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I just finished developing an online shop for a UK based company who sell boxing sport facilities.The online shop’s web address is : http://www.mammothsports.co.ukThe website is developed from Zen-cart online shop software http://www.zen-cart.com which is really powerful and also open source. The software supplies excellent support for customed page layout, self-defined business process, and also brilliant support for different payment methods.Contributed by the zen-cart community, lots of plug-ins are or being developed to improve the online business software. For mammoth sports project, manager of the company wanted to charge extra money if customers desided to pay through paypal (price of the products is quite low, and paypal make charges over transactions into the company’s account) I took use of an “payment discount” plug-in and change the discount program code to realise the over charge function. Turned out working perfect!

Today let’s talk about politics other than the Internet.
A funny thing is, I was sitting on a bus this afternoon and suddently it just poped into my head that if I got a camera recoding everything aroud me, I might be able to catch something interesting. 10 minutes later, while the bus arrived muslim district on wilmslow road, I saw hundreds of muslim holding their religionary flags and some other stuff walking a march to the opposite direction. Some of them even slaped their own undressed chests in an orderly phalanx and shouted loutly at the same time. That’s when I took this video.

Apparently, they were extremlly unhappy with the cartoons satirizing their Prophet Mohammed, published by a Danish cartoonist. The protests are now all over European. Protesters even set Danish embassies on fire. Although medias claimmed they were just following the “free speech” rules and doing nothing wrong, some critics from western countries had been blaming the medias failed to realize their speech would certainly affect muslim’s religion emotions. It’s like you have the rights to curse, but if you used it in a wrong way, apologizes might be the best way to solve the problems. On the other hand, a muslim (7th Feb, metro news) had pointed out some muslim’s inappropriate behaviors, including burning the Danish embassies, being dressed like a suicide bomber and making death threats can do nothing good but just confirm the criticism in the cartoons.

So, a conclusion: You keep your free speech rights, and also your clear mind.

p.s. My voice was not in the discussion in video.

If you are a busy blogger, or a busy reader of bloggers, you must be exhausted with openning different websites, searching the articles you commented, and checking if the conservation still going on. But now, with coComment’s support, it is not an annoying problem to track all your’s comments accross the blogosphere. As described by the team, there are 3 funtions worth a mention.
1. Capture:coComment supplies you facilities to manage all your comments that you let “coComment” keep track with in one place, and the work could be simply done by just clicking a button on Links column just before you press submit button. Next time you login to coComment, all the comments of those articles you participated in are supposed to be gathered together on a special page as “your conversations”, and “that allows you to quickly see your comment and where it was posted, with a link to the original site“.
2. Share:According to their official website, coComment also allow you to publish your comments accross the blogosphere on your own blog. Your visitors will be able to see where you have been commenting recently and learn the value you have added to those conservation.
However, on one point I am doubting, why or will visitors be really interested in where you have recently being commenting? I mean except you are a very famous man or you made so great success in certain area, people want to know every conversation you have participated in because their curiosity, otherwise, they are usualy navigated from some other place and will left your blog just after reading certain articles. So from this point of view, it does not make that much sense to publish “your conversation” on your blog, again, if your blog is not that hot/popular! But there’s also an idea, if a blog is a topic oriented, you can make a topic oriented conservation on puspose, and publish them on your blog, by doing this way, i believe there is bigger chance the added-value will finally come true.
3. Alert:Since this tool is still in development status up to now, I can just get some idea from the introduction on coComment’s home page. The main idea is pretty much like a notifation tool to let user know what’s been added to a “particular discussion in real time“.
The work the coComment group have done by now is impressive, the service is doing great and the work to convince people is also being done quite well. So, let’s wait and see if it can be another “must have” for bloggers!

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another idea: will it be a good idea to let users define tags for their conversations? It can ease the search in future and also enrich the “share” function: visitors can choose a tag and only the conversation related with the tag would be displayed to them.

I was browsing websites through links posted on “1000tags another stupid - brilliant idea” (Michael Arrington, The TechCrunch when I got into a site named “The Million Dollor Homepage“. I sweared I laughed (well, smiled actually since I was in the library at the moment with people around me all reading) when I realized this was the funniest website I’d ever seen, not because the site is a tommy rot, just because it is a very “interesting” funny idea. The homepage is fullfilled with countless differently sized little tiny commercial images links laid one beside another tightly. There are no rules for page layout except “Be Full!”. And of course there is rulls for obtainning a little space for laying your own image. You want it? $1 per pixel! It is obvious the website was already sold out and the founder, a young man, had made great success by building such a simple stuff. 1,000,000 pixels in all?! Definitely another millionare! The funniest one