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After a hard day’s work, I really appreciate a good laugh. It’s been a very long time since I’ve laughed at something being displayed on my monitor, so when this happened. I just got to share it: Identical twins canot be trusted!

Hope this puts a smile on your face

Writing is a form of expression, you can express ideas, opinions, observations and other brain products. Of course, having an idea of what to write is only the beginning. Personally, I always find the “theming” process of writing to be more challenging.

Basically, there are a few writing themes that are commonly used. Some of the more popular ones are:

• Informative (analytic and scientific, mostly boring to readers outside the specific target audience)
• Creative (fiction seems to be among the most creative literature)
• Opinionated (advocates a point of view; may seem biased but is good food for thought if you take a neutral stance)

Humour is also a writing theme… and it’s like a double-edged sword. Some might “get it” while others might be lost on the idea. Some people might even find it down right offensive!

However, executed brilliantly, humour can be a pretty effective writing theme. You can blend information, creativity and opinions and serve it wrapped in humour. Believe me, everyone appreciates good humour.

While scouring the web for an example of good writing presented humourously, I stumbled upon Pet Diaries.

In this written piece, the author highlights the contrasting approach to life held by two common household pets; a dog and a cat. It seems to be a complex blend of informative, creative and opinionated writing yet it’s easily digested even by readers with even the shortest attention span.

I won’t spoil the fun for you… read it yourself! After that, tell me what you think about the piece. You should know by now that I love hearing from my readers

I’m still on Raya holiday, so I decided to make this a short and sweet link sharing post.

• Reprogram your body’s responses to common irritants
• Web 2.0 seems to requires all sorts of “generators”… here are a hundred of them
• I can’t believe that these works of art are cut from one piece of paper!
• Like to do online tests? TESTdex lists hundreds of them!
• Free Open Source Software saves you money and gives you absolute freedom of choice when it comes to your software. Check out open source alternatives to commercial software and see what you’re missing

Enjoy the links!

To all Muslim readers of HTNet, “Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri”, “Happy Eid-Mubarrak”, “Selamat Hari Lebaran”… take your pick

The important thing is to enjoy the spirit of the day itself.

Feedburner is an awesome service for web sites that publishes RSS feeds. One area it’s particularly good at is at collecting and presenting statistics about your feeds.

If you use Feedburner, you probably have the Feedburner chicklet displaying the number of subscribers to your feed. It looks something like this:

Have you ever wanted to get the number of subscribers in plain old text to be used in your web pages? If you want to know how to do this in PHP, continue reading.

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