Wednesday 31 March 2010

Search for the 10.000th Visitor

Hello my dear visitors. Hello all 9.999 of you!

As you know (or not) Fablamaca's visitor traffic has been checked by Google Analytics since the day my dear friend Deniz Oktar helped me to set up my Google Analytics account in August, 2007.

Since then, Fablamaca welcomed 9.999 visitors. Some of them stayed, checked the other pages of Fablamaca, spent 5 minutes and 18 seconds within Fablamaca, some of them just left but all of them are welcomed as our visitors. What's more, this post is the 99th post in Fablamaca! (I found it interesting, ok?)


I came accross with this significant detail today by chance and I decided to share with my followers. An also who ever becomes the 10.000th visitor by leaving a comment under this post first will receive a special prize from Fablamaca. 


Thanks for following Fablamaca;
fab

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Merhaba pek değerli Fabırcıklarım. 9.999'unuza birden merhaba!

Bildiğiniz (belki de öğrenmek üzere olduğunuz) gibi Fablamaca'nın ziyaretçi trafiği Google Analytics tarafından, Ağustos 2007 tarihinden beri kontrol edilmekte. (Bana Google Analytics hesabımı kazandıran pek değerli arkadaşım Deniz Oktar'a teşekkürler.)

O zamandan bu zamana, Fablamaca 9.999 ziyaretçi tarafından ziyaret edildi. Kimisi kaldı, diğer sayfaları kontrol etti, sitede 5 dakika 18 saniye harcadı, kimisi hemen çıktı ama her biri bizim ziyaretçimiz oldu. Bunun yanında bu yazı, Fablamaca'da yayınlanan 99. yazı oldu! (Bana ilginç geldi.)


Bu oldukça ilginç detayla bugün şans eseri karşılaştım ve sizinle paylaşmaya karar verdim. Hatta kim bu yazının altına yorum bırakarak 10.000'inci ziyaretçi olursa, Fablamaca'dan özel bir hediye kazanacak.


Fablamaca'yı izlediğiniz için teşekkürler;
fab

Sunday 28 March 2010

Akla Düşen Düşünceler No:20100328 - EN-Bİ

[English version is at the bottom.]

Fablamaca'nın aklına akla düşen düşüncelere dönüş yapmak düştü.

Farkettim ki İngilizce akla Türkçe gibi düşmüyor. Türkçe düştü mü güzel düşüyor...

En Bi Hediyelik facebook üzerinden hayranlarına hediyeler dağıtıyor! Kaliteli paşmina ve şallarını son derece takdir ettiğimiz firma facebook'daki sayfasında toplanan hayranlarına çekilişle yüzlerce paşmina ve şal dağıtmaya hazırlanıyor. Çekiliş 31 Mart tarihinde yapılacak. İşte gerekli bağlantı: tıkla!

Diesel harika bir kampanyaya imza atmış. Facebook'da Bengü'nün yapıştırdığı videodan yakaladığım bu harika detay kesinlikle paylaşmaya değer. 
Kampanyalarının adı "Be Stupid". (Bu noktada söylemek zorundayım ki İngilizce bu tür durumlarda kulağa daha hoş geliyor. Türkçe'sini söylesem "Aptal ol". Oldu mu şimdi?) Kendilerine çok iyi bir argüman bulmuşlar (be stupid, videoyu izleyin) ve bunu basit ama çekici bir internet sitesiyle desteklemişler. Sitede içinde belirli sayıda kelimelerin bulunduğu bir kutucuk var ve burada bu kelimeleri yeniden düzenleyerek kendi dilediğinizi yazabiliyor, bunu diğerlerinin görmesi için kaydedebiliyor hatta bir de kopyasını bilgisayarınıza indirebiliyorsunuz. Yarım saat başından kalkamadım. İşte benim yazdıklarım:



Eurovision şarkısını duydum geçenlerde. Ben pek emin olamadım. Siz ne diyorsunuz? (Bir de Türkçe'sini dinledim şarkının, aslında şarkı fena değil. Bir şakıyı ana dilinden başka bir dile devşirmek kolay iş değil ve zannımca bir çok durumda yapılmaması gereken bir aktivite.)



