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http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

I am impressed with the vast availability of information that available here. I recommend this site for those who are hunger with Information.

I wonder when my univ follow the steps to provide the lecture notes/tutorials/assignments to everyone. But would that defeat the purpose of people paying such a huge amount of money to pursue their degree? *grin*

I was a bit drowsy this morning in the office. So I quickly went to the pantry and took a cup of coffee from the vending machine. No coins are needed for this vending machine, thank you very much

After a few sips, I felt much better and started to think what does Wikipedia says about Caffeine. It is an interesting article really. Few things that I noted:

1. Smoking and drinking coffee IS NOT a good combination. Smoking will shorten the duration of the caffeine effect. So if you drank too much coffee and want to sleep, start puffing!! Bad news for those night watchers which I believe most of them drinking coffee and smoking during the night.
2. It took at most 45 minutes for the body to completely absorb and distribute the caffeine throughout your body
3. The caffeine will be active in your body for around 4 hours. It might be longer depends on the age, gender and weight. It is also noted that the effect last much longer for children and pregnant women
4. There has been success effort to purify caffeine and make them in powder form
5. Taking too much caffeine might kill you. Estimated around 100 cups of coffee needed. And you must drink this 100s cups in very short time (i.e. the hundredth cup should be drunken when the first cup is still in effect). Of course this is slightly impossible, unless of course, when you snort the powder mentioned before! Announced as the first person who presumed dead because of caffeine is not an achievement you know!

A few days back, a trackback was caught and held as a prisoner by Akismet. Since this is the first time I saw a trackback caught by Akismet, I spent a few minutes visiting the blog that sent the trackback.

Apparently the blog is indeed a splog. Basically it just grabbed the first 100s words from the blog post and published it there. A link to the original article also added at the end of the post. Quickly I judged the comment as a trackback from splog which the punishment is damnation to nothingness a.k.a. deletion. But after I clicked the Delete button, I pondered whether I judged fairly or not.

When I looked that blog for the second time, that blog actually never steal any content. It grabbed some words from the post, the post writer name also mentioned there, as well as the originated blog. It looks more like a blog aggregator than a splog.

To think of it, if we stripped out the commenting and digging/burying from Digg and replaced the user submitted summary into machine generated one, I think Digg will not stand out that far from the splog that sent me a trackback.

So does this mean we can make a splog, add few widgets, maybe build a mini community, and finally ‘legally’ called it a blog aggregator?