I’ve been awarded “Awesome Blog Content (ABC) Award” yay ! Some of my male fans making silly faces and doing dodgy hand-signs – no I’m not a mason … doh only kidding ! My awarder : http://gegebearbear.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/im-feeling-better-so-awards-night-is-here-drum-roll-please/ Thanks gegebearbear, I’m honoured … Continue reading Awards Day – gegebearbear – Awesome Blog Content (ABC) Award, thankyou:)
I’ve been awarded another “The Versatile Blogger Award” yay ! These are my fans, they are crying because they thought they’d booked tickets to a Don Charisma Charisma roadshow, only to find out that it was Justin Bieber concert, yuk, … Continue reading Awards Day – promisetewogbola – The Versatile Blogger (2), thankyou:)
I’ve been awarded a “The Versatile Blogger Award” yay ! More of my fans overwhelmed to see me ! … doh only kidding ! My awarder : http://prayingforoneday.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/the-versatile-blogger-award-4/ Thanks Shaun, I’m honoured and humbly accept:) Section 1: Directions for you … Continue reading Awards Day – prayingforoneday – The Versatile Blogger, thankyou:)
I’ve been awarded another Liebster yay ! The Don Charisma cheerleaders showing their appreciation … doh only kidding ! My awarder : http://julxrp.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/the-liebster-award/ Thankyou, I’m honoured and humbly accept:) Section 1: Directions for you to accept the Liebster. The Liebster … Continue reading Awards Day – julx – Liebster Award, thankyou:)
I’ve been awarded another Liebster yay ! Some more of my biggest fans want a quote from me … doh only kidding ! My awarder : http://clairelitakeover.wordpress.com/2013/10/02/nominated-for-liebster/ Thankyou, I’m honoured and humbly accept:) Section 1: Directions for you to accept … Continue reading Awards Day – clairelitakeover – Liebster Award, thankyou:)
I’ve been awarded a Liebster yay ! My biggest fans cheering me on the Netherlands women’s hockey team … doh only kidding ! My awarder : http://inkedpen84.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/liebster-award-response-thank-you-for-the-beautiful-gift/ Thankyou, I’m honoured and humbly accept:) Section 1: Directions for you to accept … Continue reading Awards Day – Inkpen – Liebster Award, thankyou:)
Photo courtesy Chris Herron 2013, actually taken by his daughter Liz Herron whilst she was on holiday in Tokyo. Copyright – If you’re going to reuse … Continue reading Flamingos Tokyo Zoo 2013
I’ve just completed a statistical analysis on when people comment on my blog. To be more exact, what times of day and which days of the week. Obviously there are many factors that can skew these types of studies, so … Continue reading What is the best time of day to post on your blog?
Photo courtesy Chris Herron 2013. Taken with Canon IXUS 125 HS Copyright – If you’re going to reuse or distribute, please give credit to Chris & … Continue reading Blue Mountains Australia July 2013
I’ve just received an email from Buffer app, their website has been hacked and the hackers have been posting Spam messages on Twitter and Facebook from Buffer app. I thought my readers might want to know. For more information visit … Continue reading Breaking news – “Buffer” app hacked, passwords and credit cards safe
Photo courtesy Chris Herron 2013. Taken with Canon IXUS 125 HS And here’s how sundown become midday using a Photoshop cooling filter on the sky and … Continue reading Bondi Beach Sydney Australia, at Sundown – May 2013
My friend Chris from Australia loves sending me great photos, so I though why not share. Hope you enjoy:) Photo courtesy Chris Herron 2012. Taken with … Continue reading Bowl of Flowers – Sanur Beach – Oct 2012
“A man’s got to know his limitations” Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry in Magnum Force 1973 Photoshop- To Overlay text on B&W photo- draw a white … Continue reading “A Man’s Got To Know His Limitations” – Clint Eastwood
Originally posted on Danny Boy:
Following on from my graffiti tutorial, I put together another video to show how easy it is to colorize your photos for free using GIMP rather than Photoshop. This is a really quick effect to… Continue reading How to colorize a photo in 5 minutes
Originally posted on Shambhala Blog:
Today we say goodbye to a teacher who had an immense impact on the world. S.N. Goenka was a pioneer in making Vipassana meditation widely available to a secular audience. Over 170 meditation centers have been established… Continue reading Remembering S.N. Goenka
I haven’t shared any of my culinary skills, yet. Angie (AngieG9) inspired me to share what I know about cooking truly awesome Pasta with a Tomato based sauce, with her ketchup recipe. I used to have an Italian girlfriend from … Continue reading Tomato Pasta, The “Right” Way – Give your taste-buds a treat:)
I love to chop things up and then make new things, must be a creative process, I guess. WordPress dot com blogs give us really great tools and widgets already. But I wanted to create a custom Widget to show … Continue reading DIY Widget – Coolest Bloggers – “Fun” with HTML
I bought a generic “Apple AV Component Cable” to connect my Apple iPad and iPhone to my ancient TV, because genuine Apple product isn’t available any more. The TV in my apartment is a Philips 32″ and belongs to my landlord, … Continue reading AV Component Cable Scrambled Picture (Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod)
I don’t know why but whenever (“whenevr” ?) I see these ads I just think “Whatever”. Don Charisma, the critic – Great, so the guys at yahoo had a great idea, a photo website, let’s call it “Flicker”. On checking if the domain name was available, oh shit, it’s not, it’s already registered. What shall we do. And some bright spark comes up with the an idea, we can misspell it “flickr” rather than buying it fair and square from the legal owner, plus it will sound “cool”. Hmmm, no one visiting or using our site. What shall we do, how … Continue reading flickr – biggr – WHATEVR
I really like this quote by Henry Ford, the founder of Ford, a well known brand. It’s simple and straightforward. Whether, you believe you CAN or you believe you CAN’T YOU ARE RIGHT Henry Ford Confidence and self-belief are a … Continue reading “Driven by you” – Confidence by Henry Ford
I’ve been blogging now just over 4 months. I came here originally because I’m rubbish at writing CVs, bored of rat-race brown-nosing and wanted to get starting doing something on-line. Oh and the financial markets had swallowed up a big … Continue reading What is Charisma? by Don Charisma, with a little help from Richard Branson
Personally, I don’t follow the news too much, I started my information diet some years ago, and I’m emotionally much fitter as a consequence. I catch the occasional story when I check my email on Yahoo, and keep abreast of … Continue reading Trolls-R-Us, a guide to blog Trolls – Moose, Mr Whisk and The Axe Murderer
A friend of mine sent me these photos from the Canberra Floriade 2013. Enjoy:) These pictures were taken at the Annual Floriade held in Commonwealth park, Canberra, Australia. The Floriade is held 14-Sep-2013 to 13-Oct-2013. Presumably Australian equivalent of the … Continue reading Canberra’s Floriade 2013 – Gallery (Including Big Duck!)
