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noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:38:00 +0000

There are many articles for the above topic over the internet. They teach you all what is necessary for a new blogger. But once again the problem is that every thing is scattered. Here is CompuWorld's attempt to provide you with a set of complete HOW TO's for new bloggers.

When to blog? What to blog? Where to blog? These and many more are the questions which kill a new blogger. Our attempt here is to introduce you with the paths which a new blogger may follow if he/she wants to blog. The platforms which can be used, comparing there characteristics and then at the end suggesting you the path which our experience says is the easiest for the new blogger.

When to blog?
Do you feel bored up while reading large English contents? You have difficulty in understanding English sentences? Are you a lazy bug? You do not have easy access to internet? You do not get free time out of your daily routines?

If the answer to above questions and many such related ones is "Yes" then you need to wait. You need to develop the habit of reading. Surfing the internet for hours. Notice that I have mentioned that you should get time out of your daily works. That includes your job which you do. As my experience will never suggest you to take up blogging as your carrier unless you know the do's and dont's of blogging. You need to gain experience out here first.

Are you a student?
If yes then you need to know your targets. You need to differentiate between your future and blogging. You need to have time out of your daily routines. You need to know that yes you want to blog. "You need to be a hardworker".

Are you doing some job or you are a businessman?
You need to know if you have time for blogging? You really need to have the passion? If you want to switch as a full time blogger then first wait. Blog along with your work. See how it develops. When you start "feeling" the charm of extra work which blogging requires then think of being a full time blogger. But be secure first. Let your blog gain some fame.

Are you house wife?
Bonzai! You got all kinds of time you need. Now you need to know what to actually blog?

What to blog?
What is your passion? It is not necessary that your carrier is your passion. You like to watch T.V. shows, soap operas, like to read novels, love to keep in touch with the technology. Then go for it. Start writing.

Anything which clicks your brain is what you should write about in your blog. Read what you write many times. You will know if that was correct. Be unique, be different, if the content is old add your ideas to it, your thoughts. They will make others feel what you want to say. Hardwork and patience will never let you down.

Where to gather the content?
WWW! The ultimate place. We will have a long discussion on this topic in our later posts. Be patient.

Where to blog?
Your mind is set. Ready to hit the internet. Then its time to know about the blogging platforms available, and the ones which are best suited for you. We will explain the step by step things necessary for choosing the correct platform.

Answer these first...

Will you be a hobby blogger or are you real serious for making this your carrier? This question is a necessity to be answered as there are platforms for hobby bloggers and others for professionals.
Will you be using ads in your blog? Again a necessary question as there are platforms which provide easy support for ad publishing.
You need free platform or ready to pay straight? Have you setup your mind that you will surely go for blogging as your carrier? Or you want to have some real cool looking blog? In such a case paid is the best. But again my suggestion will be to start with a free platform and then switch to paid version. Almost all the platforms give you the feature to transfer your posts from your older platform to the newer one.

Click here to read about different blogging platforms and the one suitable for you.

Note: By no means this post is the complete guide for those new to blogging and as this post goes older it might be necessary to add your own experiences to it too. So we request you to leave your comments for improvement of this post. But yes we assure you that it is a summary of content available over the internet.

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WEB 2.0, Is It Really Happening?

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:16:00 +0000

[Image from Wikipedia]

Is the Web 2.0 really evolving? Below are given statistics from top 10000 websites listed in Alexa.(Take it real…it is Alexa and it is an analysis) I do not know who Yvo Schaap is, just happened to get into his website while surfing the Internet. But the stuff seams cool, so felt like sharing with you.

10% are adult sites. The reach of these is 5%. Who knows what the other not listed in top 10000 serve. Now you say if porn is dominating the web.
USA owns 44% of sites. Europeans 16%. China 9%. But in reach Europe is 7% against Chinese having 9%. So it is all about US yet.
55% websites are in English with second place for Chinese and third for Spanish. Arabic hold a respectable 3.3%. So English is the language of Internet “nt d slang ver tho.”
California has 37% reach and it owns 7% websites of all the 10000 listed in Alexa.Washington has 22% reach. So Silicon Valley is still the Game
Geocities.com has PageRank of 10/10 as it has 8 times more incoming links then google.com(2nd). So link building might not be very hip(but it is for the smaller not so famous websites) and trendy as you would expect.
Google actually has the biggest reach (9%) if you add all 72 local domains together. In number of views Google loses from Yahoo! that has 12% (!) of the total views. (Damn you, Yahoo! Games)
6% of websites contain Goooooogle ads. That is a 55% reach of all advertising networks identified.

