MSN's New Search Feature
MSN's new search is out...
Does anyone think this interface looks extremely familiar? What does it look like.. hm... Oh
Google!! Dah!
MSN's home page is crowded with information and images. This search page looks very plain compare to the rest of its site. It does not even have ads! Wow.. How is this page going to live now without ads flying all over the sky...
Com'on MSN.. Be a bit creative and ordinary now... With the Hotmail email thing it is just being a copy cat and follower after Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. Try do something a bit different and BETTER next time...
Posted by Hello
Jokes + Humor (Jomor?)
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. From Dave.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson went on a camping trip in Marbella. As they lay down for the night, Holmes said:
"Watson, look up into the sky and tell me what you see."
Watson said, "I see millions and millions of stars".
"And what does that tell you?", asked Holmes.
Watson thought for a moment then said, "Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Theologically, it tells me that God is great and that we are small and insignificant. Meteorologically, it tells me that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you?"
Holmes replied, "Watson, you idiot. Someone has stolen our tent."
- Quote from Marbella to Humour. Jokes and Funny Virtual Postcards
Looking at a wall (dull, May 19)
I was standing quite near to a wall. I turned my attention towards it for a few moments. Having done this for several seconds I turned away from it and carried on doing something else.
- The World's Dullest Blog o_O
Quote from JonGalloway.ToString()
"I just heard about a cool idea a local 4th grade teacher is using to teach kids a lesson most folks don't learn until after college.
Here are the rules:
Each week, you get a salary of funny money (I think it can vary depending on grades and behavior, but the details aren't important). There are cheap, flashy toys you can buy with your funny money.
Catch number one: You must pay rent on your desk. The rent turns out to be a significant amount of the funny money.
Catch number two: You can save up and buy your desk. This takes several weeks of saving. After you've bought your desk, you no longer pay rent, so you've got more money each week.
Catch number three (my favorite): After you've bought your desk, you can buy another student's desk. They must pay you rent (unless they save up and buy the desk).
What's funny is that the same thing happens every year - the boys blow all their money on the flashy toys, while the girls all save up and buy their desks. Then the girls buy the boys' desks. Then the girls buy all the best goodies. The boys get outraged at having to pay rent to a girl, and that the girls have all the money."
Smiley and Auto Expand Keyword for Hello
Are you a user of Hello and Picasa? If you are, I bet you are just as thirsty for all smilies/emoticons as I am.. =D
Ever since the first time I saw a smiley (emoticon) falling from Hello, I had been trying with a couple friends to figure out all the emoticons and auto-expand keywords for the program. We always got excited when we stumbled upon a new smiley or keyword... We were like a bunch of children finding precious stones from our sand playing.. ;)
We wanted to explore more, to find all the keywords! But nothing showed up from Google, and nothing new showed up from Hello's support forum...
Well, we had our fun with our brutal force method. ;) And we finally advanced to the method by looking at the executable (inspired by
Hello Application Oddity by Keith Horowitz).
Motios/Smilies/Emoticon (Hello refers as Motio):
heart <= 'love', 'heart', 'xo', 'hearts', 'cloverleaf' (cloverleaf actually contains the word "love", that's why...)
:( <= ':(', ':-(', ';(', '=('
>:) <= '^:)', '>:)'
:| <= ':|'
:) <= ':)', ':-)', '=)', ';)'
(Edited on Jan. 18th, 2005
Just checked today with build 651, new ones are here!
LOL <= 'lol'
:o <= ':O', ':o'
;) <= ';)'
:p <= ':P', ':p'
That's it for now.. )
Auto-expand keywords (in random):
b => Bye! / See ya!
c => Awesome! / Cool!
h => Hi! / Howdy / Hello!
k => ok / okay
l => lol
n => No / Nope
y => Yep / Yes
bfn => Bye for Now
brb => Be back in a minute / Be right back
md => Mos Def! / Most Definitely
np => No Problem
ty => Thanks! / Thank you
And for now, I think we have JUST found everything there... We have completed our search.
