Added my Twitter updates to my blog

Today, I have decided to add my Twitter updates to my blog.

I found a hint of possible ways to include Twitter to your blog but none of them were what I wanted. Today while researching the Facebook blocked in Vietnam issue I noticed that MikeInTaiwan did it in the way I wanted. I just changed some CSS and HTML code here and there and ta-da! It's done! It has been tested to work in:

Latest IE8
Latest Opera
Latest Firefox
Latest Chrome
Latest Safari

If you are interested to make something similar to your blog, the core code can be here


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Facebook blocked in Vietnam since today

Update2: Since I received feedback from some people on this including Dan, it seems to be unclear whether it is indeed a hoax and some ISP server troubles or not a hoax and a real block.
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Update (old)
The issue which started back in August is a hoax! check it out! Interesting that even CNN fell for it and it's even not April yet!


The Vietnamnese government blocked the access of Facebook now. (According to MikeInVietnam - here.

This is truly a sad day since I knew people in Vietnam, now the chance to find them on Facebook will be zero :(
I was able to get back in touch with people that appeared to be appearing nowhere.

My friend Dan Offer (known for offering the pretty cool Facebook chat client named Chit Chat for Facebook) decided to open a dedicated Facebook Group - Unblock Facebook in Vietnam to get Vietnam to think twice!

According to CNN's iReport blog, those are the reasons:

"For security reasons and to fight against propagative activities that oppose the Party and the government, Department of Professional Technology – Office of Security Administration – Ministry of Public Security suggests that the addressed companies to apply technical methods to block thoroughly these following websites.”

This act of political censorship clearly manifest the government’s recognition of the threat posed by Facebook, specifically its power to communicate and publicize. Although Vietnamese internet users have already found back doors to access Facebook by changing DNS information from browser or using another proxy, nevertheless, the Vietnamese government still achieves its ultimate goal: to arrest the spread of "malicious" information."

This is a very big social threat for us Facebook users, for all Vietnamese and globalism!

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DPAG I wish you do better - letter tracking system down again

The German Postal Service's letter tracking system is down again.

Didn't we have that with DHL already and also shortly before Christmas?

Yes, indeed we did:

Christmas 2006.

The track & trace systems are supposed to work more than just sometimes? Especially for people from abroad or people who work in shifts like me and sometimes cannot call when their call center is open!

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Making Skype calls inside Google Wave

That's a very nice deomstration of Skyping within Google Wave


Also available now:emailing from google wave with Emaily.

Source: SkypeJournal - read Phil Wolff's comments about it..

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ICQ releases Christmas skin

ICQ released their ICQ Christmas skins for this year now.

They can be downloaded here included are 3 skins.

Source: My friend MaCXyLo, thank you very much :)


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YouTube is down

I also got this:

"Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, web[at]youtube.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache Server at www.youtube.com Port 80"

This is amazing! It's also amazing they put it down at the peak time of usage, so it must be something unplanned and badly.

This is almost like a crash of Google, wow, the Internet is shaked now!

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David Sifry's latest project: OffBeat Guides.

Have been speaking to David Sifry recently and he told me about his latest project:

OffBeat Guides.

As followers of David already know: Many things he starts turn into an indescribably success, best example is the blog sphere directory Technorati, also he took my critics regarding the customer support and the stability of the service pretty well.

Anyway, let's look at the city guide. In comparison to the others around, it's pretty slick and simple. And it's far from complete. But there are some surprising entries, like a pretty detailed entry about Kabul while the entry of Luanda makes it look like it has nothing to offer. Maybe it was better if they made it the way that it's marked as a stub until it's completely completely.

The guide is good in finding details about huge, big and semi-small cities. If you however search for small cities or villages, you will get zero results and no way of adding it on your own.

Now the question is how does the project cover its costs? Simple: It allows you to make travel routes and then it supplies you the info as guide journals to be printed and sent to you, however I never tried this possibility.

In summary, we can say OffBeat Guides has potential to get big and has surprisingly good information even about places that are not your first travel destinations!

It's seriously worth to check it out.

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