So, what actually is Diggdot.us?

Diggdot.us is a website combines all three famous feed aggregators, Digg, slashdot, and del.icio.us in one place. You can now browse all interesting news from IT related news to leisure stuffs from those three websites under one roof.

So, for frequent visitors of those three websites, Diggdot.us definitely gives you a nice one-stop browsing experience.

By the way, Diggdot.us is not built using the famous language PHP, but utilizing another web development framework called TurboGears, which using Python as the core programming language. Pretty interesting.

After a long 10 days apart from my blog, I miss blogging so much. My apologies for lacking of updates for the past 1 week or so, due to the exam papers and some personal stuffs that I should have completed a few months ago yet kept postponing them. Anyway, I am now back with some cool IT news and info coming your way!

Here is the first thing I wanted to share last week but had no time to blog about it. It’s actually a website that analyzes how good or evil is your site, regardless blog or normal website. The analysis done in the website, named as The Gematriculator, is backed by the methods of Gematria developed by Mr. Ivan Panin, a Russian mathematical genius who was born in 1855. Don’t ask me how it works, to me, mathematical equations are unexplainable. :p

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Basically, Gematria is searching for different patterns through the text, such as the amount of words beginning with a vowel. It analyzes whether the amount of these matches is divisible by a certain number, etc etc.

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Is Your Blog Good Or Evil?

Suanie posted an entry about some sweet memories in the 90s. It reminded me that I was still a teenager that time who only used PC for games and entertainment.

For some of you who were web surfers back in 1990s, might still remember how the old Yahoo! and Google looked like. Just to bring back the old memory of these 2 search engine giant, here I present you Yahoo! in 1996 and Google in 1998. For those who have not seen the old version of Yahoo! and Google, enjoy too. :)

Yahoo! in 1996

Well, back in 1996, Yahoo! was still a web directory itself comprised of around 370,000 sites. That time, Yahoo! was more or less a place served as Yellow pages and to search for latest news. For your information, this is the 2-year-old Yahoo! as Yahoo! was created in April 1994.
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Yahoo in 1996 & Google in 1998

Come across Liz‘s post regarding a young kid was trying to molest her few days ago and I really think girls should take extra care of yourselves regardless daytime or late at night. Be extra cautious walking alone or even in a group, don’t ever say you walk in a pair and you are safe, think what if they are 5 in a group !

I am not here to give you lesson, so I better show you something interesting yet can protect the girls. Coincidentally, I come across an interesting website on the same day I read Liz’s blog entry. The website is about a small device called FemDefence that it’s believed to be able to protect girls against rape !

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The project FemDefence is an attempt to contribute to the debate on men’s sexual violence against women in society, using the esthetics of design, and the semiotics of marketing.

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FemDefence – A Protection Against Rape

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

I have shown you some interesting PC moddings, such as Mac Mini modification using a toy Millennium Falcon, and the Think Out Of The Box PC modding. Today is Halloween, so I think I should share something related to it, here comes PC modding using a pumpkin !!

First they need to hollow out the pumpkin then dry it over night. Then they slide in the motherboard and all components into the pumpkin. To my surprise, the PC is using a Pentium M and a Dell Latitude motherboard. Anyway, it doesn’t really matter as long as the end result is a runnable PC.
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Pumpkin PC Modding