tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260642012011-06-08T15:24:22.810+09:00Opinionated News on Technology, Sometimes the World, And Other Interesting Things. Batteries Are Not Included.miniumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11402123007029840413noreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26064201.post-6786117259185729522011-05-06T21:38:00.000+09:002011-05-06T21:39:11.808+09:00

Yo guys. Doing a favor.Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's Your Mom, That's a Fact!Look! Click! Win!

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I've made a blog, currently on lifepond.wordpress.com. Go take a visit, and rebookmark me!

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I haven't been posting for probably... I don't know... more than two weeks. I've been working on this new designing blog, Gletscher Designs over at Wordpress, and almost forgot about this one. I'm planning to revamp this whole blog, abandon Blogger [sorry Google, I have to do it], and make a fresh, new blog.Even though this blog won't be deleted [remember the times I posted everyday?], but I've

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This Monday [July 17th], Yahoo had changed their look of their homepage, and is currently live for the US. It first debuted it’s beta at yahoo.com/preview publicly, and now live on yahoo.com. Millions of people might see their first AJAX interface, and interact with the new Web 2.0 style put up on Yahoo, and most of all, the better organized content on the messy homepage. Go take a visit!

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Right now many people are using the widely popular distribution of Linux, Ubuntu, from Canonical Ltd. It comes in a CD and you can install it or test it on the live CD, and it has become the most famous name of Linux on the internet. It’s open source and it’s free, hey, it sounds great doesn’t it?Because of it’s big popularity, the Ubuntu project, started different branches of them, like Xubuntu

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You might have noticed, but I revamped the design of this blog as promised several months ago. It's been about 3 months after I've started this blog, and after using so many third party templates, I've decided to rearrange the Minima theme that was originally made by Stop Designs. Here's a list of things I did to make this site look better.•The header image with the turning arrow, and the footer

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This is really ridiculous. In the world of so called “eco-warriors”, they use wood cased PCs, to have a “greener” computer experience. Yeah they’re advertising the world about environmental crisis and such, but isn’t the wood used for the PC….taken away from forests? They’re already ruining the woods by buying these PCs. It’s ridiculous isn’t it.Here’s another example. Firefox 2.0 [this is a

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I don’t know how common this is, but I find it very stupid. There’s this misunderstanding that if you’re internet is “wireless”, its “fast”. This person has AOL as his internet service provider, and he says its dial-up, but on the other hand, due to all those AOL commercials, he says its “high-speed”. Normally if it’s dial up, there’s a depressing limit to how fast it can be, and certainly, won’t

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This had happened a few months ago, a really odd experience. I was typing up some work, when it started to make line breaks, the equivalent to pressing the enter key or return key. My word document stretched for pages until I quit Word. Even after that, once I opened Word or any word processing program, it did the same thing. I found it almost scary, because I wasn’t pressing any of the keys, and

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It’s no wonder the Merriam Webster Dictionary had added the word “Google” into their great list of words, in this era of the “Google empire”. “Google” isn’t the only new word that’s going to be in the eleventh edition, there’s 100 in total, and here’s a sampling from the list, taken from their website, m-w.com. If you don’t know some of these words, and can’t wait until getting the dictionary in

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North Korea had launched a total of 7 nuclear missiles towards Japan, 6 of them by around 5 AM local time, and another in 12 hours on July 5th, while most of the US was celebrating Independence Day. The missiles included the feared long range Taepodong-2 that has a range that could shoot down Alaska. Luckily all of the missiles have not reached the mainland, and plummeted into the Sea of Japan,

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Overall, Microsoft Office 2007 has made a big leap from 2003, and I’d recommend you to get an update when it officially releases. Right now they have a beta version, but because of its notorious incompatibility with old files and how it’s extremely unstable right now, I do not recommend you to use it right now, until it comes out officially. I hope you enjoyed the graphical posts with all the

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SmartArtAll those countless, stressful moments spent on PowerPoint trying to create nice-looking diagrams will never happen again with Smart Art. •With a single click or so you can make high-grade diagrams.•You can change the effects like shadow, glow, transparency, and reflections to make it even more dynamic.ExceLookThere’s a new colorful splash that’s going to be putting Excel to a whole new

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The RibbonThe Ribbon is this whole panel with all of these icons and buttons that stand for all of these actions such as changing fonts, page layouts, references, insertable objects, previewing, et cetera, organized in tabs housing relevant commands. And the thing is, this Ribbon is different for each program, so the Graphing commands in the Ribbon for Excel won’t show up on Word, but instead

