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Feed The Pig

July 26th, 2010


Please listen to this audio clip for your winning lottery numbers.

Not sure about you, but I have long since forgotten that I actually had a pig when I was a kid until I listened to that audio clip.

That was a good way to promoting the public to save. FeedThePig.org

Check out this video too.

By the way, do you know why it was called the Pig? Piggy Bank? And not like Kitty Bank or anything else?

In Middle English, “pygg” referred to a type of clay used for making various household objects such as jars. People often saved money in kitchen pots and jars made of pygg, called “pygg jars”. By the 18th century, the spelling of “pygg” had changed and the term “pygg jar” had evolved to “pig bank.”

Source : Wikipedia

Right: Majapahit terracotta piggy bank, 14-15 century A.D. Trowulan, East Java. (Collection of National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta)

Have you fed yours? ;-)

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How to view your Facebook profile as another user

May 18th, 2010

I always have this question in mind, what would my Facebook profile looks like when viewed by others? Or instead, a specific person? Like Mark Zuckerberg?

Of course, Mark Zuckerberg can view any Facebook profile he wants, even if you set privacy to Yourself Only. He’s the owner of Facebook!

Well, I found that testing the viewing of your profile can be done with using a specific user that you want.

For a start, let’s go through how you’d like to customize your profile settings :

From the menu on the top right, select Account -> Privacy Settings

Select Friends, Tags and Connections:

Double check your privacy settings, or if you’re not changing anything, look for the Preview My Profile… button :
Note that the hyperlink will go to : http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?viewas=100000686899395

Going to that page actually shows how your profile GENERALLY looks to most people on Facebook.

Because that user is a test user, so like anybody else which is not your friend, they will see very limited information.

Now say you want to know what will your profile display to a particular user?
Get the user profile id, or user name, works both ways, and replace the test user id (100000686899395) in : http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?viewas=100000686899395 with the user id you want to see.

For example, any one of this:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?viewas=markzuckerberg

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?viewas=68310606562

Should I customize a bit and let him see MORE of me?
Guess not. :-)

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Gizmodo’s iPhone 4 scandal attracts attention

May 1st, 2010

If you have not heard about the iPhone 4G,please do a search on iPhone 4G now.

The leaked story of iPhone 4G was first brought to open by Gizmodo, one of the popular technology or gadget website.

It was said that one of Apple’s employee who had the iPhone 4 prototype lost it one night, and was then picked up by someone else who later sold to Gizmodo for $5000.

$5000 is more than worth for the more than 14 million visits to the Gizmodo’s website since 19th April 2010 – when the first story of iPhone 4G was released.

The average of visits per day before that was around 3 million.

This is Apple’s Next iPhone, is the killer story that also brings about legal issues to Gizmodo.

Currently, Gizmodo is being investigated and comments are not allowed in the related blogposts of this particular issue.

Even then, it brought more traffic than ever, and we can see that there was another spike when the house of Jason Chen(the editor of Gizmodo) was raided and a list of items were seized.

Sometimes, it pays to have a scandal. What say you?

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