One year, I think, is enough. There’s no point of doing the same thing over and over again, and getting nowhere in the process.
I guess, it’s time to rethink about blogging direction for Jaxon’s Review, like giving it a specific niche and blog around it day in and day out.
A niche is what this blog severely lacks. All the while, it has been going this way and that way, exploring everything within its reach, but as it is, it has yet to find its true path.
I do have some ideas about the niche but this will require a drastic action, like deleting all previous posts — over 200 of them — and start anew with the niche subject I have in mind. But do I have the courage to do so?
Would you be willing to sacrifice a year’s worth of blog posts just to change the direction of a blog?
A group of residents in San Francisco has proposed that a sewage plant be renamed after George Bush to honour the contribution of the outgoing POTUS (President of the United States).
“Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, you have to agree that the magnitude of his accomplishments must be remembered,” one T. Wayne Pickering, chairman of the unofficial “Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco” told SFist.
The proposal received over 11,000 signatures on July 7, the dateline for the submission of proposals for the Nov 4th ballot. The number is more than the minimum of 7,000 valid names required to put up the proposal for balloting.
The group is now awaiting a confirmation whether there are at least 7,000 of the 11,000 signatures are valid names.
Brian McConnell, a member of the commission said, “We think that it’s important to remember our leaders in the right historical context. In President Bush’s case, we think that we will be cleaning up a substantial mess for the next 10 or 20 years. The sewage treatment facility’s job is to clean up a mess, so we think it’s a fitting tribute.”
I surely can beat the hell of a 60 something man who are out to threaten me, unless of course he was some kind of a bull.
Adobe Photoshop is perhaps one of the most widely used graphic manipulator and photo editor around. But it’s expensive for most users.
If that being the case, not to worry as there are substitutes to the programme and one of the more robust ones is GIMP or GNU Image Manipulation Programme.
Best of all it can be downloaded for free on the Internet.
The image on the left is a sample of what GIMP can do. I didn’t draw the picture. My 14-year-old son did and he didn’t know much about computer graphic, and image manipulation. Yet. He was just doing trial and error.
Imagine what the programme can do if it is used by people experienced on both — graphic art and image manipulation. If you want to give it a try, you can download GIMP for Windows here. More information can be obtained from this GIMP Wikipedia page and GIMP website.
I wonder if there are other free photo editing/graphic software out there. If there are, I haven’t come across it.
The government today announced the extention of petrol and diesel subsidy cash rebate to owners of private vehicles up to 3,000cc in the interior areas of Sabah and Sarawak.
But even with the new rebates, I’m still screwed. My car is 2,800cc but I won’t be eligible for the rebate because I’ve brought it to Peninsular Malaysia where I am currently working.
As you know in the peninsula, only cars up to 2,500cc are eligible for the rebate. So no matter what measures the government is introducing to lighten the burden of the people, I’m still not qualified to take it. It’s the case of head I lose, tail you win.
And those born between 1980 and 1995 must be from Generation Y. Muahaahaaha!
Spam does and doesn’t pay, depending on which side of the fence you are in. A US federal judge awarded a whopping US$230 million (or RM736 million) to popular online social site MySpace in an anti-spam judgement against a notorius “Spam King” Stanford Wallace and his partner, Walter Rines, reports said.
Wallace was the head of a company that sent as many as 30 million junk e-mails a day in the 1990s, The Associated Press reported.
“MySpace said the pair sent more than 730,000 messages to MySpace members, many made to look like they were coming from trusted friends, giving them an air of legitimacy.
“Under the 2003 federal anti-spam law known as CAN-SPAM, each violation entitles MySpace to $100 in damages, tripled when conducted ‘willfully and knowingly.’” [Source: Associated Press via The New York Times]
MySpace said the activities resulted in bandwidth and delivery-related costs, along with complaints from hundreds of users.
Wordpress has released the Wordpress 2.5.1, an update of the 2.5 released not too long ago. In my previous posting, I had hoped that a further improvement can be made to the popular blogging platform.
One of the things I want to see in this update is the ability to write photo caption and making the caption actually appear in blog posts, as what good a caption is if it won’t appear on posts.
The other thing I want to see an improvement is the text widget management, which is very much less friendly that that of the previous 2.3.3 version.
I’ve downloaded the update but have not installed them. Hopefully this new update would address the problems but I won’t hold my breath for that.
… are some of the terms I only learned recently. Didn’t know their significance until I read their descriptions:
Blackhat: A hacker that uses his or her skills for explicitly criminal or malicious ends. Has been used to mean the writers of destructive viruses or those that use attacks to knock websites offline. Now as likely to refer to those that steal credit card numbers and banking data with viruses or by phishing.
Whitehat: A hacker that uses his or her skills for positive ends and often to thwart malicious hackers. Many whitehat security professionals spend their time looking for and closing the bugs in code that blackhats are keen to exploit.
Man-In-The-Middle: A sophisticated attack in which a criminal hacker intercepts traffic sent between a victim’s computer and the website of the organisation, usually a financial institution, that they are using. Used to lend credibility to attacks or simply steal information about online accounts. Can be useful to defeat security measures that rely on more than just passwords to grant entry to an account.
Click here for the complete list of glossary of high-tech crimes, from BBC.
Scientists have created the world’s smallest transistor, measuring a little bigger than a molecule, a feat which they claim could spark the development of super-fast computer chips in the future.
Using the world’s thinnest material called graphene, a team at University of Manchester has produced the transistor which is one atom thick and ten atoms wide, marking the first true electronic nanocomponent, the ‘Science’ journal reported.
Four years ago, they discovered graphene, the first known one-atom-thick material which can be viewed as a plane of atoms pulled out from graphite.
Now, the researchers led by Professor Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov have shown that it’s possible to carve out nanometre scale transistors from a single graphene crystal. Unlike other known materials, graphene remains highly stable and conductive even when it is cut into devices one nanometre wide.
The smaller the size of the transistors, the better they perform, according to them. Transistors made of graphene start showing advantages at sizes below ten nanometres, the miniaturisation limit at which traditional silicon-based technology is predicted to actually fail.
