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Understanding WordPress

Just what is WordPress? The history and stats of  WordPress described in an infographic. Click on infographic below for a full-sized view.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Simplicity Sells

David Pogue says "Simplicity sells" This talk, given by New York Times columnist David Pogue, was way back in 2006. Now it's 2010 and "simplicity" is just as relevant as it was 4 years ago. David Pogue gave an entertaining and hilarious take on "simple" designs of softwares and provides encouraging examples that got it right. Sounds nerdy? Nope, it's actually funny and entertaining, as he sang a few hilarious songs, lampooning Microsoft to Apple.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Humanizing your blog

transitive verb hu·man·ized, hu·man·iz·ing, hu·man·iz·es To portray or endow with human characteristics or attributes; make human: humanized the puppets with great skill. I'm a newbie in blogging even though I have been online since the days of the modem, if any of you can remember. Through the years, the design of websites have changed tremendously. Initially, it was purely functional, purely text with some linking to other text sites.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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New stuff at WordPress.com

I've noticed that WordPress.com (the hosted service) have introduced quite a number of new features recently. Share Button. Zementa. Twitter "Tweet" Button. "Like" a  post. Are these new features an ongoing response to Posterous?... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Facebook: Rise of social media juggernaut

Facebook is a social media jaggernaut. It has overtaken Yahoo and Google in terms of web visits. It has precise information on its users that it can be the next giant online advertisement platform. Its user base have already surpassed 500 million and growing everyday.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Social Media around the world

Which social media is popular in countries around the world.

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Liverpool Fans

Liverpool FC.

What it means according to Wiley's Dictionary:

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, & the Social Media that Fulfill ‘Em

Source / Read more: dontwasteyourtime.co.uk

Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

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A purposeful life

What really motivates you? Most would think that it is money. Money does motivate to a certain extent. A better motivation is having a purposeful life, according to Daniel H. Pink. Author of several provocative, bestselling books about the changing world of work.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Twitter Singapore

According to penn-olson.com Twitter is Buzziest in Asia Pacific.

Top 10 busiest channels in Singapore and good old Sammyboy.com is in top 10.

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The reason why Google and Verizon say "no" to mobile net neutrality

Infographic created by Jesse Thomas of digital creative agency Jess3, shows the proportion of users of social media services (Facebook, Hotmail, Skype) using mobile services. This is the reason that Google and Verizon saying "No" to mobile neutrality. In the future, most people would use mobile services more often than cable. There is an enormous growth here and any... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Controlling Facebook Places

How to disable Facebook Places. If you think Places are not a big deal, check out this website: PleaseRobMe.

Service is currently available only in US. Sooner or later, it will come to Singapore. It's already here in Singapore and I've already disable Places.

Take you time to review your privacy settings as well.

Your location can be shared with friends' applications as well. To turn it off:

The real reason why Facebook launch Places:

So that marketeers know where you are.

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Saturday Weekly Reports : Week #33 Updates — I know where you are

Updates on new changes on this blog, technical setups and what I think are significant events that happen on the week. On this Blog: Did you notice? Rotating Favicon. Accurate prediction of social media. Journals. Internet updates: Google again - Change your name. Facebook launches Places -- A dastardly plan to keep you always on Facebook checking your status.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Facebook Places

I already hate Facebook Tag. Usually, if someone tag me, I just remove it myself.

Can't stand the constant update by others, and most of the time, it about selling a product.

Now Facebook has these Places (only in US now). Maybe its time to drop Facebook?

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Real Life iPad wedding

A guy did proposed to his girlfriend using social media.

And the logical conclusion: A cartoon, using iPad for the wedding.

Then it happened in real life?

Katie and Aaron were recently married, and the officiant did the entire service from his iPad.

They read their vows from iPad, after having copied them to the device from paper and ink versions.

I don't know what to say.

Thanks to  offbeatbride.com and geekologie.com 

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The Visualization of Violence

Wikileaks recently released 91,000 documents that track events including friendly fire and civilian injuries and death over the course of the last six years. Have you seen the documents? It's all in text. No pictures or videos. A group of hackers recently took the Wikileaks activity data and created a video visualization of the events.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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World's largest artwork

Jim Denevan has created the World’s largest artwork and showcases his art skill on a lake in Siberia.