Ayrıca Eurovision Turkey internet sitesi ancak bu kadar kötü yapılabilirmiş. Linkler çalışmıyor, ikonlar çalışmıyor, resimler çalışmıyor, sayfanın inanılmaz amatör bir görüntüsü var. Tam "Türk işi". Eurovision'u çok taktığımdan değil ama "Avrupa'ya açılan pencere" falan diye zırvalayanlara "Pencereden bunu mu gösteriyorsunuz?" diye sormak istiyorum!

Gmail'den mail gönderirken, maili yazmamı takiben gönder tuşuna basmamla Gmail'den "Dosya mı ekleyecektiniz? İletinize "ekliyorum" yazdınız ancak dosya eklemediniz. Yine de göndermek istiyor musunuz?" şeklinde bir cevap gelmesi bir oldu. Aslında yazdığım kelime de "bekliyorum". Gene de takdir ettim, güzel uygulama!

A Takımı geliyor! Çocukluğumun televizyon dizisi, hey gidi! Deliler gibi izlerdim A Takımı'nı küçükken. A Takımı, Görevimiz Tehlike, Karaşimşek, MacGyver... A Takımı'nın bu yeni filmi güzel olacağa benziyor.



Gelecekteki evimde, girişteki duvarlardan birine gömme bisiklet yaptırmak istiyorum. Böyle yarı yarıya duvara sıkışmış gibi. Renk mavi olabilir.

Fablamaca ADD'ye geri dönüş yaptı, tamam.

Saygılar;
fab

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Fablamaca decided to go back to ADD. (Ofcourse, it doesn't make sense.)

What is ADD? I need to find an English equivalent. Maybe I can call "The Thoughts That Fell In My Mind". TTTFIMM. Boy, that's funny! So this is a concept which I share small thoughts which are not enough to cover a whole story but also valuable enough not to share. 

As you can guess, Turkish and English thoughts will sometimes be slightly different. Sometimes not similar at all. Some of these thoughts won't make any sense in English like some other thoughts will not make any sense in Turkish. So, lets get going.


En Bi Hediyelik, a Turkish souvenir supplier company and also famous with their good quality pashminas and scarves, is preparing to give hundreds of rewards out via raffle to their fans. Only thing you need to do is to become a fan of their facebook page. You can reach the connection from here: Click!

Diesel has a brilliant campaign at the moment. I got this fantastic detail via video on facebook which posted by Bengü and it was too good not to share. It is called "Be Stupid". Already sounds good, eh? They have a very good subject (be stupid, watch the video) and they supported this with a simple but attractive website. In the website there is also a box which you can create your own poems with the given words but it's not so easy because your words are limited. You can save your poems to leave in the website so everybody can see and also you can download you image into your computer. There are my poems:



I listened Turkey's Eurovision song. I'm not so sure about it. What do you think? (I also listened the Turkish version and found it is actually a good song but it doesn't have the same spirit in English. I think it's a hard job to derive a song to another language from it's original language and in my opinion shouldn't be done.)



A-Team is coming! TV show of my childhood. I was crazy about them. A-Team, Mission Impossible, Night Rider, MacGyver... Good old days. This new film about A-Team seems to be a good one.



I want a pressed bike, integrated to the wall in my future apartment. Colour may be blue...

Fablamaca returned to TTTFIMM, over.

fab

Tuesday 23 March 2010

Photo Challenge No:1 - Black & White

[Türkçesi aşağıda...]

Hello there!

Last wednesday I decided to challenge Kasia on a special photo challenge.You know Kasia, right? --> http://worqshop.blogspot.com/

Rules were simple:

- Who ever gets the best picture by voting wins.
- You have only one hour.
- You have to go around together. (So we'd end up with the same environment to picture.)
- You have a theme. (This time it was Black & White)

I'll be publishing our challenges from here for you to vote, so you'll decide who wins. Everytime we will choose 3 photographs each and I will put them here anonymously. By this means, you will not know who you are woting for. Fair enough?

There is a poll on the top right corner of the page. You can vote for only one photograpgh, choose the best. We also appreciate any kind of comments from you.

