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Yesterday I saw some shocking images on TV when I was watching BBC’s Match of The Day.
In the match between Arsenal and Birmingham City, Eduardo da Silva broke his leg after a mean tackle by Martin Taylor from Birmingham.

Only 3 minutes in the play he tackled Eduardo. He’s certainly out for the rest of the season and maybe his whole football career is at stake. I certainly hope he’ll be back as soon as possible.
With this injury he even can’t go to the European Championship in a couple of months.

Arsenals manager Arsene Wenger was furious after Taylor’s tackle and said that Taylor has to be banned from playing football ever again. But after the match when everyone calmed down a bit he took back his words.
Martin Taylor himself is devastated with Eduardo’s injury and hopes he gets well soon.

This reminds me of a Belgian player who played in the Premier League for Sheffield Wednesday a couple of years back. Luc Nilis had to end his career after he collided with another player.  Hopefully Eduardo can play again!

On YouTube you can find some clips showing the tackle and replay, but I’m not going to show you these ones. I found another movie with still images of the tackle.
I warn you, if you’re little bit faint herded, don’t push play!!!

Stumbling Friday is an idea a came up with a few weeks back. I push the stumble button 5 times and whatever page I land on after the 5th push, I will create a post about it.
But to involve my readers I’m going to randomly pick 1 commentator out of every 5 comments. This commentator will get his site/blog stumbled by me and hopefully this will bring in some extra traffic to his/her site/blog. So far I stumbled every commentator who left a message on 1 of my Stumbling Friday posts. Last week I didn’t received a comment on my “Stumbling Friday – 10 Free tools every IT needs” post, but the offer still counts.

Today the fifth stumble was pretty nice, I stumbled upon the Phun download page.
Phun is a fun 2D physics playground. Just create some squares or rectangles and other things and then push the play button to let the physics do the work.
Phun is written by Emil Ernerfeldt and written and coded in C++ using OpenGL, GLEW, SDL (for window management), SDL_image (for reading images) and boost, including boost_filesystem.
Phun is meant to be a playground where people can be creative. It can also be used as an educational tool to learn about physics concepts such as restitution and friction.
You can download the beta version to test it out yourself and I must say it’s a lot of fun if you play around with it. Watch the video to see an example of what you can do with it.
Have fun playing with it, I know I will.

Remember if you leave a comment here, maybe your site/blog will get stumbled by me!

Last week I received a mail from a sales person at IGEL, telling that if I needed some tickets to attend CeBit, I just had to send her a mail and she’ll send some. I immediately mailed back to thank her and told her that tickets are always welcome. This Monday I received a letter with 5 tickets I can use to go to CeBit. Thx to the nice people at IGEL and especially my contact person there.

You don’t know what CeBit is?

CeBIT is the world’s largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments. The key target groups are users from industry, the wholesale/retail sector, skilled trades, banks, the services sector, government agencies, science and all users passionate about technology. CeBIT offers an international platform for comparing notes on current industry trends, networking, and product presentations.
Deutsche Messe AG has organized CeBIT in Hannover each spring since 1986. Over 6,200 exhibitors from around 70 countries and some 430,000 visitors from all over the world attended the last CeBIT.
This year, I will be one of these 430.000 visitors.
CeBit will open its doors at Hannover, Germany from March 4 until March 9.

I will take some pictures while I’m there to make some posts out of it afterwards.

What about you, is anyone of you going?

Just about a month ago I joined Entrecard. What a ride it was so far. And I thought it’s about time to show the list which brought the most clicks to my site until now.
I don’t know about you, but at first I didn’t pay any attention to sites where I was going to put my card on. So some where a total waste of the Entrecard credits, but some were not.

One of these sites proved to be my number one click generator.
After this I’ve started out buying ads at a few of the cards displayed on the most recommended page.
A few of them approved my ad and a few didn’t. 3 weeks back I even got a mail saying my card was approved for John Chow’s (no introduction needed) site. Hell I even dedicated a post to it, saying my card was on JohnChow.com.
In that post I stated that I was happy to just reach about 50 clicks from his site. Well I came pretty close, 44 to be exactly.

So here’s my top 10, listed from 10 to 1.

