Google's blog hosting platform suffers outage

"After getting hacked this past weekend, Google's Blogger publishing service suffered an outage on Thursday morning that kept both Blogger.com and the Blogspot hosting service offline for two hours."

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A Fourth Person Contracts Botulism From Organic Carrot Juice

Investigators believe botulism toxin from bottled carrot juice paralyzed a woman, the fourth person thought to be poisoned by bacteria in the drink. Botulism poisoning symptoms include double vision, droopy eyelids, trouble speaking or swallowing and paralysis on both sides of the body that progresses from the neck down.

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Yahoo and Google Search Engines Combined

There's a new site out, that combines the power of Google and Yahoo search engines, and its called Gahooyoogle. You enter your search at www.gahooyoogle.com, and it actually splits the screen in two, showing results from Google on one side, and Yahoo on the other. Check it out.

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Jewelry made from Modified Ectoplasmic Giant Madagascar Hissing Cockroach

They are decorated with the finest Austrian Swarovski crystal. Each roach takes about an hour of painstaking work to achieve his final magical glory. All roaches are male to ensure sterility, and come complete with a leash set that clasps to the cockraoch's carapace to keep him from running amok

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PETA Upset at Roach Eating Contest

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants Six Flags Great America to scrap its Halloween-themed cockroach-eating promotion.

A spokeswoman for the animal rights organization says the contest at the amusement park's FrightFest is "gratuitously cruel."

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Blogger Forum Switches To Wordpress

Since Google provides no (or little) support, frustrated users have been flocking to Bloggerforum for advice and technical help. But now apparently even the people at blogger-forum have had it with blogspot and have endorsed Wordpress as their platform of choice.

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Obscure Robert Frost poem discovered

NEW YORK - An unpublished Robert Frost poem, a tribute to a friend killed during World War I, has been rediscovered and will appear next week in the fall issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review, the University of Virginia announced Wednesday

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Rose DesRochers - Bizarre News

Home of the strangest, the most humorous, bizarre, extreme, weird, and off-beat news stories. News from top news sources, updated throughout the day. Start your day the Bizarre way!

http://www.rosedesrochers.net

Rose DesRochers

Safer Internet Day - Working to make the Internet Safe for Children

Canadians- We need your help

Please take a moment to sign this on-line petition which calls for the declaration of February 7th as “Safer Internet Day”. We hope the Canadian Parliament will make this declaration and dedicate that day’s government business to finding ways to make the internet safer for kids.

So far, 37 countries and over 100 not-for-profit organizations and corporations endorse “Safer Internet Day” where the issues of Internet safety are discussed in Parliaments, in the media, and among concerned citizens. Canada and the US are surprisingly absent from this list.

To sign the petition, please click on the following link:Creating a safer Internet.

To find our more about KINSA (or to help our cause with a donation), please click on the following link: www.kinsa.net

Please blog about the petition and send it to your friends and family. Together we can make the internet safer for children. I’ve done my part, won’t you do yours?

Rose DesRochers

Shawn and Rose DesRochers launch Blog Community

My husband and I have launched Blogger Talk Blog Community. Blogger Talk is a friendly fast growing blogging portal, offering bloggers support, advice, tools, tips and information about blogs and blogging. Blogger Talk is a community that is made up of those who blog for personal pleasure and those that blog professionally. At this time we have an interactive blog forum, blogging articles, blog themes & templates, blog books and a blog directory, and blog platform reviews and blog resources. New features that we will be adding are blog tools and blog tutorials, SEO tools to check your pagerank and backlinks,RSS Button Generator, Search Engine Submission, Robots.txt Generator, Online PDF Creator, Email Encoder and HEX & RGB Color Charts, free templates, free pagerank graphics and many more features.

The Blogger Talk Mission: To assist bloggers in not only improving their blog, but their blogging experience as well. If you are a blogger, why not join bloggertalk.net? It's Good to talk "Blogger Talk."

Rose DesRochers

Blogger Talk Review

A few days ago I was asked to write a review of the new blogger forum known as bloggertalk.net. This might sound like I'm already selling out to the highest bidder so early in my blogging carrier by agreeing to do so but that is not true. McDonalds and Sony paid me just as much for their reviews as bloggertalk.net. The truth is I am not getting paid for this (but I am still holding out for my own body weight in cheese) but bloggertalk.net is a site that I regularly use.

One of the first things you will notice when visiting the BloggerTalk.net forum is the friendly atmosphere. There are a number of regulars (including the sites creators) who are always willing to share advice and make new users feel welcome. The forum has already displayed very good spam control which has helped to build its community.

However, the site is much more then just a forum. It includes an extensive blog directory (which users can add to), a download a section with useful resources and regularly published articles about all aspects of blogging. All of which is put together in an easy to navigate site.

The site is still in it infancy (at the time of writing) but it is already proving to be a useful resource for bloggers of all levels; from beginners to professionals.

- Stuart

Rose DesRochers Locked Out

I can't access my blog "Rose DesRochers - World Outside my Window" from the new host for todays-woman.net as my ISP has not updated its DNS records. It's frustrating the heck out of me. So what my ISP is doing is pointing my blog to the old server. I think I'll scream as I'm having blogging withdrawals here.

Rose DesRochers

Rose DesRochers Review: Windows Live Spaces

Blogger Juha Saarinen has found out that ‘Windows Live Spaces’ censorships your thoughts. According to the blogger, apparently the word porn is prohibited on Windows Live Spaces.
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Support Team Nova- Mothers with Angels - Blogger Erin Monahan

On September 16, 2006, Blogger Erin Monahan will join others on a three mile course through Charlotte to raise money for cardiac research. Erin hopes to raise $3,000.00. Please join her fight against Congenital Heart Defects.



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Paul Youngson Trades Rope to Support Adults with Congenital Heart Disorders

Paul Youngson has undertaken an 18 month quest to trade a piece of old rope for something better. At the end of 18 months he plans to auction of the final item and give all of the proceeds to a charity that supports adults with congenital heart disorders.

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JonBenet Ramsey's Killer Found!

A man arrested in Thailand is being held in connection with the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

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Rose DesRochers: Sex Sells

Apparently one blogger is appalled at the topics that I blog about. Her comment reads “In reguards to her recent posts, I’m appalled by the amount of sex she has on there. You find less sex on porn sites!”

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Internet Providers to Battle Child Porn

Five leading online service providers will jointly build a database of child pornography images and develop other tools to help network operators and law enforcement better prevent distribution of the images.

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Google's Blogger service unblocked (again) in China

Google Inc.'s free Web log service, Blogger, is once again accessible from Beijing without the use of a proxy server, indicating that apparent government efforts to block the site have been lifted.


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BookSurge possible target

North Charleston-based publisher BookSurge LLC said Wednesday that a hacker possibly infiltrated its computer system and gained account information on tens of it's customers.

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Psst! Secret JFK documents for sale

New email scam offers gullible web users access to supposedly secret KGB files on the JFK's assassination.

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