<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909</id><updated>2011-04-21T19:26:08.241Z</updated><title type='text'>/local/OK</title><subtitle type='html'>Not Going To Heaven? R E L A X</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>41</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-116117794626085178</id><published>2006-10-18T13:06:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-10-18T13:25:46.276Z</updated><title type='text'>Social Tools</title><content type='html'>Much has been expounded on social networking. Here are some &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;tools&lt;/span&gt; you may want to consider embracing. I'm doing a fast type out here {doing research at the same time for another project} and thought you might need this as ... its as feasible as the next software on the open source neighborhood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.connotea.org/code#about_the_code" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Connotea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - a social bookmarking s/w which you can download and install on your server. Similar to &lt;a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/scuttle/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Scuttle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, its the next best thing you might seriously want to consider for your online community {make it user friendly} for your members, and they'll love you for it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://elgg.org/index.php" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ELGG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - now this one is interesting to even install and play with. Apart from &lt;a href="http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dolphin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; {dating community which you can... if you're up to it - modify to your heart's content!} ELGG establishes personal digital identities and connect with other people, collaborate with them and discover new resources through their connections. Plugins allow users on different social networks to collaborate, and provide specific functionality for tasks like project management, mobile browsing and collaboration through user-controlled wikis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A foundation platform for many social communities, &lt;a href="http://update.peopleaggregator.org/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;People Aggregator&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is available for download and installation into your system. Its interesting to note how this s/w does wonders in areas whereby each end-user will control who has access to their personal data, who can use it and how.  Each end-user is able to move their data to other systems – whether it be their personal profile record, list of friends, groups, their photos, MP3s, links, bookmarks or events... and more. Interesting stuff for serious developers to consider!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-116117794626085178?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/116117794626085178/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=116117794626085178&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/116117794626085178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/116117794626085178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/10/social-tools_18.html' title='Social Tools'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-116071944195063126</id><published>2006-10-13T06:01:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-10-13T06:04:01.960Z</updated><title type='text'>Googling Suite</title><content type='html'>Google is getting into your private files. If you're storing your archives + passwords in the web root, you're in for a big surprise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Will Google end-up with legal action? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As many sites run commercially licensed software, Google Code Search is able to crawl the archives and read unparsed PHP files as if they were plain text. This has resulted in the disclosure of some sensitive information including MySQL passwords and SMTP credentials. The potential for future abuse is great if nothing is done now.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do you do if you're using open source software?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Never store a backup or archived version of your website in a web server's public readable directories.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do not leave files that you do not want to be read/indexed/searched/downloaded in the web root.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If it is absolutely necessary, make your hosting provider disable directory index generation for that directory.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Password protect directories that contain sensitive information.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use .htaccess &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-116071944195063126?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/116071944195063126/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=116071944195063126&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/116071944195063126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/116071944195063126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/10/googling-suite.html' title='Googling Suite'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-116012600964531573</id><published>2006-10-06T08:54:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-10-06T09:13:29.666Z</updated><title type='text'>Getting In Gear</title><content type='html'>You're a budding cinematographer or at best an amateur videographer? Well, &lt;a href="http://www.blip.tv/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;blip.tv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is here. A video sharing site, your videos will have more viewership, and who know's you might even catch the eye of the next Fellini looking for fresh ideas. The platform is great - now all you have to do is to focus on your work! Creating video masterpieces. No point trying to make a reality show or porn {not supported by Blip btw} when it's yesterday's breakfast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/windows_movie_maker_blip.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/windows_movie_maker_blip.jpg" alt="BlipTV" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You've heard the latest stuffings for your stocking this Christmas is &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;coming&lt;/span&gt; so much earlier. A portable app{lication} is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. When your USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device is plugged in, you have access to your software and personal data just as you would on your own PC. And when you unplug the device, none of your personal data is left behind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of these include, but are &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; limited to...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/portableapps/Audacity_Portable_1.2.4b.exe?download" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Audacity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is the popular open source audio editor packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio files along with everything you need to edit and record on the go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abisource.com/download/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Abiword&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is an open source word processor packaged as a portable app, so you can edit your documents on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind. Cool innit? And... its Word compliant!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Albeit you've heard of &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&amp;start=120&amp;amp;sa=N" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Google Gadgets&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;! There's loads you can plonk on your website. One of which I found nifty is this fast email thingy. Helps your visitors send msgs from your page. Give them a service, and you'll be loved for all eternity. Thanks Google!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're going crazy. You can't seem to find the filofax or your new pda. Fret not. You have &lt;a href="http://www.backpackit.com/tour.php" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Backpack&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to organize your mad life in twenty-five {25} simple steps. Everything you need to do is with a click and now you can start multitasking like you were designed to be. Even Superman can't do more than two things at a time! Now all you have to do is sign-up and get your life in order! I know someone in my office who needs this badly apart from money!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/backpack.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/backpack.png" alt="Backpack" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're pulling your hair for some inspiration for a new logo. Fret no longer - There is &lt;a href="http://logopond.com/members/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LogoPond&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in association with Amazon dot something. Sign up for free fonts and ideas, and perhaps to plonk your ideas. A great community for designers, you're likely to learn something here. Oh, and did I mention that it's free?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have fun, and bon weekend!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-116012600964531573?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/116012600964531573/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=116012600964531573&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/116012600964531573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/116012600964531573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/10/getting-in-gear.html' title='Getting In Gear'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115795806246510712</id><published>2006-09-11T06:50:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-09-11T07:05:22.903Z</updated><title type='text'>Spelt Incorrectly</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/sergey_brin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/sergey_brin.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sergey {Mikhailovich} &lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/54/D664.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Brin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is cute. He is also a brainerd.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those of you who can't, on planet Earth figure out whom I am raving about should click &lt;a href="http://www-db.stanford.edu/%7Ebackrub/google.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and learn how he, and old college mate Paige setup the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web. At a time when all I knew about search engines were either &lt;a href="http://www.metacrawler.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;metacrawler dotcom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.northernlight.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Northern Light&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then came Google and hell, broke loose for Microsoft Corporation. They couldn't even spell it right the first time they wanted to register their domain, but they raked in more than $10B at IPO. These boys are genius'. They finally got the hang of playing algorithms and as much as "The Devil Wears Prada", and "My ex-Super Girlfriend" two movies seen days apart last week, and reading Buber, Merleau-Ponty and Nietzsche, I can't seem to fathom page-ranking anymore. Not that I care, because to have this issue bugging a developer sucks Life out of one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to be able to enjoy the Philharmonic without having to question one's PR on the WWW. Heck, I'm not even thinking of going IPO.. {yet}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/microsoftschoolsfuture.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/microsoftschoolsfuture.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;There is Life outside the Internet, and you my dear friend, need it as much as your body needs Sunshine! Whilst Google is churning projects after projects, Microsoft has designed the first futuristic school. This $63M school promises utmost security, by introducing children to smart-cards for libraries, to attendance to ordering their canteen food{s}... keeping their "secrets" in lockers... Incorporating the latest environmental designs including photovoltaic window panels designed to reduce electrical costs, I wonder what the logic is behind this project - Can't they just do it with Nano-Biometrics and RFID?.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Sometimes I query, sometimes I don't.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm sure you, and I can do wonders with $63M - Perhaps a Sanctuary for Animals in the shape of an Ark?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115795806246510712?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115795806246510712/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115795806246510712&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115795806246510712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115795806246510712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/09/spelt-incorrectly.html' title='Spelt Incorrectly'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115734550701328724</id><published>2006-09-04T04:35:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-09-04T04:51:47.033Z</updated><title type='text'>Hungry Dumbshifts!</title><content type='html'>Riahanna's "If It's Lovin' That You Want" is playing in my mind since Saturday. I did not go over to Starbucks this weekend. I wanted to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The expat in my life seems to be slowly fading into the edges of the tiles most probably made in China, keeping the floors cheaper but pretty enough for contemplation during breakfast, and walking upon. I was struck by a blow of microbes over the weekend that living bohemianly, seemed paltry compared to the pizzas made at San Francisco Pizza's outlet in Taipan. I dread being ill, and immobile. Cashless, I can take for ten years or so, but being ill is alike being stripped off power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Power, is something else. Without power, even lipsticks and push-up bras seem to not feel right no matter what. You may have all the cash in the world, but without power, even the salad in the &lt;a href="http://www.noritake.co.jp/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Noritake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; plates look vibrantly alive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's a need to change, and AainaA Lifestyle will be undergoing that change soon. The site has been hacked into even with the security patch being updated and all, makes you want to trash everything in the can, and shoot &lt;a href="http://www.mavideniz.org/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;iKORPiTX&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the Turkish hacker into smitherins. But you know you can't. You have a responsibility towards change. And killing is barbaric, virtual or otherwise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I'm not a terrorist, and neither is AainaA Lifestyle's Network of Partners, and friends.