No. 10: Cool Contest blog, paid 2 EC, got 14 clicks, costs 4 EC today.
No. 9: ShopDogDiaries, paid 213 EC, got 15 clicks, costs 237 EC today.
No. 8: EZ-OnlineIncome, paid 2 EC, got 15 clicks, costs 68 EC today.
No. 7: Marketingdeviant, paid 277 EC, got 16 clicks, costs 250 EC today.
No. 6: The Coolest Gifts, paid 2 EC, got 16 clicks, costs 4 EC today.
No. 5: Mixed Market Arts, paid 50 EC, got 18 clicks, costs 88 EC today.
No. 4: Daily Stock Picks, paid 60 EC, got 32 clicks, costs 285 EC today.
No. 3: Thinredline, paid 242 EC, got 42 clicks, costs 246 EC today.
No. 2: John Chow dot com, paid 248 EC, got 44 clicks, costs 236 EC today.
And on Number ONE:
No. 1: My Internet Marketing Adventures, paid 232 EC, got 111 clicks, costs 100 EC today.

One of the fastest growers in this list is Daily stock picks, a few weeks back he asked me to create him an Entrecard card like mine, a big red button, but with his custom text on it. From then on the amount you’ll have to pay to advertise on his site kept on growing and growing. Talking about how to get your site in the spotlight, he did wonderfull.

So what does this list say?
You don’t have to pay much to get some decent exposure for your site, you just have to find out where to advertise your ad. You can take the risk with paying a lot and not getting that much clicks in return, or search for that site that will give you some good hits for a bit of EC. If you take all into account, maybe my No. 6 and No. 10 gave the most clicks for the EC I’ve paid.
So maybe it’s even better paying 50 site 4 EC then paying 1 site 200 EC?

But I really want to see some similar lists like this popping up. Maybe we can find some very well hidden traffic generator sites within the Entrecard community?
Did you share yours? Or share it here in a comment.

Today the 5th stumble I came across with was Mikel Alexander’s ComputerSight website and more particularly his 10 free tools every IT needs post.
With this list he’ll explains the tools he’s using every day so he can do his job on an easier way.
I’m glad I came by this stumble because I’m in the IT myself, so I can compare it with my knowledge and tools I use daily.

1. Logmein.
He’s right about this. If you’ll have to give some remote support and Microsoft’s RDP isn’t working, this is for sure one tool you can use to check the remote system.

2. PSTools from Microsoft.
With these tools you can info from remote systems via the command prompt. I’m not using these tools in particular. If I need some quick remote info I mostly use the ‘rexec’ command. This also allows you to execute commands on a remote machine and display the result on your command prompt. It’s a bit like the ‘net admin’ command like on IBM’s OS/2 environment, but the ‘net admin’ command is much much better.

3. Ultimate boot CD.
Again a tool you can’t live without if you’re working in the IT. A series of useful tools burned on 1 bootable CD so you can for example rescue your disk, recover deleted files, …
I’m using Hiren’s boot CD for this. It’s pretty similar, but I think it’s easier to use, but that’s my personal opinion.

4. Daemon tools.
For me personal this is the first tool I install after a fresh install of my OS. A few weeks back I Installed Vista Enterprise x64 and had some trouble installing the latest version of daemon tools. So a little tip for those who have the same trouble, don’t install the latest version of Daemon Tools on your Vista 64-bit, but install version V4.09HE. This version has an older STPD driver then the newest Daemon Tools and that’s the reason why it didn’t work on my 64 bit Vista. Oh, Daemon tools is a virtual CD/dvd rom player where you can mount images with. I can’t live without it!

5. Firefox.
I admit it’s a lot better than Internet Explorer, and although I also installed it, I use Maxthon browser for my daily surfing pleasure. I started using Maxthon somewhere in 2004. You can read all about this in my previous post: “Ever heard of Maxthon?”
Firefox I most of the times use for the great plugins it have for when your developing a new website. The Firebug and Web Development tool is a must install tool for FF.

6. AutoIt.
I never heard of this before, but I’m certainly going to take a closer look into it. On first sight it can come in handy for tasks that are always the same.

7. USB Apps.
This can be taken very broadly, but I think he most likely means the portable apps. They surely can come in handy for repairs.

8. TrueCrypt.
If you don’t want that other can read your files, this is the tool to use.

9. Synergy.
With this tool you can use the same mouse and keyboard on multiple pc’s with their own monitor. You just move your mouse pointer from 1 screen/pc to your other screen/pc.
Very handy.

10. CCleaner.
Cleans your temp files and your registry for not needed or used regkey’s.
I use regclean for this, but Regclean doesn’t clean temp files.

In the whole we both use the same or very similar tools, like I expect most of the system engineers will. If you got some other great freeware tools, that are worth a look, leave a comment and I’ll certainly look into it.

Remember from every 5 comments in my Stumbling Friday posts, I’ll choose one winner who’ll get his/her site stumbled by me.

On the last Stumbling Friday post, sadly there was only 1 commentator, but this made it very easy to pick a winner. Thx for the comment Sarah, hope you’ll receive some traffic from my stumble.