Opinionated news exctraction for all by that geeky accountant type guy...

Saturday, June 26

Skype is it just hype?

This is a little (7.9mb) program which enables you to apparenly make free phone calls over the internet. Not sure of its capabilitys over dialup but should workover broardband obviously. All the program is made by the evil folk over at Kazaa so watch out for spy/adware, which they claim is none.

Skype off

EDIT: Its crap, all it is just am IM which has voice capabilitys. WOW even MSN messenger has voIP. But you can call to real phones, but that costs money... WTFing point.... atleast with ICQ u can send real sms to real phones.

Friday, June 25

Why football is popular in Italy

The link is all you need

Telstra announces next generation access technology commercial pilot

Telstra Chief Executive Officer, Dr Ziggy Switkowski today released details about Telstra's next generation access technology commercial pilot, Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP), which will commence in Queensland in June this year.

Dr Switkowski, joined by Queensland Premier, Mr Peter Beattie, officially launched Telstra's FTTP commercial pilot at one of the selected sites, Brookwater Estate, Greater Springfield, 26 kilometres from Brisbane's central business district

Speaking at Brookwater Golf Club, Dr Ziggy Switkowski said subject to the outcome of the commercial pilot, it is anticipated that FTTP will be added to Telstra's range of access technologies to be selectively deployed by commercial negotiation in new estates over the next few years.

"FTTP is another string in our technology bow. It will play a future role in Telstra's network, along with copper, radio and satellite technologies, to ensure our customers have access to the latest innovative products and services," Dr Switkowski said.

"We believe FTTP technology will be an economically efficient and innovative next generation access infrastructure."

FTTP is an access infrastructure than can deliver telephony, broadband data and digital subscription television services to customer premises on an optical fibre platform.

pikea3

All of my favorite things in one handy flash animation.

"to pieka

Because its news

This is infact Accounting news which should put it in the bean counting blog but since this is pure news and not any commentry type stuff (as in its been copied and pasted) I thought it needed to go here.

At 11.59pm on Thursday night (24/6/04) the Senate agreed to 4 'policy' amendments to the Corporate Law Economic Reform Program (Audit Reform & Corporate Disclosure) Bill 2003 (CLERP 9) Bill that was introduced into Parliament last December 2003. Apart from numerous 'machinery/editorial' amendments passed earlier in the week, the Government agreed to a limited number of Opposition amendments. In addition the Government has agreed that Parliament at some later stage, but probably in the life of the new Parliament after the forthcoming Election, will consider the rest of the 61 amendments recommended by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia jointly with CPA Australia were thanked by the Senate for the work that had been provided to the Parliament on CLERP 9.

Policy amendments agreed by the Senate and which are to be passed by the House of Representatives on Friday 26/6/04 are:

True & Fair View S298(1A), S306(2), S307(aa), S308(3B), S309(5B), S1466A

Where the Financial Report includes additional information necessary to give a 'True & Fair View', the Directors' Report is required to set out the Directors' reasons for including such 'True & Fair View' information. The Auditor's Report is also required to include a statement by the Auditor on whether the additional 'True & Fair View' information is in the Auditor's Opinion, necessary to give a 'True and Fair View'. Note that these amendments do not allow a 'True & Fair View' over-ride. The Financial Statements are still required to comply with applicable Accounting Standards.

Auditors Answering Questions at a Listed Company's Annual General Meeting – S250T(1)

Clarifying amendments have been made to ensure that Shareholders are able to ask the Auditor: questions relevant to: the conduct of the Audit; the preparation and content of the Auditor's Report; the Accounting Policies adopted by the Company; and the Independence of the Auditor. The Auditor can give such responses in writing where such questions have been submitted to the Auditor in advance of the AGM

Disclosure of Performance Conditions in a Listed Company's Remuneration of a Director, Secretary or Senior Manager S 300A(1)(ba)

Where an element of Remuneration is dependent on the satisfaction of a performance condition, disclosure is required of: a detailed summary of the performance condition; an explanation of why the performance condition was chosen; a summary of the methods used to assess whether the performance condition is satisfied; why those methods were chosen; and details of any external factors used as a comparison. Additional disclosure is also required of share options where a performance condition is or is not applicable. Disclosure is likewise required of how the performance condition lines up with the company's earnings and shareholder wealth (not defined!) going back 4 years, and taking into account dividends, share prices, and any return of capital.

