I’ve been playing Football Manager Live on and off since I got invited to it earlier last month. Needless to say it’s a lot of fun!
With that said i’ve got 5 invites to hand out; comment if you want one.
If you played FM08 then you’ll definitely love FML
More than 50 people working on the construction site of the resort being developed at Thaa atoll Maalefushi were taken to the Thaa atoll Guraidhoo Health Centre after they fell sick from food poisoning.
The Community Health Supervisor at the Health Centre Leela Ibrahim Manik said that 58 expatriate workers had been brought to the Centre on Sunday afternoon suffering from diarrhea, vomiting, stomachache and allergic reactions such as rashes. 18 of them had to be admitted at the Centre for treatment, she said.
“Four of those who had been admitted were discharged today,” she said on Monday. “The others are also recovering.”
An official from the resort, which is being developed by a joint venture between Free Guys and Rainbow, said that the food poisoning had been caused by a curry that had been served a lunch.
“From what we know so far the curry had been made from fish that had been stored in the fridge the previous night,” the official said. “Don’t know any more than that at the moment.”
The 100-bed resort which is due to be open at the year and 30 percent of the work had been completed, the resort said.
I thought of posting some of the websites that I have been using on and off over the past few weeks just to see if there are new services around that I haven’t heard of and also to see if I share the same browsing patterns as other people. So here’s a list of Top 7 websites I have used in some form or the other this month; some are new and some aren’t, so be warned - you might have already heard of most of the websites on this list.
Most of the items in this list are to do with social networking, and no, by that I don’t mean Facebook style SN but more like the ever popular Twitter service and some of its mashups, as well as bookmarking and feed aggregation websites.
The list is sorted in ascending order based on the amount of times visited.
Google reader is really great - it lets you keep up with your favourite websites so that you can always stay up to date and informed on the latest happenings on the websites that matter most to you. What I like most about Google Reader is its simplicity and almost perfect execution - simply Subscribe to websites that you like and follow everything in ONE place. Just like in GMail you can put a Star on feed items that you like or might want to look at later, or you could share them with your friends on your public Shared Items feed, so your friends can see what you are liking at the moment. The recommended feeds section shows you what feeds you might like based on your subscriptions. Easy emailing and organization of feeds (folders, importing/exporting) and the recently added Note feature, which allows you to ‘Tag’ a website without having to Subscribe to it first, is one of the many reasons I use GReader as my primary RSS reader over BlogLines and some of the other web-based alternatives.
To make GReader work even more effectively check out the Better GReader Greasemonkey addon for Firefox that lets you modify the look and feel of Greader and adds some options to make your life easier while browsing your daily dose of RSS.
If you have registered to so many web services that you have to occasionally click on ‘Forgot Password’ because you haven’t logged on in ages or forgot that you even had an account there, then Friendfeed might be able to help you out. I only got to know of it quite recently and since I signed up I’ve been using it quite a bit. Nowadays with new web mashups and services coming out every other month, it’s hard for people to keep track of their account or their social network in said websites, and that’s mainly where Friendfeed comes in - it is basically a mashup of most of the common web services (and mashups) into one location. Think of it as something like OpenID, a centralised service that keeps track of and strings together all the services you are active in and want to stay updated with. Just add all the services you use, such as Flickr, Magnolia or Twitter to your Friendfeed and you have one location where you can track your recent activity. Why Friendfeed rocks is not only can you keep track of yourself, but your friends too so you can see what everyone is doing wherever. It also lets you comment or ‘Like’ items, so it’s a good way to find out what other Friendfeeders think of your Shared GReader item or Twitter status.
The best feature about Friendfeed in my opinion is the ability to Subscribe to your interesting friend’s Friendfeeds, so you can keep up with their latest on GReader or so.
Toluu is a recently new service that was started by Caleb Elston which allows you to find new Feeds to subscribe to. The service is based around your existing RSS feed, which you can import to the website. In my case I imported my GReader feeds and after a couple of seconds I found other people that matched the same feeds as I, allowing me to browse their subscribe feeds and find similar interesting websites and blogs to follow. Toluu is in no way a feed aggregator, as it only gives you a couple of items in a Feeds listing, but it still has a really big community and Caleb is working on new ways of improving the website.
Instead of replacing your feed reader, Toluu acts as a middle man by letting you find new feeds and subscribing them on your existing Feed aggregating service.
Twitter needs no introduction as it has seen exponential surge in popularity over the past year. Twitter has made micro-blogging the talk of the town, and has spawned a ton of mashup websites. Sign up for twitter and see how addictive it is, just be warned that if you are into blogging, it might kill off your blog for good.
AlertThingy isn’t a website but I thought I’d mention it since I’ve listed Twitter and Friendfeed in this post. AT is a fun way to keep track of your fellow Twitter-ers and Friendfeed’s on your desktop. The Adobe AIR app itself features a sleek interface whic customisable by way of Themes. AT is low on memory resources and alerts you to new Tweets or Friendfeed posts while in your taskbar. You can reply to tweets or post comments on Friendfeed items too.
I kind of like AlertThingy, especially over Twhirl which unfortunately never worked for me. Although I did have the problem of repeated Alerts, which I’m sure must have been sorted out by now.
Mento is quite new too and it’s something like a mashup of Tumblr and GReader with some networking features. It is straight forward and, while it doesn’t bring anything new to the table, it seems to handle things quite well. Basically you have your Mento page where you post interesting links or, any link, for that matter through a ‘Delicious-like’ button in your browser and your friends can see your Posted links and vice versa. A handy feature in Mento is that lets you post your Mento links to other services such as Friendfeed and Magnolia, so that you don’t have to. Friends can give you ‘Clicks and Feedback’ on submitted links so that you can see if your Links are popular.
It is a fact that social bookmarking is synonymous with Delicious, but it does have its pros and cons. I personally prefer Magnolia and have been using it since it came out a few years ago. Magnolia uses the same Tag based attributing as Delicious and has Groups that brings together people that like a specific topic, such as Technology - quite the same way Delicious separates topics with tags while allowing users to submit more varied links to a Group.
Tumblr lets you create ‘Tumblogs’ or mini blogs where you can easily post Links, Quotes, Photos or full posts without hassle. I’ve got my Tumblr set up to post my Shared Items RSS feed on GReader and my Twitter feed, and I call it ’stuff’. If you looking to start a mini-blog for your website then Tumblr is probably where you want to start.
So there you have it - the 7 websites (and app) that I used lately. If you browse similar websites or have your own Top 7, feel free to leave a comment.
As you can see I’ve moved domains from my .com solely because of the sorry excuse for web hosts that is 1and1. If you are looking for domain hosting they are the last people you want to go to; just Google ‘1and1 sucks’ and look at the number of customers that have posted about their traumatic experiences with them. I found out the hard way.
Moving on, now that I’ve moved domains I finally got a chance to restructure some of the stuff I had on my earlier domain, such as my blog and subdomains. I see it a fresh start, a chance to actually do it better this time. Hopefully I’ll have quality and not quantity in my posts on this blog and if that’s not asking too much, some worthwhile content.
I’ll keep this space update on how things go, as I have still not fully got everything set up on this blog.