Philip Nicosia

When Nikki was evicted in Week 8 of the show I was really shocked. My girlfriend and I just couldn’t believe it and I don’t think we were alone. When she left the Big Brother house she was greeted with the loudest cheers and chants of “Nikki”, “NiKki” and Davina also commented saying it was like a final night and she had never seen anything like this before.

So how did she go? Who on earth voted for her?

The house didn’t seem the same after she left. We missed her constant tantrums and her funny ways with words. But all is not lost.

Channel 4 have decided to put 4 of the previously evicted housemates back into the house next door and as always we get to decide who so if you want to see Nikki again then join us in voting for her to go back in.

The housemates you can nominate to go back in are:

Grace
Jayne
Lea
Lisa
Michael
Mikey
Nikki
Sam
Spiral
Susie

Davina made a comment that for “legal reasons” Bonnie and Sezer weren’t going to be allowed to go back in. What’s that all about?

I have a memory like a sieve now so I am always forgetting important things like meetings, birthdays and generally things that I need to do. Something I always do though is read my email everyday so I thought it would be a good idea to get email reminders that would nag me enough so I wouldn’t forget anything.

Enter OnlineReminders.net.

As the name suggests once you enter in a reminder online and it will email you once a week with everything you have to do that week, the day before you need to do something and just in case that hasn’t got through to your brain it will email you the day of the event.

Not even I can forget things now. It’s also got a great Goal Planner where you can keep track of goals and see how they are going. For me its indispensable. Although this site was primarily for my use it is open to anyone who wishes to join and although it is setup to charge people for the service it is and will remain free.

So if you have trouble remembering things as well why not take a look.

Google looks like it has updated it webmaster sitemaps tool and added a few new features.

I notice you can now set a preference to have your site show up with or without the www in front of your domain. They may save a lot of problems with duplicate content where webmasters haven’t setup redirects and have identical pages for both www and without.

I also noticed a crawl rate link which is maybe something for the future as it goes to a 404 page not found.

On the main diagnostics page for your site it also alerts you to any problem areas you may have whereas before you had to dig a little deeper before you found those.

All in all some nice little changes and worth a look.

It seems that not a day goes by when I don’t get an email telling me I’ve won a lottery that I haven’t even entered. How lucky am I?

Of course these are all scams and all there after is your money. Below is the latest one I got.

“Dear Beneficiary,

We happily notify you of the draw of the Email Lottery Ballot - World Gaming Board Sweepstakes program held on the 1st of Aug, 2006. Your email address attached to our Lottery payment order, had the following particulars:(i) Ticket Nr. DZNL 492 - 714 - 027 / 2006; (ii) Lucky Nrs. 09, 22, 36, 61, 63, 79, 84; (iii) Reference Nr. NUWL / DZNL / 48326MST; (iv) Batch Nr.:DTOW 1396 62U7A; which consequently won you this lottery in the 1st category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of One Million Euro only, in cash credited to your File Reference number as quoted above. This is from a total cash prize of Fifty Million Euro only, shared amongst the fifty winners in this category.

All participants were selected randomly from the internet through the computer draw system, extracted from over 140 countries that are listed, online. Microsoft Corporation, to encourage some individuals with websites and email addresses promoted this lottery which takes place at this time, of every three years.

The payment authority of your prize - One Million Euro only - already paid and insured in your name with our Paying bank will be issued to effect immediate/swift transfer in the mode you will prefer and nominate, upon satisfactory report on your identity verification and validation recommendation by our Claims Department.

We are proud to inform you that, over 200 million Euro are won annually in more than 140 countries worldwide, as a result of our promotional programmes.

Due to the mixup of certain names, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential until your claim has been processed and your money paid to you. All winnings must be claimed not later than 30th of Sept, 2006. After this date, all unclaimed funds will be withdrawn.“

The sad thing is though that people do fall for these emails and can end up loosing a lot of money. If you ever get one of these emails just forward it to scams@fraudwatchinternational.com and then delete the email. 

It’s always satisfying to get search engine hits for any site but especially for a new one. Over the last couple of days I’ve noticed that Google has been sending me visitors for a variety of search terms relating to unlocking the Sony Ericsson Edge card in my Sony VGA UX180P.

I’m actually quite surprised about this as looking at the results although I am in the top 10 there are better and more informative sites there.

Still, its nice to be indexed and even nicer to get hits even if I’m not making any money from this site.