Qualifications & Experience of Company Secretaries of Public Companies S300(10)(d)

This requirement is to be disclosed for financial years that start as from 1 July 2004. What is odd is that there is no such similar requirement for Chief Financial Officers!

And of course we need a link just to make it all propper.

Recent Posts

Might remember a while ago on Bean counting... that I had a little post saying I got 100 recent posts atm its a hefty 140. Today I got my reply back:

"Posts are considered 'recent' on your profiles page if they are within an 8 weeks time period."

so that's about 2 months.... Which just seems like a long time (56 days)

Thursday, June 24

Weblogs, Inc.

"Weblogs, Inc. is dedicated to creating trade Weblogs (a.k.a. “blogs”) across niche industries in which user participation is an essential component of the resulting product."

They have quite a few sites. But its realy just a way of catagorising specific blogs. Another thing is that the blogs are more than just rants... which asks the question is a blog realy a blog if there is no rant. And if no one rants then is there a blog...

No rant

(A. CMS)

Doom 4 could be three megabytes total

A first person shooter that clocks in at 96 kb. That’s right. The whole thing is 96 kilobytes — the size of most spam. The game is called .kkrieger and it’s the work of a small developer. Though the game is in beta and really only includes one level, it’s still an engineering feat. You have to see it to believe it. What this might mean for gaming in general? Not much, except a lot of jealous and intrigued programmers.

96kb

Economic Style Guide

Apparently journalists use this... But I have read a few things, pretty interesting if you dont already have a degree in journalism and still want to write stuff.

The Economist

Wi-Fi, GPS alternative?

In the concrete canyons of city centres, GPS satellite positioning systems often fail because high buildings block the signals they rely on. But an unlikely back-up for GPS is emerging: Wi-Fi.

A Wi-Fi based positioning system developed in the US and the UK works best where GPS fails: in cities and inside cavernous complexes like shopping malls. And because cheap Wi-Fi technology is already appearing on a raft of gadgets like PDAs, cellphones and laptops faster than more expensive GPS receivers are, the developers predict that Wi-Fi could become central to new location-based applications. They say emergency services in particular could find the system an essential back-up.

At the moment, the new system, called Place Lab, is not as precise as GPS. It can provide accuracy to within 20 to 30 metres, whereas the GPS average is 8 to 10 metres.

click to navigate to a new web page.

Wednesday, June 23

Online LED Calculator

Another LED calculator this time from old fav metku. The other one is ofcourse from the other place that i cant remeber the name of, but anyway. This is online so who cares.

Calc the LED

HardwareGeeks.com - Hotmail Increases Storage to 250 MB - Page 1

Last week rumors spread that Microsoft would increase it’s storage for free users to 25MB. Boy were they wrong. Microsoft announced today that starting in July they will boost Hotmail Storage to 250 MB; 10 times then what was originally reported.

The announcement comes a week after Yahoo! increased its storage to 100MB for free users and 2GB for mail plus subscribers.

Microsoft will also implement improved spam filters and a virus scanner come July. They will also allow email attachments of 10MB.

Microsoft will also offer 2GB of storage and 20MB attachments to Hotmail Plus and MSN Subscribers.

It should also be noted that Yahoo is offering 100mb (much faster)
and gMail has 1000 mb (even faster)

just seems like a bit too much a bit too soon.

More space for spam

I just thought this was funny

D-news is number one for computer game shops in belgim.