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the Turkish hacker decides that hacking will stop AainaA Lifestyle from moving forwards, he or they are wrong. Its immaturity on their part to show what they're capable of. Immaturity does not get anyway - the Truth will surface no matter what, and hackers {or whatever they get pleasure in besides playing with their sticky dumbshifts!} should be wary, what the Kingdom of Heaven holds for them. I'm not personally involved in any war games with their insipid minds. Albeit they've forgotten the series of earthquakes we have in store for them, not to mention their positioning in EU.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Direct or indirect violence does not help&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Especially when it comes to governing the world in the 21st century. Must be some serious shit that has somehow hit their brains* or the shit they've been consuming is not doing its work anymore - lame ducks trying to target Joomla/Mambo sites like there's no tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I spoke to one of my professors at Sorbonne, aoens ago, as to what triggers the unhappy inattentive bugger {a hacker would suffice to be replaced as a synonyme} - well, a plethora of answers really, but mostly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"they're all basically screwed by their parents who were screwed by their grandparents.. and the never ending cyclic event stemming from their unwillingness to get out of hell, or the approach to rhetorics due to depleted uranium in their neighbourhood... or something to that effect!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I'm glad you, and I are from Heaven!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm blogging my thoughts here, at /local/OK. Until things are stabilized, AainaA.com and AuliiA.com is off-limits in a manner of speaking. You may visit it though, but well... restoring the site can take some time. Just in case you're wondering who the hell the hacker is, or you might want to give him a piece of your sugar pie for gunning down two of my sites, please... by all means contact the twit at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/hackerlore/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/glider.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Tolga Yildiz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Iskenderun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Hatay, 31200&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Turkey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;+90.4440542&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;tolga124@mynet.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Assuming they have something there in the cranium.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115734550701328724?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115734550701328724/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115734550701328724&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115734550701328724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115734550701328724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/09/hungry-dumbshifts.html' title='Hungry Dumbshifts!'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115627613610356010</id><published>2006-08-22T19:45:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-08-22T19:52:38.393Z</updated><title type='text'>Home, Sweet Home</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://wikimapia.org/s/#y=48852997&amp;x=2356524&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;z=15&amp;l=0&amp;amp;m=a" frameborder="0" height="380" width="400"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lover who leans upon the beloved's response, his love is like the flame that needs oil to live; but the lover who stands on his own feet, is like the lantern of the sun that burns without oil.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115627613610356010?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115627613610356010/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115627613610356010&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115627613610356010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115627613610356010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/08/home-sweet-home.html' title='Home, Sweet Home'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115591120852410393</id><published>2006-08-18T13:56:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-08-18T14:26:48.606Z</updated><title type='text'>Ajax Liquid</title><content type='html'>Ajax here, and Ajax there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We've heard over the Web lately of Ajax. If you're a developer, you'd most likely have heard of it, and if you're a layperson like moi, you'd most likely think its a dishwashing liquid or something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ajax or Asynchronous Javascript and XML as it was first termed, is shorthand for Javascript UI development, particularly Javascript development that uses the XMLHttpRequest object.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some applications that you're likely to find Ajax implemented commonly is our favourite webmail program, from &lt;a href="http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/05/zimbra.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Zimbra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://gmail.google.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Gmail&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Others include...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.openlaszlo.org/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OpenLaszlo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - The OpenLaszlo platform enables developers to create applications with the rich user interface capabilities of desktop client software and the instantaneous no-download Web deployment of HTML.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.roundcube.net/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;RoundCube&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - A browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation and message filters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/rcube.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/rcube.jpg" alt="RoundCube" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tersus.org/downloads/index_html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Visual AJAX Platform&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - The visual model is executed on the server or inside the browser, as appropriate, eliminating the need to master different languages {like JavaScript and Java} and complex client/server integration techniques&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pligg.com/license.php" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pligg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Web 2.0 user interface gives your visitors a reason to come back to your site by making them decide on the site's content and giving them the chance to socialize&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tibco.com/software/ria/gi_tutorials.jsp" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;6 Ajax Solutions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - See the basic steps of quickly building rich AJAX applications using Tibco's General Interface and get insightful tips from the product team along the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.symfony-project.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Symfony&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - A &lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;web application framework&lt;/strong&gt; for PHP5 projects. It aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have fun!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115591120852410393?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115591120852410393/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115591120852410393&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115591120852410393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115591120852410393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/08/ajax-liquid.html' title='Ajax Liquid'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115590891337880033</id><published>2006-08-18T13:41:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-08-18T13:50:03.020Z</updated><title type='text'>Time To Die</title><content type='html'>People are dying. And &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Death&lt;/span&gt; is slowly catching up on you, your neighbour, your friend, your mistress, your girlfriend, your puppy, persian cat, anaconda...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You either die of a disease with a sophisticated name like chronic myeloid something more unpronouncable, but you're sure that each second of your bio-lifetime, your body gets closer to a cemetery, or a furnace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the 21st century, biotech weapons created do more harm than good. And if you believe that diseases are only created for the fun of it, you might be almost right depending which slant you're looking from, and if you were in 'power' and 'Office', what and how would you tackle the world's problems where 'health' is concerned? {Comments / Opinions appreciated}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See how Avian flu is spreaded like wildfire throughout Asia, and soon the World... Your World!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12375868" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12375868"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/avian.gif" alt="Click To Preview" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115590891337880033?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115590891337880033/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115590891337880033&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115590891337880033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115590891337880033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/08/time-to-die.html' title='Time To Die'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115391864305521193</id><published>2006-07-26T12:53:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-26T12:57:23.080Z</updated><title type='text'>Gaming Ergonomics</title><content type='html'>Okay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would seriously have to re-consider this as an environmental gadget or even a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;gadg&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wouldn't for the love of lipsticks and push-up bras even consider buying it. It doesn't make sense, at least for me. I can somehow see weights added to that, and likely a comfy leather upholstery. Who'd want to invest in something that looks like a gym equipment? Who'd want to be the centerpiece in a game? Unless you're playing one of the adult games, you don't need this!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/media_pics_mike.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/media_pics_mike.jpg" alt="MyPCE" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe gamers, but players can be fussy. I know I am.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Good Ergonomics = Good Economics ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Designers at &lt;a href="http://www.mypce.com/360tour.shtml" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PCE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; turned the idea of a gaming or computer station inside out, making players the comfortable centerpiece of an integrated digital command center, with high performance computing, gaming and entertainment technology at their fingertips.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's the drift here? Care to expound if you're a furniture designer?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe its time, the designers look at &lt;a href="http://en.red-dot.org/product-design.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Red Dot&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; instead.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115391864305521193?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115391864305521193/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115391864305521193&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115391864305521193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115391864305521193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/07/gaming-ergonomics.html' title='Gaming Ergonomics'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115391722479686769</id><published>2006-07-26T12:27:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-26T12:33:44.873Z</updated><title type='text'>Your World In Dubai</title><content type='html'>They did it again!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trust &lt;a href="http://www.nakheel.ae/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nakheel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to come up with something that will blow your pocketbook, and mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;300 islands in the shape of the continents located off the coast of Dubai. &lt;a href="http://www.theworld.ae/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The World&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; offers imaginative investors an unprecedented investment opportunity in the form of leisure, residential or tourist developments, and will add over 232 kilometers of new beachfront to Dubai’s coastline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/TheWorld_4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/TheWorld_4.jpg" alt="The World" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I was in Dubai last year, everyone who was anyone asked me what I thought of the City. I don't. It reminded me of what Kuala Lumpur could be, fifty years ahead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like old things - common place architecture with some characteristics like those in &lt;a href="http://www.andalucia.com/cities/granada/alhamhistory.htm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Alhambra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://perso.orange.fr/spqr/intr_petra.htm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Petra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.paris.fr/portail/accueil/Portal.lut?page_id=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Paris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and yes, even &lt;a href="http://www.geographia.com/malaysia/kualalumpur.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Kuala Lumpur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dubai is a bit too avant garde for my taste.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115391722479686769?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115391722479686769/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115391722479686769&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115391722479686769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115391722479686769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/07/your-world-in-dubai.html' title='Your World In Dubai'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115391598319250575</id><published>2006-07-26T12:08:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-26T12:13:03.213Z</updated><title type='text'>Theme Stinger</title><content type='html'>It costs only 2.5 Million Dollars which equates to a generous ROI if you know what to do with it, and you get a panoramic view of an alternative lifestyle. Designed by Giancarlo Zema, this innovative living space is a floating dwelling unit for up to six persons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/jellyfish3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/jellyfish3.jpg" alt="The Jellyfish Habitat" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's spacious dimensions are 10 metres high with a diameter of over 15 metres.  