Life on Florida’s West Coast

Image Hosting Option

A lot of my readers come here from my website Girly Things, which is a depository for free hair bow instructions. I also have a mailing list for close 1000 member who make and sell hair bows, most on auction sites like eBay.

One question that comes up a lot is the issue of image hosting. When you run an auction online, it’s common knowledge that items with a lot of sharp, detailed pictures do better than those without. In order to include multiple images in your auction, you need to find a service for file hosting somewhere. If you do not maintain your own website, this can be an issue. There are a lot of services to choose from, but I wanted to chime in about one of the smaller, more personal options: File House.

File House is specifically for image and sound hosting. The owner of the site handles all accounts personally and offers timely, one-on-one customer support. If you’ve used any of the larger services, you’re familiar with long wait times for support tickets and the frustration of confusing site tutorials. File House works to eliminate all of that. In fact, File House feels so confident that you will like their services that they offer a month-long free trial. Just contact them for details.

One of the added features I like a lot about the File House service is the selection of free auction templates. A pre-designed auction template can take a lot of the stress out of making sure your actions are eye catching and easy to read. You can also find free software tools and html tips. Check it out. It’s a great option.

Hold Off on Daylight Savings Time

In years past, October meant it was time to “fall back”, pushing out clocks back an hour and adhering to the rules of daylight savings time here in the United States, as well as in other parts of the world. Last year, the government starting looking at some of energy issues and reevaluating the reasoning behind daylight savings time. DST in our modern times is a convention of the last century and it came into its current incarnation in 1916 as a wartime measure aimed at conserving coal.

Starting in 2007, most of the U.S. and moved the end of DST from the last weekend in October to the first Sunday in November. In the U.S. this was in part due to the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

So, this is all to say that our clocks will not fall back in the next hour, but rather at about this time next weekend, Saturday November 4 (which for some strange reason I have always remembered is Ralph Macchio’s birthday).