Sorry in advance to the person that visted my site.

A sad day for belgim computing

Tuesday, June 22

Kill Bill 3

MOVIE director Quentin Tarantino says he plans to shoot a third part of the Kill Bill vengeance series.

"I have plans, actually not right away, but like in 15 years from now, I'll do a third version of this saga," the American director told reporters in Madrid today.

Tarantino said part three would centre on a girl named Nicky, daughter of a hired killer that Uma Thurman's character bumps off as part of a spree of revenge killings.

Everyone likes money

hahaha jokes on you Tarantino I havent even seen the second one yet...

Pistol found that killed 8.5 million people

The Browning pistol that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and sparked the crisis leading to World War I has been discovered gathering dust in a Jesuit community house in Austria.

The shooting led to World War I, which by one estimate resulted in 8.5 million deaths.

Click for an overreaction

Monday, June 21

A bit late

That last post about the Australian weblog awards. Well its been over
for quite a while....

Maybe start my own awards and hence improve my blogshare rating etc

Or not (please be not).

Also this post is being sent from email so its a bit weird and exciting.

Saturday, June 19

Flags

Someone has decided that flags need to get graded. on a school scale. (note: Australia got a C so if you are easily offended then click it to find out his email address). Also check out the explaination/methodology.

flag
this

Robots Are Our Friends | '_' |

An educational flash animation contemplating the psychological, social and financial consequences should robots ever develop true artificial intelligence.

Robots are also cool

Song of the hour

Definatly NSFW as gay people arnt alowed outside the internet.

Just click this to find out

head, shoulder knees and toes

Another flash animation by that guy (Koit) about an old childrens song. It is consistant with his current theme of doing childrens songs....

SFW

(safe for work)

Friday, June 18

Outsourcing to the MAX!

Apparently the church has started to outsource its services to India. Because 2% of 1,000,000,000 is 20,000,000 so thats quite a lot. Which is great if you want to start your own church and have the backoffice etc all done in a central location and administer it from your bedroom. You could start your own cult, I mean religion. Just like we have 2 completly different religions in catholics and protastents and baptits etc....

click

Wednesday, June 16

Addicted

I'm addicted to blogging (and the internet...), So should I realy be posting this

hmmmm

Ponder

2004 Australian Blog Awards

Well we all like awards and I'm no diffrent so NOMINATE ME and I will give you a postcard, for free, which you will be able to keep. Forever. Or you could just shamelessly 'use' D-news and nominate your self...

Also could also nominate Bean Counting.

Vote for D-news or Bean Counting (the other "blogs" dont realy count because they are more or less a part of these blogs, just in different blogs for catorgorisation etc... (and the fact that in convetional web site building you have different pages etc.)

Quotaions

"It is a good thing for the uneducated man to read books of quotations." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965)

Quote

Tuesday, June 15

ATM I am high

The Highest ATM in the world is now available to withdraw cash from.

Money for all

Want money. Want to have sex. Join eBay and sell your virginity.

Prostitution

The Class of 2004

I wish this happened at my school.

NSAW (Not safe AnyWhere)

Richard Branson is stupid cool

Entrepreneur Richard Branson has set a new world record by driving across the English Channel in a James-Bond style amphibious sports car in under two hours.

The flamboyant Virgin Group chairman, who has set world records crossing the Atlantic by hot air balloon and speed boat, slashed four and a half hours off the previous amphibious channel crossing record set by two Frenchmen in the 1960s.

Branson crossed the 22-mile (35 km) stretch of water to Calais in France on Monday in a smooth run in the 75,000 pounds sleek grey and black Aquada sports car in just one hour 40 minutes and six seconds.

As the car drove up on to Calais' sandy beach, its windscreen wiper still going, a very wet but elated Richard Branson emerged -- continuing the Bond theme in a dinner jacket.