Has The Web 2.0 Evolved Yet?

Web 2.0 is hard to measure (Maybe because it doesn’t exist). But I’ve tried by location RSS feeds and stylesheets. And the results are actually quite surprising. 10% of all the homepages provide an RSS feed (If people actually use these RSS feed is of course a different analysis).

And 58% use stylesheets on their homepage for layout.So we may say that there is some evolution taking place.....I Guess.

Web 2.0 At Amazon

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Google's Talent May Be Headed Out The Door

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 01:10:00 +0000

Google's famous for hiring the best and the brightest, but when they get bored, they're bound to create the son-of-Google, warns Fortune's Jeffrey O'Brien.

Seeing that I was unimpressed by the observation, Kraus grew more insistent. "Ten days in a new job and you don't meet anyone who's dumb? That's weird," he said.

Kraus meant it as a compliment for his new colleagues and to his new employer. Every company wants to hire the smartest people possible, and Google has clearly succeeded. But you know what you get when you get too many smart people in one room? You get the corporate equivalent of the U.S. Olympic basketball team.

And now with the up and down in the GOOG stocks, Google sure will have to ease the process of hiring cream. You cannot hire the best to hold the camera for a group photograph! And as the cream in Google keeps NO job up to there expectations they are surely gonnna create son-of-Google.

Armed with seven-figure bank accounts and professional networks of dozens of other equally brilliant and rich new friends, those frustrated Googlers are bound to set out on their own and ignite a son-of-Google wave of innovation. If a company the size of PayPal can kick off a second wave that includes LinkedIn, Slide, Yelp, YouTube, Clarium Capital, and Room 9 Entertainment, among others, the sons-of-Google wave should be a world-changer.

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Source: cnn money

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Where Does Google Get All The Gmail Hard Drive Space

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:59:00 +0000

Secret Solved! Above is shown a representation of where does Google get all the space it is providing to its users. The image shows a funny representation of the earth as the Hard Disk :)

Gmail At Amazon

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Source: geekculture
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Spam Doubles

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:17:00 +0000

It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way. Three years ago, Bill Gates, Microsoft’s chairman, made an audacious prediction: the problem of junk e-mail, he said, “will be solved by 2006.” And for a time, there were signs that he was going to be proved right.

Much of that flood is made up of a nettlesome new breed of junk e-mail called image spam, in which the words of the advertisement are part of a picture, often fooling traditional spam detectors that look for telltale phrases.

Spams are back. I personally saw a rise in spams in my mail box. Looks like the sites which promise to not to reveal your email to the public do it willingly. Else why would someone send me image spam informing about the latest viagra rates?

“At the beginning of the year spam was off our radar,” said Franklin Warlick, senior messaging systems administrator at Cox Communications in Atlanta.
“Now employees are stopping us in the halls to ask us if we turned off our spam filter,” Mr. Warlick said.

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Source: nytimes
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Linux Isn't Just For Grownups Anymore

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:56:00 +0000

Linux is running and who could be better idea to promote it rather than the future of the planet, kids! Its free and its similar when it comes to GUI. That is what the kids look for.

In about a year, through a public school grant program, State of Indiana education officials have moved at least 22,000 students from Windows-based desktops to Linux-based desktops.

Xandros Professional 4 lists for $99, versus anticipated Windows Vista pricing of $199. But Google Docs and OpenOffice are free, Firefox just works, and with Skype for Linux and sites like Meebo.com -- which offers free, web-based instant messaging on all the big services -- communication applications are free and completely available on Linux. (I'm sure there will be a point where I just get my daughter a Skype account instead of letting her tie up the home phone line talking to her friends after school.)

Vista is gonna face bumpy roads ahead!

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Source: crn
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You Witness News And Be The Publisher Under Yahoo

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 06:28:00 +0000

Excited? Me too! Yahoo has another innovation for you. Be the journalist yourself. Under this new invention of Yahoo you can see your news get published under Yahoo News, the worlds best news website. They even teach you how to get good videos created. And lots of more exciting stuff. Looks like Yahoo is not going to give it up easily. Alarm bell for Google again.