A little quote from one of my friends, who enjoyed the search together with me:
"we opened all the christmas presents, and christmas isn't till next week."
Credit:
-
Josh, who supplied our hex editor and discovered ways of making minor modification to smiley images;
- Alex, who took time to discovered the smiley rain;
- and
Amy, who was enthusiastic to type in all alphabets and started our brutal force method.
p.s. Shhh.. don't tell your friends this secret... ;P
WOMEN'S ENGLISH:
Yes = No.
No = Yes.
Maybe = Hell no.
We need = I want.
I'm sorry = You'll be sorry.
We need to talk = I need to complain.
Sure, go ahead = I don't want you to.
Do what you want = You'll pay for this later.
I'm not upset = Of course I'm upset, you moron!
Are you listening to me?? = Too late, you're dead.
You have to learn to communicate = Just agree with me.
Be romantic, turn out the lights = I have flabby thighs.
You're so .... manly = You need a shave and you sweat a lot.
Do you love me? = I'm going to ask for something expensive.
It's your decision = The correct decision should be obvious by now.
I'll be ready in a minute = Kick off your shoes and find a good game on TV.
How much do you love me? = I did something today that you're really not going to like.
MEN'S ENGLISH:
I'm hungry = I'm hungry.
I'm sleepy = I'm sleepy.
I'm tired = I'm tired.
Nice dress = Nice cleavage!
I love you = Let's have sex now.
What's wrong? = I guess sex is out of the question.
May I have this dance? = I'd like to have sex with you.
Can I call you sometime? = I'd like to have sex with you.
Do you want to go to a movie? = I'd like to have sex with you.
Can I take you out to dinner? = I'll take you to a nice restaurant and then I'd like to have sex with you.
Will you marry me? = I want to make it illegal for you to have sex with other guys.
You look tense, let me give you a massage = I want to have sex with you within the next ten minutes.
Let's talk = I am trying to impress you by showing that I am a deep person and then I'd like to have sex with you.
I don't think those shoes go with that outfit = I'm gay
Hello + Blogspot
I was reading the forum for hello+blogspot. Yap, I found a bug in hello already, HUGE bug. It always uses IE to open up links and web sites, which in fact, it should use default browser instead. From there you know those programmers favor IE. It sucks.
One trick I learned about photo posting from hello though, is to use "||" without double quotes to queue picture postings. Good job, hello. Too bad that queue feature is not very apparently to normal users.
Something fun I just found out from hello. If you type in the word "love" or smiley like :) :( or ;) and so on, cute little smiley icons drop down in your picture screen. I wonder what other "keywords" are out there...
Let me know if you have any new discoveries.. ;)
First day of blogger
I've been using xanga for a while now.. I even got the premium membership and downloaded that xanga toolbar thingie, but that didn't make me use it more often than my chat programs, cuz I still don't know what to say to the world...
Then boom! Somebody said, "check out picasa and hello, do a search on google for picasa+hello." I was like.. what?! hello? Hello?!! Didn't really pay attention.. downloaded the program and left it untouched..
Picasa+hello+blogger sure is a new concept. It doesn't seem too different from chatting programs at first glance. But hey, you gotta admit that google is doing its magic again. This time, by integrating a bunch of services. FREE services! Good idea, I say.
Too bad that I don't have anybody to share this with yet. I would want at least a few people to help me try this thingie. I cannot just chat all by myself, right?
So.. here you go. Download them.. install them.. and let's start the game..
Add me on hello (sleepikatkat)
hello.com: New way of sharing photos with your friends and family. You send them the pictures instantly, and they can view all your pictures, then decide which one to download. And you get to chat while looking at your friends' pictures. Thumb up, thumb down, or so so?
blogger.com: Create your own web page or blogger in less than 5 mintues. You can even have a group of friends to contribute to one blog. Blogger has integration with hello so you can post your pictures or blog directly from there without leaving your chat program.
picasa.com: Photo organizer for all your photos. It has integration with hello so you can send your pictures to your friends without hassle.