"A few big ferry waves engulfed us a bit, but it was rather refreshing," Branson said. "Its a remarkable car and it definitely gets a lot of smiles from people on the ferries."

The amphibious car, which seats 3 people, can travel at more than 100 miles per hour on land and 30 miles per hour on sea.

At the flick of a button the British engineered Aquada's wheels retract and its jet engine engages, propelling the car through the water.

Only two previous amphibious crossings of the channel have been recorded, the first by Englishman Ben Carlin in the 1950s with a time of seven hours and 33 minutes and the second by two Frenchmen in the 1960s.

Car Boat

Saved

FOR those who feel weighed down by piles of laundry, it could be a godsend.

Scientists have developed a fabric which cleans itself - raising the possibility of shirts that can be worn to work day after day and underwear that never needs changing.

It echoes the plot of the 1951 Ealing comedy The Man In The White Suit, in which Alec Guinness played a scientist who invents a fabric that never gets dirty or wears out.

He faces angry opposition from both textile workers, who fear his discovery will cost them their jobs, and factory owners, who are worried that it will dent their profits.

They take him prisoner to stop word of his discovery leaking out and chase him through the streets when he escapes.

Experts predict, however, that the Hong Kong-based researchers behind this invention will get a more positive reaction.

Everything wears out eventually.... Even indistrucable underpants, What about if u just did a dump in them, is it going to clean that up????

Underwearout

Homeless Challenge Public Drinking Law

If the rich and powerful can drink in a public park in the weeks before next year's Super Bowl, why can't the homeless do it now? That is the question the lawyer for three homeless men is raising in a court challenge over their arrest for drinking in a park that will be part of a designated party zone before the Super Bowl.

The three men were arrested in February in Treaty Oak Park on charges of drinking in public.

The park is inside a 2 1/2-mile entertainment zone adopted by the City Council in May. Beginning 18 days before the Feb. 6 Super Bowl, laws against open containers, noise pollution and outdoor alcohol sales on city property will be suspended in the zone.

Attorney Tyler McKinney says the zone benefits those attending the Super Bowl festivities, but can be manipulated to discriminate against the poor, she said.

World's land turning to dust

THE world is turning to dust, with increasingly vast areas becoming desert wastelands every year and threatening to send millions of people fleeing to greener countries, the UN said.

In Australia, irrigation systems are pumping up salty water and slowly poisoning some farms, just one of many problems the world body has highlighted.

One-third of the Earth's surface is now at risk, it says, driving people into cities and destroying agriculture in vast swaths of Africa.

Thirty-one per cent of Spain is at risk of becoming a desert, while China has lost 92,100sq km - an area the size of Portugal - since the 1950s.

This week, the UN marks the 10th anniversary of the Convention to Combat Desertification, a plan aimed at stopping the phenomenon. However, the transformation into desert seems to be picking up speed - doubling its pace since the 1970s.

Sandwich

Racist match fixers win again

Turns out Murili wont come to Australia because he doesnt want to be subjected to more critisim, that seems to only come from one country. Of course it was OK for Mr lee to run around with an alen key for an arm and get it fixed. And of course lets not forget about numerous match fixers....

Click for the Murili Saga

More on this later

Monday, June 14

Porsche?

Just uploaded some more pictures in my picture blog

Make it available

Register your content or get free content (mainly for pro arty types who have no money/contacts to actually get it published/used in real media).

CC

For Audio/music

Movies (or home made pornos)

Sell

Buy and sell your content.

SELL! SELL! FUCKING SELL!

Creative Commons

Australian version of the CC lisence, nothing major, just spelling and other legal mumbojumbo. Just thought I might check it out, then I reaslied that its just a big ad for QUT?

CCClick

IE vs. Firefox vs. Opera

I have now downloaded Firefox and can now compare it with opera and IE. Initialy I thought it was mozilla, which I downloaded at the begining of the year and since it was based on Netscape I didnt like it. However, Firefox is just a browser nothing else etc... Mozila is still around and is the whole email and browser and everything, and I think in the future mozila will adopt firefox as the browser in that package (if not already).