The Jelly-fish 45 would be ideally situated in sea parks, atolls, bays and seas rich in flora and fauna. The Jelly-fish 45 allows the sea dwelling owners to live either above or below sea level in perfect harmony with the ocean environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/jellyfishInterior.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/jellyfishInterior.jpg" alt="Jellyfish Interior" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're into theming parks, you might want to consider building these and create that extra special Royal Suites underwater. The 21st Century is all about innovation, design and taste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Care for a &lt;a href="http://www.sub-find.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jellyfish&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; sting?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115391598319250575?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115391598319250575/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115391598319250575&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115391598319250575'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115391598319250575'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/07/theme-stinger.html' title='Theme Stinger'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115286805156307220</id><published>2006-07-14T09:03:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-17T07:57:07.643Z</updated><title type='text'>Chocolate Mask</title><content type='html'>I must tell you something that happened to me last night. Its not often I laugh at myself, but this event is something I will remember until I loose my mind again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After having a tedious time working and figuring what the hell I was doing at the office, I took the cab home to the suburbs where I live. It takes approximately an hour to reach “home” from Kuala Lumpur where I work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I arrived home at about 11:30 in the evening. My parents were already sleeping upstairs in their air-conditioned nest. Having had a good lunch with Prince Charming, and Pooh Bear, my tummy wrestled for another meal. I couldn't resist the &lt;a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=3&amp;objectid=10364589" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Nestle Cornetto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. My mouth needed another exercise. Besides I was thinking of playing “Age of Empires” just before hitting the sack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having opened the ice-cream and blissfully enjoying it… I heard a weird strange noise like a whistling coming from outside the house. My bedroom cubicle is on the ground floor, and faces the road.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I decided to continue licking the ice-cream, pampering my tongue to the fullest exercise you can ever imagine. Forget the fat that I'm going to add in a couple of minutes around my tummy, hips and …&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suddenly I was awaken. Mummy had entered my room this morning, and screamed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“What's that on your face?” she yelled, excitedly. Still in the half-sleep and half-wake stage, I dragged myself out of bed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Guess what Mummy?”&lt;br /&gt;“Don't ask” she said&lt;br /&gt;“I had a chocolate mask last night” I added, looking at myself in the mirror laughing hysterically like the Mad Hatter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I fell asleep whilst enjoying my &lt;a href="http://www.walls.co.uk/index.asp?flash=yes&amp;screenW=1024&amp;amp;screenH=768&amp;flashV=WIN%209,0,16,0" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Cornetto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ice-cream.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I related this to the Tasmanian Devil in our office, and we burst out laughing.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115286805156307220?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115286805156307220/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115286805156307220&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115286805156307220'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115286805156307220'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/07/chocolate-mask.html' title='Chocolate Mask'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115230063291009707</id><published>2006-07-07T19:07:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-07-07T19:30:32.936Z</updated><title type='text'>Blogging + Forum Updates</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;When I first started my web presence way back last century just before the dotCom crash, I did everything by hand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Graphics were either drawn or sketched and then scanned, and coloured on Paint Shop Pro's application software, and thereafter saved as jpg or gif; animation created frame by frame in gif or saved into from KPT instead of Flash since Flash was virtually still on the blueprint drafting table. I was also smitten by KPT's range of plugins that took most of my online learning time. Updating hardcoded scripting before simple CMS were created was tedious indeed, but I enjoyed the time spent learning hands-on, on everything webby.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Did I tell you I was once a sponge in my other life?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had an idea of creating an application and would have called it a CMS. Of course at the time, I lacked knowledge in anything and everything technology. Now, I know what the acronym LMAO means. {It's an improvement don't you think?}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I contemplate which MontBlanc or Dupont Fountain pen I should get myself or which Tiffany jewelry I should dream of gracing my finger, I decided to update /local/OK/ with updates on what's going on in the Open Source world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Plainblack&lt;/span&gt; has just released its version 7.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/plainblack.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/plainblack.gif" alt="PlainBlack" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suggested this CMS extraordinaire {its also an application framework!} to a colleague, but he's more versatile with PHP. Perl is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; difficult. Besides its more &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;stable&lt;/span&gt;. Of course, PHP is much easier to fathom, but Perl whether we like it or not is a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;tested&lt;/span&gt; language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It doesn't tease too much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tried working on Plainblack a few years back, and found it to be nifty, and quite simple. Albeit now, it has developed into something beyond Joomla + other WCMS put together. Many debutant webmasters avoid Plainblack primarily because most new wave {Web!} designers of the 21st century talk php or LAMP {no, not Gwen Stefani's &lt;a href="http://www.l-a-m-b.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LAMB&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To learn more what you can do with Plainblack, click &lt;a href="http://www.plainblack.com/webgui/features" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. If you do not have time to sacrifice learning how to operate &lt;a href="http://typo3.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Typo3&lt;/a&gt;, you might want to seriously consider it! This is one of the best software designed for online publishing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sahana&lt;/span&gt; is a framework for helping humans survive so to speak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/sahanapreview.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/sahanapreview.png" alt="Sahana" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is pluggable as a standalone, and if you're creative, implement it with your existing CMS or Blog as an added feature for your community. Designed to act as a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;SOS Disaster Management System&lt;/span&gt;, NGO's may want to consider this application to help with locating, and identifying victims of issues concerned. This is a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;NMS&lt;/span&gt; {niche management system} as it is designed specifically for a particular task.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having won many awards, Sahana has also inspired the Free Software Foundation Award for Humanity - 2005. Click &lt;a href="http://www.sahana.lk/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, to learn more of Sahana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before I started using Mamboserver {now, Joomla} as a blogging tool, most of my blogging were collated on a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Perl&lt;/span&gt; based system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also tried working with Nucleus, and had pratically tried almost all blogging software from &lt;a href="http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wordpress&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="http://www.b2evolution.net/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;b2evolution&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.neocrome.net/plug.php?e=clientarea&amp;m=licences" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;LDU&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/pricing" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;MT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. The thing about installing your downloaded software application required learning from chmod{ing} to ftp{ing} and tweaking, and all I wanted to do then was to upload my words and just write away my thoughts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Duh? I am a writer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most developers fail to see the user-friendly pseudo-flow of how the world is like. Not every writer, not everyone is a developer, and not every human need to be programmers before using an application.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;need&lt;/span&gt; simple software with plugins and modules. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Think end users who aren't geeks!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not a fantastic blogging tool bloated with tools we may never use as a writer in the first place. Developers might heed this, and just make some profits selling plugins, modules and components which when charged at say &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1 Euro&lt;/span&gt;, would and could equate to a couple of million if the bots are pluggable and simple to install like what Mamboserver / Joomla did when creative professional developers decided to interactively command their brains to reprocess their thoughts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nucleus&lt;/span&gt; is a blogging application. And it can be more than that if you took time to study the documentation and help files. With enough imagination, any blogging software can be turned into an NMS. Nucleus is systematic in its &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;GInterface&lt;/span&gt; {gui-interface} and considering the simplicity of its ware, it is bound to evolve and turn into something more than just another CMS. Consider testing Nucleus, or &lt;a href="http://nucleuscms.org/testimonials.php" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;read&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; testimonials by satisfied clients, worldwide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/nucleuscms.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/nucleuscms.png" alt="nucleus" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many excellent forum board software which is equally satisfying to use until a security breach is executed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apart from &lt;a href="http://www.phpbb.com/features.php" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;phpBB&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://chimaera.starglade.org/aterr/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;aterr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.artscore.net/cutecast/index.shtml" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;cutecast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;... Vanilla is the next most minimalist forum software you should seriously consider if discussions are more important than, cosmetics. What I like about &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Vanilla&lt;/span&gt; is in its simplicity for usage. You don't have to be an intermediate expert in programming to understand anything about getting your personal forum online. Vanilla facilitates online discussion to a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is definately going somewhere, and aesthetically Vanilla is akin to a Haagen!, and it is multilingual too!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/vanilla.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/vanilla.gif" alt="Vanilla" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vanilla works on Firefox; Safari; Camino; Opera; and Internet Explorer 6. Click &lt;a href="http://getvanilla.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to experience Vanilla!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115230063291009707?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115230063291009707/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115230063291009707&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115230063291009707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115230063291009707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/07/blogging-forum-updates_07.html' title='Blogging + Forum Updates'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115141132231383984</id><published>2006-06-27T12:16:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-27T12:28:52.483Z</updated><title type='text'>G-Spot!</title><content type='html'>Whilst biotechnology, nanotechnology, robotics and gadget science become dependent upon each other, we're going to see a trend merging between the East, and West from Lifestyle to serious applications that will create not only a blast and sets a generation factor {G-Spot!} between then and now, but also spur innovations from all industry sectors from defense, to education to opensource.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SelkBag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/ok_selk_02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/ok_selk_02.jpg" alt="The Selknam" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Selk'nam were nomadic people and survived by hunting. They dressed sparingly, a remarkable feat given the cold climate of Patagonia. The Selk'nam avoided contact with Western colonizers. Westerners killed most of the local animals which were the food source for the Selk'nam and used a great part of the land of Tierra del Fuego to establish large estancias. A tribute to the Selk'nam, was how the SelkBag were created.