I have a few friends whom are not married who received ‘Ang Pows’ from other Chinese friends who are married.(Red envelopes are often presented at social and family gatherings such as Chinese weddings or on holidays such as Chinese New Year. The red color of the envelope symbolizes good luck.) Most of them were teasing me and was showing off their ‘booty’. Of course they were Read more »

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Have you noticed Google logo in Google’s main page recently? It has this image made of some Lego blocks. Google has always had this fondness towards Lego blocks. One of their first computer were ‘modded’ from imitation Lego blocks. Those things that made up some sort of special theme or character on the Google logo’s are called ‘Doodle’. It was first used when Larry and Sergey went to this annual ‘Burning Man’ festival. It’s like a Silicon Valley techie’s and geeks, artists, anarchists, intellectual and whole other groups place to get out of the normal routine. There were drugs, art displays and the likes. The place was held in Nevada’s Black Rock Dessert. It was like a more cultured Woodstock I might say. Buying and selling was forbidden except for a cafe that dispense only coffee and ice. Folks usually bring a weeks supply to this place.

The first Doodle

Anyway, why is it called burning man? They burn a really huge wooden figure 40 feet high. That’s the highlight of the event actually. So before the Google founders head to this place, they experimented on their early Google website by incorporating a rendering of the Man in the second ‘O’ of Google. Folks who saw it for the first time had mixed remarks of course. There are those who thought it was crude and they go like “what the hell?” but for those who knew about the Burning Man festival, they knew exactly where the two were headed to.

I’m currently reading this awesome book called the google story by David A. Vise. It opened up a whole new understanding on this two brilliant PhD students from Stanford University in computer science. Their motto of ‘Don’t be evil’ has somewhat become their main ingredients for success I believe.

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I have been seeing these G-mail email icons from various blogs I visited. Very nice looking stuff. People like Caneeliea and Papajoneh, are just two examples that uses this sort of ‘e-mail promotion’. So before asking them directly I did like any nice Sabahan boy would do, we Google it.

I tried a few keywords but the accurate one was ‘email icon generator’. The first one was cool, clean and straightforward. It’s an e-mail icon generator for most of the emails in the universe. It’s from http://services.nexodyne.com/email/. Here’s how it looks like:

When Generated you will get this result:

The second one in the Google result goes a little bit further by giving you other stuff like porn email icons, movies, brands and stuff. They are from http://www.needasig.com/.
Here’s one of the things you could do. You may even use this for your email signature:

As for the rest of the Google result, there are more to view but I’m pretty sure they offer the same kind of stuff. Well, now you know. Shoe them your e-mail!

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Wow… my slow paced adsense income finally reached the 100 mark. I remember my first day. 0.00 then the next day 0.00 then I asked someone to ‘check out’ the adsense link then it went 0.03 ehem…Actually my paid post assignments income past the adsense income like more than a mile since I started doing paid posting. But this one’s special. It took me more than two years! Some folks are making like 100 per day as we speak.

Well, I opted for a cheque to be sent to me instead of the alternative ways mentioned by other blogger’s post I read. I just got to see how it feels like to hold an adsense cheque. I heard they smells goooooode…

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