First thing you notice about firefox is that it loads pretty quickly and there arnt too many buttons etc, its realy quite simple. And hence you get more "browser space". You also get tabs which I like, as I used to use opera. The main point of a browser is its ability to load pages. Speed and accuracy and compatibility with internet things (flash, java, css etc...)

It is quick. Quicker than both opera and IE with IE comming last.

The only thing I find is that when I load up www.beancounting.tk it doesnt read the CSS quite right. How do I know this? 1. I made the CSS my self and both Opera and IE display it the same. So obviously firefox seems to be stuffing up. Also The side collumn font size is different to the main body and they use the SAME tags, or maybe something wrong with my code work... Feature in firefox are low, but thats a good idea since we all have our own pet programs that we like to use, so we dont realy need proprietary programs. It does have a download program, but I havent tested it yet [note to self test download program] but normaly I use LeachGet because its realy fast at downloading (I get 6+ consitantly on dial up). Firefox also loads tables (inc css2 table things) differently as it loads the fist collumn first then the second and so on, so you realy goto wait for the page to load first. But no big deal.

In all I think firefox is a great simple browser that does good browsing, and is fast at loading which is a pain with IE (each windows takes ages to load and takes up more memory) and Opera (initial start). Overall Firefox is better than Opera because it loads faster and is COMPLETLY FREE and has a very clean interface (althought opera is customisable it just takes too long to work it out) [Opera is more for people who like control over everything].

Click to get fire

Note: I downloaded Firefox yesterday morning and wrote this article yesterday evening, Apparently 9 hoursago Firefox 0.9 was released so just so you know, there is a new version like every freaking day....

Isnt it cool how D-news is current....

Google Blog

While your looking at the drawings etc. check out Google blog. Its a blog by the people that make google work, its actualy a realy good blog for a corporation type. yeah.

Search the blog

Google Holiday Logos

You know how sometimes there are different logos on google when its christmas/easter/valentines/halloween etc well, here they all are.

Holidayyyyyyy (reminds me of that song by Modona)

Yahoo! Mail

Look what Yahoo now has.... an imediate response to Gmail.

Which is great for freeloaders like my self
"Great news – Yahoo! Mail is new and improved!

Thanks for being a loyal Yahoo! Mail user. To ensure that Yahoo! Mail continues to be the easiest, most enjoyable way for you to stay in touch, we've made several great improvements to your service! In addition to all the features you currently enjoy, we've made these upgrades:

* Streamlined interface
Makes using your mail even easier
* 100MB of email storage
Keep more of the things that are important to you – without worrying about bumping up against your storage limit.
* Message size up to 10MB
Send monster-sized files – photos, presentations, whatever!

So thanks again for choosing Yahoo! Mail to keep in touch, and we hope you enjoy the additional services now at your fingertips. For more information, please visit our Help page. "

Sunday, June 13

Sniff

Using an onion to make shadows in CSS based websites.

Dont cry: nerd is right next to geek

Usefull for the useless

Links and etc from a designer type person, possibly good for people who only do this kinda crap on a part-time/casual basis, but still want it to turn out gooder than the frontpage templates...

If you just click on the link below you can figure out what I mean. (also note: the site is quite plesant (maybe a little toooo girly))

Click to enter the rest of the internet

I cants read

ITs a long read, and this is mainly so I can book mark it and read it later etc.... something something...

...

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Free image hosting and subdomain and stuff and design for food

This guy will design you stuff for food.

Also he has free hosting/subdomain and other such things

I like free stuff

Friday, June 11

Things to make and do

Or things to make that might get you killed, None the less these are some great guides to making stuff (especialy leds) most are a little dangerous but so it using the vacume cleaner....

Just like DIY only you want to...

