Transparency International (TI) has just released the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2009. The CPI shows a country’s ranking and score, the number of surveys used to determine the score, and the confidence range of the scoring.

The rank shows how one country compares to others included in the index. The CPI score indicates the perceived level of public-sector corruption in a country/territory.

Indonesia this year ranked at #111 with score 2.8 out of 10 up a little bit compared to last year at #126. Singapore is at #3 after New Zealand (#1) and Denmark (#2).

When do you think Indonesia will get 8+ score and reach the top ten?

Obama to Visit Indonesia in 2010, Wants to Bring First Lady, Daughters to “Old Haunting Grounds”
After meeting with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President Obama said he accepted an invitation to visit the world’s most populous Muslim nation next year.

“I am very excited about our prospects for deepening relations in the future, and I want to make sure everybody knows that I intend to be visiting Indonesia next year,” Obama said at the Shangri-La Hotel here, where he conducted a one-on-one meeting with Yudhoyono on the sidelines of the APEC summit here.

12 TKWs (Tenaga Kerja Wanita, domestic helper from Indonesia) were tortured and unpaid in Malaysia yet again.

Creating sitemap for self-hosted Wordpress is easy. You just need to install Google Sitemap Plugins which you can download for free.

Make no mistake, creating a sitemap for blogger.com / blogspot is even easier if you only know how. Basically creating sitemap need two steps: (i) Verification, to verify that you own the blog and (ii) Submitting Sitemap, to tell the search engine about your blog and every articles you have written. In return, Google search will tell the world about them (your blog and the contents) after the two procedures are done.

Now, follow these simple steps if you run a blog in blogger.com / blogspot:

First step: Verification

• Login to your blogger.com account.
• Scroll-down and find out  “Webmaster Tools” -> click it. If you coudn’t find it, click here (remeber to click this link after login to your account).
• Now, you have verified your blog. Congrats!

Second step: Submit the sitemap

• You now have entered into Webmaster tools area. Find your blog URL there and click it. Example,  I clcik -> mysite.blogspot.com
• In the Dashboard click “Site Configuration -> Sitemaps -> click “Submit a Sitemap”
• There will be your blog address like http://mysite.blogspot.com/–blankboxhere–
• Copy and paste this code in the blankbox -> atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
• Click “Submit Sitemaps”. Done.

Congratulations! Now you have told Google search about the first 100 posts of your blog contents.

Important: If you have more than 100 articles, say 200, repeat the second step and submit another Sitemap by changing the number into 101 and 200 like this one: atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=200

Likewise, if you have 300 articles in your blog, you have to submit three sitemaps. The third sitemaps should be like this: atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=201&max-results=300

Repeat the process and submit more sitemaps if you have hundreds of articles or even thousands of postings.

Wish you luck!

I still can’t understand why some people, kids and grown-ups alike, love playing games (PS, xbox, etc) so much. Are you one of them? via AP
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — First-day sales of Activision Blizzard Inc.’s “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2″ broke records, raking in an estimated $310 million in North America and the United Kingdom alone.

The video game went on sale all over the world on Tuesday, but Activision provided figures Thursday only for North America and Britain. The company estimates that it sold about 4.7 million copies of the game in the first 24 hours in those markets, making it the biggest-selling launch in the history of entertainment.

The latest installment in the “Call of Duty” action franchise was expected to at least match last year’s “Grand Theft Auto IV,” which was the most successful video game release in history and at the time may have been the top entertainment launch ever.

Blogsome.com is a free wordpress-hosted blog which still use the old Wordpress MU. So, you won’t find any widget here. That’s said, some people are still using Blogsome because it’s a bit like blogger.com in the sense (a) you may insert adsense or any other javascript based ads; and (b) you have the freedom to access and change the html codes in the css, index, single post and comments something you won’t find in any other wordpress based free services.

For example, you may ‘hack’ your blogsome.com to create Sitemap as follows:

1. After login -> Manage -> Pages -> Create new Pages -> in the Page Title name it “Sitemap” -> click “Create New Page”
2. Click “Manage” -> Files -> index.html (by default)
3. In the index.html, find this code: {$content}
4. Copy and paste the following code below it:

{if $smarty.server.REQUESTURI == ‘/sitemap/’} <h2>Site map</h2 <ul>{wplistpages}</ul> <h2>Categories</h2> <ul>{listcats optionall=’1′ all=’All’ sortcolumn=’name’ optioncount=’0′ children=’0′}</ul> <h2>Posts</h2> <ul>{getarchives type=’postbypost’ limit=” format=’html’}</ul> {/if}

5. Click “Update Tempalte”. Done.

I used to use All in One Seo Pack for this blog, but now I am using Platinum SEO Pack plugins for this site and some others. See the plugins “Features” to know why.

Name of plugins: Platinum SEO Pack

Author: Rajesh

Main functionality: Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

Other features:

* Automatic 301 redirects for any permalink changes
* Canonical URLs
* Optimized Post and Page Titles for search engines
* Generates all SEO relevant META tags automatically
* Option to specify meta description and meta keywords tag for categories and tag pages.
* Option to turn off Page title or Post title rewrites for any particular post or page
* Option to turn off Page title or Post title format for any particular post or page
* Helps you avoid duplicate content
* Lets you override any title and set any META description and META keywords, for any post or page
* Compatible with most other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.However you may have to disable All in One SEO pack
* You don’t have to fear changing permalinks. If you are not satisfied with the current permalink, change it through Settings > Permalinks in your admin panel, without worrying about loss of Page rank or google penalty.Platinum SEO plugin will take care of issuing a 301 redirect to the new location.This is a new essential feature, not present in All in one SEO
* Add index, noindex, follow or nofollow, noodp, noydir, noarchive, nosnippet meta tags to any post/page.These options are not available in All in one SEO Pack.Find out why this option to set post/page level Meta Robots Tag useful?

• Download here for free!

The screenshot: