The Olympic Games is an international multi-sport event. In the simple context, it’s a sport for the people who live on the blue planet that we call it the Earth!

If you’re running a premium Vista PC, click here or direct download the Beijing 2008 Olympics Game countdown timer gadget for Windows Sidebar that developed in Microsoft Silverlight (right screenshot).

If you own a blog or website, here is a web-based gadget (left screenshot) to embed another Beijing 2008 countdown timer in the HTML code.

To make your life easier, you may just simply copy the following block of HTML code to embed the SWF timer in your lovely blog (credit to go to web-mono.net):

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" width="120" height="200"><param name="movie" value="http://walkernewsdownload.googlepages.com/pkn.swf" /><param name=quality value=high><param name=wmode value=transparent><param name=bgcolor value=#ffffff><embed src="http://walkernewsdownload.googlepages.com/pkn.swf" quality=high wmode=transparent bgcolor=#ffffff  width="120" height="200" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object>

When I read one of the latest Inside Adsense email, I thought that was great, as Google has finally setup a mechanism to allow publishers automatically contribute portion of their earning to charity fund!

However, that’s not the case. So, I leave a comment there:

I would prefer an option in my Google Adsense account to allow me donate a percentage of my earning to reputable charity funds!

I think this is kind of corporate social responsibility program (CSR) that enterprise like Google should have.

I’m not rich as Bill Gates, but I definitely afford to donate 5% of Adsense earning to charity.

And if all other publishers follow that could be very huge eventually!

I was the 8th reader to comment. Since then, no much responses / reactions / pingbacks are seen from other publishers / readers!

Is that because most publishers not making enough and so can’t afford to contribute little percent of their earning to charity?
I doubt so!

Is that because most of the publishers dislike China / Myanmar?
When come to charity, we shouldn’t care about which country to benefit from the donation.

Have I donated?
If there is the God, he knows that.

To be frank, I will be happy to see this happen in one day - Google put an option in Adsense account where publishers could automatically allocate specified percentage of their earning to some reputable charity fund.

I read about Lorelle lengthy post on the topic of content theft. But, I wonder how much valuable energy and time of a real blogger like Lorelle have to waste on tracking down the thieves, which otherwise will be spent on reading or writing his own posts?

Take a look on the following “articles” “wrote” by the LOVELY who copy exactly the whole text of my posts, including the “manipulated” back links and the “date/time” of the copycat post! Best of all, the copycat dare to stamp the CopyScape plagiarism warning banner - “Page protected by CopyScape DO NOT COPY!”. Do you able to tell which one is the original writing? What would you think when you search a topic and come out two or more posts written same sentences?

my post:

http://www.walkernews.net/2007/07/23/tweak-windows-vista-bubbles-screen-saver/

copycat:

http://visitformoney.blogspot.com/2007/07/tweak-windows-vista-bubbles-screen.html

my post:

http://www.walkernews.net/2007/06/27/how-to-tweak-or-disable-uac-in-vista/

copycat:

http://visitformoney.blogspot.com/2007/06/easily-tweak-or-disable-uac-on-windows.html

my post:

http://www.walkernews.net/2007/05/20/new-windows-vista-interface-in-classy-black/

copycat:

http://visitformoney.blogspot.com/2007/05/windows-vista-interface-in-classic.html

my post:

http://www.walkernews.net/2007/05/16/list-of-windows-vista-keyboard-shortcut-or-hotkey/

copycat:

http://visitformoney.blogspot.com/2007/05/windows-vista-shortcut-keys.html

my post:

http://www.walkernews.net/2007/04/07/ultimate-windows-vista-codec-pack-storm-codec/

copycat:

http://visitformoney.blogspot.com/2007/04/codec-pack-for-playing-all-media-files.html

my post:

http://www.walkernews.net/2007/03/06/paradox-crack-windows-vista-oem-acpi-slic/

copycat:

http://visitformoney.blogspot.com/2007/03/paradox-crack-windows-vista-activation.html

What are the factors that contribute to the rising of content theft? Is the Adsense, Vista, or iPhone to be blamed for? Yes, I think so. Adsense is particularly one of the catalysts that constantly pushing up the index of blogs tracked by Technorati.com and alike.

So, straight to the root causes is the best way to tackle problems of spam blog, content theft, website hijack, copyright infringements, etc, before they overload the search engines! Perhaps, the big boys really need to recode smarter web crawlers or spiders that can automatically filter out content thieves’ masterpieces from indexing in respective search result.

Seriously, I feel tasteless and tired today, after getting to know about my posts being duplicated to other sites and yet have a better ranking than I do (which I deserve but not getting at all)!

Now, I wonder that at 410 millions year later, are human beings survive as “living fossil” to those future “creatures” on the Earth? Probably yes, if we do care about global warming and the war that sending human being to the hell!


On May 2007, Indonesian fisherman Yustinus Lahama accidentally netted a living Coelacanth measuring at 1.2-meter and 50KG, near the Bunaken National Marine Park, off Sulawesi Island. However, the first living Coelacanth was found off Africa’s coast in 1938.

What’s are these? Nothing special. I just thought to share some funny junks in my mailbox with you. Have some fun and sit back to relax!

1. I am currently out at a job interview and will reply to you if I fail to get the position.
2. I’m not really out of the office. I’m just ignoring you.
3. You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn’t have received anything at all.
4. Sorry to have missed you but I am at the doctors having my brain removed so that I may be promoted to management.
5. I’ll be unable to delete all the unread, worthless emails you send me until I return from vacation on 14/7. Please be patient and your mail will be deleted in the order it was received.
6. Thank you for your email. Your credit card has been charged $5.99 for the first ten words and $1.99 for each additional word in your message.
7. The e-mail server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this message. Please restart your computer and try sending again. (The beauty of this is that when you return, you can see how many individual did this over and over).
8. Thank you for your message, which has been added to a queuing system. You’re currently in 352nd place, and can expect to receive a reply in approximately 19 weeks.
9. Hi. I’m thinking about what you’ve just sent me. Please wait by your PC for my response.
10. Hi! I’m busy negotiating the salary for my new job. Don’t bother to leave me any messages.
11. I’ve run away to join a different circus.
12. I’ll be out of the office for the next 2 weeks for medical reasons. When I return, please refer to me as ‘Loretta’ instead of ‘Steve’

That was not a special digital voice recorder or any special custom-made spy device, It was just a normal cellphone with voice recorder feature. Nowadays, it’s so common to have a digital voice recorder comes with the cellphone, especially those cellphone with music player.

My boss is definitely a competent IT manger, who used to dirty his hand, good enough technical skills, friendly and suave apperance, etc, to survive or enhance his career path. The only downside is that, he is too confident about technical skills and ignore the PR skills. After all, good relationship and exceptional technical competence are equally important to climb up to higher management position.

After learning a lesson of office-politics from my boss, I’ve to remind myself to be very careful if I want to make comments related to work! Not only that, beware of my behaviour too, as I wonder when I will be filmed for playing games or having a nap during lunch hour! Modern cellphone not only comes with digital voice recorder, but also digital video recorder! Imagine that, Nokia N93 can capture a DVD-quality of video clip with a highend 3.2 mega-pixels Carl Zeiss Tessar Optics lens and 3x optical zoom!