Every year, Bill Gates gives a keynote speech of what to be expected from Microsoft, about their latest and upcoming softwares and hardwares. So, for this year, Bill Gates (and his underlings) has explained, in his latest keynote speech, about the direction that Microsoft are planning to venture on. He touches a lot about connectivity, entertainment, games,work,performance and etc. Personally, from this keynote speech, i feel that Microsoft is finally moving in the right direction, giving what the users want (but still, some of the topics mentioned are a bit off the boundaries of an average user, such as screen projection and etc)

Serendipity 1.1 was released on the 23rd December 2006, with a few cool new features and fixes. I have tested it on my offline server and it was really awesome, so i decided to upgrade Technovice.net immediately to Serendipity 1.1 . After approximately 1 hour uploading the updates ( usually it would take much less that this, but one of my colleagues was leeching the hell off the network ) , everything seems to look good. I have to give it to Garvin and his team, upgrading Serendipity couldn't be any easier - seems like nothing much happened in the user end, but from the back end, there's a lot of things have changed, but none of the blog's functionality was compromised - really cool.

Can't believe that it is already 2007 , it felt like i just landed on Germany a few weeks back ( i arrived in Germany in January 2006 ) , damn, time sure does fly by fast. Anyway, enough of crap about me, i just wanna take this opportunity (of having my own space in the www :-) ) to wish you guys a happy new year. I just could hope that you will have a more prosperous and successful year ahead - but you really need to have a good new year resolution in the first place :-P p/s: at the time of this writing, it has already passed midnight of 31 December 2006 - so, it is practically already New Year here :-)

Hi all, I just wanna take this opportunity to wish all of you, my loyal blog readers, happy holiday and for those of you who are Christians, Merry Christmas. Hopefully you guys will have plentiful of joyous time with your family and friends this festive season. Personally for me, festive season is a time for us to appreciate what we have as long as we have it. It is time for us to remember all the people who are truly important and significant in our life. There are no other more appropriate time to cherish and honor them (except when it is their birthday :) ). So guys, please have a lot of fun :P

I just wanna share about this info. Google doesn't allow publishers to put images together with the Adsense ads. The main reason (i think) is to profit the Adword advertisers. I can't blame them for this action. If i were an Adword advertiser, i too want some targeted clicks on my ads, not clicks influenced by external factors (in this case, the images). But honestly, this will cause a drop in my adsense income, if it wasn't because Google has forbid this method from being used anymore, i wouldn't took the images down - waa sad :( Anyway, for those you wanna read more about this new rule implemented by Google, please click on this link: Inside Adsense Blog