops, once to be under the sea, now 700m in altitude, northwest of Christchurch. Favorite location for trampers, rock climbers and photographers. His Holiness the Da Lai Lama once visited this place and said “This is [...]
Read more...November 13, 2009 | 1,517 views
Tweet Beginning of the written word Language and words are tools used by the human race to express feelings and ideas. Before language and words were invented, people originally could only express themselves via body language. But the human mind and emotions are extremely complex compared to the somewhat simple and limited forms of the [...]
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Computer technology has changed the way we play and work. The internet has brought the world closer to you than ever, wireless technology has freed us from fixed workstations. People can virtually connect with one another anywhere economically and effortlessly.
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Tweet Who needs a website? The computer is no longer a locally fixed machine; it is capable of reaching the world through the internet, searching for abundance of information in all different topics. Everyone can benefit from the net; it has becoming more and more indispensable part of modern life. The importance of the internet [...]
Read more...November 9, 2009 | 3,075 views
The Chasm is a spot along the Cleddau River, where the watercourse carve its way through the narrow rock formation, making sculptures of nature. The negative ions from the mist felt truly replenishing, it was a symphony of sight and sound throughout the 15 min walk into the heart of the Chasm.
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Joseph is a passionate graphic and web designer, servicing clients globally, and likes to share his thoughts on this blog. Contact Joseph if you'd like to talk about a design project.
February 23, 2010 | 1,869 views