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As my previous post of “I have won 1.5 million pounds”, I’ve found some interesting fact about the chances of a winning lottery. I’m usually telling my friends that the chance to hit the jackpot is begin struck by lightning “twice”. But the fact is unbelievable and fun! Check it out in WebMath.com.

Here are some other odds for the sake of comparison:
- You have about a 1 in 2,000,000 chance of being struck by lightning.
- A pregnant woman has a 1 in 705,000 chance of giving birth to quadruplets.
- Someone eating an oyster has a 1 in 12,000 chance of finding a pearl inside of it.

Google has been launched its Free Web-Based Spreadsheet recently, provide an online spreadsheet editing platform for everyone and for those still filling up his “piggy coin bank” for a Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003. It has the basic functions such as formatting, sorting and formulas. Upload your own CSV or XLS files won’t void your document’s formatting and you’ll never lose your works when there is a power failure since Google Web-Based Spreadsheet is an online storage with auto-save feature.

Google Web-Based Spreadsheet | source

The international version of Google.com search engine has been blocked by China’s firewall due to its uncensored contents. However, people in China still able to use the censored Chinese version of Google search engine, Google.cn, but put Google news and Gmail hanging outside the Great Wall.
I’m personally agreed to the censorship of contents against pornography and terrorism but not to the world’s news.

The Google.com search engine has been blocked in most parts of China, as Beijing steps up its efforts to restrict the public’s access to information, a Paris-based media watchdog said.
Random attempts to access Google.com in Beijing appeared to confirm that the international version of the search engine had indeed been made unavailable, while the censored Chinese-language version, Google.cn, was still accessible.
Google.cn was launched in January amid much controversy because the company agreed to censor its service according to the wishes of China’s propaganda chiefs.
Software such as Dynapass, Ultrasurf, Freegate and Garden Networks is normally used to gain access to news and information that is blocked by the firewall isolating China from the rest of the worldwide web.

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Good news for Mac user as Apple is integrating the iWeb blogging software for its new MacBook. iWeb is part of the iLife program and it provide various of Apple-designed blogging templates to suite your blog style. It makes blogging and podcasting easy with one-click publishing to your “.MAC” account. For current Mac or PC user, Qumana may be your best offline blogging software now, but iWeb just got more and better functions.

Sharing your website with the world is now one-click simple. With iWeb and a .Mac membership, you can publish your entire website - complete with blog entries, photo albums, links to Photocasts, movies, and podcasts - to the Internet in a single click. No configuration, no hassle. Just click “Publish” and iWeb automatically publishes your entire site to the Internet, where anyone with a web browser can see it. iWeb even lets you announce your website via email so friends and family stay in the loop.

MacBook iWeb | Qumana | source