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The former prime minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, 82 launched his blog on 1st May 2008. Within 1 month it has registered one million hits / views.During his tenure as PM, he turned the country into a technology hub via projects such as Cyberjaya and the Multimedia Super Corridor, yet he said he ...
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 …
My last few posts have focused on South Korean suicides. Which brings me to the question: are South Koreans the most suicide-prone people on Earth?Answer: not even close.It’s Lithuania.Now at first glance, Lithuanians seem to be better off than many other countries.Check out these social indicators:- As of 2004, Lithuanian life expectancy: 69 years ...
On 18th September 2008, hackers broke into one of the 2 private yahoo.com mailbox of the US Republican vice-presidential candidate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The bad guys then posted several messages and family photos from her inbox to Wikileaks, which were then further distributed by blogs.Apparently the culprit was a 4chan user who used Palin’s ...
I don’t think I have seen a youtube video that brought a lump to my throat. Collectively, judging from the comments section, it’s responsible for many a throat-lump. Even more amazingly, it’s a true story more than 30 years ago.Before watching the video, some background info: Christian the lion was a 3rd generation London zoo ...
The PM announced price hikes in petrol and diesel prices on 4th of June 2008. As a result, by the next day the website of the Prime Minister’s Office was apparently defaced by disgruntled person(s).Upon closer inspection however, it seems to be a remote file inclusion attack, taking advantage of a Lotus Domino vulnerability, on ...
There’s now an attack that hijacks the clipboard where copied text is stored. It puts a difficult to remove weblink into the clipboard that, if clicked on, gets you to a website selling fake security software. The code inserting the link has been found in flash-based advertisements seen on many legitimate websites. The attack has ...
Spotted this young man at the office a few months ago busy “working”, while displaying what must be the world’s worst working posture. Everything’s totally against what’s normally considered good ergonomics. Imitate at your own risk!View from the back:Does not look too bad?Well, consider this view from the side:Just out of curiosity, I peeked at ...
For some time now, Roger Federer, 26 and Rafael Nadal, 22, the two top-ranked tennis players in the world were playing at a far higher level than the rest of the world.They then inevitably met at Wimbledon’s 2008 final, arguably the greatest tennis tournament in the world, the unofficial world championships for tennis.Federer came into ...
Spotted earlier today near the cashier counter on the 5th floor.Instead of the expected pieces of paper / envelopes containing suggestions, you can see other things instead:Perhaps any transparent locked box with a hole on top immediately means donation box to some people?
Oh no, not again! Talk about Monday blues and the the amazing speed at which Penampang gets flooded these days.I was at the office when my son called around 4pm saying water from the river has reached downstairs. Never mind I thought - relatively, it’s usually a mere puddle the 2nd time.How wrong I was.When ...
The BBC reported on 7th August that Dan Kaminsky said that the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability is worse than initially feared. Kaminsky is the man who found the bug.He said fixes for the bug in DNSes had focused on web browsers but it could be abused by hackers in many other ways. Hence, every network ...
Got this from a contact in the local press.Photos taken by Conservation Geneticist Dr. Benoit Goossens, Director of Danau Girang Field Centre, a Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) facility located within the Kinabatangan.It was released during a press conference on 14th September, which amongst others said:These series of photographs show us a lot about the caring ...
If you think you’ve seen one too many boring wedding photographs, this one should make you sit up and take note.On 12th May 2008, a wedding was taking place in a 100+ year old church in Sichuan, China.It started off the usual way, around 2pm, photographs being taken, like this one on the church steps:Suddenly, ...
In my opinion, he’s the best ever Kadazandusun singer. Better than even the legendary John Gaisah. Of all the local artistes, he’s the one of whom I have purchased the most original albums.I first heard him back in 1992 when absolutely everybody was singing his biggest hit, and to me still is the greatest song ...
If you somewhere in Philadelphia, be sure to head to the Comcast Center to see the currently the world’s greatest video display mounted on their wall, with the ability to display images and video at a resolution 5 times that of High Definition TV (HDTV).Apparently, it cost Comcast USD22 million to put up.Spec:- 10 million ...
Granted, Mariah Carey, 38 is not a professional baseball player, and that nobody can touch her when it comes to singing, but c’mon, surely anybody can do better than her opening pitch at the Yomiuri Giants versus Rakuten Eagles match at Tokyo Dome on 28th May 2008:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5p8jXfiwj8I think it’s even worse than the celebrated first ...
In May 2008, Justine Henin, then 25 and the world’s top ranked female tennis player and 7-time Grand Slam winner, announced her immediate retirement. She had won a total of 41 WTA singles titles and almost USD20 million in prize money. The Grand Slams included 4 French Opens, 1 Australian Open and 2 U.S. Opens. ...
Arguably, the earliest and greatest ever car chase in the movies was made 40 years ago in “Bullitt”, that 1968 police thriller, starring legendary actor Steve McQueen as Lieutenant Frank Bullitt.It won an Oscar for Best Film Editing.It’s will always be remembered for THE car chase scene, lasting about 9 minutes, in downtown San Francisco, ...
7 months after their engagement, Ezbon and Leonie had their big day at St Mary’s Church, Topokon, Tuaran. My son Ethan was the ringbearer The wedding reception was held at Leonie’s house at Kg Toboh Baru, Tamparuli on the afternoon of the same day. The days before that was a whirlwind of activities, including trying ... 
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