This is enough idle talk, eh? Here they are, the pictures of our very first photography challenge:

Challenge No:1 - Black & White

 (1) teddy by the window

 
(2) in her shoes

(3) early racing 

(4) the bags

(5) antiques

(6) coffee break

Don't forget to vote! We are counting on you!

See you next time...

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Herkese selam!

Geçen çarşamba Kasia'yı bir fotografi yarışmasına davet ettim. Artık Kasia'yı tanıyoruz, değil mi? -->; http://worqshop.blogspot.com/

Kurallar basit:
- Her kim ki oylama sonucu seçilecek en iyi fotoğrafı çeker, o kazanır.
- Yalnızca 1 saat vaktin var.
- Etrafta birlikte dolaşmak zorundasın. (Böylece ikimiz de aynı ortamı fotoğraflamak durumunda kalıyoruz. )
- Takip etmek zorunda olduğun bir tema var. (Bu haftalık Siyah&Beyaz fotografi.)

Bu yarışmaları sizinle buradan paylaşacağım ve oylarınızla kimin kazandığına siz karar vereceksiniz. Her seferinde çektiğimiz fotoğraflardan kişi başı 3 tanesini sizlerle isimsiz olarak paylaşacağız. Böylece kime oy verdiğinizi bilmeden yalnızca fotoğrafları oylayacaksınız. 

Sayfanın sağ üst köşesinde bir oylama kutucuğu var. Buradan beğendiğiniz yalnızca bir fotoğrafa oy verebileceksiniz. Elbette her türlü yoruma da sonuna kadar açığız.

Daha fazla boş konuşmanın alemi yok sanırım. Fotoğraflar yukarıda. 

Oylamayı unutmayın. Size güveniyoruz!

Bir sonraki yarışmada görüşmek dileğiyle...

Sunday 14 March 2010

My Dear Friends

I love my friends!

Do you love your friends?

First I wanted to introduce my new friend "browny" to you but then I though, "Why just him?" I have many more friends and yet they've been great and humble servants to me for a long time. So they deserve to be mentioned here.

What can I say? We are always together. I don't even go out without one of them. They always keep a good company and try to comfort me in any circumstances. They don't moan, don't complain. For them I'm always the first, always above.

My first friend I'll introduce is an old one. He's been with me since 2006 May and it's a long, long time. We've been to many places, many trips, many parties and many different weather conditions together and he proved himself as a strong, reliable and comfortable friend.

His name is “My Brown Adidas”. He was a birthday present to me from my sister, Esra. I never had a friend like him before, so I wasn't so sure at the beginning of our friendship but in time he proved me wrong. He was with me when I left Turkey for first time and came to England! I was wearing him when I visited London first time. He came with me to cold Stockholm in April 2008 and to the Netherlands straight afterwards. He kept my company in Mayfield, in Hever Castle, in Austria, in first time in Maidstone, in Germany, in Eastbourne, in Dunorlan Park, in my second time in York, under the Winnie the Pooh Bridge, when we played kabaddi first time in Rye, Camber Sands, for many times for ceroc, in Bodiam Castle, on the top of Seven Sisters, in Groombridge, in Ramsgate for camping and in Canterbury on the way back, when I played cricket for first time, in my second tour around England through Newcastle, Edinburgh and Belfast, in Warsaw and Krakow, in Hastings, in Tunbridge Wells and so on. He had been my favourite fellow traveller for a long time and now he is retired. He'll stay with me but he will give himself to sporty activities like running and playing football. God bless you my dear friend.

My next friend I'd like to introduce is also an old one: “My Green Nikes”. He is not less as a comrade than My Brown Adidas. Funny thing, our friendship was actually arranged by my sister. We'd never seen eachother until my sister came over with him to our house one day. Complete match! I never regreted. He companied me on my first “on my own” trip around England and Scotland which I visited Oxford, York, Edinburgh, Highlands, Loch Ness, Liverpool, Cornwal, Plymouth, Bournemouth, Salisbury and Stonehenge. Ofcourse we've been to many other places and he's been an excellent friend to me. He has so many stories to tell. I'm sure there'll be many other places to visit together. God bless you too my dear friend.


