On a Road Less Traveled

Starting a new blog is challenging even for a professional writer I presume. It requires a passion for the subject of your blog and enough (quiet) time to sit down and write your thoughts and discoveries for the day. Blogging is fun - I'm sure it will become a second nature to me in no time :)

Recent changes on the blog:

- Added Google Translate widget, which provides some limited translation capabilities for all us immigrants for whom English is not a primary language. If nothing more - try it to amuse yourself how inaccurate automatic translations are :)
- Signed up for del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, blog lines, Twitter. Hopefully now that I know some more about editing my blog template I'll add quick links for these helpful tools.

Minor changes - lots more to learn

As a total new member of the blogging community (and web-page building for that matter) I have to learn a ton of new stuff. What I learned today is how to add a favicon to my blogger website, so I can get rid of the orange "B" logo of blogger itself.

Thanks to http://how2make.blogspot.com/ I was able to change this in about 15 minutes. What's left is to adjust the icon, so it is not a complete shameless plug from one of my favorite websites (hats off if you can guess which one that is... :) and get something more in line of the goal of this blog.

What is coming out in the near future:

• Transferring to a 4-column template
• Adding finally the much needed content. I've been composing the last couple of days (but thinking about it for the last eight years)

In regards the content - here is what you can expect in the future:

• Getting your own Social Security Number (every Immigrant has to start with this)
• Getting your own Personal ID
• Opening your first bank account
• Enrolling in free ESL classes
• Renting your first apartment
• Purchasing your first computer
• Applying for your first job position
• ....

This will be enough to get started. Much attention will be paid on providing step-by-step info for new or future immigrants and also how a person who is just starting their independent life would save money on each of these steps.