A teenager has been given a £10,000 diamond by radio and TV presenter Chris Evans to thank her for advice during a celebrity golf tournament. Natalie Harrison, 17, caddied for Evans at the AllStar Cup at the Celtic Manor in Newport on the bank holiday weekend.
Monash University Malaysia is just around the corner from my house. Can’t believe they got hacked. I used to go there for PC support purposes…. Thanks to LCF for story.
This Poseidon Computer System should have been installed in the Kelana Mahkota swimming pool. It might have saved the girl (Bianca Thio Yee Shen) that drowned there on 1 Aug 2005.
A 10-year-old girl has been saved from drowning by a computer system designed to raise the alarm when swimmers get into difficulties. The girl, from Rochdale, was at the deep end of the pool in Bangor, north Wales, when she sank to the bottom.
Amazon Sex Section
has started selling sex toys on its website as part of a drive to broaden its product range.
Visitors to the US Amazon.com site can now choose from 37,000 items in the
Sex and Sensuality
A spokeswoman for Amazon.co.uk confirmed the move but said there were no plans to introduce a similar section for UK customers.
She emphasised that the items were part of the Health and Personal Care section and would be treated as such.
The move has prompted a slight change in Amazon’s sales terms. Its returns policy, recognised as very good by the standards of the industry, covers very few of the products on offer.
In addition the ’share your own customer images’ section is no longer in operation, although the engine which logs similar purchases and the user review section have been retained.
Elb (Patrick) went to the KLCC Aquaria and took some pics. I want to go there but there’s too many people to fight with…I heard the queue line was pretty long ( say 100m) and my friend even gave up last Sunday.
Darn. With petrol prices going up, paying summons will make my pockets really empty. I might as well drive slower to save petrol and save on paying the summons.
I wonder if this is true. I got it on an email from a friend. So dont quote me on this. Its a Legal Disclaimer and I don’t want to get sued.
Please note that effective today the LDP highway speed limit will be
monitored by the CCTV. The speed limit is 90 kmh and if you go above
that at 91 kmh, the camera will auto record and pass to police. The
few identified areas where the CCTV is monitoring are as follows:
1) on the overhead pedestrian bridge in front of Kelana Jaya LRT
station, monitoring the straight stretch
2) Somewhere near Western Digital (CCTV might be on Western Digital),
monitoring the straight stretch in front of the Kelana Jaya Seafood
3) On IKEA, Monitoring straight stretch in front of IKEA and 1 Utama
4) On the double overhead bridge, monitoring the stretch between the
Puchong toll and the Federal Highway turnoff.
5) In the tunnel near SS2 (please note that the speed limit is 60 kmh,
not 90 kmh)
Happy Merdeka Day. Today is the day my country Malaysia , gets its independance from the British (31 Aug 1957). We’v been having 48 years of great peace and prosperity. I pray that we will continue to enjoy this. Happy blogging and happy holiday even tho’ its only 1 day.
In January 1956, Tunku Abdul Rahman led a delegation comprising four members of The Alliance coalition and four Rulers’ representatives to London, to negotiate on Malaya’s independence. After three weeks of negotiations, the London Independence Agreement was signed on Feb 8, 1956. The British Government had agreed to give Malaya her independence on the August 31 of the following year.
When Tunku Abdul Rahman and his delegation returned from London, the happy news was announced at Padang Merdeka, Bandar Hilir Melaka, – the place “where it all began�. The announcement was received by all with utmost joy.
The people’s objective and dreams were reached on the night of August 30, 1957 at the Padang Selangor Club (now Dataran Merdeka) where the Union Jack flag was lowered for the last time and the Malayan flag was proudly raised.
The following day a new independent nation was born with Tunku Abdul Rahman declaring the Malayan Independence at the Merdeka Stadium. The historical event was attended by thousands of citizens, the Malay Rulers, the Duke of Gloucester (representing the Queen) and other representatives from the British government. The day was a most important and glorious day for all Malayans (then) and Malaysians today, for after 446 long years of colonisation, our land finally became a sovereign independent nation.
