Finally I found something really worth mentioning. The internet is heading to such a low level that finding a truly worthy source of educational and interesting information is really rare. Today I accidentally stumbled upon s9.com and ended up searching and reading that site for over an hour. This is a Biographical Dictionary that consists from over 33,000 notable persons who have shaped our world’s history. You will find names from the ancient times up to most recent political figures. The s9.com website offers convenient search either by ABC or manually by inputting one’s name in the search. Every person’s bio comes along with a photo (or a statue portrait, if this is someone from the older days), detailed chronicled biography, nationality, category where he or she is listed and, of course, year of death and birth.
The curious minds will also enjoy their quiz at s9.com/MasterChallenge, very challenging and interesting questions based on, obviously, biographies of men and women listed on the site. Highly recommended to visit and bookmark, it’s better than Wiki in my humble opinion, as you can see the timelines and the events without having to read too much irrelevant facts.
This morning a new version of WordPress has been released, fixing yet another set of critical bugs an issues. Mainly it concerns though who have registration requires in order to comment, this release fixes a security vulnerability it exposed. According to WordPress, the flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog. The interesting fact is that the latest version (2.3.2) was released over a month ago and only now the “flaw” popped out. That’s not a very operative bugs fish-out! Well, ever since the 2.3.2 version was released I had a feeling it’s not perfect. If your host does not offer automatic upgrade, get the latest version here: http://wordpress.org/download/
The latest stable release of WordPress (Version 2.3.3) is available in two formats from the links to your right. If you have no idea what to do with this download, we recommend signing up with one of our web hosting partners that offers a one click install of WordPress or getting a free account on WordPress.com.
We’ve got information on installation and upgrading if you need it. If the admin looks a little scrambled after you upgrade just make sure to refresh the page in your browser (F5 on Windows) to reload and get the new styling.
Okay, I have just installed the great wordpress plug in that allows you to embed video into the blog post. As most of us know, by default wordpress reformats the “embedded” code so you can’t actually post the video, now I finally can. Yay, after the blog has been online for over a year. Okay, so the first video I am going to “embed” is a dance video from one Ukrainian band called “ViaGra”. Despite the spammy looking name, it’s translated from their language as “Band Game”. Watch this video before it will get removed from YouTube, as it probably will be. If you don’t enjoy the music or the lyrics, you sure will enjoy watching these 2 beautiful ladies
You may wonder what could possibly happen if you advertise yourself and your life online? Well, here are just some of the possible threats and dangerous outcome of not being too careful.
You’d attract a sex offender - If you post sexy photographs of yourself in your facebook account and you keep your profile public, you might get the attention of a sex offender. And, considering that you are very much happy in advertising yourself, most likely you have also included some important details in your profile that would make it a lot easier for the sex offender to track you down.
You attracted a criminal- If you show the world how wealthy and popular you are, you may end up luring those unwanted criminals and they may track you down and God knows what they could do to you.
You attracted a pedophile- If you are underage and you started joining social networking sites such as facebook, your innocence may get the best out of you. These pedophiles know how to manipulate young minds and you may end up losing more than your dignity once hooked.
Photo stealing - You have no one else to blame but yourself if you’d suddenly find your photograph circulating on the internet that had been photoshopped and added a naked body to match your beautiful head. If wanna read more controversial articles click to following site: www.e-controversy.com.
About a week ago, Lunar Pages started their wordpress design contest and I called my readers to vote for the theme they like best. Unlike many others, I don’t think calling people to vote for yourself is ethical (unless they are maybe your very close friends) but some do blatantly ask for it, and judging by the votes casted so far, are going to win as well.
I did not think my theme, Modern Magic, had much chances even to get the 3rd place, but checking some pings today and the forum posts I made, I was totally blown by how many people support me (and it actually helps greatly because up until 4 days ago I had only 20 votes!). Today I had seen the famous pixel2life.com admin — Dan, who probably noticed it after I tried to promote the contest in P2L forum, making a support post for me… Thanks Dan! Yesterday, my friend Tom has made an awesome post about my themes on his blog and asked people who like my layouts to vote as well. Thanks Tom!
That’s not all. I got a lot of fantastic support words (and not only words!!!) from Gx3Grafix.com, Web Talk Forums, SapNap Directory, and many many others. I want to use this opportunity and thank you… *holds the Oscar tight with both hands, sheds a tear*… for all the great and warm support throughout these days!
Okay. Wanna help? Please DIGG the contest or VOTE for the theme you like best.
I am really not afraid to compete against (or lose to) better designs and I honestly believe all the 12 entries worth a prize, so all I ask is — please, vote for the design you truly, truly like.
Yay, I made it to the final! My theme, ModernMagic, was nominated to lunar pages design contest, but unfortunately it hardly gets votes. The blog itself where the contest is held does not have a huge traffic however, those who post in every forum asking for votes, lead. Doh.
Eventually, like I said in the comments section already, the designer with the biggest online family will win, not the design itself, but ain’t it always like this in such contests? Since I am more ethical in such matters and not going to beg for votes (I don’t think it’s fair in the first place even though the prize is tempting — $1000 + 5 years of hosting), I do want to ask you, however, to take part in the voting.
Again, I am not asking to vote for me (of course votes are appreciated though!) but it would be great to see some more neutral activity in the poll by those who vote for themes they actually LIKE. Thanks in advance for your participation, the vote will only take 3 seconds of your time but will greatly to the hungry designers in 3rd world countries
For all the fans who was afraid that Cher has already retired, I have good news: she is back on stage! Her new show, which is expected to take place in the beginning of May, is coming to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. If you don’t want to miss the event and get to see her live on stage (which nowadays is a rare opportunity!), you can get Cher Tickets at Caesars Palace online, relatively inexpensive. I’d recommend to book your seats now already because once her show will be announced officially, there is no chance you could get a ticket as fans will gather from all over the world to see her.
The 62-years old diva, after being 40 in music business is still in shape and never ceases to surprise us with her beautiful voice and unforgettable hits that won not only the Grammy award but also a huge list of other prestigious music awards.
What can we expect from the performance in Las Vegas? She will perform on the same stage where we have already seen Celine Dion, Elton John and Bette Midler so for anyone of us who has been her fan in our youth, this is an awesome chance to enjoy a truly exciting and spectacular event.
Ever since I had my internet connection, all these sweet smileys, winks and various add ons for messengers did not leave me ignorant. Chatting online is, above all, is not a highly interactive process; you don’t see one’s face expressions, don’t hear their voice and tones, can’t see the real face of the opponent and moreover lack of physical interaction somewhat leaves emotions out of the chat. All these little smileys help to make it more funny, cute and interesting which is why they are so tremendously popular today.
The downside of sites that provide free smileys and IM add-ons is that you either get spyware, or just more pop-ups then content. SweetIM is one of the sites that guarantee their products are free from any kind of spyware, and the pages of their website have no pop-ups or annoying adverts.