I'd also like to remember 2 other friends who are not among us anymore. First of all “My Black Leather Converses” who was my choise for a tough winter in İstanbul over boots and he managed to came to England with me and took part in many trips such as Winsdor Castle and Brighton trips but like all Conversekind, he lost his life too soon. After him “My Shiny Football Boots” who served me so well in all sporty activities like football, running and even tennis. One day I left him on recycling box and he misteriously vanished. I'm so sorry my friend. I only hope they are happy where they are as they truly deserved...
Here my other friends' pictures. They all have their stories but there is too much to tell. There are many more who are not with us anymore and they don't even have photos. Pity...
My Converselike Peacocks. We met in Cardiff while I was travelling with Kasia in Wales. He filled the Converse gap successfully but now he is so ill. God bless you my friend.
 
My Smart Shoes on the left and Skinnies on the right. They both serve well in their areas.

My Extra Shoes. Although I don't wear him often, he companied me very friendly in cold Mayfield days in the house when I didn't have any slippers. We met in "first maidstone day" which also makes him special. 

Today look downwards and say thank you to them. Without them life wouldn't be so easy! Grab a clean cloth and wipe them for a second to show how grateful you are. Their smile will be your reward.
And finally, my new friend, the fresh blood of our team, Fablamaca proudly presents, “Browny”!
 Dynamic and Energetic!














and Sexy!
About stories to tell, I never realized that My Green Nikes literally had a story to tell me for a very long time because I'd never looked this close before this photo shooting. If you look carefully, you'll see...

Full writing: 'ONE MORNING IN 1971, BILL BOWERMAN WAS STRUCK WITH A GREAT IDEA, SITTING DOWN FOR BREAKFAST, HE SAW HIS WIFE'S WAFFLE IRON AND ENVISIONED USING IT TO CREATE SOLES FOR HIS SHOES. A FEW RUBBER CHIPS AND SEVERAL ATTEMPTS LATER, BILL SUCCESSFULLY MADEWHAT BECAME THE "WAFFLE SOLE". TESTING THE IDEA ON ATHLETES, THE SHOES PROVIDED LIGHT-WEIGHT TRACTION FOR RUNNERS EVERYWHERE. IN 1973, THE WAFFLESOLE WAS SOLD TO THE WORLD AS THE "OREGON WAFFLE" '

We'll say goodbye to you with a photo from our photo shooting which we enjoyed a lot. Thanks for reading and don't forget to say thanks to your "friends" today. 


Sunday 7 March 2010

Google Search Stories

Have you heard about "Google Search Stories"?

Maybe you have but honestly I just found them last night while searching for some recent ads. And I just love them!
What a brilliant idea that bringing up someone's google search as a story because it is a story, indeed. Everytime you search for something, there is a purpose behind it. Could you please look at yourself for a second. You need to get somewhere but you don't know the direction, what do you do? GOOGLE SEARCH! You need to find a book which you couldn't find in the book shop, what do you do? GOOGLE SEARCH! You need some information about your homework at school, what do you do? GOOGLE SEARCH!

Ok, this is not a news. I know that. The point is, all of these searchs have their story. You need to go that place because you need to meet that new girl you met 2 weeks ago at science museum. You need that book because it is a present for your mum who madly in love with author's all works and you want to surprise her with this just released book because you want to have the car for the weekend to go to that bla bla festival. You also need to work that homework out otherwise Mrs. Smith will kick your ass so hard at school for this homework is your last chance to pass her lesson and so on. 

From this point of view every search is unic and special because they all serve for different purposes and are a part of different stories. 

We are so well connected with the technology, so that I can't imagine not having google around. I can do without internet, with out facebook for instance but it feels like google is so essential and I find this amazingly awkward! For example I don't know when I checked one of those big, yellow paged phone books last time to find a number. Do you? It is history now. What do we do? GOOGLE SEARCH! it's that simple. If you asked an elementary student, you'd get the same answer, GOOGLE IT!

I also realized, every writing of mine is another search story. If I'm not sure about a phrase or idiom I google it to make sure it is correct. Here we go! Yet another story.

This is enough prattle. I'll leave you with my favourite search story, Parisian Love but I simply love them all. There are only 8 of them so far. I also reccomend "Out of Office" and "Winter Games" but I'm pretty sure you'll watch all of them. Because we are all curious about stories.

Enjoy!


Link to the stories:
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