Archive for August, 2005
« Previous EntriesChris Evans gives his Caddy a Diamond
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005A 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 was Hacked!
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005Monash 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.
Poseidon Computer System Saves Drowning Girl
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005This 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 [...]
Amazon sells sex toys
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
Amazon Sex Sectionhas 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 Sensualitysub-section. The current best selling items are lubricants and condoms, with no vibrators making it into the top 100 [...]
KLCC Aquaria Pictures
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005Elb (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.
See Elb’s photos
Malaysian police sets up CCTV on the LDP highway
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005Darn. 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 [...]
Malaysia celebrates Independance Day
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005Happy 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 [...]
Weblogs Inc pay rates revealed by disgruntled potential recruit
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005The 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 [...]
Palm Inc. plans to buy back PalmSource
Monday, August 29th, 2005Rumors 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 [...]
Download TV shows via BitTorrent Automatically
Sunday, August 28th, 2005This 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 [...]