The blog titled Wang Yi’s Microphone (http://zhivago.tianyablog.com) was shut down by China’s government as they claimed the blog has dealt with national security laws for posting “sensitive subject” of the government. The site’s host company, Tianya was ordered to close the blog by the authorities in Hainan province.

This incident happened after the blog was nominated for a “Best of the Blogs” award in the freedom of expression category by the German public radio station Deutsche Welle. It is the same award our beloved blogger, JeffOoi, has received.

The France-based Reporters Without Borders statement said one of most recent posts by the owner Wang, who is a teacher at Chengdu University in the southwestern province of Sichuan, dealt with a campaign by peasants in the southeastern province of Guangdong to remove a village chief accused of corruption. Probably this is the root of the whole issue.

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Microsoft is preparing to launch a newer version of MSN Messenger very soon. The next generation MSN Messenger tentatively is named Windows Live Messenger and it is still in beta testing stage. Like the next version of Hotmail – Kahuna, Windows Live Messenger is also accepting beta users to test on the new service but unfortunately I do not have the invitation for this one.

Anyway, I’ve got you all some screen shots of Windows Live Messenger.

While remaining most of the features we already familiar with, such as text and voice messaging, emoticons, and video conferencing, Windows Live Messenger integrated VoIP and File Sharing of any kind of documents.
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The Next MSN Messenger – Windows Live Messenger

The highest speed of Intel’s Pentium D processors currently in the market still remain below 4GHz. In very near future, we will see dual-core Intel Pentium D processors using 65nm process technology available as Intel is now ready to ship them.

Well, some hardware reviewers have already received some of the latest chips to measure their power consumption and investigate its overclock-ability, AnandTech is one of them. According to them :-

Quoted:
“The new cores do definitely overclock much better than their predecessors, and they will allow any serious overclocker to reach speeds greater than 4.0GHz effortlessly. Most exciting to us was the 4.25GHz overclock that we saw on Presler, as a 4.25GHz Pentium D will truly be a formidable opponent to AMD’s Athlon 64 X2. Cedar Mill offered reasonable overclocking headroom as well, but we would have liked to see a 5.0GHz overclock on standard air cooling, given that reaching 4.0GHz is possible today on Prescott.”

However, despite the impressive reduction in power consumption, Pentium D still does not give Intel the advantage to outperform AMD.

Good news for all WordPress users, old and new. A brand new theme viewer was launched by WordPress yesterday. This theme viewer will definitely give you a nice browsing experience while selecting theme for your blog. Instead of going through the lengthy theme list in WordPress Codex, you are now able to browse 8-16 themes at one time. This will certainly save you some time.

Other than viewing the theme in thumbnails, you can check the demo site of a particular theme by just clicking on the PC-like icon at the right bottom corner of the thumbnail. The Download icon just sits on the left of the Demo icon while More Info icon is on the right.
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New Theme Viewer From WordPress