Personal background
Blogging background & experiences
After my 6th bicycle trip last April (Slovenia) my living conditions changed radically and suddenly I had a lot of spare time; what shall I do now I asked myself. I had earlier written in Finnish the travel stories of our cycling trips and had a lot of photos available. Why don´t I make a blog - its much more descriptive than plain text, I reasoned.
Fortunately I started blogging with Google`s free blogger, which is to my experience the simplest and most practical tool for beginners (requires Gmail-account). I has nice templates and colours, is quite easy to learn and maintain. But it has one severe minus and that is "view my profile"-counter, which counts also your own clicks. If you don`t deduct your own clicks from the readings, you might end up thinking that you are more popular than you actually are.
Hobbies
This is me
Some links
If you are interested in cycling in Europe, please check my blogs at:
http://anteroyk.blogspot.com/
just click my profile and pick your choice.
They are my earlier works and the quality is not so good.
I was lucky to be born in Finland (Helsinki), one of the wealthy Nordic countries, where I am still living. As you may have noticed from my texts, English is not my mother-tongue, but fortunately these blogging programs have inbuilt dictionaries, so hopefully I´ll get my message clear. Furthermore I am using online English-Finnish-English dictionary (http://efe.scape.net/index.php).
As you can see, I like traveling around seeing new places and meeting new people. Maybe I was just born in the wrong country-perhaps Italy or something like that would have the right one for me.
Being endowed with a reasonably amount of wit and with the help of the excellent Finnish education system, I managed to enroll to the Helsinki School of Economics and graduated a Bachelor of Sciences in Business Administration. My first longtime employment was already during my university studies as an accountant in a bookkeeping agency, where I worked for five years. I have always liked to go my own paths and take shortcuts in my life. So, when the opportunity came I traveled to work in Saudi Arabia, where I stayed totally 4,5 years in two occasions.
In between I worked also one year in Libya and later on I had the chance to study and work 6 months in China (Tianjin, Shanghai), see on right.
In between I worked also one year in Libya and later on I had the chance to study and work 6 months in China (Tianjin, Shanghai), see on right.
As you can see, I like traveling around seeing new places and meeting new people. Maybe I was just born in the wrong country-perhaps Italy or something like that would have the right one for me.
Blogging background & experiences
After my 6th bicycle trip last April (Slovenia) my living conditions changed radically and suddenly I had a lot of spare time; what shall I do now I asked myself. I had earlier written in Finnish the travel stories of our cycling trips and had a lot of photos available. Why don´t I make a blog - its much more descriptive than plain text, I reasoned.
When I started last May, I hardly knew what the word blog meant. I have had a personal computer for ages and being a "take the bull by the horn"-type there was no return and when saw my first blog, I was in the hook.
Fortunately I started blogging with Google`s free blogger, which is to my experience the simplest and most practical tool for beginners (requires Gmail-account). I has nice templates and colours, is quite easy to learn and maintain. But it has one severe minus and that is "view my profile"-counter, which counts also your own clicks. If you don`t deduct your own clicks from the readings, you might end up thinking that you are more popular than you actually are.
According to blog-services review the most versatile free blog service provider is WordPress.com. It is also quite easy to learn and use; loses to Blogger in templates and colours, but beats it in super blog statistics; a quote from the stats page ("Just a note:we don't count your own visits to your blog").
Blogger is suitable for maintaining one single blog, but if you want to make several different ones, I would recommend using WordPress.com; you can make one single post (blog) and several pages for that post, which are in fact blogs if you want it so.
http://blog-services-review.toptenreviews.com/
Blogger is suitable for maintaining one single blog, but if you want to make several different ones, I would recommend using WordPress.com; you can make one single post (blog) and several pages for that post, which are in fact blogs if you want it so.
http://blog-services-review.toptenreviews.com/
This Bravenet.com service I found by accident. Because its more complex structure it takes time to learn, but in the long run I believe it has much to offer. The editing window is big enough; not just a few inches. It has at least one disturbing feature and that is the continuous "upgrade your hosting" exhortations and ads, but I clearly understand, that they are doing this for living and accept that.
Hobbies
- sports; tennis >20 years, cycling (7trips to Europe)
- gardening
- languages
Some links
If you are interested in cycling in Europe, please check my blogs at:
http://anteroyk.blogspot.com/
just click my profile and pick your choice.
They are my earlier works and the quality is not so good.
bravenet.com