Yahoo Mail gets bigger

Yahoo Mail is planning to increase its mail storage somewhere around this May. Read the news here.

This is obviously a direct competition against Gmail who has storage space of 2.83 Gb and counting. If only they could increase the size of the file attachment... that would be helpful. After Yahoo Mail, could it be Flickr to be next in line to get an upgrade? Sounds possible to me.

heavy user?

I read this news today and chuckled...

Getting Net savvy
Finding a life on the Net

....Other findings from the survey include:

- Students and working professionals constitute most users, with students 23 per cent more likely than average to be heavy users (people who spend more than three hours online per day).

- Home followed by work or school are the two most common points of access for heavy users at 77 per cent and 73 per cent respectively.

NST 28 March 07

Heavy users were defined as people who spend more than 3 hours online. I think I will fall under the category of extremely heavy user ;) since most of the assignment, info searching etc were accomplished using Internet. In fact, the first thing in the morning I will be online to check for news and weather forecast. If only there were widespread of cheap broadband in Malaysia, there will be more people willing to use Internet as part of their daily life.

akhirnya siap...

At last, I managed to finish the draft. A lot of changes were made in the result section and I need to rewrote the whole discussion. Changing the result section requires me to recheck all those numbers and calculation. At the moment, I am tired of seeing those numbers again. In statistics, if you change one small figure, it will affect the whole calculation. Chain reaction. I will be waiting for the reply from my supervisor and hopefully, there won't be any major changes required.

draft

My supervisor asked me to send full draft on Tuesday morning. That is yesterday. Thus, I spend most of my time last weekend to write it. A full draft contains all the necessary things of a completed project; abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, conclusion and references. It was quite busy in the past few days. Bear in mind that my supervisor would like to publish this project in a medical journal. It was a tough job to do.

I only managed to complete it by early Tuesday morning. There are literally hundreds of mistakes and non-sense rambling in my writing. If you see me blogging or commenting at other blogs, that indicate I was stuck at writing :). I have no experience in writing an extremely long (my definition of long is something that is more than 5000 words) assignment before and to expect me to write something for publication, that is even more challenging.

This evening, my supervisor send me the edited version of the draft. There are many red marks in it and it requires significant improvement. I have to do additional literature review. Expect me to be extremely busy again. That does not mean I will stop blogging temporarily anyway ;)

p/s: let us pray that Intan can find her thumbdrive.

keywords

It is common for people to use search engine to search for info. Most of the new visitors to this blog arrived via google and yahoo. It is interesting to see what kind of keywords they search for. For the uninitiated, I am using Google Analytics to analyse all the web traffic data. The top keyword of this week is surprisingly 'Siti Fatimah Mukhtar'. I think this refer to the post I wrote here.

There were 16 searches about her. It is strange since in the post, the only word about her name was in the news snippet I pasted from NST.

Just to let you know, the top four keywords in 2006 were 'kembara di bumi melbourne', 'tunku kurshiah college', 'saladin animation malaysia' and 'xifu algebra'. Compare this with the top four keywords in this year (up until today); 'kembara di bumi melbourne', 'xifu and the algebra', 'cerpen faisal tehrani' and 'aliya murshida fotopages'.