In pursuit of the impermanent. From the vanishing curl of a wave to sand briefly stilled between tides, nature's fleeting moments are his stock-in-trade. The frozen surface of Siberia's Lake Baikal presented a shifting, snow-blanketed canvas for Denevan's specific brand of art: massive geometrical patterns carved into the earth, ever vulnerable to the elements. 

These images document Denevan's quest to create history's largest work of art, while also illuminating the simple, arresting beauty of the natural world that he so keenly reveres.

 

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100 of the World’s Best Countries

Explore the world's top 100 countries. An interactive Newsweek study of health, education, economy and politics ranks the globe's top nations. Best place to live: Finland. Singapore is ranked 20th. Do you think that the ranking is accurate? continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Online Journal

Do you keep a diary or journal? Chances are if you do, it will be written on a paper-based notebook or diary. The analog journals are not safe. Others might get a chance to peek or steal it. Thus exposing your deep innermost thoughts to everyone. At best it could be embarrassing, at worse, I leave it to your imagination. Furthermore these notes can be lost, or damaged or rendered unreadable. How do you keep your writing private?... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Change your name

Change your name by Google.

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Facebook Social Plugin

The official video released by Facebook on Social Plugin and its privacy issue.

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Sales tip: Cold Calling is the Worst

Salespeople. Do you do cold call? I do. Its a common misconception that the more cold calls you do, you'll get better results.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Don't change your name, use a pseudonym.

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google saying that once young people reach adulthood, to change their names. Its true that whatever is in the internet will be seen by someone eventually. To change name, is not as easy as it looks. A far better way is to register under a pseudonym. Registering for web services doesn't require you to certify that you... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Internet more dangerous than an atomic bomb

Remember John Cougar Mellancamp?

I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb," he said. "It's "destroyed the music business. It's going to destroy the movie business." Source: Reuters.

The atomic bomb? Really? I didn't know that I can destroy a city using the internet.

Of course he just released a new album: No better that this.

How else can he get noticed?

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Chrome Crashed

Lately, I've notice that Google Chrome have been crashing often. It happens when I am writing a post in WordPress. Normally, its not a big problem. All you need is to hit Refresh or F5 and the webpage refreshes and reloads. Unfortunately its not that simple with the WordPress editor.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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iPodzilla

I've got to stop dishing Apple. They do make good products.

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You just need one to start

Julian Assange. Founder of Wikileaks. We need people like him. Governments should be afraid of its citizens not the other way round. This just shows that the so called "war on terrorism" was based on lies and subterfuge. All acts of terrorism are from the governments. Don't believe it? Just ask the Native Americans. What do you think of Julian Assange? Hero or Villain? Related... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Financial Planning

What financial planning actually means:

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What's your Flavor?

The web. A messy and wild place. Its like a teenagers' bedroom (some adults too). Most of us have Facebook, Twitter, a blog or 2 and it is usually kind of tough to find a way to aggregate the information. Flavors.me have managed to do this.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Facebook Changes - For better or worse

Did you noticed? Facebook have made a change and will be making more changes. What are these changes (for better or worse)? Improvements to the Notes application, Impending removal of "Boxes", Redesign changes to Fan Pages.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Effective Weight Loss Program

Do you want to lose weight?

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The real reasons for delay of white iPhone

OMG, I'm a Apple-hating Orc and iPhone the white is gathering reinforcements to attack.

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History of Marketing

Are you marketeer?

Its more of the same.

In the end, we are still writing on virtual wall (Facebook or Twitter).


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Saturday Weekly Reports : Week #32 Updates — Net Neutrality

Week #32 updates: Updates on new changes on this blog, technical setups and what I think are significant events that happen on the week. On this Blog: Improvements to Follow Us. Focusing on directions for blogs. Increase in readership. Offers of joining advertisement affiliates. Internet updates: Net Neutrality. GPL resolved? Facebook, I'm checking in. Blog updates: 1. Improvements on "Follow Us". Last week, I implemented the RSS Button... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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I like Mike

Introducing Senator Mike Gravel.

He’s also working to produce a new TV show, I Like Mike, with him as the President of the United States.



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Dumbing down the Internet - Twitter

The Tweet Network. Everybody is a blogger.

