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Personally I tried using RSS readers and follow up with the news and blogs via RSS. For me, I couldn’t keep up with RSS subscription, some of the reasons include what Mani from Blogging Tips has blogged.

Here’s the list of RSS readers I tried using:

• Google Reader
• Liferea
• SharpReader
• Opera
• Thunderbird

If you are reading blog via RSS, you lose the personal touch/feeling that the author has put into his blog. I believe blog is popular because of this personality unlike news portals. So when you are reading blog posts via RSS you kinda miss that thing.

Although, I agree that follow up with 50 or more blogs on a daily basis is a tough thing, I think partially RSS readers would help a lot. But again, if you are reading blog posts from RSS – get out of the standard RSS layout and further more go online and leave comments on the posts!

Update:
My appologies to Kevin and Mani from Blogging Tips, I had no bad intention.

Personally, Blogging Tips is one of my top reading blog. I respect Kevin and other authors’ contributions and I do learn a lot from them. Thank you for keeping up a great blog!

And I am really sorry for my unacceptable mistake. I will try to be more careful next time.

A sysadmin is a professional, who plans, worries, hacks, fixes, pushes, advocates, protects and creates good computer networks, to get you your data, to help you do work — to bring the potential of computing ever closer to reality.

Every year on the last Friday of July, we recognize their contribution and appreciate their contributions.

So if you can do your daily work – send and receive emails, surf internet, print, play your games, access your databases etc, it’s day we say thank you to these geeks!

They even setup a website for this purpose! -> http://www.sysadminday.com/

I recently found out that there’s a laptop for only USD$150! The more interesting part is it’s running Fedora Linux. The specs of the laptop as follows:

Intel® Celeron 1.5 GHz CPU
14″ Widescreen X-bright LCD
256 MB Ram memory
40 GB Hard Drive
802.11g Wireless LAN
Optimized Linux operating system
Pre-installed office and multimedia applications

I think it’s difficult to find even second hand laptops for this cheap here in Lowyat, KL. They ship internationally, so I’m gonna see if I can get one of those. Will be an extra machine to be entertained with!

Here’s the link Medison Celebrity Laptop

I’m a happy user of 103bees so far, it has some advantages and disadvantages but that’s a topic for a separate post.

Using 103bees I found out that some of my posts are ranked pretty awesome by Google. For example if you search for how to setup an office infrastructure my blog will be the first that shows up. Second search result is from Microsoft website.

I must admit that Wordpress rocks! Way to go!

You can now exchange those old junk to your choice of old junk! On SwitchPlanet.com you can exchange your old stuff and have some new old stuff.

This service is totally free, allows you to start right away. Previously it was private beta stage and recently it went public.

You can browse through categories and choose what you want, you can have it as in very famous cloud display. Also there are most wanted, most switched top list. This can give you an idea on the items popularity among the community.

People like Bill and Melinda Gates (www.GatesFoundation.org), Warren Buffett, Seth Godin (www.Squidoo.com), Michael Dell and the many SwitchPlanet members who have started donation drives on the forum and those who contributed to help.

You can donate for this project and be sure that money goes to one of the followings:

• American Red Cross – www.RedCross.org
• Boys and Girls Clubs of America – www.BGCA.org
• The Nature Conservancy – www.Nature.org
• American Cancer Society – www.Cancer.org
• Child’s Play Charity – www.ChildsPlayCharity.org

Personally I think it’s a great website, this is a green way of life.