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Tijs Verwest, 39, better known as Tiesto, is arguably the world’s greatest living DJ, and certainly one of the world’s most famous trance DJs. A native of the Netherlands, he’s the only DJ who has been voted the World’s Number One DJ three years in a row from 2002 to 2004 by the world’s top ...
Cao Lu, 46 and partner Yang Chunxia, 46 are operators of the “China Restaurant”, the only Chinese restaurant in Baghdad, the city which global consultancy firm Mercer rated in a report as the world’s most dangerous out of 215 surveyed.Baghdad has 6 million people.It opened for business about 6 months ago, and small: it’s the ...
With the sheer number of choices when it comes to selecting a webhosting company, it could be a daunting, not to mention tedious task of selecting one that is right for you. Every person has different needs and constraints, be it budget or performance.webhostingrating.com is a good one to bookmark when you’re gathering information about ...
Actress Megan Fox, 21 was named the world’s sexiest woman by top men’s magazine FHM for its 2008 edition of its annual poll, dethroning last year’s champ Jessica Alba, 26, who *only* finished 3rd this year, behind Jessica Biel.Apparently “millions” of votes were received in total.No doubt her starring in last year’s USD700 million-grossing …
What can be worse than a recycled April Fools’ Day hoax, not once, but for several consecutive years, in a dictatorship no less.I was surprised to read that the late Saddam Hussein and his sons liked to play tricks on the people of Iraq come April Fools’ Day.On 1st April 1 1998, Uday Hussein’s newspaper, ...
The domain names hijacked were ICANN.com and IANA.com — for the ICANN subdivision known as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Visitors to those addresses are normally redirected auto …
This has been making the rounds for some time, with at least one source saying that this is actually in use at an IT firm in Mumbai, India. unfortunately there’s no proof of it being actually in use.Well, I think it should! This, and perhaps other pictures showing similar message, should be put up everywhere, ...
According to the Department of Homeland Security, since 2005, MT has only had 10 reported security vulnerabilities, as compared to Wordpress’ 100+Full story
Elisabeth Fritzl was 18 when she started to be kept hostage by her own father in a cellar under her home in a village near the town of Amstetten, Austria sometime in 1984. Hence, an innocent cellar became a dungeon, and her nightmare continued for 24 years, until April 2008.Forgive me for immediately thinking that ...
… and I am not talking about equipment only available to NASA, to be put on the Hubble telescope to photograph distant galaxies or stuff like that. I am talking about stuff anybody can buy and carry around, if they have the resources of course.In the course of upgrading one’s photography equipments, there might ...
According to security researcher and CEO of Errata Security Robert Graham:Google’s JavaScript code makes HTTP requests in the background via an XMLHttpRequest. By default, these requ …
Consider the following:Detectives feared that as Elisabeth aged, Kerstin may have become Fritzl’s next victim. That would be an even more unthinkable crime: having sex with your own daughter who at the same time is also your granddaughter, her offspring (if it’s a she) would be your daughter, granddaughter and your great-granddaughter all at the ...
Lee Yoon-hyung appeared to have everything. She was young and beautiful, only 26 years of age.She had social status, being daughter of billionaire former Samsung Group chief Lee Kun-hee, and liked fine arts.She was rich in her own right, estimated to be worth USD191 million, mostly from her Samsung shares.She was popular: she had her ...
TV Smith went to Sabah recently and took breathtaking photographs, then published them in his website, including a stunning photograph of Kota Kinabalu’s sunset, taken from his hotel room. Being a fan of sunsets, I don’t think I have seen one better captured on camera. Talking about sunsets, I think we need to slow down ...
The Hottie and the Nottie, released in February this year, directed by Tom Putnam and starring Paris Hilton received “exceedingly negative reviews across the board,” including from top online movie review sites.In April 2008, the film is ranked number 1 in the seminal guide to movies, Internet Movie Database (IMDb) bottom 100 (rating of 1.1 ...
3 years and 10 songs (6 Kadazandusun, 2 Bahasa Malaysia, 2 English) later, they finally did it.If you’re tired of “MIDI songs” and want to hear real musical instruments being played by a true-blue Sabahan pop/rock band, this album is for you.Apart from having the expected solid melodies, arrangement wise I’d say they went further ...
It’s a Mac. Does Windows machines have such features?Full story
A recently-discovered flaw in Gmail is capable of turning Google’s e-mail service into a highly effective spam machine. According to the Information Security Research Team (INSERT), Gmail is susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack that allows a spammer to send thousands of bulk e-mails through Google’s SMTP service without fear of detection. This attack bypasses …
Wordpress is arguably the most popular blogging platform. Hence, it’s a give that it has become a popular target for blackhat hackers. The intentions are usually search-engine optimization (SEO) of other sites the bad guys control, as well as traffic-redirection and more. And recently there were many automated attacks which exploited recently discovered security …
According to its website, MFG.com is a privately held company founded in Atlanta in 2000 and is:the largest online marketplace serving the global manufacturing community. Billions of dollars worth of discrete manufacturing services and industrial components are sourced online via MFG.com every year. I wonder if they are aware that their company logo as prominently ...



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