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Oh I bet the title of this entry really caught your attention didn’t it? Sorry to say, this entry isn’t about having sex and music together, well maybe in way it is. IndieMV - Musical Intercourse, happens to be the catchphrase that they coined.

To the point, IndieMV.com is a social networking site that is place for independent musicians to get their sound out there and known. It also aims to provide a social networking service for not just the musicians, but the fans. Some of the features that IndieMV has to offer are video blogging, web-cam messaging, photo sharing, and of course, access to hundreds of music videos and interviews from independent artists. I would strongly recommend that any person who calls them self an “indie music fan” check this site out. Even if you’re more into mainstream music, this might be a good place to connect with other music fans and to hear some new bands.

On one hand this place might not seem very different from other social networking sites that allow you to video blog or upload your own videos, but here is one major difference I saw that (at least for the bands) will perk some interest. IndieMV wants to help independent artists get out there and get known and as a result they regularly provide opportunities for bands on IndieMV to gain the exposure they need by offering bands a range of opportunities to perform in front of new and different audiences. Right now IndieMV is holding one such opportunity which will send a band to Montreal, Canada. The band lucky band will not only receive roundtrip airfare and two nights accomodation, but the opportunity to perform on stage at the Unite Against AIDS concert.

UltimateCoupons.com’s blog, Everybody Loves Coupons, is holding their very first contest and boy oh boy is it a sweet prize - your very own Nintendo Wii!

To enter, all you have to do is write up a small blog entry about the contest, in this post you need to mention that Everybody Loves Coupons is having a contest to win a Nintendo Wii, link back to their blog, and include a text link to their main page with either the phrase “coupons” or “coupon codes”. Once that’s done just drop them an email with your blog’s title and url and you’re entered. It’s that simple. For more details and prize list please see their official contest post.

After you’ve entered, why not browse around their main site which offers a variety of coupon codes from numerous merchants in a wide range of categories?

Do you think you know it all when it comes to a certain team, sport, or sports? Maybe you would just like to test your knowledge of sports trivia? Either way, you may want to head on over to TriviaFix.com and go at it head to head with other sports junkies in the ultimate test of skills.

TriviaFix.com is a bit different from most sports trivia sites however, so listen up. TriviaFix.com is user generated community that is driven by you. Members submit their own questions (including video and audio) and will create their own trivia teams, as well as organize the competitions. You can follow your progress and check the stats of not just your friends and yourself but other members as well. This allows you to determine who you want on your team and what areas you need to work on. There is a scoreboard on every category and sub category page for just this reason.

This unique community environment allows members to truly test the limits of their knowledge, learn, and most of all, interact on a new level with fellow junkies. And with monthly prizes being awarded every month to the top members in all sports there is no reason not to sign up and test your knowledge.

Are you in search of some hard to find tickets? Has the event been listed as sold out but you’re still hearing of people getting tickets? Maybe they use Zickets.

Zickets aims to provide you with a fast, easy, and secure way of buying tickets for hard to find and sold-out events. Looking for tickets for a play, concert, sporting event or even an exhibition? Why pin your hopes on finding a scalper on the day of the event with tickets in the nose-bleed section. Let Zickets be your hook up instead. Not only will you be able to rest assured that, once your order is filled, you have tickets to the venue of your choice but you’ll also be paying low prices to boot. Place your luck on a scalper or trust Zickets? It’s really not a hard choice to make!

So Zickets sells tickets for hard to find events, but what if, despite their best effort, Zickets cannot fill your order? Have no worries, your card will not be charged until your order has been filled. In the case that Zickets is unable to fulfill your request you will receive an email notifying you of this.

Some of you may recognize the term “Message Sequence Chart” from your school days. It was that annoying technique that teachers loved to make us all use to show how we were going to go about a certain project or paper. That technique was incorporated into what is known as the Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagram and is most commonly referred to as a “Sequence Diagram”.

For some of you it may have been a while since you heard these terms thrown about so let me explain. A sequence diagram displays different processes, steps, or objects that exist and function simultaneously, as parallel vertical lines and horizontal arrows. This is ringing bells now isn’t it? When using this in regards to technology, it also displays the messages exchanged between them and in the order that they occur. Basical it’s the graphical representation of runtime, or if you’re doing this for a school teacher, a very annal step-by-step procedure mapping.

As you can guess, or remember maybe, these aren’t always easy to put together. And more often than not, when it comes to setting up a sequence diagram with multiple processes and messages, you’ll ind yourself making quite a few mistakes and having to start over. Using a sequence diagram tool like this one will not only make your life much easier but it’ll also save you time and money since you won’t have to spend hours revising and editing or pay someone else do create it for you.