After a dotcom merger was completed, a company had too many extra computers lying around. A couple of guys lined them up around the office and knocked them over… they have a computer domino!

(This Domino babe picture is purely for illustration purpose only)

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Excuse me if I salivate buckets wishing I could put my hand on this awesome yellow box. In order to promote the upcoming Simpsons movie, Microsoft has created 100 limited edition Simpsons Xbox 360s. Yes, you read me right, there are only 100 of these yellow game consoles in the world. So, how do you get your hands on one?

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Are you getting tired of downloading new instant messenger releases every now and then and facing problems installing them on your computer? Well worry no more as Yahoo has just launched a new Web based messenger which you can access from anywhere with just a browser. No need to download hugh installation files, no need to go through the trouble installing it… it’s so much more convenient!

This web based version of Yahoo Messenger was built using Adobe’s Flex 2 on top of Flash Player 9.
What’s best is that it also supports adding MSN Live Messenger contacts just like a normal Yahoo Messenger does. So, you can now chat with your MSN Messenger friends without leaving your favorite Yahoo Messenger! I guess we don’t need Pidgin anymore? … maybe not yet if you have lots of contacts from different systems, because Pidgin supports them all which include AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ… the list is too long and frankly most of them I have not even heard of.

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I was delighted when I read that there is a new statistics plugin released for the hosted Wordpress.org blogging system. Of course there are already too many statistics plugins available for Wordpress.org but the problem is many of them slow down your site because they are writing tonnes of data to a DB or they show generic website stats that aren’t tailored for blogs.

Some such as Google Analytics provides an overwhelming depth of information which is too much and doesn’t really highlight what’s most interesting to me as a blog owner.

Once it’s running it’ll begin collecting information about your pageviews, which posts and pages are the most popular, where your traffic is coming from, and what people click on when they leave. It’ll also add a link to your dashboard which allows you to see all your stats on a single page. Less is more.

… because all of the processing and collection runs on our servers and not yours, it doesn’t cause any additional load on your hosting account.

Isn’t this dream come true? I wasted no time to download the plugin, uploaded it to my server and activated it. But the weird thing is that no matter how many times I clicked the API Key failed to work with this stats plugin. Just not ngam I think!

You see, actually the system successfully detected the API key which is being used for Akismet. So, there is no question about the validity of this key, but it still failed to work. My only excuse for this is the version of Wordpress I am using, it’s older than 2.1.

How’s your luck with this plugin? Appreciate if you could share with us.

Yeaaaah, now we can make tonnes of money from videos we post on YouTube! … of course provided you have created and posted sexciting videos on YouTube and have a devoted following of online fans!

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