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AIDS, as Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is a disease that has gained a lot of power in the last years. Though governments, non-profit organizations as well as some big companies out there share the same battle line in the never ending battle with this disease, AIDS continues to grow.

Google.org has taken also this battle very seriously: http://www.google.org/world-aids-day-2009.html

I would like to address to all people that suffer of this disease. I have a friend that shares the same toughs with you. I know what you are dealing with. I wish researchers in this area to find a cure for you and I believe that better attention and respect would also help. I hope God will listen to our prayers and that soon mankind will eradicate this virus.

Meanwhile, I would also like to support AIDS fighters. I have added some valuable resources to our directory:

http://www.mygreencorner.com/UNAIDS-191078.html

http://www.mygreencorner.com/US-Government-AIDS-information-191079.html

http://www.mygreencorner.com/International-AIDS-Society-191077.html

Best wishes,

Dugu

So, briefly, M.J. died. I think he died from natural causes, no point in a big advertised investigation. Rarely I add a listing to MGC. I added MJ’s site today: http://www.mygreencorner.com/Michael-Jackson-161688.html

Great loss for humanity, great loss for fans, great loss for MJ’s family, for which my prays and blessings goes out today.

Plane crashed in Africa, they still digg for bodies, a little scary for those who travel by air around this time:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/02/AR2009070201409.html?hpid=moreheadlines

A little bonus from my side: don’t fly with Alitalia. I though I will dies from heart stroke before they crash (thank God they didn’t, and I got to write this post).

But the scariest and closest to me, train exploded in Italy killing 17: http://www.kansascity.com/934/gallery/1298024.html

Almost took the train to visit a friend that day.

Well, this was a bad week, I hope not for everybody.

Cheers

Hello.

After a lot of talk with several webmasters and SEO people, I decided to change the license used by wp themes submitted to our theme viewer.  Anybody that wishes to remove their themes as consequence to this decision can do so using their account. Although I don’t wan’t to discuss this decision, I will point some of the things that made me subscribe to this:

1. Theme users change the credentials anyway. It’s like in Wild Texas. Almost nobody is having respect for theme designers. I saw the copyright law broken so often, that I would need countless hours to report these infractions.

2.  GPL is better in this specific case. GPL allows users to modify themes as they please. The ones that feel good letting the credentials will do so anyway. By the way, I would like to thank to that kind people for their integrity.

3. Our theme viewer is getting spammed with casino and poker CC2.5 themes. Hopefully this will stop the spam wave.

4. Wordpress community subscribes to this: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

5. Google subscribes to this: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/12/on-sponsored-themes/

6. In long-term, this will ensure less sponsored themes and more quality (forced by our editorial standards).

I will send a newsletter to all designers in a day or 2. You have one week to comply with this situation. Any themes that will remain in our theme viewer after this date will be considered as GLP themes. Thank you for your understanding.

Cheers…

I noticed this several days ago. As I am trying to read things on wikipedia, I get “No response” error. I have to refresh the page for several time in order to access the article that interest me. Its funny that such a big site has problems like this. The incredible project that is wikipedia has incredible stats (see Alexa). Imagine if 8% of web surfers would browse your site, what would happen to your host :).

Anyway, I think this period is usually very full with school projects and stuff. A lot of people are reading articles in order to gather knowledge that would help in completing their projects. Wikipedia becomes more and more specialized on each topic. I was impressed and happy to read stuff about artificial intelligence that I am researching right now for my Ph.D thesis. I can almost see where this project is going - the ultimate knowledge base of man kind. I found several studies related to using Wikipedia as basis for artificial intelligence. Hopefully, this site will emerge into a entity that will offer full classification of any kind of human concept, making an AI-complete problem a reality. So I think the first step now is for them to buy better servers.

Today we celebrate the International Women’s Day. I would like to thank with this occasion to all that women that are browsing our site and to wish them a warm “Happy Birthday!”. I would also like to say “Happy birthday!” to my girlfriend, to my mother, to my 2 grandma’s, to my aunts, to my cousins and to all my colleagues. Thank you for your support and your love. Although this day was kinda rainy, you brought in the sun with your smiles.

Best wishes…