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If you are having writer’s block or suffering from blogging burnout, then you may want to take a break and check out the many activities happening this special weekend worldwide.

One of the high profile global event taking place on 07.07.07 is Live Earth. Live Earth, if you haven’t already heard(you must have been on Mars the past 3 months?), is a 24-hour, 7-continents concert series taking place on 07.07.07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.

Live Earth will stage official concerts at Giants Stadium in New York; Wembley Stadium in London(1.30pm); Aussie Stadium in Sydney(11am); Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro; Maropeng at the Cradle of Humankind in Johannesburg(6pm); Makuhari Messe in Tokyo(12pm); the Steps of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai(7pm); and HSH Nordbank Arena in Hamburg(2pm). All timing shown are local time and subjected to change.

There are tons of information about Live Earth, here and here. So I’ll not bore you with more here. But you may want to measure your carbon footprint by using the ECP Carbon and Lifestyle calculator and gear your lifestyle towards reducing the environmental impact.

Being “Friends of Live Earth” campaign, Singapore is hosting Earth Fest to trigger mass movements at the local level to combat the growing climate crisis. Besides being a mass Open Air Telecast Screening of “Live Earth” Concerts, Earth Fest will feature many activities to promote environmental awareness. Screening of telecast will be from 7 pm(Singapore time) Saturday 07.07.07 until 7 pm Sunday.

Climate change is a serious problem that affects all of humanity. There is strong evidence that human emissions of greenhouse gases are changing the world’s climate. The main greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide (CO2), produced when we burn fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas for energy.

The battle against global warming and climate change cannot be won by the actions of the Governments and businesses alone. Every individual human being must be aware of the dire straits and be infulenced by the urgency of the problem and we must be prepared to make sacrifices and adjustments to our lifestyles, our values and our attitude towards nature and Mother Earth.

Answer the call, make a difference, save Mother Earth, give our children a future.

Nearly 50% of this blog’s readers comes from America. I want to take this opportunity, on this joyous day, the 4th of July, to wish all my American readers and my American friends

I’m glad to announce that my earlier post, Personalize Your Blog Posts – Add a Signature, had been selected in Nate Whitehill’s Powerful Posts of the week ending June 24, 2007.

I’m most honoured and very humbled by this nomination. I’m sure I’m in great companies.

Thank you Nate, for giving me a good start to another new blogging week!

Have you ever sent unsolicited email to someone but got no response from them? It could very likely had ended up in the spam folder and got trash by the receiving party unknowingly.

If your e-mail service provider does not provide a spam checker, you can head over to The Programmers Heaven SPAM analysis tool which will runs your message through SPAM checkers – Spam Assassin and Spam Bayes – to see if they might detect it as SPAM.

SpamAssassin tests emails against a large set of rules, which include checking for malformed headers, words that commonly appear in SPAM, whether the sender is on a black list and more. Each rule is assigned a score and if the email scores enough points it is considered to be SPAM. For more information, see the SpamAssassin homepage and FAQ.

SpamBayes works by looking at the each word that appears in the email and looking for an associated word score. The word score is a number associated with each word in the SPAMBayes database and ranges between 0 and 1. A score of or close to 0 implies that the email the word appears in is likely to be HAM(good, non-spam email), while a higher score, closer to 1, implies that the email the word appears in is likely to be SPAM. By looking at the scores of words in the email overall, the email can be classified as SPAM or HAM. For more information, see the SpamBayes homepage and FAQ.

To test your email, simply copy and paste the text or HTML of the message you want to send into the text box provided, enter your own email address and also the Subject title. Next Select which SPAM filters you would like to test your email against by checking on the box next to the filter name. You can select one or both.

Then click on the “Test My Email” button and you are on your way to knowing whether you have on hand an email with lots of evil spammy words which will very likely end up in the Spam mailbox, or yours is a legit friendly message from the boy/girl next door!

If you are planning to do email marketing to promote your blog and worried all your effort might be wasted by being block by spam filter, then you should seriously consider making this free web base spam checker your #1 webtool.

Be sure to check the AGLOCO website on Monday morning (Tuesday if you’re in Asia) because you should be able to download the Viewbar.

“…We have made a workaround regarding the ad server problem and we will finally be launching the Viewbar. Some, but not all, of our ad networks will be connected. These networks have enough ads on them, so we are comfortable releasing the software as we continue to work on the outstanding issues that remain with the other networks. All of the preliminary Viewbar functions are there, but with the ad problems we will not be initially launching with the personalized ad targeting. We will continue to develop this capability after we have launched and when it is available the new version of the software will be incorporated into your viewbar automatically.
The Viewbar is currently available for Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista and will work with IE (Internet Explorer) or Firefox browsers…”

The viewbar release is surely long overdue, it has been a bumpy road, longer than expected. At last, it’s going live soon! Join AGLOCO today and be consider the pioneer batch of members.

Join my AGLOCO network now!!