Get to website here

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Another NASA Hacker Indicted

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:52:00 +0000

It happened in 2001-02 and its happened again. Then, it was the UK hacker Gary McKinnon. He was later extradited to US.

Now its a Romanian man who was indicted Thursday for allegedly breaking into more than 150 U.S. government computers. Victor Faur, 26, lead a "White Hat Team" to hack into the computers as they are said to be the most secure around the world.

"After hacking into and taking control of the government computers, Faur allegedly caused the compromised machines to display screens that flaunted the computer intrusion," the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Faur is charged with conspiracy and nine counts of computer intrusion. If convicted of all counts, he faces up to 54 years in federal prison, the prosecutors said.

The breached computers were used to collect and process data from spacecraft. Because of the break-ins, systems had to be rebuilt and scientists and engineers had to manually communicate with spacecraft, resulting in $1.36 million in losses for NASA and nearly $100,000 in losses for the Energy Department and the Navy, prosecutors said.

Seems like everyone has been busy hacking while I was busy blogging!

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Source: zdnet
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Microsoft Promises Surprises for Windows Vista Before January

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:39:00 +0000

“Now that businesses have access to Windows Vista and 2007 Office System, we've only just begun. I've said it before and I'll say it again: when it comes to the consumer market launch of these two products, stay on your toes, as we've got some amazing things in store for you between now and the end of January,” said Nick White, a Product Manager at Microsoft working on the Windows Vista launch team.

“Time is sort of a funny thing,” stated Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. “You need to give new technologies time to incubate before you try to bring them together. Let each technology come to market individually and then do the integration.”

The wait is already been hyped a lot and now the talk of many surprises is gonna make it chillier!

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Source: softpedia
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Google Googled!

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:36:00 +0000

Google Answers is one of the oldest services at Google right now, however it never really gained traction over the years. Some wonder why it wasn't successful — the answer? It was Googled.

I don't mean it was "Googled" as in "searched for", but "out-done by another company by making it better and free". Who Googled Google Answers? Yahoo! Google's service was launched in April of 2002 and had over 800 participants during its life.

On December 8th of 2005, Yahoo answered by launching their own "Yahoo Answers". They made it better and free. Does that sound familiar? The cost of Yahoo's service probably helped spur the viral effect that gave it some traction.

Just today, Google announced Google Answers will be closing by year's end. It turns out Google can be Googled.

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Source: zdnet
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Yahoo Instant Search

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:11:00 +0000

Why feel lucky when you can be right?

Does that click in your brain? Yeah, exactly. Yahoo has directly targeted Google's I am feeling lucky search by introducing instant search. And they do have gone a step ahead of Google. Under yahoo instant search you will get the best search result as soon as you stop typing.

Then you can hit enter to proceed with your search or click the instant search. Another small trick is to hit ctrl+enter so as to be carried to your instant search without leaving the keyboard.

Time for Google to think!

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Source: softpedia
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New IP Network Solutions from Nokia

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:33:00 +0000

The Nokia Communication Suite provides consumers and business users with software that turns their PCs into softphones for accessing a wide range of "Rich Call" services over broadband connections - but with the added simplicity of using only one online identity and one billing account. The solution allows operators to offer seamless services across their fixed broadband and 3G mobile broadband networks, bridging these two domains.

Thanks to IP, Rich Calls can include Voice over IP (VoIP) calls, Video Sharing, video calls, instant messaging, presence, file sharing, and other multimedia services. With the Nokia Communication Suite, users can make and receive VoIP calls and other Rich Calls from their PCs using their existing mobile number. Calls to their mobile number can be answered with either their mobile or PC softphone.

The solution, which uses the Nokia Unified Core Network to process, connect and charge for the calls, will be demonstrated at Nokia World November 29 - 30 and is available for sale to operators next month.

"Nokia is embracing the vision of telecommunications that IP is making possible," says Roberto Loiola, Vice President, Marketing & Sales, Networks, Nokia. "Voice over IP is already a fact of life for many consumers around the world, giving them more opportunities to keep in touch in novel and economical ways. The use of broadband Internet access for voice communication is here to stay, and Nokia recognizes that traditional operators - both mobile and fixed - can swim in these waters as well."