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In remembrance - Al-Fadil Ustaz Ahmad Sonhadji Mohamad

Ustaz Ahmad Sonhadji (Mohamad) was a renowned and respected Muslim scholar from Singapore. He was born in 18th August 1922 (24 Zulhijjah 1340H) in Surakarta (Solo), Central Java, Indonesia. In 1927, at the age of five, he travelled with his parents to Singapore and lived with the Solo community at the Jalan Sultan area known as Pasir Gembur. Later, his family moved to Rengat (Sumatra). He returned to Singapore and became a citizen. ... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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PR disaster

Heard about Steven Slater? The flight steward that when ballistic over a customer "assault" on him. That just shows you that the cliché: "the customer is always right" is wrong. It should be changed to: "The customer doesn't know anything."... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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The real reason

Why actually iPhone users have more sex.

Apple iPhone 4 Antenna FAIL

by Guhmshoo

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Why school is important.

Nobody's perfect. Even native speakers.
Workers have misspelled the word school on a road approaching a high school in North Carolina in the US.

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Being remarkable

This video by Seth Godin was filmed on Feb 2003. What is remarkable is that 7 years later, the message is still relevant now. The video is from TED: Ideas worth Spreading. I love TED and their Ted Blog have migrated to WordPress.com. It means their videos can be embedded into WordPress.com blogs. Which is even more fantastic.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Inception

Inception. Once awhile comes a film that makes your mind do mental gymnastics.

I always see a movie once. 

Then I wait for the DVD. Its cheap and it will probably come out in 3 to 6 months. The time frame from movie to DVD is now shorter.

• Why movies? -- To see the special effects. I'm not going to buy a $20,000 or $6m home theater entertainment set.

• Why DVDs? -- I can have the subtitle, pause and replay a scene to get the deeper meaning of the movie.

I definitely won't be stupid enough to see it more than once in a movie.

Granted, the DVD will come out later. So what if you can't be gratified instantly.

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Map of Social Media networks

2010 Social Media networks when mapped.

Inspired by XKCD via Flowtown

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Duplicated Content

I remembered about duplicated content. It goes something like this: Google will penalizes if I submit the same article to different directories.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Clever Name Card

 Loved it! Minimalist design.

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Ego. All about me.

Are you egoistic?

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Of acronyms and how it can fail

Acronyms. You must be careful in using it. It could mean something else.

When SARS struck, the original was ARS or Acute Respiratory Syndrome. The acronym spelled out as ARS. It presented a problem, for newspaper editors and everyone as well.

Imagine the headline:

"Asia struck by ARS.",

"How do you know if you have ARS?"

It was subsequently decided to rename it as SARS. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

Now what has all this got to do with MUIS?

They decided to use ARS.

Malay Muslims attempt at English language that falls short. 

Makes me wonder. Forgive me Allah SWT.

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Social Media Impact

How social media impacts us in our daily lives.

In fact its already done in real life. This guy, Matt Van Horn uses Twitter, Foursquare and Qik for his marriage proposal. 

Matt's blog.

Later it will be like this:

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Blogetery Shutdown - Stupidity or just plain business rivalry

Blogetery.com is up again. It was shut down recently. The reason for the shut down from its host BurstNet: It was revealed that a link to terrorist material, including bomb-making instructions and an al-Qaeda 'hit list', had been posted to the site...... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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HDMI cable. Don't get suckered to buy the high end.

How many believe that paying more means better quality?

For HDMI cable, its not true.

You are getting rip off if you buy the quality premium ones.

 

And that applies to the gold plated analog A/V cable too.

Here's why?

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Twitter Parade

Do you want to have a cool Twitter Parade?

Everybody is a blogger

Yes, that includes you. Yes, you! The point is, if you are on any social sites, like Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, MySpace, than you are already a blogger blogging away.. Does that comes to you as a surprise? ... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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The iPad killer

via From Cyberbofh's blog

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Finally, flash on iPad and iPhone

Held and poke the new iPad at the local Apple Store.

Nothing impressive. Just a dumb-downed netbook.

Surfed. Can't load Flash

Yes I know about HTML5. Its not here yet. Flash is here.

My son, 8 years old, surfed to his usual Flash games website.

Daddy, its broken. Its not working

That sums up the iPad.

