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The Linux version has over 40 applications pre installed. The Windows version has fewer pre-installed applications. Comes with Star Office, as can be seen above.

The Windows version of the Asus Eee PC 900 also eats up a lot more space as compared to the Linux version. The Windows version leaves less than 12 GB of usable space. The Linux version gives about 20 GB.

All in all its cute! And handy, but it gets quite heated up after using it for a few minutes. The trackpad is a bit hard to use, but then again maybe that maybe because of my thick fingers

Other alternatives could have been the 8GB version, but the screen was smaller (7 inches). The one I got has a screen almost 9 inches wide.

I tracked the Iran Vs Portugal match to give it a go.

After installing Joga, this sidebar is installed,

Notable events during the match appear as sticky popups. Like the ones below

Sorry Gerður, I don’t yet own a phone that supports Opera Mini Goal 06

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Whats interesting is that it is possible to see the most popular stories in the region just by clicking on it on the world map and then seeing the headlines jump up and down..

Here’s the link. You can find out more, here.

The swimming event (Photo Credit: Reuters)

The “Svineball” event, where the pigs play a ball game with their snouts. (Photo Credit: Reuters)

The running event. (Photo Credit: Reuters)

More Pig Olympics photos can be found here and here. More news on the Piglympics can be found here.

Patent no. 6,999,083 provides for technologies that allow people to not just play video games against each other online, but to join the game as a spectator from anywhere in the world.

Wow!

..the patent, which covers technologies that will be featured in Xbox 360 games..

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Giving WordPress a go. Installation has been a breeze. Generally seems to have a much better interface than that of Movable Type. Is also very lightweight.. Changing themes is quite simple too. Though I had a slight problem with Neat.

Please do not press the red button!

Excerpts from the article,

..Last year, Christine Halvorson was hired as chief blogger at Stonyfield Farm Inc., a Londonderry, N.H., organic yogurt company owned by Groupe Danone. She applied for the job after responding to an ad posted at Monster.com. A former freelance writer and Web content editor, Ms. Halvorson now writes four blogs for Stonyfield, including a blog about the company, the Daily Scoop, and Creating Healthy Kids, about healthy foods in schools. Her job entails researching, linking to news and providing personal insight.

Now I’m thinking how does one,
[a] constantly remain creative to maintain not one, but four blogs, writing new content on an almost daily basis?
[b] make sure they aren’t revelaing too much about the inner working of the company they work for?
[c] make sure that how they express does not cost them their job? A quick search on Google revealed links to news stories about several incidents of companies having fired employees over what they wrote in their blogs. Some examples,
- Ellen Simonetti, former flight attendant for Delta Air Lines, fired for posing in her uniform in her blog
- Joyce Park, former web developer for Friendster, fired for making three posts about Friendster on her blog (that too based on publicly available information)
- Mark Jen, fired from Google for making comments on his blog about life on the job at Google, just 11 days after joining,
- Michael Hanscom, a former contractor for Microsoft, fired for taking some pictures of Apple G5 computers being unloaded onto the Microsoft’s Redmond campus and posting them in his blog.

Quoting another section of the same WSJ article,

..Blogging jobs pay anywhere from $40,000 to $70,000 and frequently require writing copy for corporate Web sites and ability to promote on the Internet.

sounds like some decent amount of money for something that not quite my kind of thing. Am not sure if blogging on a regular basis is the thing for you. But there seem to be quite a few vacancies for bloggers, out there.

Anyways, moral of the story: Blog at your own risk

Sidenote: Oh and by the way, interested in blogging about how much you love popcorn? Then there’s a job waiting for you at Dale & Thomas Popcorn!