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Source: softpedia
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Microsoft Launches Secure Wars Contest for IT Pros (not Developers)

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:20:00 +0000

Microsoft India has announced a new contest - Securewars - to promote the concepts of Information systems security amongst Indian IT Professionals. This contest is primarily aimed at Networking Administrators.

The securewars contest will have four stages. The first two stages will be online. This will be followed by a Quiz and a written exam. The qualifying contestants will be given a case study with defined business and technical requirements with possibility to propose numerous products, technologies and processes.

Register here for the Secure Wars Contest. Registrations will remain open until 31st Dec 2006.

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Source: DI
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Bill Gates For President

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:06:00 +0000

There was a article posted on CompuWorld indicating the chances for Mr. Gates to be USA president. And now there is a complete website on this topic.

Our first goal is to be heard. We would love to evoke thought and will try to stimulate debates in our personal way. We have no problem with different opinions. We feel very strongly about support political discussions. Our dream, getting Bill and Melinda in the White House, might not be too realistic in the short run. But don’t worry: we’ll be here along the way, even if it takes a decade. Enjoy reading our website!

Check the website here
Bill Gates Profile here

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India's Bharti to offer Google search on mobiles

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:51:00 +0000

As expected, Google is ready to capture everyone. Even the non Internet users, huh! After this announcement other rivals should be running there brains.

Bharti Airtel Ltd. (BRTI.BO: Quote, Profile, Research), India's top mobile services firm, said on Thursday it will offer Google Inc.'s (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) search facility for mobile phones.
Indian carriers are increasingly boosting their value-added services in a bid to offset a decline in voice tariffs due to intense competition in the world's fastest growing wireless services market.
Indian carriers added 6.7 million new users in October. At 136.22 million users, the mobile base is six times the number of people in India who have a desktop computer.

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Source: Reuters
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Want to be a Search Superstar.

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:14:00 +0000

Remember those days of yours when you used to dream of being like superman batman etc. Well, not those reel life heroes but google is ready to make you a search superstar. If you think you really have used google in a way others haven't then submit your story and you may be famous. Who knows!

Google Search Superstar

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French Parliament migrates to Linux

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:57:00 +0000

Micro$oft may not be happy at this. After major public institutions and government agencies in France already adopting Linux and Apache on the server side, the government is also giving thought to switching to Linux. This increments on the list of proofs that's GUI of Linux OS's is as good as Windows. May be MS is pouncing on many major IT companies using its fame and power but open source is a "major issue!"

The French government plans to install the Linux operating system on 1,154 desktop computer workstations in its Parliament. Citing "substantial savings despite the migration and training costs," and a desire to avoid too much dependence on a single vendor, the French National Assembly's decision is based largely on the results of a recent study conducted by tech consulting company Atos Origin.

But sometimes Linux migration isn't that easy every time...

Unfortunately, not every Linux migration has a happy ending. The Birmingham City Council in the UK recently terminated its own Linux migration program after deploying the operating system on only 200 of the 1,500 desktop computers initially planned. According to participants in the Birmingham project, the migration failed because the government didn't have enough expertise to establish an effective Linux deployment program. Calling the Birmingham migration "an unbelievable cock-up," NetProject consultant Eddie Bleasdale, who was involved with the project in its early stages, says that the Birmingham government "decided to do it all themselves, without expertise in the area."

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Source: arstechnica
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Panasonic to Show Your Mood to Everyone

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:42:00 +0000

Now people will be able to guess if you are talking to your girl friend or to your boss on the phone. Panasonic is planning to show your mood on the front screen of the P720iD clamshell cell phone while you do the talking. They will be doing this with some kind of color codes. Unfortunately you will not be able to see what your mobile is showing to others. Time for some to enjoy and some to "avoid Panasonic".

Considering the fact that the actual displaying of your mood is done after the phone has analyzed the tone and patterns of your voice after beginning a conversation, one is forced to draw the conclusion that he won't be able to see what the “Feel Talk” technology doing all that complex stuff has decided to tell everybody about you because the mentioned LED will be facing outward from your ear. Maybe we don't have the necessary skills to do that or they’ve already thought of this aspect and will leave the user discover what everyone else already saw after the phone call has ended.