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/ok_selk_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/200/ok_selk_01.jpg" alt="The Selk Bag" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Imagine being able to move everywhere in Winter without getting cold, and if you happen to fall asleep {since Winter has a high probability of influencing you in your sleep pattern}, you can rest assure you are kept warm, and safe. We need more ingenious ideas for the 21st century, and &lt;a href="http://www.musuchouse.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SelkBag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is one of them! Hurry and place your Christmas order for your favourite backpacker this year!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Brickadoo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you've played &lt;a href="http://www.lego.com/eng/default.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Lego&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as a child, you might enjoy Brickadoo as an adult. With the focus at developing your design and creative skills, Brickadoo &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/brickadoo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/brickadoo.jpg" alt="Brickadoo" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;initiatiates you with enough mortar and raw materials to build your own minimalist designer home and even go as far as building your own eighty-eight storey magnum tower in dreamland. Designed in the Netherlands, Brickadoo comes with enough raw materials to build your own city. If you've played &lt;a href="http://simcity.ea.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Simcity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; before, you're likely to get dirty playing with Brickadoo, and might even turn your designs into a profit making venture! A first hand at masonry, &lt;a href="http://www.brickadoo.com/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Brickadoo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a hands-on experience without getting stuck in cement, and overalls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Capsters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The issue about the Hijaab {Muslim veil} has become a fashion statement, and designers worldwide are cashing on this phenomena. At least for some Haute Couture designers in their Seasons, sportswear Nike has teamed up with Capsters to design &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/aerob_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/aerob_1.jpg" alt="Capsters Socialware" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;socio-cultural ware made from comfy fabrics to match activities from aerobics, skate and tennis. Created by young Dutch designer Cindy van den Bremen, &lt;a href="http://www.capsters.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Capsters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is definately going somewhere after being refused concept with branded manufacturers. Nike, on the other hand believed with social entrepreneurship and product development, Capsters will indeed capture the Muslim market worldwide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Charge-Me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/chargeme1-med.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/200/chargeme1-med.jpg" alt="Charge-Me Self Service Kiosk" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;What happens when your PDA, Mobile phone and Digicams run out of battery? Especially if you're a seasoned journalist, or avid traveller who simply must have that shot to send in to your editor, or the mother-in-law ensuring you're having a blast with his son? You go to a kiosk and get your gadget charged-up! An idea spurred by a British firm, &lt;a href="http://www.charge-me.co.uk/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Charge-Me Ltd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the Company hopes to serve telcos with their POS, and SS Kiosk technologies. If you're a Telco, and would like to reap this, connect here!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115141132231383984?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115141132231383984/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115141132231383984&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115141132231383984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115141132231383984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/g-spot.html' title='G-Spot!'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115106368611428841</id><published>2006-06-23T10:19:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-23T12:05:10.323Z</updated><title type='text'>Gamers 2.0+</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Flightgear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flightgear reminded me of a simulation I used to play during the heydays of DOS. You'd be surprised what game developers are up to these days. You'd think Electronic Arts would actually look into these boys {+ gals} who are talented and passionate about their work, and make them an offer non? Well.. If you happen to be an Angel, you might want to give them a turbo booster of a chance and do something more by offering this simulation a step ahead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for the development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as an end-user application.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flightgear is available for Windows, Linux, OSX, BSD &amp; ... Drop by and get &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a copy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and have it installed. You'd be surprised at the simplay!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/concorde-gui.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/concorde-gui.jpg" alt="Flight Gear" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Racer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Racer is not a game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is a Racing Car simulation. Now, I'm a bit confused, but I'm sure my sister-in-law can explain the edge of Automative engineering. An opensource program, this software helps future automative engineers, design cars and tracks using real car physics to get a realistic feeling. Now you know how this gets going when you opt to get one of racing games installed in your system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Racer is available for Windows, Linux &amp; OSX. Click &lt;a href="http://www.racer.nl/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to download the sim, and start building your own!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/modern_350z_lg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/modern_350z_lg.jpg" alt="Racer" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sauerbraten&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soon to be an RPG game Sauerbraten {a.k.a. Cube 2} is something you might want to consider downloading and installing in your system. Its graphics are second to none to some of the best commercial games out there, and its source code is amazingly opensource. If you think most developers are tied to big-time companies and you're a student game developer, you might want to &lt;a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/sauerbraten/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;check out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the code, and learn something from it. You might want to consider working on this as the engine behind this awesome game is seamless and world editing becomes possible where appropriate to the concept.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/sauercomp.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/400/sauercomp.jpg" alt="Sauerbraten" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;{click the image above to see it larger}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=102911&amp;package_id=110363&amp;amp;release_id=423974" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to download this game, and blast your speakers to the max!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115106368611428841?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115106368611428841/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115106368611428841&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115106368611428841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115106368611428841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/gamers-20.html' title='Gamers 2.0+'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115089713722775437</id><published>2006-06-21T13:24:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-21T13:38:57.366Z</updated><title type='text'>Innovative Tools 2.0+</title><content type='html'>Internet Developers are getting more and more innovative these days. I tell you, when I have the time to scour the Web, for research and keeping in contact with friends {mostly developers themselves}, I see more and more dwelling into the future of what the Web would look like for your great-grand children. Albeit in another millennia or so, the Net will &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NOT&lt;/span&gt; be like what you're currently experiencing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember the television, and the first generation of mobile phones?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These days everything is packed into small packages, and Net applications and sites, are getting seriously nifty. But if you want just an ordinary hard-coding site, you'll have to turn back the clock, or check the archives at your local traditional libraries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Advanced Reality&lt;/span&gt;, a developer of software that makes existing and new applications collaborative for example, has recently launched &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;JYBE&lt;/span&gt;. Try to pronounce that, and you'll get a plethora of sounds from different tongues! The company has developed a browser that actually allows you to to make SKYPE Calls, Share Documents, and Send Invitations from Internet Explorer and Firefox, amongst others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, I did not download the application.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm seriously re-defining the idea of downloading. Strictly to scripts, mp3s', videos and ... ebooks {for now}. There are many things on the Internet that is distracting me from work, and you know me, I just love toys {gadgets!} and new application ideas, that I may end up online 24/24 like ten years ago. Besides, I need to work, and it demands my attention!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://jybe.com/site/download/download.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to download Jybe, and try it out yourself - &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Think Browsing, Skype, Outlook&lt;/span&gt; and you have something that other browser developers might want to reconsider when updating their application, Opensource or otherwise!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember TheGlobe dotCom? They were one of the first few online social developers offering FREE homepages {yes, I had a page with them once before the dotCom crash} besides Geocities, before Yahoo came onboard. These days, The Globe Online is into &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;social communications&lt;/span&gt;. You'd think someone bought over TheGlobe.com, and decided to go hardcore on something less social - like a meta-engine, but hell no! Everyone who is anyone with megabucks are into making more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TheGlobe Online, as it is now known offers you... FREE VoIP {you can still do that with YAHOO you know!}, Directory and MarkAboo - &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Think Blog + Social Directory + Bookmarks + VoIP&lt;/span&gt;. {an apparently revival of social bookmarks - damn, that word is so socially abused!} amongst others. You might want to check &lt;a href="http://www.onclickdialto.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;theGlobe Online&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and signup for ... all its new services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fancy your own &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;VPN&lt;/span&gt;? Its not expensive apparently&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hamachi is offering your own zero-config virtual private network. Fully encrypted, authenticated and P2P. You should consider this offer since it is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FREE&lt;/span&gt;, and... you don't have to juggle with cables and hardware which can come to a decent figure on your financial scales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/Hamachi.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/Hamachi.png" alt="HAMACHI" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hamachi.cc/download/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hamachi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is available for Windows, Linux and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;whoopie&lt;/span&gt; OSX!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you have what it takes what the Net has to say about you? If you've been online for a very long time, the chances of you leaving a trail of breadcrumbs in Gretel's forest is quiet evident. Don't you think so? Well with Claim-ID, is about letting you have some say in what search engines say about you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sign up for a free account, and start rectifying your past online deeds, and public image. Your past in newsgroups is/are archived. Trust me, if you've ever flirted with someone's spouse online or thought you could get away with murder, the chances of having a {good} rep{utation} is virtually nil. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Everything&lt;/span&gt; is recorded and high profilers can have access to these records!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://claimid.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ClaimID&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was created by two doctoral students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/claimid.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/claimid.jpg" alt="CLAIMID" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115089713722775437?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115089713722775437/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115089713722775437&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115089713722775437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115089713722775437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/innovative-tools-20.html' title='Innovative Tools 2.0+'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115088226017085431</id><published>2006-06-21T09:23:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-21T09:31:00.180Z</updated><title type='text'>Invitation</title><content type='html'>Here's a flyer for Geekesses {if you're living in or happen to be passing Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/June%20Mailer.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/June%20Mailer.jpg" alt="Invitation" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click above to preview a larger image, with all necessary info&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115088226017085431?