Google calender wants to date you

Months of waiting and leaked screenshots have finally led to the official launch, in beta, of the Google Calendar product. Google Calendar has occupied the minds of Googlites everywhere, dutifully blogging away whenever a whiff of GCal rumors wafted into the blogosphere.
So it wasn't much of a surprise to see a pair of posts from ZDNet blogger Garett Rogers about Google finally launching its calendar site. After logging in with a Google Account and creating an event for this afternoon, we took the grand tour of Google Calendar. Or at least as much as we could see from the various settings and overview pages Google provided. Basic preferences allow users to set time zones, date and time formats, calendar views, and declined event and invitation placement in one's calendar. Users can create multiple calendars, share the ones they have, or delete ones they no longer need. Notifications from Google Calendar to its users can be delivered by email or by SMS when mobile notifications are enabled. People who want to enable mobile notification can do so from the Notifications tab; just enter a mobile number and the carrier, then enter the verification code received on the phone to finish the process. Users with existing calendars in iCal or Microsoft Outlook can import them into Google Calendar through a simple select and upload process. Those can be imported to any of the calendars the user has created.
Additional users can be assigned rights to calendars. Specific people designated by the user may access those calendars with permission to change events, manage sharing, or simply see event details or free/busy information. Google probably created this feature to support their Gmail for Domains clients; with Gmail for Domains, Google hosts Gmail accounts for a specific business or institution. Users in groups or organizations tend to desire not only calendars, but sometimes multiple permissions for managing a particular calendar. Other guests can be invited to an event, and permission for those guests to invite others may be granted as well. Event creation can be done through a simple process of clicking a desired time within a date, entering some details, and saving it. If that's too complicated, Google also provides the Quick Add feature. Quick Add takes a natural language approach similar to that used by other calendar services like 30 Boxes. Clicking Quick Add brings up a single box, where the user can enter, "Doctor's appointment 9am Friday," click the + sign on the box, and see the event tossed into the correct date and timeframe on the calendar. Once entered, events can be edited or deleted as needed. Events can be duplicated, or set to repeat for events like tedious weekly meetings with an overpaid, backstabbing network manager as a purely random example. The Google Calendar works well in Firefox 1.5 and Internet Explorer 6. Its Ajax interface operates quickly, and the controls seem intuitive enough for new users to quickly grasp.

Winners of WORK SAFETY COMPETITION (funny pictures)

6th Place
5th Place
4th Place
3rd Place
2nd Place
And the Winner is
And now the one outside of the competiton...

Optical illusion

Read this text aloud.

The word THE is repeated twice...but did u notice???

In brown you can read ME, and when you look through you can read YOU.

The word TEACH reflects as LEARN.

Can you see why this painting is called optical illusion ? You may not see it at first, but the white spaces read the word optical, the blue landscape reads the word illusion. See for yourself !

In black you can read the word GOOD, in white the word EVIL (inside each black letter is a white letter). It's all very filosophical too, because it visualises the concept that good can't exist whithout evil (or the absence of good is evil ).

Chitika, good or bad?

I just walked through a few blogs or article websites and read about some 'recent' news about chitika.(At least, this news is recent to me.)
For those who are new to chitika, it is actually an advertising service provided by chitika company for webmasters to publish ads on their site and in return earn money from it.
I, too, applied for chitika last few weeks ago. But my application was not approved. I was sad. Below are the reasons why my site was not approved given by chitika:

"Thank you for your online submission. After reviewing your website:
http://www.7memory.com we believe that eMiniMalls might not be a good
match for your website.

Our eMiniMalls program works best for websites with:
- significant traffic, preferably more than 10,000 impressions per
month
- rich in content that relates to product merchandising, i.e., product
reviews, product-centric discussions etc.
- family friendly content in English
- target audiences from US, Canada, Mexico, UK, France, Sweden,
Germany, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Spain,
and Finland. As we expand our merchant base we will be able to cater to
traffic from other regions as well in the future.

We wish you the best of luck in monetizing your website, and thank you
again for your interest in Chitika's eMiniMalls.

Regards,
Chitika Customer Service
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Chitika, Inc. - Turning Page Views into Profits
www.chitika.com"

My site isn't getting enough traffic!! That is normal because I just started my site hardly a month ago.
According to what I read from other sites which are talking about chitika, I know that there are lots of publishers complaining about chitika recent auditing actions. Their earnings were reduced, some lost 90+% of their money earned from the traffics from their sites. Some started calling chitika another scam while some still has faith in it. Me, on the other hand, have nothing to do with this since I don't even have a chitika account. But I found it interesting to read about news on these issues.
In conclusion, it is good when one can earn money from his own web site whether or not he earns big bucks or little. As long as the program he is using is still producing result, he should keep utilising it. While in the meantime he can search for alternative ways to earn. Before he finds one, keeps with the old one!

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