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Authorities said that upon hanging Saddam’s half-broth
2007-01-16 09:29:03
Authorities said that upon hanging Saddam’s half-brother, Barzan, the noose severed his head and fell in a pool of blood beneath the hanging body. Unlike in Saddam’s death, Barzan’s film shall not be released by authorities, and was only shown to a handful of journalists. Source: Film shows Saddam brother beheaded Originally published on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:13:21 GMT
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The more time goes by, the more we started seeing sci-fi ide
2007-01-16 09:29:03
The more time goes by, the more we started seeing sci-fi ideas come to life. Mission Impossible anyone? “This letter will self destruct in…”…. …well, better actually… this one will say “This paper will auto-erase itself…” How neat is that? XEROX have come up with a type of paper than can automatically erase itself. Don’t confuse this with E-Ink, which as a technology works very differently… though Xerox PARC has also been working on E-Ink for at least the past 2 years (if not more) Read more at XEROX’s site
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Google notebook is finally online! I have been person
2007-01-15 21:29:01
Google notebook is finally online! I have been personally testdriving it for a few days and can already say it is pretty slick and has great potential… I basically see it soon replacing my bookmarks… especially since it can be seen as a form of ‘bookmarks on the move’ solution.Personally I was always on the lookout for something on these lines, yet somehow the rest didn’t quite… err… digg it ;o) Read more at www.google.com/notebook…
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The 20 Most Important Tools Ever - Forbes.com: “The 20
2007-01-15 21:29:01
The 20 Most Important Tool s Ever - Forbes .com: “The 20 Most Important Tools Ever”
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Related Info for: digg.com/ it finally happened…. digg
2007-01-15 21:29:01
Related Info for: digg.com/ it finally happened…. digg has come on par with slashdot!!!! who ever thought someone would overtake slashdot? my personal view though is that possibly… for now at least… they will remain on par for a while since i myself will be checking out both
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Woman’s Affair Exposed By Parrot This is HILARIOUS!! P
2007-01-15 21:29:01
Woman’s Affair Expo sed By Parrot This is HILARIOUS!! Please read!!! —————— ;—————-
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Intel chips in Macs make it easier to escape dual code - Los
2007-01-15 21:29:01
Intel chips in Mac s make it easier to escape dual code - Los Angeles Times
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Macsimum News - Sony Interview: Cell, a revolution that will
2007-01-15 21:29:01
Macsimum News - Sony Inter view: Cell , a revolution that will change computing history The Cell Processor? - A dream? - A new computing era? - A new way of thinking? – who knows??
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Intel inside — so what? / Few really care — or u
2007-01-15 21:29:01
Intel inside — so what? / Few really care — or understand — what’s inside anything I refer to this article by David Lazarus Sure, he does have a point in stating that the general folk do not really care about how things work, and therefore with the same logic, the same folk would not really care how the blessed thing works…. …yet in my opinion… David was targetting the wrong audience alltogether. We obviously know that a concierge, or a policeman, or anyone not in the field is not going to care how these things work… and I agree… why should they? But then again, the most technicaly person David really contacted was a Software D.e.v.e.l.o.p.e.r…. as David correctly put it… this guy is not a Software E.n.g.i.n.e.e.r…. which means that he is never really gets in touch with how the machine actually works, but in comparison uses pre-written tools that will translate his code into whatever processor he or she is work...
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I have stumbled across this site whilst scanning the net for
2007-01-15 21:29:01
I have stumbled across this site whilst scanning the net for a good firefox blogging solution… worth a look… i am test-driving it for a while now and we’ll see how it goes :o) Performancing.com | Helping Bloggers Succeed powered by performancing firefox
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I just released an article detailing office automation thro
2007-01-15 21:29:01
I just released an article detailing office automation through .net… Read more at www.codeproject.com/csh…
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has anyone ever though of the multiple connotations, or mean
2007-01-15 21:29:01
has anyone ever though of the multiple connotations, or meanings of the word limbo? well here are a few… limbo is an imaginery place for lost or neglected things in Roman Catholicism, Limbo is the term used to describe the place for unbaptized souls prior to the claimed resurrection of Jesus, such souls would have though not committed any sins in their life yet would still be marred by original sin [Adam and Eve]… nowadays this predominantly means infants only Limbo is also a dance originating from the island of Trinidad, which most of us have probably danced to without knowing its name… it is ‘generally’ danced to a caribbean rythm during which each dancer leans backwards and passes under a horizontal stick which keeps being lowered and lowered after all dancers pass, and if hit… the dancer is ‘disqualified’… this goes on until only one dancer is left In Marvel Comics, Limbo is a fictional dimension whose physical laws are magi...