A friend sent me this photo of the ducks (well probably actually more like moor-hens), on the duck pond. His favourite of the set, I’ll post … Continue reading Canberra’s Floriade 2013 – Duck Pond
Here’s my biggest fans celebrating. Only kidding, it’s the Netherlands women’s hockey team celebrating. I like the picture because they really know how to celebrate a win:) I’ve been honoured with some awards, I’m happy to be awarded by thoughtful … Continue reading Liebster Award from chandnilahoti.wordpress.com, thanks Chandni
Father: Hey. Don’t ever let somebody tell you… You can’t do something. Not even me. All right? Son: All right. Father: You got a dream… You gotta protect it. People can’t do … Continue reading How to Make Your Dreams Come True, Father’s Advice to his Son
I think a man only needs one thing in life. He just needs someone to LOVE. If you can’t give him that, then give him something to HOPE for. And if you can’t give him that, just give him something … Continue reading Don Charisma – What motivates men? Love? Hope? Purpose?
I think a man only needs one thing in life. He just needs someone to LOVE. If you can’t give him that, then give him something to HOPE for. And if you can’t give him that, just give him something … Continue reading Don Charisma – What motivates men? Love? Hope? Purpose?
“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains” by Anne Frank, The Diary of a young girl . Very wise words that point to a powerful internal process. Anne Frank describes enduring immense suffering, … Continue reading Courage and Hope within Suffering, by Anne Frank
The result of spending copious hours and days, knee deep in Linux IS – a working and stable 2TB NAS with Debian Linux based on Seagate GoFlex NET. Persistence and Charisma eventually paid off, ended up being a labour of … Continue reading Build your own Pro NAS – Seagate Goflex Net with Debian Linux, RAID1 and OpenMediaVault
Don Charisma’s new .COM – http://DonCharisma.com Dear Don Charisma readers, The last few days have been about getting DonCharisma.com up and running. I’m keeping DonCharisma.org on WordPress.com as my personal/professional blog. I like the community spirit of WordPress.com and would like to … Continue reading Don Charisma’s new DOT COM Website
Link DannyBoyBroderick – How to Create a Graffiti Logo. Link YouTube Video – Thanks Danny, great first video. I have to confess I used the monkey-with-typewriter method at first and when I started to see something I liked, then spent a bit more time and care refining it. Photoshop can do some AMAZING things with text using these effect so well worth having a play with. Cheers Don Charisma Continue reading How to Create a Graffiti Logo
I am welcoming DannyBoyBroderick to the WordPress community and introduce him as my friend. We’ve known each other for over 10 years. We worked together in a Swiss bank in London, became friends owing to various social events and similar interests … Continue reading Don Charisma welcomes DannyBoyBroderick
What’s wrong with this picture ? As I’m not a photographer, it’s taken me an age to get to the bottom of how to fix this. Photoshop has it’s own idea about colours, presumably something to do with the fact … Continue reading How to Get Photoshop JPG colour to match web page colour
let it be… …let it change… …let it go Don Charisma 2013 Resources & Sources I would like to thank: Vitaly S Alexius svitart.com – for the four seasons graphic, just awesome Vitaly. Please do visit his site, there are … Continue reading DonCharisma.org – Charisma, The Easy Way
I’m trying to get Hootsuite to reblog my WordPress posts onto Google+. It’s not that very intuitive to use and it has sat there doing nothing for days. Now it’s decided to randomly start reposting my posts. So sorry for … Continue reading Sorry Blog Readers, I’m really not having a Hoot with Hootsuite
moreissuesthantimemagazine has nominated me for this award, and I humbly and proudly accept. Thank you for nominating me:) Since starting blogging I’ve “met” a bunch of really cool people, a real driving force for creativity and positivity. Quite a few … Continue reading doncharisma – I am Part of the WordPress family … Award
Looking for a lodger or apartment sharer in the London, UK used to be fairly straightforward process. Gumtree did a fairly good job. But recent times Gumtree just isn’t getting many replies, generally because of increased competition and Gumtree now … Continue reading Review, find a lodger or sharer – easyroommate vs spareroom
For some reason I thought this would be quite difficult and involve learning video editing with something like Adobe After Effects. No so. I wanted a basic slide show of photographs with captions, maybe a bit of background music. A … Continue reading EASY WAY to Create a YouTube promo video in 30 minutes, with Powerpoint
My first Adobe Illustrator mini project:) Resources Keep Calm and Carry on Font http://www.ianbarnard.co.uk/free-keep-calm-and-carry-on-template-vector-eps/ Continue reading Keep Calm and STOP with These Boring Keep Calm Clichés
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