I mentioned before, how I went to Afghanistan and all. Back then it was a bit of a trick to book flights to Kabul and pay for my airfare. Now, a sign that things are improving, there are a few airlines that now fly to Kabul, or, should I say, from Kabul, as most of them are Afghan Airlines.
There is now a new web site airline and travel information - flights and travel to Kabul: www.flightstokabul.com
After an exciting voting in front of thousands of people in a fully packed Moscow Olimpisky Indoor Arena and millions of TV viewers all over Europe, it was finally Alexander Rybak, a Belorussian boy from Norway who received the highest number of points from televoters and juries from the 42 countries. More – here.
And here is the youtube video.
Nice!
Here is a small web site I did for my brother, who is a piano tuner here in Perth – www.pianotuning.biz. It’s a family business with my grandfather starting piano and piano accordion repair and tuning in 1940, back in Russia.
If anybody needs to tune a piano in Perth – please visit Piano Tuning Perth web site for contact details. Or, just contact me 
I use GMail for stuff. GMail threads reply messages. It looks like the max number of replies (or messages in a thread) is 100 (see pic above). When the 101st reply arrived, GMail create a new thread, with the same Subject to continue the thread. Is it a feature or a bug. Or no one ever gets more than 100 replies so that it’s so unimportant?
As you know, hosting is something I do for work (i.e., managing Fast Hit). But I’ve always been interested to find out what lies behind all those free hosts, that offer a lot of hosting space, traffic, all for free. Well.. there is nothing free in life and I decided to test some of these services to find out what’s the catch. Here is my first one – happyhost.org and here is another one – 000space.com.
I will setup an account with each free hosting service that is reviewed, monitor it over a few weeks and provide feedback if something blows up.
I was searching Google for free blog services out there. There are dozens, or maybe hundreds striving to become noticeable, to get close to Blogspot or WP in magnitude. Most, will never make it. But a few really stand out.
One of this is WordCount Journal. I just opened mine there too.
I like the concept. One word the first day, two words the second etc. By the end of the year I will write a total of 66,795 words. It’s a size of a novel!
I did a few posts about Hotmail lately, mainly because it’s been a very long time since I logged to my Hotmail account last and I it was good to see that Hotmail is trying to catch up with other free webmail providers like Google and Yahoo.
A few months ago Microsoft announced that they enabled POP3 and SMTP for Hotmail.
This is good news. For us folks, who are addicted to Gmail, we can now setup Gmail to retrieve emails from Hotmail! I just tested it myself, and it seems to work very well. All you need to do is to get Gmail to POP emails from your Hotmail account. And here is how.
1. Login to Gmail
2. Go to Settings > Accounts Tab and click “Add a mail account you own”
You’ll see “Add a mail account you own” popup window
EMail address: Enter your Hotmail address and click “Next”
Username: your full Hotmail email
Password: your Hotmail password
POP Server: pop3.live.com
Port: 995
Tick “Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail.
Select other options they way you like.
Click “Add Account” button.
That’s it! If you entered all settings correctly, you’ll see a green confirmation message.
You can now read your Hotmail Emails from your Gmail account! Nice.
I joined twitter just a couple of weeks ago. Previously, I heard a lot (quite annoying really) about it, but held back, just to see how long I could resist the temptation. Now that I’m on it, I’m looking for suggestions, what are the most useful twit services are out there?
I found this, that I find very useful – Perth Weather – http://twitter.com/perthweather
What are others worth looking/ following?
Thanks.
Since I update my blog theme – a had a few people asking for a link to download this WordPress Fjords Theme. I remember it took me a while to find this Fjords theme. I saw and liked it on other blogs but couldn’t find it right away, as the author’s web site is no longer available and the discussion at WordPress is without a link to download.
So, I take the liberty to post this file for download: Download Fjords WordPress Theme.
What is bloo? There are huge billboards in Northbridge advertising bloo.com.au – bloo business directory search. Where did they get their listings from? Is there a place for yet one more on-line directory??