Morning Caffeine

If you are into blogging, you will definitely want to join this new forum The Blog Experiment. It’s fairly new, but it grows really fast.
If you are completely new to blogging, this is the right place for you to start getting to know the field or if you are blogger for sometime, come and talk about content for your blog or how to monetize it or just come in to chit chat with other fellows bloggers.

So come and register today

I was very happy to see that Apple released beta version of Safari browser for Windows users and I installed it immediately, BUT with no luck and it seems that I am not the only one having the same problem. Once I started it, none of the fonts loaded at all, so it is practically useless. This is a screenshot of google homepage viewed in this buggy Safari version:

To be honest, I have no idea how I managed to open Google home page. I just clicked randomly on places on the toolbar and it loaded. I successfully opened Amazon and Yahoo as well, however, non of the selects, buttons, text fields have fonts. However, it seems that only small number of people has the same issue as I do.

Luckily, this bug will be resolved soon and we, poor Windows users, should be able to experience one small part of Mac life.

You can download Safari yourself and let me know if you experienced the problem as I did or heard how to resolve it.

Actually this is an

interesting meme, started by Seo Refugee. The idea behind it is to copy links from the blog which tagged you and add five more links to charity organizations so in the long run it should help them to improve their rank in search engine results which should lead to more exposure of those sites as well as possible better funding.

Mark from search-this tagged me, so here is the list that was published until now:

Service International - Disaster Relief
Pujols Family Foundation - Children with Down Syndrome
National Alliance to End Homelessness - Homelessness
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research - Parkinson’s Research
Ronald McDonald Care Mobile Program- Child Healthcare
Aids Research Alliance - Aids Research
Wildlife Conservation Society - Wildlife Protection
Cancer Research Institute - Cancer Research
Second Harvest - End Hunger
AARP Foundation - Helping Senior Citizens

Marks list:

The National Arbor Day Foundation
Compassion International
World Wildlife Fund
The Humane Society
Global Refuge International

And finally, my list, all for children charity organizations:

Save the children
Hope and Aid Direct
Variety - Never say no to a child in need.
SOS Children’s Villages
Child’s Dream - support children in needs

I’m tagging: Josh, Dragan, Moses, Egor (once he gets his blog running).

I just stumbled upon this nice tool for all of the people who are not familiar with with html and css and are still interested in customizing their own WordPress theme and would like to change it a little bit and don’t want to use any of the existing. I must admit that I haven’t tested it completely, but it looks like it can be very handy. It even comes with widget support.

Check it out: WordPress Theme Generator.

Yesterday I came across this highly addictive game - Boomshine. It is very colourful, musical, chain reaction game and the goal is to make dots go away. If you choose to play the music as well, you will find it very relaxing as well, although after some time it might become annoying.

My current best score is 261 and I have no idea how some people from high score list have more than 500 points.

Anyway, try it out. It’s just great!

This month new service called Imified was launched. The idea is to allow you to control various web applications such as Basecamp, Google calendar, your blog etc through IM. As far as I know, it should work with MSN, Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk and AOL.

Signing up is extremely easy. All you need to do is to add new buddy to your list. Once you are done, just send him a message and he’ll give you the main menu and how to control it. You can setup to-dos, write notes, setup reminders and modify your account. For reminders, make sure to select appropriate time zone under your account. Mine buddy yesterday reminded me to visit my ophthalmologist .

Very interesting idea after all. It brings more fun into instant messaging. Go, check it out!

I got cable connection on Monday. This is the story how it happened.

On last Saturday I got cable TV. That was the condition for getting cable internet connection; I couldn’t get cable Internet without the cable TV.
Day One
On early Monday, I went to the ISP to sign the contract. I paid the initial setup $20 (I’m confused by this, because I have no idea what I actually paid – I have my own modem and I’m going to set everything up by myself, but fine, everything for the connection), told them my desired username and that was it:
Me: Is that really it?
The Guy: Yes, that’s it. Here is the manual how to actually connect everything up.
Me: I’m connecting through the router.
The Guy: Yes, that’s fine.
He hands me over 200 pages of printed manual.

I went home and started to read the manual, but decided to give up after 3 sentences and actually try to connect it myself. I did it before, why can’t I do it again. I connected the modem, router and finally turned on my computer. It didn’t work. I decided to call my boss, just to consult. He offered to come over to help me out, but I wanted to try again. Fine, I’ll read the damn manual. On page 12452, there is a sentence: If you are connecting your computers through router, you will have to call us back and tell us your router’s MAC address. How convenient, it was sooo damn hard for The Guy to just say: you will have to call us back if you are connecting through router. I guess he was tired.
I call them back, tell them my MAC address and suddenly, I have cable connection.
By the end of the day one, everything was fine, except that my blog took ages to load, which started to annoy me on day three. Continue reading Dealing with technical support

A friend of mine and colleague moderator, Josh Catone has this interesting idea about interviewing successful and influential people and asking them five exactly the same questions about their work and success.

So far, he has done two interviews: one is with Matt Mickiewicz, Co-Founder and Vice President of Sales & Marketing for SitePoint and J.A. Adande, a sport columnist from the L.A. Times. Those are interesting read for sure.

Very interesting read. Looking forward to see more interviews. I suggest subscribing to the feed just like I already did.

I just stumbled upon StumbleUpon yesterday and decided to join the community. It is about sharing links and websites you like as well as searching the web by your keywords. If you stumble upon site you like, you can rate it and write a review. If you rate more, your searches will be more specific. However, behind it is a huge community that in a way reminds me on MySpace (no, I don’t have myspace account), because you can create your profile, put what you like and dislike, add people as friends, exchange private messages etc..

I’m still not sure if I’m gonna stay. Anyone has account over there and if so, what is so interesting about this site?