Finally a hack to install Flash on iPad and iPhone.

Then again, I'll never buy any hyped-up, dumbed-down, walled-garden products from Apple.

Android yes.

If you don't understand that, you deserve an Apple.

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Happy 45th National Day Singapore

I live in Singapore. I love the country. That does not mean I love the ruling party, People's Action Party (PAP) The government is not PAP. PAP is the ruling party. Unfortunately, the ruling party have their members in it. How widespread? Even in the National Trade Union Congress. With the ruling party, every year Singapore have become less of a home. An article from the past. Original link is gone. Fortunately I kept it in the cloud. The persistance of information.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Blind Faith and 786

The other day someone (a Muslim) told me that 786 represents the numerical value of "In the name......" 

Where did he get that? So I asked him. 

His reply was that if you have faith you'd believe. 

I just rolled my eyes at the ridiculousness of the statement. And I'm a Muslim.

"Knowledgeable" Muslims falls for blind faith. 

As a Muslim it is not only about faith. It is faith with understanding. Then again understanding doesn't have to be profound. 

A simple reality check is all that needed. 

For Muslims just ask yourself when you do anything do you say "" or do you say 786?

Fairly obvious isn't it? 

Thus the absurdity and ignorance becomes clear.

If 786 was written on a piece of paper, I'd just step on it.

Only for Muslims who want to understand: The Myth of 786

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The Power of Compounding

Do you know what is compounding interest?

I'll explain with a simple story.

Ages ago, there was a King who loved to play games. He has lots of games brought to him from all over his domain.

Even though he had a lot of games, he was bored and wanted something that was much more challenging.

In his kingdom, there lived a poor inventor. The King commissioned him to come up with a new game.

Months passed and finally the inventor came up with a game, that is now known as chess.

The King loved the game so much that he offered the poor inventor anything he wished for.

At that time, the kingdom riches was in rice. It produces the most rice and it is exported well beyond the kingdom borders.

"I'm a simple man."

"I would like one grain of rice for the first square of the board, two grains for the second, four grains for the third and so on doubled for each of the 64 squares of the game board”

The King laughed heartily, "Everybody that brings games to pay would just want gold or silver. Are you sure, that's all you want?"

"Yes, your majesty, I'm a simple man" repeated the inventor.

The king ordered his staff to lay down the grains of rice. By the time they reach the 40th square, the whole kingdoms supply of rice was exhausted.

The King learned that all the wealth in his kingdom would not be enough to buy the amount of rice needed on the 64th square.

The rice he asked will be around 18 billion billion. So if a bag of rice contained a billion grains, you would need 18 billion such bags.

“You have provided me with such a great game and yet I cannot fulfill your simple wish. You are indeed a genius.” said the King and offered to make the inventor as his top most advisor instead.

Compounding interest only works for the banks to enslave you.

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Apples vs Oranges

Image by Peter Čuhalev via Flickr

Posterous vs Wordpress vs Blogger

How do you compare blogging platforms?

What about Typepad, Blogger, Tumblr, Ning to name a few. 

Is one better that the other?

I have a self hosted Wordpress, where I can do this: A bar on top of any link.

I have Wordpress.com account. It's another blog.

Its there because of Akismet and I have to have the API key.

I have another blog in Blogger.

1. Posterous for quick updates via email.
2. Journeyman Journeys for expanded content.
3. Articles posted in Journeyman Journeys get autoposted to Posterous.
4. Posterous autopost to other social networks including the two other blogs.
5. Posterous does not autopost to Journeyman Journeys.
6. Blogger does not autopost to Posterous.

Get it?

To me Posterous is like a scooter, it gets me around fast and my self-hosted Wordpress is like a car, carries more and far more convenient.

Both still get me to my destination: Which is to reach out to more readers.

There, can you tell which platform is the best or better?

What about Squidoo? where does it fit?

It's all up to you. Hosted or Self-hosted.

Or just use Facebook as your blog or even Twitter.

Blogging boundaries have just been blurred.