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Microsoft has [at last] released the hardward requirements f
2007-01-15 21:29:01
Microsoft has [at last] released the hardward requirements for its upcoming Windows edition, due in January 2007 [codename Longhorn].  At this stage, anyone who plans on using a Microsoft operating system solution, and is also planning on purchasing a new pc [or upgrade], should also check out a neat little feature on this site called ‘Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Beta‘ [I swear… I adore Googles’ innovative idea… the ‘everthing-is-beta’ idea though, is not one such idea!!] Anyway… check it out… you don’t wnat to find yourself spending oodles of $$$$$ on new hardware only to find yourself needing a new upgrade in a matter of months… so take a hint ;o) Windows Vista: Get Ready powered by performancing firefox
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…and here are THE requirements : A Windows Vista Premi
2007-01-15 21:29:01
…and here are THE requirements : A Wind ows Vista Premium Ready PC includes at least: 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor 1 GB of system memory A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero2 128 MB of graphics memory 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space DVD-ROM Drive3 Audio output capability Internet access capability. Windows Vista Capable and Premium Ready PCs powered by performancing firefox
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you really want to read further…. Humans, chimps may h
2007-01-15 21:29:01
you really want to read further…. Human s, chimps may have bred after split - The Boston Globe “human ancestors evolved apart from the chimpanzees for hundreds of thousands of years, and then started breeding with them again before a final break” powered by performancing firefox
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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (UPI) — British scientists repor
2007-01-15 21:29:01
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (UPI) — British scientists report they have evidence monkeys can put together a simple sentence, an ability thought to be solely human… In some very interesting news it seems that monkeys can actually talk.. who knows? Ever heard of Planet of the Apes? Maybe one day we can decipher what the monkeys say… which will lead to us communicating with them… which might lead to us releasing their brain onto knowledge… which MIGHT result us in finding out that they are more intelligent than us… something that can work positively… or negatively.. Yet, another problem might be as a result of our very ‘civilisation’… since our activists would oppose any though measures we might want to take..in-the-event-of… and in the meantime, our uncivilised friends; currently known as monkeys, might actually not give two craps about our civilised ways and just trample the crap out of us… interesting food for thought...
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Wireless is finally spreading, and in the latest news there
2007-01-15 21:29:01
Wireless is finally spreading, and in the latest news there seems to be an initiative to introduce wireless to the Brits… i don’t know what it is with Brits always following up on the US… but hey… right now..i sure wouldn’t mind being a Brit :o) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/tec…
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The results are out… and I swear Malta has been disgr
2007-01-15 21:29:01
The results are out… and I swear Malta has been disgraced!! We have NEVER done so badly!!! … and to think there were other competing songs in our festival which sounded so much better!! Pity… i guess we learnt our lesson :o( Read more at www.eurovision.tv/engli…
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Now I do not like running to conclusions of this sort…
2007-01-15 21:29:01
Now I do not like running to conclusions of this sort… …but this fact struck me! I tried accessing a microsoft site, and my browser (Opera 8.01) would just freeze on the page and eventually time-out. …as did FireFox …as did Mozilla …yet on Internet Explorer the page loaded INSTANTLY! I checked to see if it was a browser limitation, maybe some ActiveX or VBScript content? …it wasn’t Set my browser (Opera) to identify itself as Internet Explorer… and hey presto… the page loaded in a flash… …I wonder!
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Last night I got a call from an undisclosed company I have b
2007-01-15 21:29:01
Last night I got a call from an undisclosed company I have been communicating with so that perchance I might start doing some freelance or part-time development for them. I have been a coder in a variety of languages to date, yet the one language I feel most comfortable with is (by far) PHP. Some might argue that PHP is mainly a web-development scripting language, but let’s face it, web-development is the future! Nowadays I refuse to code desktop (client-side) applications for my personal clients since it is so cost-ineffective… my solution is always a LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP/Perl) one, simply becuase, they are CHEAP, they are Server-Side, and therefore are faster, easier to deploy and give you an instantly enhanced ROI. It was therefore strange when my prospective employer/client asked me what I develop in and claimed he had never heard of PHP. …they code in C# Now I have twiddled around in C# in the past, can’t really say I’m a C# developer thou...
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i shall abstain from writing any posts in here today…
2007-01-15 21:29:01
i shall abstain from writing any posts in here today… other than this since i want to commemorate this day accordingly. Today the mother of a very close friend of mine passed away, I shall not write her name here of course… it is funny how when someone close to you loses a loved one, even without speaking to them, you tend to feel the weight over you just the same. Such was the case today… I was studying when all of a sudden I felt a really bad aura and got a shiver down my spine… a few seconds LATER I receive a message that my friend’s mother passed away :o( I have nothing else to say today… except that today I managed to experience two emotional extremes in a span of a 2 hours.
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Google Search: stefan camilleri blog woohooo!! and the blog
2007-01-15 21:29:01
Google Search : stefan camilleri blog woohooo!! and the blog gets number one spot… *finally*
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Blu-ray.com - What is Blu-ray? …do you recall the int
2007-01-15 21:29:01
Blu-ray.com - What is Blu-ray? …do you recall the introduction of DVD onto the market? I’m sure I know the expression on everyone’s face (everyone = anyone who knows the difference between a litre and a KB)… like wow… a disc that can store 7Gb of data!! Then came the DVDRW…. and once again it was… WOW… i can store 7 DivX’s on one disc! Well… say hello to mr Blu-Ray :o) This neat little disc can store around 25GB of data on a single layer (i.e. dual layer discs would store 50Gb)… that is… simple… STAGGERING!! Where’s this world coming to? I vividly recall a substantial number of years back a certain Mr Sir Bill Gates commenting on how a computer would never require more than the standard base 640KB to work properly… …well… he was correct… it does work properly with 640KB… but there isn’t much you can do with it anyway… and it makes anything based on Allan T...
