Beautiful Blogger Award

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Daniel C Doolan

A special thanks to Lance Romel who nominated me for “Beautiful Blogger Award”. Thank you so much lancepost.wordpress.com for counting me in.

7 facts about me:
1. I love seeing interesting Architecture in cities & towns around the world
2. Enjoy the odd spot of hillwalking
3. Spent some time venturing around the Canadian Rockies – some amazing scenery.
4. Big fan of Star Trek and Star Wars
5. Still haven’t joined Facebook
6. Have worked with at least 30+ computer languages
7. Big fan of the Lord of the Rings (though read about half of it 20 years ago).

My 7 beautiful bloggers are:
1. northernnarratives.wordpress.com
2. tomshorephoto.com
3. tonentimbre.wordpress.com
4. astrawberrypatch.wordpress.com
5. francineinretirement.wordpress.com
6. theelementaleye.com
7. fieldsofspirit.wordpress.com

Thank you all bloggers for sharing your good articles, together, we can make the world beautiful.

Award Rules:

Copy the Beautiful Blogger Award logo and place it in your post.
Thank the person who nominated you and link back to their blog.
Tell 7 things about yourself.
Nominate 7 other bloggers for their own Beautiful Blogger Award, and comment on their blogs to let them know.

One Lovely Blog Award

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Daniel C Doolan

I’m so excited to have been nominated for the One Lovely Blog Award! – What an honor…Thank you CopperLeaf Treasures!

Ok so here are the rules for this award:

-Thank the person/people who nominated you and link back to them in your post.
-Share seven possibly unknown things about yourself.
-Nominate fifteen or so bloggers you admire.
-Contact the chosen bloggers to let them know and link back to them.

Here are some possible unknown things about me…

1 – Have been interested in Astronomy for probably 25 years or so.

2 – Have generated roughly 3000 tweets in my first year on twitter.

3 – Have reached about 90000 views during my first year on youtube.

4 – Christmas just isn’t Christmas without Indiana Jones, Flight of the Navigator, ET, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

5 – Have written about 220 Blog posts during my first year on wordpress

6 – My most popular video so far after a year on youtube is of the Blue Flyer Rollercoaster in Blackpool UK

7 – Have taught in areas ranging from Parallel Computing and Virtual Reality to Mobile Computing and Video Production!

Here are my nominations:

Cardinal Guzman

SpeedDemon2

Barry Howie – The Art of Photography

Manhattan – Faces & Places

Rick Holliday

A Thoughtful Eye

The Perspective

Thoughts and Expressions

Letter from Norfolk

Sam Whelan Art & Technology

Blog of the Year 2012 Award

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Daniel C Doolan

dcdoolan.wordpress.com was recently awarded a star toward the “Blog of the Year 2012″ award by fictionalmachines.com! I really appreciate this nomination, and fictionalmachines wonderful & informative blog can be experienced –>here<–

The “Blog of the Year” award is a little different from some other awards, because you accumulate stars.

Here are the ‘rules’ for this award:

1] Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award

2] Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ them with their award.

3] Please include a link back to this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award – http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/our-awards/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/‘

and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)

4 Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them.

5 You can now also join our Facebook group – click ‘like’ on this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award Facebook group‘ and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience.

6 As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…

Yes – that’s right – there are stars to collect!

Unlike other awards which you can only add to your blog once – this award is different!

When you begin you will receive the ‘1 star’ award – and every time you are given the award by another blog – you can add another star!

There are a total of 6 stars to collect.

Which means that you can check out your favorite blogs, and even if they have already been given the award by someone else, then you can still bestow it on them again and help them to reach the maximum 6 stars!

For more information check the FAQ on The Thought Palette.

*Here are the nominees [In no particular order]:

- richardwiseman.wordpress.com

- dratarrant.wordpress.com

- theuniversityblog.co.uk

- disperser.wordpress.com

- smithiesshutter.wordpress.com

- briangaynorphotography.com

- themainstreetanalyst.com

- techartzz.wordpress.com

Another huge thank you to fictionalmachines.com & another huge thank you to everyone who supports my work on dcdoolan.wordpress.com.

Versatile Blogger Award

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Daniel C Doolan

Little did I know that when I started my venture into the world of social media at the beginning of this year that others out their in the blogosphere could nominate you for awards. I was delighted to see today (30^th April) that I have received a Versatile Blogger Award.

A special thanks to Sharing My Italy … The Blog (30^th April 2012) for this nomination (see post), I again received this award two weeks ago from Zen and Genki (16^th April 2012 (see post)) but hadn’t blogged about it at the time as I was trying to decide on what other blogs I should nominate, now certainly seems to be a good time to do this.

As per the rules of being nominated, I am to:

Thank the person who gave me the award (Done!)
Include a link to their blog (I’ve done that too – above!)
Select 15 blogs/bloggers that you’ve recently discovered or follow regularly.
Nominate those 15 bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award and include a link to their site. Here they are:

And finally – Tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself.

I enjoy TV shows such as Battlestar Galatica, NCIS, CSI & Star Trek to name a few.
I lecture is subjects ranging from computer programming to graphics, video & multimedia.
Signed up to SETI@Home over 12 years ago (during its first year of operation).
Have a keen interested in distributed computing (hence SETI@Home).
It’s only been in the past month I have build a computer myself from scratch, done lots of upgrading in the past, never a complete build.
Have been interested in Astronomy for as long as I can remember.
Archaeology has always been of interest (perhaps due to watching Indiana Jones so much).

And finally to end this post with a spot of colour

Flower Show