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115088226017085431/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115088226017085431&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115088226017085431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115088226017085431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/invitation.html' title='Invitation'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115036713404946475</id><published>2006-06-15T10:16:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-15T10:25:34.066Z</updated><title type='text'>Innovative!</title><content type='html'>There are two apps {applications} I think you'll blow your minds for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Flock&lt;/span&gt; is a new browser for Windows/Mac/Linux. The thing about Flock is that it is gooeyly user-friendly and hip! Started of by developer friends in a Palo Alto garage last summer, Flock is definately going to take the WWW by storm, {If it hasn't already!} and you're likely to use it because its 2.0+&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The plus is a sign that it will become a hit, in years to come. Most likely bought over by Internet giants like Google, or even Yahoo! Think Photos + News + Search + Blogging + Favs + RSS. Flocking is gonna be nominated as one of the new killer application for &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WEB 2.0 2006 Awards&lt;/span&gt; since blogging came into the picture, don't you think so?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/flock.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/flock.jpg" alt="FLOCK" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/download" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to download Flock&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Thumbstacks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you can't afford &lt;a href="http://www.scala.com/infochannel3/designer.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Scala software&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; because it costs a fortune, you might likely turn to Thumbtacks, a site designed especially for creating and sharing presentations on the web.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neat eh?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"With Thumbstacks, you can make presentations - like slideshows, or outlines - right in your web browser. When you're done, you can share your presentations with anyone, anywhere, just by sending them a link"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thumbstacks.com/p/site/About+Thumbstacks" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/ttacks.gif" alt="Thumbstacks" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're dying to create a presentation, &lt;a href="http://www.thumbstacks.com/signup.php" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;signup&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and get creative. Thumbstacks might save you the day! Its FREE!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115036713404946475?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115036713404946475/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115036713404946475&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115036713404946475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115036713404946475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/innovative.html' title='Innovative!'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115020848303795857</id><published>2006-06-13T14:04:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-13T14:21:23.250Z</updated><title type='text'>S60</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/nokia-6630.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/nokia-6630.gif" alt="Nokia 6630" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I recently upgraded to a smartphone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was using a 2650 earlier on, a flip phone that was good enough for basic needs. But when it came to checking my emails, chatting or even reading e-books, the 6630 is the mid-level Symbian 60 "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;smart&lt;/span&gt;" phone that you might want to invest in. This phone came in timely for me, since I've left the T42 at home, safe in its safebox, away from prying eyes and clumsy fingers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know.. I know... its been in the market for more than two years, but I can only afford it then {3rd June 2006}. It was a good purchase, as I've upgraded the Memory Card to 512MB, only to find a 1GB staring at me at a Kiosk at the Kelana LRT Station for only RM120. {That will happen to be in my phone next month, when I've slogged my butts out!}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my excitement to read the manual before using it - I found to my dismay, that the manuals were all in Italian. Duh? Thank gawd, this phone comes with French, German, and English, not to mention some other non-Latin based European language. I would most likely assume, as in my previous phone, the Asian Edition spoils the aesthetic value when you know its a European made, even if its being assembled in the Republic of China, or elsewhere cheaper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This phone is addictive. It plays MP3s too, and you can convert your audio files to a bitrate suitable for your phone. And if you're into designing themes and wallpapers, this phone displays a brilliant edginess to its pixels, making your eyes turn around as if you've just turned ten, or found a lollipop in the sandpit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love my new phone. Its equipped with...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Qur'an Reader&lt;/span&gt; - As I read the Qur'an for the pleasure of learning Arabic&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Metro&lt;/span&gt; - Just in case I get lost in Bulgaria or somewhere I've not been before&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MobiReader&lt;/span&gt; - I don't carry paperback books anymore, unless it books compiled by Ali Unal, or written by Said Nursi&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SpodRadio&lt;/span&gt; - Ah, the perfect Radio utility tool for the S60 series&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Weather&lt;/span&gt; - Checking what the weather is in London, just in case I need to pack a brolly for an immediate leave&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;AvantGo&lt;/span&gt; - This is serious business, my friend - Its jampacked with real news - no more reading paper. The only paper I'm attracted to these days, are those that exchange hands&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fr. Bubble&lt;/span&gt; - This game is annoying, and addictive. The 6630 keypad is too small for my fat stodgy fingers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Multichess&lt;/span&gt; - The bliss of online gaming&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Journey&lt;/span&gt; - Remember Ultima?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sensor&lt;/span&gt; - The Joys of Flirting&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Netomat&lt;/span&gt; - Creating your blog, network amongst other things&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;YahooGo!&lt;/span&gt; - No introduction here&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... and more, waiting to be installed and cramped into that memory card.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You might equally want to check out these sites, if you have an S60 phone yourself, or if you're a developer trying to figure what next to develop and make your way to Geekdom!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://wolf3d-s60.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Wolfenstein 3D &amp; Spear of Destiny&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://koti.mbnet.fi/mertama/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Doom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://symbian.helixcommunity.org/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Helix DNA Client&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://symbianoggplay.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;OggPlay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,1522,,00.html?orig=/lifeblog/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Lifeblog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://koti.phnet.fi/jarilaak/software/jjlkeylock.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;JJL Keylock&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.afischer-online.de/sos/celltrack/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;CellTrack&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://fuse.stc.cx/s60zip/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;S60Zip&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://koti.phnet.fi/jarilaak/software/photojotter.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Photojotter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bemused.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Bemused&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know someone in our Executive Suite, will be most likely rushing there now, to download these in his phone ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115020848303795857?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115020848303795857/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115020848303795857&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115020848303795857'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115020848303795857'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/s60.html' title='S60'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115019866304848533</id><published>2006-06-13T11:36:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-13T11:37:43.056Z</updated><title type='text'>Article 10</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Toute personne a droit à la liberté d'expression. Ce droit comprend la liberté d'opinion et la liberté de recevoir ou de communiquer des informations ou des idées sans qu'il puisse y avoir ingérence d'autorités publiques et sans considération de frontière. Le présent article n'empêche pas les Etats de soumettre les entreprises de radiodiffusion, de cinéma ou de télévision à un régime d'autorisations. L'exercice de ces libertés comportant des devoirs et des responsabilités peut être soumis à certaines formalités, conditions, restrictions ou sanctions prévues par la loi, qui constituent des mesures nécessaires, dans une société démocratique, à la sécurité nationale, à l'intégrité territoriale ou à la sûreté publique, à la défense de l'ordre et à la prévention du crime, à la protection de la santé ou de la morale, à la protection de la réputation ou des droits d'autrui, pour empêcher la divulgation d'informations confidentielles ou pour garantir l'autorité et l'impartialité du pouvoir judiciaire."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Convention Européenne Des Droits De L'Homme &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115019866304848533?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115019866304848533/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115019866304848533&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115019866304848533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115019866304848533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/article-10.html' title='Article 10'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115011913440081175</id><published>2006-06-12T13:30:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-12T13:32:17.993Z</updated><title type='text'>Que Je Vous Aime... tant</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;Est-ce qu’on pourra manquer quelqu’un tellement? Le cœur en plein feu – brûlant comme jamais ?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;Où est tu ? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;Tu me manques terriblement, comme les vagues manquent les sables…encrassant la plage&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;Je meurs, petit à petit&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;Et j’emmène tes souffles, dans mon cœur&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;Jusqu’aube&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;Jusqu’a la mort&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;Oh mon amour, que je t’aime tant&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115011913440081175?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115011913440081175/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115011913440081175&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115011913440081175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115011913440081175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/que-je-vous-aime-tant.html' title='Que Je Vous Aime... tant'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-115010229544039758</id><published>2006-06-12T08:31:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-12T08:51:35.453Z</updated><title type='text'>Web 2.0+</title><content type='html'>There are many applications on the Internet, driven and developed by staunch geeks that may blow your mind apart. With the advent of 2.0&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;, we're looking at innovativeness after a period of absence with the dotCom bust in 1999.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Like many important concepts, &lt;a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Web 2.0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core. You can visualize Web 2.0 as a set of principles and practices that tie together a veritable solar system of sites that demonstrate some or all of those principles, at a varying distance from that core.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of these, you might want to look into, and see how best you can implement or develop further in your Organization or the OpenSource Community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Squeezing your Juice&lt;/span&gt;! - It's a podcast thingy for Windows, Mac &amp; Linux. So if you're into podcasting, there's a team out there {volunteers} sourcing for podcast content to make you happy. Consider supporting them to see &lt;a href="http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/download/index.php" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Juice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, embracing the global pod enigma!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=juicepodcastrcvr8ru.gif" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5811/juicepodcastrcvr8ru.th.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;!-- start link to us code, for http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/#download" title="Download Juice, the cross-platform podcast receiver" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/buttons/minibanner_juice.gif" alt="Download Juice, the cross-platform podcast receiver" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end link to us code --&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61001&amp;package_id=57311&amp;amp;release_id=423973" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Stickies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a simulator of the post-it notes that you stick on monitors, walls etc, it's really a work related type product. And if you like to see this on your vdu, by all means download it, and post-it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SongBirdNest&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another application that is surely to keep you up online for a good time of your life, is &lt;a href="http://www.songbirdnest.com/download" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Songbird&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. A Web player built from Firefox's browser engine, it is open source, and will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions. {Neat!