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AMD rolls out 64-bit mobile processor, Turion 64 : Processor
2007-01-15 21:29:01
AMD rolls out 64-bit mobile processor, Turion 64 : Proc essor News - BIOS : Technology For Business: “Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has introduced its Turion line of 64-bit mobile processors, the first stage in an effort to recover ground lost in laptops in recent years to Intel. “…. Intel’s Moore was correct… at this rate hardware has technically out-performed software already by a far cry! AMD launched their 64-Bit processors over a year ago now… and yet there still isn’t a widely used operating system to cater for it’s power… therefore anybody who dished out cash to buy this (pretty costly) CPU has pretty much wasted a real lot of money since; unless they use Linux, BSD or any other 64-Bit enabled core, they are definitely not using the full core’s potential or even touching it’s 64-Bit abilities… ..i.e. money down the drain since such CPU’s have already taken the downhill price plunge… yet Microsof...
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Finally szc001.com is up… damn what a nightmare one we
2007-01-15 21:29:01
Finally szc001.com is up… damn what a nightmare one week… 3 emails and 2 support requests… and not ONE reply!!!
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Technology News Article | Reuters.com: “WASHINGTON (Re
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Technology News Article | Reuters .com: “WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A software vendor that tried to drum up sales by offering to clean up nonexistent computer ’spyware’ has been temporarily shut down, U.S. regulators said on Friday.” …haha what is this world coming to? Not only do we have spyware… now we also have ’spy-businesses… just this is no form of Sherlock Holmes business mind you… it’s a fake business selling a fake service… good one :o)
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US News Article | Reuters.com: “The 15-year-old boy to
2007-01-15 21:29:01
US News Artic le | Reuters .com: “The 15-year-old boy told jurors last week that Jackson, 46, masturbated him at least twice in February or March of 2003 after nights of heavy drinking at the singer’s Neverland Valley Ranch, testimony that cuts to the heart of the child molestation case.” …there’s not much to follow up on as at this very moment on the Jackson scandal. Granted he looks like a weird man, what with his ghost-like image and skin that would make Marilyn Manson jealous, yet there don’t seem to be enough facts right now… one waits for the next cross-examination… If the story is true though, one would pity the boy, since suing Jackson is very easily interpreted as an excuse to filch money and fame off the pop-idol… both of which he’s got enough to spare… similar to the Lewinsky story… who knows?
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Reuters Photo: “Michael Jackson waves to his fans as
2007-01-15 21:29:01
Reuters Photo : “Michael Jackson waves to his fans as he arrives at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse in Santa Maria, California March 15, 2005. The teenager who accuses Jackson of sex abuse weathered a punishing cross-examination by the singer’s lawyer on Monday, denying suggestions he invented the molestation because he felt rejected by Jackson as a father figure. Photo by Phil Klein/Reuters”
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Yahoo Raises Free Web Mail Storage: “Internet giant Ya
2007-01-15 21:29:01
Yahoo Raises Free Web Mail Storage : “Inter net giant Yahoo Inc. says that users of its free web mail service will have one gigabyte of storage space starting late next month. The company also added several enhancements to its web mail including better security and a search fucntion. email features including better virus cleaning and scanning along with a search function. ‘The global roll-out will begin in late April, which will make Yahoo! Mail the largest e-mail provider to deliver 1 GB of storage space for free to consumers worldwide,’ Yahoo said. Yahoo’s paid web mail users will enjoy 2 GB of storage space and the ability to send attachments up to 20 MB in size. Rivals Google already offer 1 GB of storage space on its Gmail while Microsoft’s Hotmail has a 250 MB storage allocation for users.” …it is interesting to see that indirectly Yahoo and possibly also Microsoft are admitting defeat to Google as far as both Web-Mail and Search-Engine ...
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CNN.com - The fusion of man and machine - May 16, 2005: R
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CNN.com - The fusion of man and machine - May 16, 2005: “Memory enhancement, an increased range of senses, dieting control and thought communication will all be on the market, while technology to allow for multi-dimensional thought will be at the planning stage.” After a long absence I am finally back! Had lost my drive to write in here until I saw this article… (and after it was pointed out to me by my girlfriend) Interesting concept… who knows… Many of us have been suceptible to a myriad of films over the past few years, all touching topics of this nature, and all categorized as Sci-Fi or something of the sort… some of us recall ‘The Lanmower Man’… others might more vividly recall an extreme of such topic being ‘The Matrix’ ..Sci-Fi you say? Think again… Nowadays a technology allowing the use of chip implants that communicate with our neural network can be employed to fight diseases, increase our thinking ca...
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