My Life With IT

This Christmas, I’m going to stay at home and switch off every electric appliance to save on the electricity cost except for the washing machine and refrigerator. Feasible? No TV and no Internet? I can live without a TV but the net? NO!

What I can do on the other hand, is that I can stop using the laptop for one day and interact with my family more. Besides, it’s the holidays and what better time to break away from my net-hogging days for one day. It’ll be No Net for Christmas Day.

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Sometimes I wonder if online casinos can be trusted. It’s always a good idea to do research on such sites as it has been known that some poker players have been cheated of their rightful cards during the last round. Top USA Online Casino provides a comparison chart where you can see their recommendation.

The site loads quite fast as the number of images of the online casino sites are small in size. While I don’t understand what the payout percentage and bonus is for, it’s rather straight forward for those who know what the comparison chart is about.

The chart only shows the top 10 online casinos and doesn’t look comprehensive to me. As the name of the site states “Top USA Online Casinos” and just 10 of them without other casino sites can’t make me believe these truly deserver their rankings. The top banner looks amateurish and isn’t attractive. A logo that incorporates the main focus of the site would be better.

The Site Map, however needs some work. The links to the reviews are not easily seen even though the names are written. I’m not very keen on the vertical links for the site map.

I know I’m very late in this but apparently, the MDA rap video has been broadcasted, youtubed, and blogged.

Australia

China

USA

This rap came after the ban on Mass Effect. Aye, the video created a mass effect, alright. There’s a spoof for it too. The HDTV man is famous now. BTW, if anyone wants to dance and rap, please, please, please take up some dancing lessons.

First noticed via Blankanvas. Here’s a list of blog reactions. The video even made it to Techcrunch.

I would have forgotten about the Litemind List Writing Project if I hadn’t noticed the incoming link and the email. 67 participants. That’s a lot. So, below are my links to the highlights, according to me anyway.

Need to increase your RSS subscribers? Check it out, Fred gives a list of 35 guaranteed ways to increase them. Among the list, it states that besides throwing out information, include your own opinions.

JHS wrote a list of why Wordpress is superior to Blogger. Enough said.

I didn’t know blogging can be compared to the female. Yes, constant makeover, plugin boredom and frankly speaking, I can’t remember the date of the blog birth except the date the domain was bought. And yes, I want to tell the whole world about my blog.

What every blogger needs to be productive, work on one thing at a time and see where it goes. Work on one income strategy, make money and move to the next. No wonder my income is all chaotic!

Finally, it’s choosing my favourite articles time.

• 12 Wordpress Editors you can choose by Karthik
• 100 Sites I Seek Inspiration From by Iain Hamp
• List Of Why Blogs Are A Female Gender by Domtan

Have been trying to populate a table but the last cell at the bottom right often end up with all the information in the array backwards. I’m not sure what is wrong here. Using 2 arrays to store the information and creating a table looked easy. Unfortunately, the information being populated looked awkward.

Code used:

Set rtFld = New NotesRichTextItem (nDoc, “sRptResults”)
tblRow = divCnt
tblCol = 3

Set rtNav = rtFld.CreateNavigator
Call rtFld.AppendTable(tblRow, tblCol)
Call rtNav.FindFirstElement(RTELEM_TYPE_TABLECELL)

For i = 1 To tblCol
For k = 1 To tblRow While k <= tblRow
Call rtFld.BeginInsert(rtNav)
Call rtFld.AppendText (k)
Call rtFld.EndInsert
Call rtNav.FindNextElement(RTELEM_TYPE_TABLECELL)
Call rtFld.BeginInsert(rtNav)
Call rtFld.AppendText (divNameList(k))
Call rtFld.EndInsert
Call rtNav.FindNextElement(RTELEM_TYPE_TABLECELL)
Call rtFld.BeginInsert(rtNav)
Call rtFld.AppendText (divCntList(k))
Call rtFld.EndInsert
Call rtNav.FindNextElement(RTELEM_TYPE_TABLECELL)
Next Wend
Next

Call nDoc.Save (False, False)

Wonder what is wrong.

Update: Just change the inner loop to a While loop and it works find!

Do you shop online? Notice that those well-known sites often have a shopping cart so that you can just make your selection without having to email or call them? Ever wondered what sort of shopping cart or e-commerce software they are using? Ever wanted a reliable software that will take care of the orders without you needing to take orders via the telephone and worry about payments?

Now, Ashop Commerce is able to provide you with a complete solution for online shopping. Not sure if it’s suitable? There’s an online demo which you can try out or take a 10 day free trial. You can opt for hosted e-commerce solution with a guarantee 98.9% of uptime, multiple backups and 24 x 7 monitoring.

Ashop Commerce was awarded My Business Award by Fuji Xerox in 2006 as a winner. Now, maybe I can start my online business without worrying about the shopping cart software portion.

I often cringe when I see an email whereby all the email addresses are in the To and CC list. This is because when the email is traveling through the hops and servers, they leave a digital mark that can be culled by robots which are collecting email addresses and that’s when I start receiving spam emails.

This is especially more important if a company provides newsletters via emails, it’s supposed to use BCC instead. This reduces the robot’s chances of retrieving the valid emails and I don’t get spammed and neither will I need to write an email to inform them that it’s violating the privacies of the subscribers.

I have friends who forward emails using the To list. I use this only if it were to gather discussion and feedback on the dates availability. How I wished that all of them have Yahoo accounts so that we can just dump everything into the Yahoo Groups. However, not all of them have and some don’t want to create new accounts. So, I’m stuck with emails.

If you need to forward anything, please, please, please use the BCC since it doesn’t require any interaction between the recipients and sender.

After my post on no payout from Blogitive, I got my payment via Paypal. I still don’t know the reason behind the delay but I hope that it won’t happen again because I don’t want to be cheated of my efforts wasted at doing a review that is approved but not getting paid and unable to remove that review.