}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Keeping the medium and the content separate is a good rule in most media. When I turn on the television, I don't expect it to deliberately jump to a particular channel... I expect my television to be an impartial box. I also expect the same neutrality of software...~ &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_berners-lee" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sir Tim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mainscreenshotsmall4ro.png" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2465/mainscreenshotsmall4ro.th.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Joomla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're like me, using Joomla {previously aka Mambo OS} is such a joy. The CMS is bound to bind many non-geeks to Geekdom, and inspire extensions from simple RSS to complex components and modules which you can literally just plug, and make your site a breeze for both users, and yourself. The &lt;a href="http://extensions.joomla.org/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;extension repository&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is one place you're likely to visit to have a blast with yourself, when the WorldCup is over!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tomboy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tomboy is a nifty application! Trust me, if you've been note-taking, tomboy facilitates your lifestyle in many ways. Think notes, Wiki, Linking and put them in one app. Written in C#, it is still in pre-release format, but you may like to tweak tweak-it for the fun of it. &lt;a href="http://www.beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/releases/tomboy-0.3.5.tar.gz" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tomboy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; supports many advanced editing features, but they won't bother you until you need them&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tomboy0tj.png" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2166/tomboy0tj.th.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yotophoto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yotophoto is an Internet Search Engine built around Drupal for all your imaging needs. Copyleft, Creative Commons, GNU FDL or similar licenses images are here for you to download and make full use off. If you've been scouring the Net for your blog, your comps etc, you might do well by bookmarking &lt;a href="http://www.yotophoto.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yotophoto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BackupPC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Backup PC helps, if your laptop or desktop is filled to the brim like mine. You only need to install the code into your server, and upload everything. This would be a good service to offer users, and members for a small hosting fee if your ded server is full of resources. BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and Win** PCs and laptops to a server's disk. &lt;a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/backuppc/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BackupPC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=backuppcbackupbrowse4yr.png" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/972/backuppcbackupbrowse4yr.th.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DotClear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DotClear is a blogging tool. It's French, opensource and ... something you'll most likely need if you find WordPress, a tad bit complex for your taste. &lt;a href="http://www.dotclear.net/download.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DotClear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has all the tools incorporated from categories to comments to everything else in between. A must-visit site for bloggers worldwide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dotclearbillet9gq.png" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/563/dotclearbillet9gq.th.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-115010229544039758?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/115010229544039758/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=115010229544039758&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115010229544039758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/115010229544039758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/web-20.html' title='Web 2.0+'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114967007625957584</id><published>2006-06-07T08:44:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-07T08:47:56.266Z</updated><title type='text'>3rd Gen Broadcasting</title><content type='html'>I was thinking, ten years ago when Flash was on the drawing board and developers were contented with animated GIFs that overtime, pushcasting would be the next business killer-idea for Media Agencies, worldwide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that forty-five percent of the world is on steroid bandwidth, the likeability that you'll see streaming media is feasible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;OOH! TV is creating a global distribution and entertainment platform that utilizes cutting edge technologies such as Wi-Fi, broadband TV, digital signage, and cellular for the delivery of content. The network will enable virtually any rights holder to gain worldwide exposure at an affordable price and will contain genre specific communities called Spotlight Networks.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ooh.tv/UserRegistration.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/rated_oh_final.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114967007625957584?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114967007625957584/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114967007625957584&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114967007625957584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114967007625957584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/3rd-gen-broadcasting.html' title='3rd Gen Broadcasting'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114957779853849819</id><published>2006-06-06T06:55:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-06T07:09:58.560Z</updated><title type='text'>Sites As Graphs</title><content type='html'>Sala who plays in a band called Phebus has released their fourth album created this alter-ego site for an Art Project and "WebsiteAsGraphs" have been growing ever since.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You might want to check Sala's &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/phebusmusic" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;MySpace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for a glimpse of the man who created this "Social" tool that may tell us more when programmed in a way from a social development &amp; evolution perspective perhaps?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you see this as a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;trend&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/aainaa/161519691/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/48/161519691_c0a056d2b6_m.jpg" alt="sitesasgraphs" border="0" height="239" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/tags/websitesasgraphs/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Website As Graphs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do the colors mean?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blue: for links (the A tag)&lt;br /&gt;Red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)&lt;br /&gt;Green: for the DIV tag&lt;br /&gt;Violet: for images (the IMG tag)&lt;br /&gt;Yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)&lt;br /&gt;Orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)&lt;br /&gt;Black: the HTML tag, the root node&lt;br /&gt;Gray: all other tags&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114957779853849819?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114957779853849819/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114957779853849819&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114957779853849819'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114957779853849819'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/sites-as-graphs.html' title='Sites As Graphs'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114950401147742044</id><published>2006-06-05T10:18:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-05T10:40:11.623Z</updated><title type='text'>Code Of Ethics</title><content type='html'>The &lt;a href="http://www.hasil.org.my/indexx.asp" target="_blank"&gt;Malaysia IRS&lt;/a&gt; * visited my site again, after lordy-knows how many months since. I would think Citigroup and the rest of the many professional financial institutions that dropped by cumulatively  would, at least realise that I am indeed voidless of charge and credit cards. I also realise that these kids I'm working with at the office should be crewed-cut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, is a holiday! And I'm here at the office doing what?&lt;br /&gt;Blogging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I should have stayed at home following my instincts and go to the Saloon, for a Strawberry dye, and have my nails manicured and painted Barcelona Red instead. If I was daring for a relational committment {no, not relational database mind you!}, I would have the hair Jet Black!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes you &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;wish&lt;/span&gt;, you could do just that&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/1600/uf20e149.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7161/3076/320/uf20e149.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wring their necks for insisting today is not a holiday. Next time I get a lead, I'll not tell them, and let them come to the office, slog their butts out, whilst I bask away, tanning myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think someone is accessing my system network - all of a sudden everything is kinda slow. Which calls for a quick scan-check on the network... or at best a force reboot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besides, after having "lent" my external 40gb USB pendrive to Prince Charming, the files are not working anymore. Trust Prince Charming - he should know that I don't like my files tempered with... amongst others. But Princes Charmings aren't geeks - otherwise they'd know exactly the Code.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't have time to print &lt;a href="http://www.ebb.org/ungeek/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Geek Code&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of Ethics here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* No-lah, Aku tak cetak duit! Aku tunggu kalian bagi duit, untuk aku pergi belajar lagi!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114950401147742044?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114950401147742044/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114950401147742044&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114950401147742044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114950401147742044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/code-of-ethics.html' title='Code Of Ethics'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114948589249505802</id><published>2006-06-05T05:26:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-05T05:38:12.503Z</updated><title type='text'>Fraudsters On The Net</title><content type='html'>You would think that a &lt;a href="http://www.qmresources.com/" target="_blank"&gt;fraudster&lt;/a&gt; previously known as EMGITC would be apprehended by the Emirates Intelligence, considering they are wanted by &lt;a href="http://www.jais.net.my/" target="_blank"&gt;JAIS&lt;/a&gt; {Selangor State Islaamic Dept} for falsely propagating Islaam, and also the Emirates Government for embezellement of some good million{s} USD.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm writing not because they were nasty to me, as reported in my &lt;a href="http://aainaa.blogspot.com/2005/02/life-in-uae-i.html" target="_blank"&gt;previous&lt;/a&gt; blog.&lt;br /&gt;I want people to know whom they are dealing with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unless they have repented {and that's their problem with their Gods and I'm not in the position to talk about it!}, then your next best investment scheme in the Company would be futile.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114948589249505802?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114948589249505802/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114948589249505802&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114948589249505802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114948589249505802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/fraudsters-on-net.html' title='Fraudsters On The Net'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114925505256499708</id><published>2006-06-02T13:29:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-02T13:30:52.566Z</updated><title type='text'>Gecko &amp; Fly</title><content type='html'>I've finally found another &lt;a href="http://www.geckoandfly.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;great&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; site for Blogger Themes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... and it looks much better now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Weekend!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114925505256499708?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114925505256499708/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114925505256499708&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114925505256499708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114925505256499708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/gecko-fly.html' title='Gecko &amp; Fly'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114925254587122683</id><published>2006-06-02T12:43:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-02T12:55:47.110Z</updated><title type='text'>Haute Fiction</title><content type='html'>I'm tired.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't have enough sleep. I was thinking of taking time off everything, and sleep. Then I remembered I had to attend a meeting this afternoon with a local ISP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gawd! I need more time in a day.&lt;br /&gt;At least 8760 hours. That would be like a vacation wouldn't it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven't had time to view the Hotel where I'll be staying in Kuala Lumpur. For short term stay in Kuala Lumpur, the next best bet apart from costly service apartments would be hotel rooms. Apartments are leased at least for twelve months. I don't intend to stay forever in Malaysia, besides you never know when you'll be leaving. {for the next world - no, its not morbid - a reality check!