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Google Shares Set to Fall

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:39:00 +0000

Spending on research and development, sales and marketing and general and administrative expenses are all expected to outpace revenue growth this year

Giving your hand to everything, trying to be the king, to be the champ is not always easy. The king of internet may see fall in business next year, the weekly financial newspaper Barron's reported Sunday.

Barron's said Google is overvalued because it trades at 37 times next year's expected earnings and because its growth rate is slowing. It also noted that Google now has the 15th largest market capitalization among U.S.-traded shares, and its price-to-earnings ratio is two to three times higher that of similarly sized companies.

The paper added that the price that advertisers are willing to pay for search keywords has fallen.

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Source: zdNet
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64 is the new 32

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:17:00 +0000

Looking into the future, we will ship Longhorn (the next version of Windows Server) in the second half of next year, and we will ship a 32-bit and a 64-bit version. That will be the last time we ship a 32-bit version. From that point, the next release, which will be roughly two years later, that product will only be available as 64-bit.

This is what MS server honcho Bog Muglai has to say indicating the future of 32 bit technology. Servers finally looking to shift completely to 64 bit tech. How about the desktop systems?

The need isnt there for the common computer user to die for 64 bit but for junkies, we always need more, hmmm!

The real barrier to wider adoption of 64-bit technology isn't hardware or the OS. It's the lack of compelling software. On the server side, there are great reasons to move to 64-bit technology for scaling databases and handling massive numbers of transactions. But where are the equivalent challenges for desktop users? With the exception of people running workstation-class video editing systems, who needs a 64-bit system?

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Source: zdNet
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Email turns 35

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:05:00 +0000

BELIEVE it or not, the email has just turned 35.

IT programmer Ray Tomlinson sent the first message in late 1971.

"The test messages were entirely forgettable and I have, therefore, forgotten them. Most likely the first message was QWERTYUIOP or something similar," he says.

And now, 35 years on, we'd be completely lost without the joys of emailing!

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Source: The Sun
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Study: Oracle database software has more flaws than SQL Server

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:09:00 +0000

Micro$oft is often unfairly slammed for security issues, says NGSS

Time to change gears for oracle. As usual the biggest threat in the IT market is striking on Oracle too. And it is not Micro$oft who is saying this but its the survey!

A comparison of vulnerabilities in Microsoft's SQL Server database and Oracle's relational database management (RDBM) products by U.K.-based Next Generation Security Software (NGSS) shows the latter's products to have far more vulnerabilities than do products from Microsoft.
Between December 2000 and November 2006, external researchers discovered 233 vulnerabilities in Oracle's products compared to 59 in Microsoft's SQL Server technology, according to NGSS. The study looked at vulnerabilities that were reported and fixed in SQL Server 7, 2000 and 2005 and Oracle's database versions 8, 9, and 10g.

Source: Computerworld
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Draw Face Sketches Like a Police Artist in Minutes

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:01:00 +0000

Do it online and do it in minutes! The image you see above is what you see when you open the website. Selection is the key to come up with the kind of face you want. Time to be a virtual policeman.

Source: DI
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The largest human-edited abbreviations directory of the web

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:49:00 +0000

RSVP (Please Respond, Répondez S'il Vous Plaît) is one of the top searched abbreviations on this site and that is understood too! I was able to find almost everything in it. Truly the best.

Example: Do the searching for the abbreviation "ABCDEFG" (Now what on earth would that mean, that came to my mind when I searched for this but see the result...)

ABCDEFG is A Boy Can DO Everything For a Girl

Check the site out here

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NASA Will Develop a Video Game at Your Expense

noreply@blogger.com (Salman Siddiqui) — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:10:00 +0000

NASA-the guys who fly to Mars and stuff- will, apparently, develop a video game of their own. And they will do this at your expense, to be more exact, they will take money out of your taxes.

According to beyondunreal.com, NASA's Learning Technologies Office got some money to develop a NASA-based game. For the time being, they are planning to develop a prototype game, which will last about 10 to 20 minutes. They are collaborating with America's Army development team and the Federation of American Scientists and they will use Epic's Unreal 3 engine.

Trough this game’s prototype, they plan to make people more familiar with space exploration, and introduce them into NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration. NASA has big plans for the future, their goal being to go back to the moon by 2025, and to get a human on Mars by 2035.

Source: Softpedia
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