Here’s a website that I have been a member of for years. Unfortunately, although it is like the Malaysian version of Classmates.com, it never kicked off at all. Out of the many students in my class, there are only about fifteen who are registered with the site. Imagine, few hundred students and only fifteen? They could do better.

That’s why lah… never advertise! LOLOLO

Anyways, I was reminded of it (I do not log in at all unless there is a new member signed up who is from my class) this morning when someone from my class registered with the site. HHmm unfortunately her name is not someone I recognise at all. Too bad

Although out of these fifteen students, a few were good friends with me, I did not contact them even though most of us included our email address in our profile. It would be awkward to contact them after all these years. I mean, is there anything to talk about at all??

This morning, my friend sent me a message and referred me to “Ipoh leng lui” (beautiful girl from Ipoh). I told him that it is a myth that Ipoh girls are prettier than girls from other states and those who said so did not live here long enough to see the ugly ones.

That gave me an idea to search on Spock to see if there are Ipoh girls there. I have used Spock.com – A Great Place for Search a couple of times and if memory serves me right, we used to have to register with Spock before we could get the code to embed on our blog or website.

What’s so great about Spock is that we re able to search for people based on tags or descriptions or based on their occupation, name or even location. This morning, I decided to look for “Ipoh girls”.

What makes Spock different is that Spock tries to centralize a person on Spock by linking all our profiles from other social network sites like Friendster, MySpace, LinkedIn, hi5, Multiply and other webpages.

I registered with Spock and am surprised that this search engine managed to pull in my profiles from other sites accurately. However, out of the eight webpages that were linked to my name, only about two are about me. Another great feature is that with these webpages linked to me, I could vote to confirm their accuracy or to have them removed from my Spock profile. I could even ADD other webpages to my profile too. Tell me this is not different from all the social network sites that are around now.

If you are not yet already registered with Spock, I urge you to do so early to claim your spot on Spock and your profiles that are scattered all over the web. I admit that I did at first have reservations about putting personal information on a public domain but I soon learnt that we can control what we want to make public so I decided to register with Spock with my real name. I think that in the future, Spock would be like an online profile directory of real people, like what Yellow Pages is for businesses.

Did you notice that spam mail has hit Gmail lately? It used to be Gmail is so clean I would not even get two spam mail in Gmail for A WEEK! Now, if I do not log into my account, I would be seeing more than ten spam mail in my account. I do not log into my account because I check my mail through my mobile device.

I have four Gmail accounts and this trend is happening to three of my active accounts while the other one, which I do not use, is still clean. The thing is, these are personal accounts and I do not use them to sign up with any mailing lists or whatever, and yet I get all these spam mail.

Perhaps like spammers who spammed my Yahoo! Mail, they generate random English words as the user ID of email addresses. Ugh… I’m wasting time just deleting spam!

The other day, I wrote a post about donating rice with our vocabulary. I recall a website that a friend recommended to me a couple of months ago where we can win serious cash just by using our knowledge on general trivia, music and movie trivia, sports and entertainment.

Actually, I knew about this site when it was newly launched but somehow I have forgotten about it and I really feel like kicking myself for all the lost opportunities when I could have played and WON! Yes, I am that confident of my trivia knowledge!

Just now, I accessed the website again and noted that a member was the lucky jackpot winner twice within thirty days. Wow, he must be amazing with trivia! Trivia On Net, whose website is at http://www.TriviaOnNet.com is the leading online multiplayer trivia tournaments and host too.

The good news is that membership is free and we are even paid $5 bonus. Upon our first top up, we will be given 25% extra as bonus. I have been told that with this money, the good players get to multiple their capital at a tremendous rate.

Unfortunately for me, the jackpots are only open to Americans and that also only for residents of certain states. This is due to the differences in state law. However, for international members and others who were unable to play for cash can still play the free games and join the community.

A friend told me that at a marketplace where she is a member of, the whole site has been swamped by casino sites. She said that she could hardly get any decent jobs because she does not want to write about casinos as her father was a gambler who wrecked his life and his family’s.

Well, I have nothing against casino sites but when they have overwhelmed the other members of the community then that is bad for business.

If I remember correctly, this place used to be swamped by plastic surgery sites and I am not saying they are no good either but then having the site full of the same thing will drive members away. I know that many of my friends don’t even bother to log in anymore.