}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I figured if the images are not showing on this page, its because the template I'm using is a linkware, and apparently this theme is pretty popular, and the guy who designed it has literally used up his bandwidth. Oh well, looks like I have to either design my own {when I can find the time} or bear the consequences of&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've also spent my allowance on toiletries, and bad food. I seriously need a makeover. Hibernation is good, but that's like being a hermit in the cold... or an ostrich head in the sand. I bought my second fiction yesterday. My first was Le Petit Prince, but then again, Le Petit Prince is like a guide to living sanely, the sort of Chicken soup for something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't think I can read fiction ever again {unless its written by &lt;a href="http://dinazaman.squarespace.com/journal/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Dina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, or me!}. It can be pretty boring. Some writers who get great reviews aren't really good writers, especially when they write fiction. I have to trash that book "&lt;a href="http://www.somelikeithaute.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Some Like It Haute&lt;/a&gt;" - its seriously boring me to tears. I was an Haute Couture mannequin in the eighties, but this book bastardize{d} every emotion. I didn't realise Fashion Editors can be neurotic and ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time to spend some time reading a good &lt;a href="http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/anais.nin.asp" target="_blank"&gt;biography&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bon Weekend! {and forgive the mess the linkware is making to this blog!}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114925254587122683?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114925254587122683/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114925254587122683&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114925254587122683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114925254587122683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/haute-fiction.html' title='Haute Fiction'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114916201610397119</id><published>2006-06-01T11:33:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-02T12:50:40.950Z</updated><title type='text'>Building Your Reputation</title><content type='html'>With the coming of the Internet Age, more tools are been spotted. One of which, iKarma is a platform for everyone {businesses and consumers alike} will likely embrace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;How reliable are you when it comes to business, social or both?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You will find that the tool's GUI is not only attractive but user-friendly. You can add as much information about yourself, and/or reveal those information to the world. Get seen, reviewed and rated. With the &lt;a href="http://www.ikarma.com/user/networkviewer.asp?userid=15658" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Network Viewer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, you will learn of the who's who in your network!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;In a world where it has become increasingly difficult to tell the good guys from the bad, we at iKarma are excited about the potential impact of reputation systems on markets, businesses and the average consumer. We believe that a good name is truly the best marketing money can't buy, and are proud to help deliver that message to the world.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.ikarma.com/user/AainaA" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to preview mine, and whilst you're there you might consider signing up for an account!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An excellent idea getting ready for Web 2.0&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114916201610397119?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114916201610397119/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114916201610397119&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114916201610397119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114916201610397119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/building-your-reputation.html' title='Building Your Reputation'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114912111731939133</id><published>2006-06-01T00:11:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-01T00:18:37.386Z</updated><title type='text'>Plastic!</title><content type='html'>Do you know what it's like to work in an outfit of what seems to be like an outcast of odd souls from all over only to discover after a month that they're part extension of your thoughts, pre-conceived ideas, and at best siblings from a mutual Adam, and Eve?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In &lt;a href="http://www.aainaa.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=section&amp;amp;id=6&amp;Itemid=29" target="_blank"&gt;Etcetera&lt;/a&gt;, a blog on my semi-personal site, I've mentioned earlier that each strand of "Intelligence" perceived living perception of entity {hidden or otherwise} are interconnected, like the yarns of an intricate, oppulent Persian Carpet {Imagine the world flat, and the intricacy of how the Outwardly Manifest is being projected from your holographic mind}. As each breath is connected from and to the Universe, as a LIVING entity, so too are beings within the Universe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagine now, as you read these lines that these words do actually beat within your heart. If you can't imagine because what I'm typing here seems &lt;a href="http://dict.die.net/surreal/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;surreal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, you know its really coming from your heart. All because your heart is connected to mine, his connected to hers, your's connected to theirs, theirs connected to the community which is connected to the state and thereafter connected to continents and worlds apart; and finally the last as in the beginning connected to the Living Heart of the Universe; like a huge wavelet interconnected in a dance of &lt;a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/surrealism" target="_blank"&gt;Love&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...One thought from a myriad of perceived minds, speech from speakerphones you call mouths, and sight from eyes that record each notch of events only to be unveiled when the the finished carpet displays its oppulence to be admired, appreciated and "read" by the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God" target="_blank"&gt;Weaver&lt;/a&gt; of the Story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In reality, one is incapable of veiling one's thoughts, even if its condensed in the densest of rocks, since the Naked Mind perceives every slight pattern of the unveiled universe in its total awareness of being, of being aesthetic. For the mind, as you've learnt is a powerful tool, and you are beyond what may ever be perceived by a veiled {unawakened} entity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Perception is everything - and extremely plastic!&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a lighter note, you who know you're being addressed here, may raise your hands in the air, and do the tango, or drop a comment or two.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Discussion appreciated, when you can take the time, to comprehend your heart a bit better&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114912111731939133?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114912111731939133/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114912111731939133&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114912111731939133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114912111731939133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/plastic.html' title='Plastic!'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114909942608877833</id><published>2006-05-31T17:57:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-31T18:17:06.173Z</updated><title type='text'>Symptom, Not A Disease</title><content type='html'>Ten years ago, I stopped sleeping at night. Doctors proclaimed that I have insomnia. The odd thing is I was never effected by the after-effect of the common disorder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;It is estimated that 50 to 70 million Americans chronically suffer from a disorder of sleep and wakefulness, hindering daily functioning and adversely affecting health and longevity. The cumulative long-term effects of sleep loss and sleep disorders have been associated with a wide range of deleterious health consequences including an increased risk of hypertension, diabetes, obesity, depression, heart attack, and stroke.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that I'm turning One Octagon year so to speak {which is about a quadrillion quantum years in your lifetime} stretching has become such a pleasure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the bed, that is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sleep is such a pleasure. And I'm glad that I'm making it a habit these days. I have not tried sleeping pills, and I don't intend to start now., although I have tried...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Reading boring books {hoping to catch a quick wink - it never worked. I ended up reading the trash!}&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Listening to nature cds {hoping to be lulled into a deep sleep - never worked. I ended wanting to meditate instead!}&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Drinking warm milk {hoping to burp like a babe - never worked - instead, I was dying for some original Oreos - in Asia Pacific, the best Oreos are the imported ones from the US of A!}&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Warm showers {in this heat - I wouldn't advise, as soon as I get out of the bath, I jump into it again, hoping to catch Moby Dick in the tub!}&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love, heals every ail.&lt;br /&gt;That one works wonders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps, if you have insomnia, try falling "in-love" instead&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Some links for Insomnics {is there such a word? if there aren't - its now created}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/brain_basics/understanding_sleep.htm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Brain Basics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.helpguide.org/life/insomnia_treatment.htm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cures, &amp; Treatment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.neurologyreviews.com/nov05/AnxietyInsomnia.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Reciprocal Relationship&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guten Nacht!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114909942608877833?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114909942608877833/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114909942608877833&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114909942608877833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114909942608877833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/05/symptom-not-disease.html' title='Symptom, Not A Disease'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114908650457488550</id><published>2006-05-31T14:32:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-31T14:41:44.576Z</updated><title type='text'>Planning &amp; Setting A Business</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img344.imageshack.us/img344/9238/focus3mk.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://img344.imageshack.us/img344/9238/focus3mk.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After having helped setup several International, and regional Non-Profits and For-Profits Corporations with their business plans, and projection of where and how the cash is being spent etcetera, I decided to point a colleague to a couple of sites where a good sampling of BPlans are made available for free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, you will not find the "perfect" one unless you tweak it left, right and center or purchase one, and PaloAlto's Business Plan Kits, one of which is the &lt;a href="http://www.smetoolkit.org/common/content/files/EN/miniplan.exe" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;MiniBusiness Planner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is highly recommended not only by your's sincerely, but by many companies listed with D &amp;amp; B, and the respective Chambers of Commerce, worldwide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An atypical mistake when setting up a business is not researching the market&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A frequently overlooked component of business start up is determining whether the target market for your product or service will buy from you. The best way to derive the answer to this question is to ask them. Arrange to speak to as many of your potential customers as possible. Questions to ask include: Would you buy my product or service? Where do you currently obtain this product or service? How much would you be willing to pay for it? What do you like/dislike about your current provider? Where would you look for this product or service when you need it?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you'd rather learn of how to put things up together without having to spend a couple of thousands, here's a list you might want to consider...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessplans.org/businessplans.html" target="_blank"&gt;Sample Business Plans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.managementhelp.org/plan_dec/bus_plan/bus_plan.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Business Planning {for nonprofits or for-profits}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbusiness.com/articles/BusinessPlans/2742-1746-1767.html" target="_blank"&gt;60-second Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/0,4621,294538,00.html" target="_blank"&gt;Non-Profit Vs. Traditional Plans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://secure.macrocreative.com/clients/thetrademarkcompany/trademarkApplications.html" target="_blank"&gt;Trademark Company&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nameprotect.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Digital Brand Management&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en" target="_blank"&gt;IP Organization&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.austin.cc.tx.us/npo/downloads/businessplans.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;Business Plan For Non-Profits {Workbook} - PDF file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114908650457488550?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114908650457488550/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114908650457488550&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114908650457488550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114908650457488550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/05/planning-setting-business.html' title='Planning &amp; Setting A Business'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114906047036413363</id><published>2006-05-31T07:23:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-31T07:27:50.373Z</updated><title type='text'>Allowance Day</title><content type='html'>We got our allowance today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was granted my pocket money in Ringgit Malaysia*, for the first time.  At a time when I use to remember earning my first dollar, and then Euro...