I am Giving away my PS3
Price: Free

Location: New York Manhattan
Date Listed: May-02-08

I just don’t use it anymore since I got my Xbox360 and just want to get rid of it. You can pick it up anytime.

You can e-mail me directly.

takemyplaystation3@gmail.com

So being Naive, I emailed right away and got back the following (auto-response) email:

Thank you for your interest but someone else contacted me first. If
you are still interested in the free PS3 you can check this out.

http://tinyurl.com/3dx2at

Also check this out.

http://tinyurl.com/2rnnca

You should never click on a tinyurl.com link without first previewing it using (in this case): http://preview.tinyurl.com/3dx2at

So basically this dude set this up to actually win himself a PS3. Pretty Smart….

I blogged earlier about the Nyko Perfect shot peripheral for Nintendo Wii. I mentioned how it was the hottest item out and hard to find. Well I just got this e-mail right now from NewEgg.

Dear Valued Newegg Customer,

Thank you for shopping at Newegg.com!

You recently requested auto-notification for item # N82E16878112013 — WII ACC NYKO 87030 PERFECT SHOT RTL.

We are pleased to inform you that, at the time of this mailing, the item you are looking for is in stock and available at our online store. To jump directly to the product’s page, please click the link below (or copy & paste it into your internet browser):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=78-112-013

Keeping you in the know,

Newegg Customer Care
http://www.newegg.com

—

Also try using this link for free shipping.

Read IGN’s review here.

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So which do you prefer?

P.S. the 9X00 BB series will have a touch screen.

So I went to http://akismet.com/contact/ and under “I have a support or feature request” I submitted the following email:

Azeem wrote:
> Everytime I comment on a wordpress blog using akismet I am wrongly flagged
> as spam. Many friendly bloggers have labeled my comments as “not
> spam” but I seem to be on a default blacklist. I use akismet myself
> on my blog and I am positive that you guys will me get off this
> blacklist. If you could also add a checkbox to say remember this poster
> or something like that. That may help.
>
> Some of the blogs I regularly try posting at:
> mujahideenryder.net
> chillyoislamyo.com
> suhaibwebb.com
> altranslators.com
> hahmed.com/blog
>
> and I get flagged on all of them, and my comments do not come up despite
> most of these blogs labeling me as “not spam”.
>
> I wonder if its because of the .info in my address?
>
> Trackback hasn’t worked for me either, Im guessing for the same reason?
>
> Please help. Thanks.

Then I get this e-mail:

Hi,

Sorry - I have fixed that for you and your comments should now be good.

–
Mark

And now my comments go through!

Even after marking this email as “Not Spam” this message had not gone away. After clicking around I found a new feature (see below):

So you pick “Report not phishing” and you get another annoying message (see below):

What the heck is this crap? Gmail should have a setting called Stupid User with a checkbox. I would like to uncheck that box. This is almost as bad as Windows Vista asking me if I am sure I want to install a exe file I just double clicked on!

TechCrunch Reports:

Here are some numbers from Hitwise on the combined traffic reach of Yahoo and MSN properties. Together, they have a 15.6 percent market share of Internet traffic in the U.S. , compared to 7.7 percent for Google properties. But Google still has double the market share in search of both Yahoo and Microsoft combined.

This version of the script has been tested on Joomla 1.0.12 and Wordpress 2.3.2 and works pretty smoothly.

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Does this seem realistic? More importantly I wonder if this will really make us more productive? I think back to the days when we didn’t have cell phones and constant internet access even the task of picking someone up from the airport could take hours. Now you can track flight status on your phone and save time by leaving as late as possible. Also the person you are picking up can give you call when the plane has touched down, which helps you know how much time you need before they will be out of baggage claim. Something as simple as that has helped make life more efficient. Leaving me with more time to watch what I conveniently recorded on my DVR.

“Perhaps one of the more surprising results, this seems to imply that Joomla finds more users in the business community than the non-profit world. One possibility however, is that these are web designers using Joomla for their clients of all types.”

Questions on what other CMS’s are used by these individuals bought up the usual suspects; Wordpress followed by drupal.

Read the entire report here.

Business 2.0 reports:

So, given a choice, who would Dash rather be: Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? “Which one got more money?” Dash shoots back. Gates has more money, but Jobs is cooler. “Yeah, but if I was Bill Gates, Bill Gates would be cooler,” Dash says. “Definitely.”

Read the entire article here.

Here’s the job description:
NYTimes.com, the #1 newspaper site with 1.7 million worldwide visitors a day, is seeking an experienced Wordpress Developer to manage our highly-trafficked and growing set of blogs (http://www.nytimes.com/blogs). The blogs have all been highly customized to fit into the NYTimes technology stack and publishing environment. Beyond having deep experience with the Wordpress platform and its plug-ins, the ideal candidate will be a savvy, all-around web applications developer who is comfortable in a LAMP environment.

Oh, and the pay is not listed.

Check it out here:

http://mashable.com/2007/06/16/stalking2/

Time Magazine Excerpt:

Is that man breaking into an apartment building? Does that tollbooth
operator realize she’s being photographed? And isn’t it illegal to have
cameras in New York’s Brooklyn Battery tunnel?

Such questions have been raging online in recent weeks, as Google’s
new” Street View” has sent techies scrambling to browse through the
miles and miles of street-level photos now available through Google
Maps. But while such blogs as BoingBoing.net and Mashable.com have made
something of a joke out of the many humorous (a man apparently caught
mid-sneeze), bizarre (the ghost of E.T.?) and lewd (a woman’s underwear
poking out of her low-riding jeans) images captured by the web giant,
privacy concerns have led many watchdog groups to quickly retort that
Street View is no laughing matter.

Read the entire artice here.

This site is my first attempt at working Drupal and I have to say that having blogging and commenting modules built in really makes a difference when deciding between Drupal or Joomla, well at least when picking between the two for a blogging platform.

I have also worked with Wordpress and I think thats the best platform for people who just want to blog. Drupal might be a step above that if you want your site to be more feature rich. I think as of now Joomla is the most extensive (Look at the camparison chart to see what Joomla has that Drupal doesn’t). Joomla also has a ton of extensions to play with developed by third party developers.

I’m going to continue to work with all of them to understand their ins and outs. I will develop my next group project in Drupal. Will keep you updated…..