Work In Mining and Retire Young

Australia has been booming since 2003 and for those who still don’t know, Australia has an abundant resource of commodities such as Nickel, Iron, Uranium, Platinum, Coal and Gold. And it’s very unlikely that the trend of rising prices of house prices, shares and consumer goods ever gonna come down anytime soon. Politicians are making such a big fuss about the interest rate since it’s the national election is just in a month’s time, but I don’t think they can really control it. Continue reading

Is Traditional News Media Aggregation Dead?

Literally thousands of journalists are employed around the world to bring current event coverage to readers of thousands of newspapers and their online sites. News syndicators such as AP, Reuters and UPI are well known in this industry. This has now changed forever thanks to blogs and news aggregation sites. Continue reading

Did Yahoo Changed Its Front Page?

yahoo screenshot

While browsing Yahoo with Firefox today, I noticed that there was really something missing. It looks like Yahoo’s front page has been tuned down to a simpler view, as you can see from the screenshot above.

But when I turned on Opera and IE7, I revisited the page and it was back to normal again, as seen below.

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So what’s happening here? I do like the look of the simpler version of Yahoo’s front page, although it still looks a bit clutter compared to Google’s. But at least standardize a common page for all browsers. Have you had a similar experience or is it just me?

Worm Sent Through MSN and How to Delete It

As of today, I’ve received a message from one of my mates in MSN and the message was one which I wouldn’t have expected, which goes like “Can you have a look at my pic, I’m going to use it on Myspace?” and a file “Image26.zip” was sent. Being a bit suspicious, I asked a few questions and didn’t get a reply. Continue reading