Today is the Chinese New Year. The information below comes from a Chinese friend.
2008 is the Year of the Rat, which is also known by its former name of Wu Zhi. It is the Year 4706.
The rat is the first of the 12 member pantheon that makes up the cycle of the Chinese Zodiac. [...]
I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Here is a Christmas song.
The Chinese New Year starts on February 18 this year. It is the year of the Boar. The boar brings a year of goodwill to all with an excellent climate for business.
Learn more about the Chinese New Year at Wikipedia and About.
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I am a fan of blues music and I think it is great when there is a harmonica player in the band. Once when I was at YouTube I stumbled on Harpdog Brown who has several videos in his Harpdog profile.
Today I went and bought a harmonica for myself, to play with (in more ways [...]
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Mensa Sverige is working on a new website design and I am a little involved in that. While browsing other Mensa sites I noticed that both British Mensa and American Mensa have redesigned their web sites. Mensa International still has black background and white text, a design that I do not like at all.
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I met Dean at XING where I (among other things) am a moderator in Entrepreneurs Playground which Dean has founded. The Playground is very active and it is a great forum.
Dean has now created The Dean’s List which is an interesting concept and I am proud to be included. I will consider creating a list [...]
Time has picked person of the year for 2006: For seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME’s Person of the Year for 2006 is you.
As Time says: “In 2006, the World Wide Web became [...]
Web 2.0 is a buzz word, there are many opinions about what is required for a site to be called Web 2.0. A good place to learn more is over at Wikipedia.
Adaptive Path has a great article called Experience Attributes: Crucial DNA of Web 2.0. There is a PDF called What put the 2 [...]
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I have been busy setting up a new blog over at doodling. That blog is a place where I put things that I enjoy, things that makes me smile or laugh. Do not expect to find any serious stuff there.
A doodle is a mindless sketch, an aimless drawing, while a person’s attention is otherwise occupied. [...]
Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company that has tracked Web growth since 1995, says a mammoth milestone was reached during the month of October. “There are now 100 million Web sites with domain names and content on them,” said Netcraft’s Rich Miller. “Within that, there are some that are busy and updated more often, and that [...]