Here are some of the newest pages from The Secret Information Site, another website that is full of new ideas (and the debunking of old ideas).

Affiliates : How to sign up and sell the book for a 50% commission.

Three Secrets You Aren't Supposed To Know : Credit, medical, news...

Secrets Of Learning A Language : Some tricks that really speed things up.

Lies : Five common lies that you are told (and the truth).

Lie Detection - Trapping A Liar : Sometimes you have to get tricky.

Tags: knowledge

Here are the latest pages from http://www.radicalnewthoughts.com/:

Adam and Steve - A Look At Consciousness - With a radical theory as to what it is.

Is Mandatory Sentencing A Good Idea? - No, it isn't, as shown here.

Rational Mysticism - What could this be?

The Military Draft Is Immoral - An argument in the form of a story.

Rights Come With Responsibilities? Nonsense! - A look at a bad idea from the mthology of freedom.

Gay Marriage - A Radical Solution - And a solution for legal issues of marriage in general.

Socialists For Capitalism - Honest socialist should at least favor partial-capitalism.

Is Flip Flopping Really So Bad? - Why politicians should be allowed to change their positions.

Famous Dropouts - Check out the names on this list of high school dropouts.

Jury Nullification - As a juror, you can veto the law.

Tags: knowledge

I have upgraded my account at Hostdepartment to “UNLIMITED DEVELOPER UNIX”.

Hostdepartment is not that bad after all. They offer unlimited number of dedicated IP addresses and they also offer support 24/7. It is better that other hosts who don’t have enough staff even to tend to support tickets. Most hosts charge about $1-2 per dedicated IP per month, so Hostdepartment does sound like a good choice if one has more than one domain.

I have left alone movable type. I am unable to configure it, I will try to install it on my Linux machine first then try it on a real host. So I have installed wordpress on my new domain. Life has to go around…

I am shifting hosts again. I tried www.hostdepartment.com, then read some “terrific” reviews about them and decided to opt for another host. I tried to install Movable Type, but couldn’t get it running. I contacted support but they said that they do not allow CGI [or something like that] on that plan. If I wanted to upgrade, I had to delete that plan and signup again. I have requested for a refund which should be on the way within a few days. I may signup for the developer plan with them.

Installed StarOffice using Google Updater

I installed StarOffice using Google updater and I would say it is very good. If you are looking for a serious alternative to MS Office, StarOffice is for you.

StarOffice is not free [unlike OpenOffice, on which it is based]. It costs about $70, way much less than MS Office. However, it combines many proprietary features like a better spell checker and so is better than OpenOffice. I read somewhere that Sun takes a snapshot of OpenOffice source code once in a while and then adds some features to it to make StarOffice.