Did you receive an email regarding Outlook Express Service Change and that it will no longer be supported from 30th June, 2008? The service will be replaced by their Windows Live Mail. I actually love Windows Live Mail more and emails were delivered instantly unlike Outlook Express which takes ages to load.

However, if you are using a pirated copy of Windows then it is too bad because you will need a critical update on the Operating System to run Windows Live Mail. I don’t know, maybe pirates with come out with something similar to Windows Live Mail.

But to me to be able to use Windows Live Mail, it is worth it to use an original copy of Windows. I just wished that the RSS Reader of Windows Live Mail has the ability to receive feeds instantly too!

Does it irritate you to have to update your software all the time? Just like the amount of times WordPress is updated through the year, there are a handful of programmes that I use regularly that requires an update almost every time I launch it.

I would understand if the programme was an anti-virus or firewall programme so they need to be updated all the time to keep our system protected but NO, these are just regular programmes, which I shall not name.

The other day, I just installed a programme and from what I understood, was the latest version. I had to install a fresh copy because my computer crashed and I had to install everything. Anyway, the same night, when I wanted to use the programme again, I was told that a new version is available. What? So fast?

Sigh… when this happens, I usually just skip the upgrade. They usually are nothing important, anyway.

I thought that my own Alexa readings were high for my blogs and was even rather concerned that no matter what I do, how ever much traffic has increased, the figures just continued to climb. I know that many people re saying that Alexa is irrelevant but I prefer a lower number than a higher one even if it’s only for cosmetic proposes!

Last week, while blog hopping, I had a shock when I saw that one blog, which I have forgotten whose blog it is anymore, has an Alexa of 26,421,398. That’s right, almost 26.5 million!

Hah…. I thought that once the Alexa is above a certain number, it will not be displayed anymore but I don’t know what happened to this blog that it achieved such a high number. Well, if this is the figure in my bank balance then I would be jumping with joy but it my blog has this Alexa reading, I would be pretty depresses, I tell you!

I have a theory that our Alexa readings have gone bonkers no thanks to all the new blogs that our has-been politicians have started. Well, even though are already on the verge of retiring from active politics, there are still plenty of blog readers reading and commenting on these blogs, if only to verbally bash them up!

A little while ago, I was at my old forum haunt. Boy, it has been a long while since I went there. There was a thread where the thread starter asked what is Web 2.0. Well, I am sure everyone has heard of Web 2.0 but how do you explain it?

Show me a couple of web applications and I will let you know if they qualify to be Web 2.0 Applications! But to ask me to explain it in a coherent sentence, I am afraid I am not able to do it without copying from Wikipedia!

Now I remember why I have not been to the forum for such a long time. It irritates me that members would just open a thread and post a question, just about whatever question that pops into their head, without checking if the answer is already on the web!

Personally, I will just search for the answer online. Why post a thread and wait for others to reply?

A couple of days ago, I received an email from a lady who sought to exchange links with me. Well, I have no problem with exchanging links for mutual benefit as long as the site is relevant to my own niche. The problem was that the URL that she wanted to place her link on is not my website!

One would have thought that she would be more careful when seeking to exchange links with another website or blog. I know that she sends out numerous emails like this to other webmasters but what a blunder she made! Shame! Shame! I never even bother to reply her or check out what her website is all about. Forget about it, lah!

But actually, I am not keen on exchanging links because once you have verified that you link is on their website, soon after, they will remove it. Cheh… who has the time to keep checking if the link is in place?

If you are, perhaps you should check out Discount-Search.com. I just discovered this site myself but I wish I had known about it earlier when I was shopping for a laptop. I spent a considerable amount of time going through various websites, using the search engines and then comparing prices from the different online retailers that popped up on the search results.

By shopping through Discount-Search.com, you basically just narrow down your search by clicking on the appropriate category and a list of merchants who are offering products at competitive prices are featured. With a handful of merchants and online retailers to browse through instead of going down the list of merchants in search results, it will save you time, and of course, money! This is what all we hardcore online shoppers want, don’t you agree?

Recently, I logged into a Survey website that I have been a member of for a long while but have totally forgot about it. In fact, I even tried to register myself but found out soon that the email address that I used has already been registered. Thankfully I used the same email address or I would end up with two accounts with them.

Anyway, since I was there, I decided to update my survey profiles. The reason that I forgot about registering with them a few years ago was because I never received even a single survey from them and yet I hear about people earning good side income from them.

The funny thing about this site, supposedly a market leader, was that despite putting Malaysia as my country of residence, I still have to fill up my profile with questions like this:

Q: Which is your mobile provider?
A: AT & T, Cingular, Verizon, etc…

instead of: Maxis, Celcom, DiGi

Well, this is just an example and almost every other question in the survey profiling was based on lifestyle in the United States. I mean, come on, they are supposed to be open to worldwide residents and they should have set the profiling based on where we are from, don’t you think so? No wonder I never received any survey at all. Bah!