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Microsoft Office, it’s like Bill Gates and everyone knows the name. It’s simply a program suite of productivity programs, for Mac OS/X and Microsoft Windows, including the all famous; Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, that we seem to be using as a part of our lives seamlessly. Although there are other productivity suites such as OpenOffice, I think that Microsoft Office is the best productivity

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1.) Google’s Ears Are Big ≥ What you can make out of yourselfSo Google’s been continuing its two dimensional expansion in the flat world: to put all the information in the world to their database, and to make big time money. But finally it’s starting to jump out of the box and is now going to be listening to your television.It’s pretty interesting really. Great idea from the first place, to

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The North Koreans have finally done it. According to South Korean Foreign Minister, Ban Ki-moon, they are capable of shooting up the missile with a radius of 6,000 kilometers. They are saying that they should be concentrating on talking more about their nuclear programme within the Six-party talks rather than testing their missiles. In September 19, 2005, they agreed on nuclear disarment, while

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Widgets on the new Mac OS X Tiger [and above] is a great tool for all, and is one of the largest factors that made the Tiger so famous and popular, with the application: Dashboard. But I think the problem with Dashboard, is unlike Yahoo Widgets, they aren’t actually on the desktop. Its almost as if it is a separate application [well it is], because you can’t do anything that’s going on within the

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Google is one of the largest IT-related companies on the planet, and is famous to billions, along with the billions in its search results. And as many are starting to believe, Ask Jeeves might become another alternative to Google that actually does, have somewhat better results than Google. While Google.com is in second place [first place is Yahoo.com] and is the centre of attention, Ask.com

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On June 3rd, Police in Canada arrested 17 suspects of terrorists, who were trying to make an Al Qaeda like bombing at Toronto. The investigation took hundreds of police officers, and they found approximately three tons of ammonium nitrate.And they aren’t the only ones who could be lurching out there. Obviously. As noted before, the internet is a helpful tool especially for the terrorist groups

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Iran’s uranium enrichment is being a real big pain for the overseers, such as the IAEA and the United States of America. The Iranian government says their nuclear programme is to make nuclear power plants to generate electricity, but the world is deeply skeptical about that. And they still aren’t going to stop. To become the respected Muslim country of the world holding nuclear power for peaceful

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Yes, global warming is becoming a big problem for the planet. And so? You know that already. But is there enough stuff going on to stop what's going on in the planet right now? That's what most environmentalists and people who are informed about this would say. Heavy polluters? Are we talking about… you? Or me? Who knows. It’s all of us. The car, the TV, the computer, the refrigerator, the air

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The homes in Indonesia were reconstructed with bricks, when it became popular as an easy way to make a home, being pretty cheap for the peope. But those bricks were made of dried up dirt. And so was the cement that held it together. You could even take the house down with your hands.The architectural compositions of these buildings... were just too horrible for an archipelago being struck by

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The U.S. had learned alot from the fatal attacks of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 causing $75 billion of damage and 1800 fatalites. There's a slim chance that the second Katrina could/will once again, obilerate the South. Hurricane season had started today, and is everyone really ready for another strike?Some scientiests claim that the starting point for stronger hurricanes is caused by the gradual

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In the era of the internet, communicating through the internet has become a vital part for companies and individuals around the world. Although in the first era of the internet with text based browsers and low content being online, right now, it’s been years after Netscape has gone public and there are many services for people to publish their own website for any kind of reason.In this topic I

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About five minutes have passed after the first shot of the earthquake. And you’re at some fancy party and you’re this lady wearing high heels and stockings. Be sure to take off your stockings because they are highly flammable and can be extremely painful, and kick off the high heels since they are too unstable when running away from falling buildings or helping someone in need of immediate

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There's a big difference whether you're ready for an earthquake or not. If you're being too slow-minded or not sticking with your quick instincts, then most likely, you'd die off in the first 5 seconds. Next thing you'd want to know is your endurance. Not only your usual health, but what to do until help arrives.As I have a friend from Japan, I've gotten some helpful tips when meeting an

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An earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Java at Yogyakarta on the 27th, with a death count of 6234 and rising. There have been an endless number of aftershots, about 450. It's believed that there should be more people trapped under debris, and the possibility of them coming back alive is too little. 17 months after the Sumatra earthquake of December 26, 2004, another earthquake struck the

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Yes google's stock prices go up to $381, but they seriously need to think about rethinking their search results. Ask.com kicks Google's letter e, giving some more useful search results. But still, it kicks posterior in terms of services like this one.The iPod. This summer, some other mp3 player would be sure to beat it up. Some other company would be likely to start selling touch-screen mp3,

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Support BP.Go to bp.com!

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I've been notified of young users using myspace, and I thought that was pretty shocking. Not only that they can't track if they are at least 18 years old, but because they are revealing their identity online. And also, for design concious people like me, I think their formatting is horrible. Using bad design websites to share your identity to crazy people? No way. All stupid people use myspace.

