Archive for July, 2006
Monday, July 31st, 2006
Intel’s Itanium 2 9000 series processor is undoubtedly built for the mission-critical enterprise computing environment. The new dual-core chip is said to offer double the performance and up to 20 per cent lower power consumption compared to the existing Itanium 2 single-core chip. Itanium 2 9000 series features 1.72 billion transistors that allow Intel designers [...]
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Sunday, July 30th, 2006
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” Surely he will save me from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover me [...]
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Saturday, July 29th, 2006
Nicol David’s focus was only on retaining her CIMB Malaysian Open squash title but thanks to the Netherland’s Vanessa Atkinson’s shock loss in the quarter-finals, Nicol is back as World No 1. Vanessa, who wrested the World No 1 ranking from Nicol after the Melbourne Commonwealth Games in March, was shown the exit by Tania [...]
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
Computer hackers built a fake Google Tool Bar website to trick people into downloading a malicious program that could turn machines into “zombies”. Email messages containing Internet links to the bogus website and invitations to download Google tool bar software began circulating last week, according to SurfControl of California. The phony website was a replica [...]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
PRICKLY PATIENT: A short-beaked echidna (or the spiny anteater) named Cess blowing a bubble from her nose while in the care of a zoo keeper at the Wildlife Clinic at Taronga Zoo in Sydney on 25th July 2006. Cess suffered a broken foot and severe cuts to her nose that required expert veterinary surgery after [...]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Samsung has yet another list of goodies for music lovers – the YP-Z5F, YP-U2 and YP-F2 portable digital audio players. Weighing only 58 grams, the YP-Z5F comes with an aluminium chassis that Samsung claims prevents scratches and smudges to the player’s 1.8 inches LCD screen. The YP-Z5F comes in storage capacities of 1GB (RM599), 2GB [...]
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
Last night I watched this movie with my friend as we happened to be in Gurney Plaza for dinner. The show starring Sandra Bullock as Kate and Keanu Reeves as Alex depicts two persons separated by a 2-year-time zone communicates with each other via a magical mail box by the Lake House. It is [...]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
Just as beatitudes represents beatiful attitudes, here are the 9 of them taken from the Gospel of Matthew in Chapter 5. This is from the King James Bible. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (verse 3). Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the [...]
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
The other day, I watched Superman Returns with my friend in Gurney Plaza’s Golden Screen Cinemas. In the latest Superman movie, five years later, Lois Lane is now a mother and married to another guy. The nice feel about this movie is that the child is Superman’s with his father’s superpowers as partly shown in [...]
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
The other day, my friend parked his car beneath a large tree for a while. Shortly later, pigeon droppings were seen on his vehicle. Such luck! Luckily it was not on his shirt or his head! Some people believe they will strike the lottery if this happens, as comical as it seems. I do not gamble, [...]
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
It has been announced in the press by Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi that 880 projects worth about RM15 billion will be tendered under the first rollout of the 9th Malaysia plan. Details on the tenders would be advertised through the local media and through the Malaysian Government website at www.gov.my, through the PWD website [...]
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
Managed to add in the Fuzzy Recent Comments Plugin Version 4.4 with the download link in this page http://www.semiologic.com/software/recent-comments/ It was quite easy, just follow the instructions. First, unzip the file and you will see the folder “sem-recent-comments” in your hard disk. Download the whole folder and not just the files to the plugin folder. Make [...]
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Alang, a full-time blogger has written an article in his site at click here on how Malaysians can withdraw money from their Paypal accounts. This is written in Malay but basically he used a debit card known as Accent Card by paying RM$100 and delivered within a week. After giving his particulars to activate the Direct [...]
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
I found a cool tool that can check how much is your site worth and get a quotation based on page ranking, incoming links, outbound links, listing in DMOZ, etc. Click on http://www.linkworth.com/tools/price-quote.php and type your url or web site address and it will show you an estimate of potential income you can make from you [...]
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