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, to think of spending it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ideas?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* RM3.80 = US$1.00&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114906047036413363?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114906047036413363/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114906047036413363&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114906047036413363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114906047036413363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/05/allowance-day.html' title='Allowance Day'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114899492939901923</id><published>2006-05-30T13:11:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-30T13:15:29.410Z</updated><title type='text'>Socialware</title><content type='html'>Socialware, next killer application for the 21st century?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think so, but then again at the stage my mind is being fed with e-Vitamins, I could be wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone, who is anyone these days with a penchant for control wants to collect {yes! you think they'd actually want to create a social network for anything less?} vCards, and information about you, the next President of your country, or perhaps the next Fortune 500 CFO / CEO / COO.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Information like that cost a bomb. American Express pays a lot for that type of information. Its all about business, and if you're looking to make money out of it, why not? As long as you do not infringe on something like selling your members short of something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Everyone does it. Except me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I found &lt;a href="http://www.barnraiser.org/index.php?page=SoftwareIgloo" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Igloo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; exciting. It's a socialware that will, if spent time on can make your organization as good, if not better than &lt;a href="http://www.openbc.com/go/invite/3532648.3ce0fc" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;OpenBC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Are you apt at making money on the net? Google Adsense is intrusive, and that's why you'll never see it here on this blog. Yes, you'll find it on my semi-personal site, but that site's gonna change too in the next couple of months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whilst I contemplate getting my own dedicated server, perhaps also selling off my T42 {the original IBM - not the Lenovo}, you might want to grab a copy of Igloo. Its hip, young and Scandinavian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know how Scandinavian boys are different from their American counterparts right? Touch base here with comments on more Socialware apps out there that you've come to learn of. OctagonKey's Blog would serve as a &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?num=100&amp;hl=en&amp;amp;amp;lr=&amp;defl=en&amp;amp;q=define:repository&amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=glossary_definition&amp;ct=title" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;repository&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for developers, as well as webmeisters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until next week,&lt;br /&gt;Bon Weekend!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114899492939901923?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114899492939901923/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114899492939901923&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114899492939901923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114899492939901923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/05/socialware.html' title='Socialware'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114899360751466839</id><published>2006-05-30T12:50:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-30T12:53:27.533Z</updated><title type='text'>Mobile Game Tester</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ethnicallyincorrect.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sume&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, would enjoy working here. One would most likely be paid in Chocolate bars - bad for people like me, where dieting has become a ritual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The ideal candidate will have a passion for zero defect software and thoroughly enjoy juggling multiple challenges in a dynamic and exciting environment.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.digitalchocolate.com/about/jobs/?job=tester_new" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to apply for this job as a Mobile Game Tester&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114899360751466839?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114899360751466839/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114899360751466839&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114899360751466839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114899360751466839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/05/mobile-game-tester.html' title='Mobile Game Tester'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114899079902086265</id><published>2006-05-30T12:04:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-30T12:06:39.050Z</updated><title type='text'>IT Experts aka GURU</title><content type='html'>"Are you an expert?" he asked. At a recent interview, the forty-four year old man who looked more like an underage but overfed kid asked me a simple question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hmmmm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Expert? I wouldn't in my lifetime, even contemplate tooting my own horn and sell myself short. Being a perfectionist is difficult as it is, that to proclaim oneself an expert is simply scandalous. Then again, most people I have the priviledge of meeting tend to be experts and unabashedly adore proclaiming themselves experts in something, if not for Viagra's sake!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He added, that most of the people he has interviewed {mostly males} have unabashedly toot*d their horns, and proclaim expertise in something or the other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"euh.. how can one be an IT expert, when everything techno changes every ottosecond?" I added. Unless one is an infobot, or at best a spider with accrued AI, I cannot see the logic behind it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;rolled &lt;/span&gt;my eyes. {I love doing that! my previous employer said its a dead giveaway to my being condescending - yeah right! I was born last night}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It takes a lifetime to become human. I wonder how long it takes to become an expert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Do you know?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114899079902086265?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114899079902086265/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114899079902086265&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114899079902086265'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114899079902086265'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/05/it-experts-aka-guru.html' title='IT Experts aka GURU'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114898885158993449</id><published>2006-05-30T11:23:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-30T11:34:11.633Z</updated><title type='text'>OS Search Idea</title><content type='html'>Way back in the nineties I looked at what could possibly change the surface of planet Internet. What killer app would actually be the hottest thing since the Internet? Electronic Mail?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Think again!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An OS Search is more likely to be the response of many developers, and visionaries alike... and why?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A delicious figure of US$1.8B when Google bought over Overture back in 2003 tells us how much you can bask in Silicon Glory.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think Google, Yahoo, and perhaps &lt;a href="http://www.kartoo.com/index.php3?langue=fr" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Kartoo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and you'll not stray.  Now that we're in the 21st century, what do you think will be the next killer app?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114898885158993449?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114898885158993449/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114898885158993449&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114898885158993449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114898885158993449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/05/os-search-idea.html' title='OS Search Idea'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114898684702147371</id><published>2006-05-30T10:52:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-30T11:00:47.023Z</updated><title type='text'>2016 Games</title><content type='html'>Prince Charming works in the same Executive Suite where I am currently attached to. He asked what I thought of ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...the nation bidding for the &lt;a href="http://www.gamesbids.com/english/bids/2016.shtml" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Olympic Games&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in 2016.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my heart, I sniggered. Yeah right!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At best, if the nation decides to bid it, they'd better submit it fast. At the current economic level of the country, they'd best be doing something else...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;then again, with a good PR &amp; Strats Comms exercise, I wouldn't be surprised the least if and when they decide to go for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This reminded me somehow of what David Friend {Chairman and Founder of &lt;a href="http://www.pilotsoftware.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pilot Software&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;} mentioned in Tom Peter's book "In The Pursuit of WOW!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"...if you take the crazy idea that's never going to work and put the right people on it, it could soar,"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder what the citizens of the tiny peninsula {in South East Asia} might think of next&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114898684702147371?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114898684702147371/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114898684702147371&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114898684702147371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114898684702147371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/05/2016-games.html' title='2016 Games'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114898383579453122</id><published>2006-05-30T10:01:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-30T10:10:35.803Z</updated><title type='text'>Zimbra</title><content type='html'>I found a brilliant ware. I wouldn't call it a CRM or something because an extended open source CRM like Zimbra should be termed just that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Brilliant!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like Joomla {previously Mambo} and some others you know... which I'll blog later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next Killer App besides Limewire and the P2P OS, would be &lt;a href="http://www.zimbra.com/products/product_editions.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Zimbra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;! Its seriously a great application for your Company, or Organisation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I communicated with David {their Snr. Account Executive} and found that they can allocate a generous discount for NGOs. So if you're a Non-Profit Foundation, chances are this is the next best application that you'd definitely NOT want to avoid. You have to plonk it in your server, and make the lives of others around you less miserable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tried to "convince" our Exec. Director in looking into this, but you know how Directors are like - they want the best ... for almost free. Even if its OS {Open source}, the modules are worth paying for. I'd even pay membership fee just so I could use this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely something your techie dept might seriously want to consider!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114898383579453122?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114898383579453122/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114898383579453122&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114898383579453122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114898383579453122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/05/zimbra.html' title='Zimbra'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114898206665526714</id><published>2006-05-30T09:37:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-30T09:41:06.656Z</updated><title type='text'>Rita Mitsouko</title><content type='html'>I finally found Marcia Balia, by &lt;a href="http://www.ritamitsouko.org/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rita Mitsouko&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on Limewire. I know I know... its terrible to dload mp3s, but hey, where I am currently its difficult to find good music. In an almost obliterated country in South East Asia where French is not the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;langue de guerre&lt;/span&gt;, getting French songs is like dreaming upon a star.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The type that goes off when you switch off your pc.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114898206665526714?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114898206665526714/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114898206665526714&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114898206665526714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114898206665526714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/05/rita-mitsouko.html' title='Rita Mitsouko'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28975909.post-114898026917977132</id><published>2006-05-30T09:09:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-05-30T09:11:09.186Z</updated><title type='text'>Les Histoires</title><content type='html'>Les histoires d'amour finissent mal... toujours&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28975909-114898026917977132?l=octagonkey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/feeds/114898026917977132/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28975909&amp;postID=114898026917977132&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114898026917977132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28975909/posts/default/114898026917977132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://octagonkey.blogspot.com/2006/05/les-histoires.html' title='Les Histoires'/><author><name>OK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03452801671340954410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8513/pontmarieou8.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