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Japan's population is dying critically, with a birth rate of as low as 1.29 per couple, and it's been getting worse ever since 1973. By the year 3000, the last Japanese person would die, and the whole Japanese population would die off, and either Japan becomes an up for grabs country, or replaced totally by other populations. Right now, there's too much old people, and not enough young people to

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China's military forces are getting stronger, smarter, and most of all, bigger. This is pretty scary for a big country like China with 1300000000 people. It seemed like they were using the technology we were feeding them were for defensive and peaceful use, but obviously, the direction they are going is making a big fuss in many countries. China wants to oppress the U.S., and Japan, as well as

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This will sure take some time, but I tried this new thing on here, but didn't work. The size was fine, but it just doesn't look right. This is what I tried using on the top header.See, it looks horrible. I should change it, very soon.

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Microsoft was supposed to release its new Windows Vista [formerly called Longhorn as a codename], sometime in 2003, but kept extending its development until now, and is expected to be sold for businesses in 2006, and for average consumers to buy them in 2007. Although it cut off many features which was supposed to come in with it, it still has some stuff that can really be a good thing for

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I should start sharing things I make on photoshop. Pretty soon when I have the time. I'd start uploading some of my photoshop wallpapers or something, and maybe tutorials, and some reccomendations for fonts. Coming up soon!

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So I eat sushi. Yeah, everybody knows that. And what do I do? I eat the least expensive ones first. So I first eat like those clam stuff and seashells, then the next would be king mackerel [ooh, mercury], then shrimp. Shrimp goes into the top three yar. Then I eat the red stuff, the tuna. Yeah I used to like it alot, but not that much right now. Not so much into oily fatty tuna, and that normal

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I've been doing this for a while, but I like changing skins on my mac. Like changing what the folders, documents look like. The problem is, since I don't want to do that for the whole computer, I can't just edit the real ones, but I just simply have to replace them one by one.Enough talk about that, but the new look. I highly reccomend X-94, which you could get at http://interfacelift.com/

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So I tried drawing a world map. I obviously got Japan perfect, and Korean Peninsula... somewhat fine... China.... got the main curvautures right, Taiwan, oh I drew it, and as I went on to Sumatra and Borneo, and Papua New Guinea, I couldn't do it. I had to draw fingers and potatoes. Australia was farily easy for me, but I forgot about Tasmania, but New Zealand, was like the simplified version of

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Google, obviously seems like the largest share of internet search engines, and gives lots of cool free services like Gmail with 2700MB [and counting...] of space, Google Video, Google Earth, Google Talk, Froogle, Picasa, Blogger, and many others that are still in development. And right now, Google is trying to collect almost all of the information found on the internet [excluding sites that have

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There are two diffferent kinds of graphics programs that I will be discussing. Adobe Photoshop, an expensive but high quality graphics editor by Adobe running on Mac OS X and Windows, and GIMP, a cross platform competitor, free, supporting some vector graphics, and has many features that are a match for Photoshop.The thing with Photoshop, is that it costs like ~^¨å¥ø^†¥ø^ÌØ˙. $600±. And GIMP is

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Why is it called a blog? Was it a random word made by some random geek? Or a word that actually is a new formation of an ancient word? Or is it another way to say: Business Log, Basic Log, or anything else?

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“The Intel chip. For years it's been trapped inside PCs, inside dull little boxes, dutifully performing dull little tasks, when it could have been doing so much more. Stating today, the Intel chip will be set free and get to live life inside a Mac.” Familiar quote? Yes, this is from the Intel Mac ad played across the United States. The Mac, finally uses the Intel chip, and is now faster than

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The avian flu, what if it becomes pandemic. The deadly H5N1 virus could spread across an island within weeks, an archipelago in a few months, and the region in less than a year. The H5N1 virus, is one of the most deadly viruses that we’ve ever seen, and our immune system is still a newbie to this new threat. Without any kind of vaccine, I believe [and many believe], that it could spread death

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How it works, no, not how.... that works, but how this blog works. First, I [or some member] posts a "match string". It would be almost like a post, but not complete. What you need to do, is to post comments on it, which is basically the same thing as discussing the topic. Then, the topic would either rot down into the basement, or flame way up high with a good discussion.OK, but this post, is

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There are many blogs like this one. Ones made from pure boredom, ones made for a reason, ones made for... other reasons I can't think of. And this blog was made for people to discuss things that they can't really discuss "in-depth". So that's why we sometimes discuss things like how much time it takes gum on the sidewalk to turn "black" from all that dirt and dust.Anyways, this is the first post

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