English is my third langauge. My mother tongue is Javanese. But I never dream using Javanese language. My second language is Indonesian. I always speak this language when dreaming. And, my third language is English. Believe me, I wish I can dream in this language.

So, What Kind of American English Do I Speak?

Your Linguistic Profile:
45% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

Dont believe that quiz for sure!

English, Language, Linguistic, American

Logo is a name, symbol, or trademark designed for easy and definite recognition, especially one borne on a single printing plate or piece of type.

I need a logo for my blog. But I do not know hoe to create a logo. Anyone can help me with a logo?

Many Indiana University students are making a move, and it has nothing to do with finding a new place to live. One of the student said:

I set up my Webmail to forward all my mail straight to my Gmail account. Now I use it all the time to correspond with classmates and professors because of the extra storage space, which definitely comes in handy with a large file, like a PowerPoint file.

What about in Indonesia? Gmail is used to exchange messages among junkers.

Email, Gmail, Indiana

AOL is rolling out its new personalized home page service called My AOL. Like most AOL services these days, you don’t need to be an AOL subscriber to use it.

It seems RSS feed is alluring many dotcom to play. Yahoo! has added RSS to My Yahoo! for years. Google has just updated it’s Google Personalization Page. And now, AOL enters the same market.

The first My AOL feature that’s now available allows users to build and maintain a personalized page of RSS/XML feeds. This service is powered by a new partnership between AOL and Feedster, an RSS/XML search engine.

Feed, RSS, XML, Google, Yahoo, AOL

This week is a busy time for Microsoft: with unveiling of the beta releases of Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Vista, and upgrading its free-email Hotmail.

Included with the Hotmail upgrade is a bump of the storage space for free users to two gigabytes; several of my friends had already seen storage increases in their accounts. The added space would put Hotmail on more equal footing with its competitors. Google’s Gmail offers more than 2GB, as does Yahoo! Mail.

I will not look back. The features of Gmail and its roomy space make make impossible to look back to Hotmail.

I will not use IE anymore. The security of Mozilla Firefox is better.

Microsoft, Vista, IE, Hotmail, Google, Firefox

Google has added new content to its personalized homepage at Google.com/ig, but most people will be excited to hear that it is now an RSS reader. Just click add content to try the nifty slide-out side panel which allows you to choose from dozens of sources and type in RSS feeds.

Yesterday, I tried to customize it using my Firefox. But it failed. I thought it was just a glitch of a new application. But when I tried using IE, it was susccesfull. Turns out it was a Firefox extension that prevented the features from working in my Firefox. That extension, unfortunately, was Customize Google, a handy enhancement of search results and keyword entry that I have commented on. With that extension removed, Google’s home page works fine in Firefox.

Give Google Personalization a try!

Google, Firefox, IE, Personalisation

On January 18, 2005, Google proposed a rel=”nofollow” attribute that could be placed on a link; doing so instructs most major search engines to ignore the link, rendering it useless to spammers. Software is then rewritten to add this attribute to any link embedded in a comment. As of April 2005, nofollow has seen expanding usage, but is not yet universal. But it is true that nofollow is the answer to fight comment spams?

12 Reasons against nofollow

1. nofollow does not prevent comment spam
2. nofollow is semantically incorrect
3. nofollow harms the connections between web sites
4. nofollow is not useful for humans, just for search engines using PageRank or a similar technique
5. nofollow could be used to shut web sites out
6. nofollow discriminates legitimate users as spammers
7. nofollow heists commentators’ earned attention
8. nofollow could be used to further discriminate weblogs
9. nofollow prevents the Web from being a web
10. nofollow eliminates the dissemination of free speech
11. nofollow was developed in privacy with only search engines companies taking part in the discussion

SEO, Google, Search, Spam, Spammers, Blog, Weblog

As written by Matt in his recent blog, Firda Beka, a weblogger who used to live in Pondok Betung, Tangerang, Indonesia and now living in Canada, makes a seamless swicth from MovableType to WordPress. It looks like that nothing change in her weblog.

She writes:

So today Movable Type decided not to work for me anymore. Don’t say I didn’t try to make it stay because I cared enough to upgrade, downgrade, and then upgrade again to make it work, but it just didn’t happen. The first blogging tool I considered to replace MT was Textpattern, but we’re just not meant to be. Hence my being with WordPress.

Firda has won Bloggies for several times as the best Asian blog. Welcome to WP community, Firda.

Blog, Weblog, WordPress, MovableType