The first and foremost achievement that every Malaysian should be proud of is our success in claiming our Independence. While many other nations had to endure wars, riots, revolutions and unrest before and after gaining independence, our struggle for Independence was concluded in a short series of genteel negotiations. The secret lies in the pure harmony among Malayans, despite the various ethnic groups, cultures and religions. This courageous unity has become a crucial element for the nation in making Independence a reality.
When Malaya gained Independence on August 31, 1957, the world community, and even a section of the Malayan community then were not convinced with Malaya’s ability to remain peaceful with a community structure that is of different religion, race and background.
This assumption was based on the fact that many states of the world at that time could not solve their ethnic problems. Critics believed that if the world could not solve this problem, then how could Malaya, a young and inexperienced nation, survive with three major races and dozens of other ethnic groups.
But our leaders and a large majority of people then had essentially thought otherwise. Rather than being obstacles to peace and Independence, the rich diversity was turned into strength that over the last five decades has become one of Malaysia’s unique qualities.
The blogging universe has been rocked again ! This time Weblogs Inc., pay rates revealed by disgruntled potential recruit. Incredible. Talking about contract terms was thought to be a P&C thing but I guess the fellow blogger was too pissed to worry about being sued by Weblogs.
Weblogs Inc pay rates revealed by disgruntled potential recruit source
A potential recruit to the new Weblogs Inc., food blog Slashfood has posted a full copy of a contract she was offered to write for the site on a competing food blog “Food Blog ’scool� after “recruiters� for the Jason Calacanis managed company (I believe Deidre Woollard) refused to discuss parts of the contract with her that precluded her from writing at other sites.
Kate Hopkins writes on the contract:
“[the] money wasn’t the reason I didn’t sign with Weblogs. The issues I had dealt with section 10 (Covenant Not to Compete) combined with section 11 (Acknowledgements). The contract could be easily interpretted that I could not involve myself with any other food and travel publications (not just web sites) until 6 months after we parted company. I felt very unomfortable with that…Add to that that posts on their sites means less time I can put on my own. I didn’t like that idea at all. So I passed on their offer.�
Rumors are circulating that Palm Inc. plans to buy back PalmSource. The struggling software company was split from Palm back in 2003 creating separate hardware and software companies. While Palm (then called PalmOne) continued to have some success, PalmSource who are responsible for the development of the Palm OS have gone into a continuous decline.
The price of shares in PalmSource have been dropping steadily for the last 12 months due to the loss of several prominent licnsees and a lack of profitability. These rumors have dramatically reversed that trend though and shares have risen by around 20% in the last week.
However Palm has not made any official announcements so far about buying back PalmSource. Assuming that Palm do plan to stay with the PalmOS and not flirt too heavily with Windows Mobile, it would make sense to be in control of the operating system that their machines rely on.
This is a great post on how you don’t have to wait around your Bit Torrent client to download your fav tv shows.
This is a very long overdue article, and old news for most geeks by now, but I hope it will help some of you. BitTorrent is a great piece of technology used to ease the bandwidth load on file downloads (legal or otherwise). RSS is a technology used to easily get and share information with others on the web. What do you get when you combine the two? Broadcatching! Broadcatching is an awesome combination of technologies allowing you to automatically download anything you want via BitTorrent using query words in RSS feed, basically allowing you never to miss a TV show episode again (among other things). Still interested? Then read on!
Before we continue, be sure to check your city, state, or country’s copyright laws to make sure you’re not infringing on anyone’s material. Unlike music and movie studios, TV studios haven’t tried suing anyone yet, but remember to use this only for personal use and not to share with others. We’re not responsible for what you may do with this information.
There are several ways to go about setting this all up, but the easiest way is with a BitTorrent client called Azureus, a Java application which will run on Windows, Macs, and Linux. The best part is that it’s completely free and open source and allows you to add various plugins for extra functionality. Let’s get started.