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Related articles on the net

• Posterous vs Blogger vs Wordpress (journeymanjourneys.com)
• Can Posterous be all things to all people? It's trying (econsultancy.com)
• Waging war on Wordpress (guardian.co.uk)
• Review Of The Top Three Blogging Platforms - WordPress, TypePad and Blogger (thoughtmechanics.com)
• Tumblr Topples Typepad (blogherald.com)
• The Social Media Grafting Process (onemanandhisblog.com)

Saturday Weekly Reports : Week #31 Updates - The begining

I'm starting a weekly updates on what happened during the week. I'll try to have it as a regular post. Hey, I'm a one-man-show. Basically I'll update on new changes on this blog, technical setups and significant events that happen on the week. On this Blog: Inclusion of RSS feeds. Using of NuCaptcha. Autopost by this blog using plugin. Email is up. Internet updates: Posterous DDos Attack. Wave Google Wave bye bye. Free Drupal hosted.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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How the Internet works

Do you know how the Internet works?

In infographics. (Don't you just love them? From Online Schools)

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Beware of Greeks bearing Gifts

Finally found some time for email management. My Gmail account is clogged up with lots "free" gifts from "marketing sites" Configure Google apps for this blog.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Another Posterous DoS attack

Image via Wikipedia Double sucks. Another DDoS attack on Posterous. 2nd time. I just posted something couple of hours back and it looks ok. Now can't access Posterous. Latest: Updated instructions for custom domain users coming -- we have a new IP in our new datacenter for you. All posterous.com and blogs with custom domains pointed to 67.207.139.81 (old... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Too big to fail

When you are big, you won't be allowed to fail

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Incredible Shrinking World

Our world now:

• Smaller,
• Faster, and more
• Connected.

Changing how we:

• live,
• work,
• communicate, and
• share.

Don't you realize we are on a media evolution? And you are a part of it.

Infographic by Column Five Media

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Diabetes is curable

Drew Carey loses 80 pounds and cures his own diabetes.

Drew Carey 52-year-old former host The Drew Carey Show shares about how he has shed 80 pounds -- and counting -- and cured his own type-2 diabetes by following a strict diet of no carbohydrates and getting plenty of exercise.

Full Article here.

Diabetes type-2 is curable. No medication. Just plenty of exercise and no carbohydrates.

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Power of Attorney

Don't get too close to anyone.

Computer Programming

An overview of computer programming.

I self-taught myself some of computer programming.

I learnt about:

• Machine code / Assembly language (on the z80 processor)
• Basic
• Forth
• Unix
• C++

After that everything became easier. Now learning about:

• Php
• Ruby-on-Rails
• CSS

Does that mean I'm a computer geek?

Wave goodbye to Goggle Wave

Image via Wikipedia

Google wave is waved goodbye.

It looks promising initially.

Personally, I tried to use it. I guess its before its time. It wasn't easy and requires a new paradigm shift in thinking.

Unfortunately, not everyone is an early adopter.

Anything too complex will never be successful.

That's why iPhone is successful.

Double oops

It seemed yesterday multiple post from Journeyman Journeys have affected Blogger.

The usual thing is that whenever I post to Posterous, Blogger will also be updated. This morning, I've posted two entries.

It appeared in Wordpress.com and not in Blogger.

The two post are:

1. Updates from Journeyman.
2. Evolution of Gaming.

Check Posterous Autopost setting and it shows:

Failed

Updates from Journeyman

Reason: request error 400: Blog has exceeded rate limit or otherwise requires word verification for new post

Next attempt in about 4 hours

Failed

Evolution of Gaming

Reason: request error 400: Blog has exceeded rate limit or otherwise requires word verification for new post

Next attempt in 8 minutes

Saw the word verification at the bottom of Blogger editor.

If you make a large number of posts in a single day, you will be required to complete word verification. After 24 hours, the word verification will automatically be removed.

I guess this morning multiple blog posting triggered Blogger anti-spam measures. I just have to wait 24 hours. It sucks. My hosted Wordpress blog is unaffected.

Anyway, Blogger was notorious for spam blogs or splogs. Some people created multiple blogs, just to take advantage of Adsense.

Initially, they did gained some money, then Google wised up. Its good that Google is cleaning up its act.

Even today, there are some people who believe that the can create multiple blogs and pump in stolen content, in the hope that people will read (Splogs) and click on the advertisement. And they say they are sharing the knowledge.

Splogs are like Junk mail and must be first thrown in the rubbish.