Niner Niner Sandbox

I really love to write anything i want to say,comment,even if its sometimes not that often.Niner maybe can help me developed my skills on writting.And its enjoyable that everytime you post something theres a reward.You might try this by your self.Its more fun and you can express your self in every categories you choose.Go NINER..

This is the first time i joined this blog…At first i cant relate to this,but later i enjoyed writing and publish what i want to say about the categories,I did not paid yet of niner because im just starting,but i enjoyed everything and anything i write,eventough im not that perfect in grammar or my english is not that atleast somehow i can express my point of view in a very simple way…Its not important i think how complicated your grammar is,the important thing is that in a simlpliest way you can say what you wanna say trough writing…RIGHT?

Microsoft is offering $10,000 as a prize for not using Firefox! Yes, really! From the site:

We’ve buried $10,000 somewhere on the Internet and if you’re the first one to find it, you get to keep it.
But you’ll never find it using old Firefox.
(So get rid of it, or get lost.)

A shot at $10,000 or a stable browser that works? Nice try, Microsoft!

I feel a bit like the popular kids says we can borrow his awesome convertible, but only if we promise not to hang out with that nerdy kid anymore.

Via Ten Grand is Buried Here | Microsoft Australia.

Any of you NN newbies also a personal blogger? Yeah, I thought so! You can use your personal blog to get a free pair of jeans! Here are the details:

Do you want new jeans? Do you have a blog? Thimbler is looking for fifteen trend-setting, plus-size bloggers to order a FREE pair of jeans from Thimbler and then blog honestly about your new jeans and the Thimbler shopping experience. That’s right, free jeans for blogging about your free jeans!

We’re looking for bloggers who usually have trouble finding jeans that fit. Is that you?

You must be fashionable, plus size (doesn’t say exact weight) and have a blog, and leave a comment at Free Jeans For Fifteen Bloggers at Thimbler.

I have been working on niner blogs for last 5 months now; this will be my 5th month…When I started I failed to reach the minimum payout as some of my posts were deleted (although I did not understand the reasons, but I have no issues with niner as such). I have been paid three times and one of my friends joined on my reference and been paid once. Last month; I introduced two of my friends to this blog network and they have also reached the minimum payout in May’09 and hopeful for getting payment this month…

Surprisingly, niner has delayed the payment and as of now no one has been paid to my knowledge. I am not worried, because I have always been paid from niner.

Niner still remains my favorite; they have a forum to discuss various topics, I love participating in those discussions quite often…one more member has been quite active in forums; she is Esper D…we interact with each other through this forum…

Everyone should encourage others to join niner, because it’s one of the rare get pait to post sites.

I’d like to direct you all to my friend Tricia’s new webcomic, Swiftriver. Swiftriver started a couple months ago, so start with the first comic and follow the story of Bowie Swiftriver. Check it out, leave Tricia a comment or two, and when you start seeing people walking around in Bowie Swiftriver t-shirts, remember I told you about it right in the beginning!

Via Simpson’s Paradox » Swiftriver.

The new online kids’ game GardenParty World is almost ready, and Victoria from Asylum was nice enough to send me an email introducing me to the beta.

I checked out the game, which is billed as a safe, multiplayer world for kids. Garden Party is a collection of minigames, which can be played interactively or alone, at which you win the local Garden Party currency, Orbs. The concepts of the games were cute, and able to be played interactively or solo, but I’m not really the target demographic, so I found them a bit repetitive and simplistic. I didn’t really like the ratio of orbs to mingames, as I felt forced to play boring minigames to make the cash for the fun part of Garden Party, the garden. I don’t really need a game for the opportunity to do something not-so-fun to make money to do fun things… I think that’s called having a job.

Via Garden Party World on Simpson’s Paradox.

Herobits is a new CCG about heroes who – no, wait, it’s not exactly a collectible card game. Although it has many of the elements of your usual CCG, there are no booster packs and no looking for rares in sealed packs (known to jaded gamers as kidding gambling). To play, you need two players, each with one fifty-card deck.

Via Upcoming Herobits on Thumb Gods.

You play as one Sim, not a household, and the story is much more linear than the PC versions.

It’s also no longer a sandbox game. Players have limited control over
hotel guests, but important penthouse guests arrive, check in, and send
players on unavoidable missions. I happened to like the penthouse
missions, especially goth cultist Ava Cadarva, but it wasn’t the
almost-unlimited sandbox play style we knew and loved in other Sims games.

Via Visiting Strangetown: Sims 2 on the DS on Simpson’s Paradox.

Although I was super excited to get my review copy of the Princess Bride game, I wasn’t sure whether I would automatically like this game because it’s based on the Princess Bride, or hate it because it’s based on the Princess Bridedifferent. (see also: why I dislike movies based on books I liked)

Via Princess Bride Game on Simpson’s Paradox.

I recently heard about Ancient Secrets over on GameHouse. You play as Kate, a young archeologist, who is following her father’s footsteps in the search for the lost key of the Tekka. Kate needs to gather solves puzzles to gather clues to find pieces of the key. I kind of wish my dad would get some ancient artifacts and leave an worldwide treasure hunt, but, Dad, you probably shouldn’t rely on my Latin skills.

Via Ancient Secrets on Simpson’s Paradox.

What makes Nancy Drew: Lights, Camera, Curses! a girls’ game is the female protagonist. It’s not pink, it’s not cutesy, there are no magic animal friends, there is no shopping. Let me repeat that in case you were skimming. This game is not pink.

Via Nancy Drew: Lights, Camera, Curses on Simpson’s Paradox.

I was predisposed to like the new Wizard 101 game. It’s not exactly a secret that I love Harry Potter, and the game promises to be a wizard school MMOPRG. The game is adorable from the first loading screen. They’ve got a Wizard 101 gallery on the website, but it doesn’t do justice to the fantastic sketch drawings and handwritten notes, or the cheery game characters.

Via Wizard 101 on Simpson’s Paradox.

I’m lucky enough to do a lot of my work via my laptop, so I’ve been looking around for a local coffeeshop with wifi. I’ve been shopping around, and discovered that Borders, Barnes&Noble and Starbucks all charge for internet. (I don’t know if this is a new worldwide trend or if I’m just spoiled by the free wifi in Chinese Starbucks but it’s pretty lame either way.)

Then I discovered The Chocolate Bean. The Chocolate Bean looks a bit like Cafe Zarah in Beijing, with the monochrome modern furniture, but without the odd sandwiches, and with a gourmet chocolate counter and a gelato bar like this one we visited in Rome. It’s like a hip living room.

What do you think?

Via The Chocolate Bean on Simpson’s Paradox.

On Chinese Taxi Drivers…

One of them suggested 100 RMB to go home, and when I said that was too expensive, he asked me to say a price.

“60 kwai,” I said.

“10,” he responded.

“No, no, you’ve got it all wrong. You say the higher numbers, I say the lower numbers,”

Read the end at  Simpson’s Paradox:International Trade Relations on Simpson’s Paradox.

Kristine got a cute little red-bellied newt! Like a good roommate, I devoted a lot of time and attention to naming her new pet, even though I don’t like him as much as I like Yucatan.

“How about Gingrich?” Stick suggested.

“No way,” I told him, not mentioning that that has to be the second oldest gag in the herpetology jokebook. “Kristine names all of her critters after places,”

“What about Newton the newt? Or Beirut the newt?”

“I’m going to call him Tiny,” Kristine said.

“Tiny? Why?” I asked, walking into the oldest joke in the bio-geek book.

“Because he’s my newt.”

Via Minute Humor on Simpson’s Paradox.