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I'm giving away a HP TouchSmart 600 PC on my dad blog. The deadline to enter is Wednesday (December 23, 2009 Pacific time). Here are the specs of the HP TouchSmart 600 Computer:

• Intel Core 2 Duo processor T6500 [2.1GHz, 2MB L2, 800MHz FSB] (600t)
• Intel Core 2 Duo processor T6600 [2.2GHz, 2MB L2, 800MHz FSB] (600xt)
• 23" diagonal 1080p Full HD widescreen with 16:9 aspect ratio
• 4GB DDR3-1066MHz SDRAM [2 DIMMs]
• 320GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive (600t)
• 500GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive (600xt)
• Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• NVIDIA GeForce G200 (600t)
• 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT230M, and game console connections (600xt)
• Slot-load SuperMulti DVD Burner
• Wireless-N LAN card and Bluetooth
• Internal antennas for 802.11 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
• 6-in-1 memory card reader, 5 total USB, audio
• Integrated high-performance 2.0 speakers (no external speakers)
• HP low-profile, wireless keyboard and HP wireless optical mouse
• A built-in, adjustable-tilt webcam and mic
• Removable feet for wall mounting (bracket and adapter sold separately)

Just wanted to drop a quick note to let you guys know I'm giving away two HP notebooks and a cool Timbuk2 laptop bag on my dad blog. The giveaway runs September 2-6, 2009. Here are the prizes:

• HP DV6 Laptop (Intel Core 2 Duo P7350, 4GB RAM, 16" screen (1366 x 768 pixels), 500GB SATA HDD, BluRay LightScribe DVD drive – specs may be different than the one I reviewed)
• HP Mini 110 Netbook (Intel Atom 270, 1GB RAM, 10.1" display (1024 x 576 pixels), 160GB SATA HDD, 6 cell battery – specs may be different than the one I reviewed)
• Timbuk2 Laptop Bag (the notebook bag may be different than the one I reviewed)
• Syncables Software (for syncing files across multiple computers)

I noticed during a recent WordPress upgrade, the Democracy Plugin started adding an extra "n" each time you saved the post:

Here's how to fix the problem:

(1) With a text editor, open "democracy.php" – it's located in the democracy subfolder in the plugin folder.

(2) Locate the line below (around line number 331):

return preg_replace('/{democracy[\w\W\s^}]*?}/', '\n<div>\\0</div>', $content);

(3) Change the last set of single quotes into double quotes:

return preg_replace('/{democracy[\w\W\s^}]*?}/', "\n<div>\\0</div>", $content);

That's it. That should take care of the Democracy Plugin's extra n problem.

Here's something strange. Maybe some of you have seen this problem too. For some reason, my Adsense 728×15 link unit on my dad blog is not working correctly. As you can see in the screen shot below, it's showing part of an Amazon ad where the link unit is normally shown.

The Adsense link unit works fine when there are relevant ads, but when there are no relevant ads, Google shows an alternate ad I created for a different blog. I'm not sure why. I didn't set it up to do that. To make matters worst, the alternate ad it shows is a 300×250 ad so only part of the ad shows up. Here's the odd part. It displays the alternate ad even though I selected the option to fill the space with a solid color. The same thing happens when I select the option for public service ads.

I emailed Google about the problem last week, but so far they have not been able to duplicate the problem. Has anyone else had this problem or am I just going nuts? In the meantime, I removed the Adsense link unit on Daddy Forever.

<shameless-plug> BTW, feel free to enter my contest for free flowers from ProFlowers. Five winners will be selected. Contest ends Saturday. </shameless-plug>