Thursday, June 10

Anyone for TiVo

There's been a quiet revolution in Peter Vogel's living room. Whenever ads appear on his television the volume drops, the screen goes blank or the set switches channels.

It's not a technical fault. He has developed a way to dull, mute or delete noisy ads.

'It's had a dramatic effect on our household dynamic,' said the 49-year-old Blue Mountains inventor who already uses his Intelligent Content Engine (ICE) system when watching television with his daughters.

'Previously the kids would sit glued to the screen from beginning to end. Now when the commercials come on the volume drops and they talk to each other. The ads don't dominate.' As well, if children are barred from watching anything above PG, for example, it will detect and blank out MA-rated shows. 'There's even the potential to develop specialist ratings. A Christian rating, in theory, would stop kids watching programs deemed blasphemous, and a quality rating would filter programs according to their quality as assessed by a panel of experts.'

Wheres TiVo

Labours Latham Lunacy

So says the US anyway....

THE US has warned Australia's 53-year-old ANZUS alliance is on the line in an unprecedented feud between the Bush administration and Labor leader Mark Latham.

In his strongest attack yet US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage warned last night that Australia could go the way of New Zealand, hinting it would mean the end of ANZUS if Mr Latham was elected.

Its funny how the US is using the "aliance" and threatening voters that they wont get the protection of the US in the event that they piss more people off (which inevitable).

Maybe it would be nice not to have external interferance on domestic politics. Maybe if we were allowed to vote for Kerry then we might give a shit about about what these fools are claiming. So what if we dont have an alliance. Hey look u wont get to use our land to spy on the rest of the world. And we wont have to buy anymore of their second hand military shit.

Speaking of threats....

Dogs can understand words

All hail the study.

German researchers have found a border collie named Rico who understands more than 200 words and can learn new ones as quickly as many children.

I think we need a new study. To see if humans can understand dog.

Woof

Ebola Virus Outbreak Action Playset

Level 4 Breach! Level 4 Breach! The monkey's are free! The monkeys are free!" Recreate the horrors of an Ebola outbreak with Reemco's CDC Ebola Virus Outbreak Action Playset!

You get:

- Center for Disease Control doctors in Contaminant Suits
- CDC Ebola victim in breached suit
- Infected Virus Monkey

Scientifically Accurate! Hours of Fun!
And don't miss these other CDC Playsets coming soon- Hantavirus™, Small pox™, Swine flu™, Leprosy™, Encephalitis™, Amoebic meningitis™, River Blindness™, Tapeworm Chaos™ and a new Unknown Mystery Strain™

Funny because its just a toy (for now... muwahahha)

Ray Charles is dead

If for some reason you dont already know. Ray Charles is dead. I think we should mark this occassion by remebering his music and downloading it for free just in case it was crap...

I actaully like ray charles just that I dont like ignorant fools

Japanese man found dead

The pajama-clad skeleton of a Japanese man has been found in a vacant apartment building

20 years after his lonely death. The skeleton was discovered lying atop musty "futon" bedding earlier this month when workers getting ready to raze the derelict building entered the second floor unit where the man had lived, domestic media reports said on Thursday.

News from japan but not in japnese

More TV news

But is it timely enough....

10pm - 11pm | SBS

Striptease

Documentary (France/English)

This documentary looks back at the origins of the traditional art of striptease. Why is it that everywhere in the western world, young women are deciding to become strippers? How is it that in American and European cities, hundreds of women are forming striptease companies and reviving that old forgotten showbiz word "burlesque"? Inspired by the Moulin Rouge and Pigalle, the red-light district of Paris, the original striptease or "burlesque" was a product of the leadership of the Minsky brothers, Russian immigrants to Brooklyn in the '20s. With an unpretentious theatre, they created an inexpensive entertainment for the masses, long before the invention of television and before Hollywood's tyranny of popular leisure culture.

Gritty Forensic Accounting drama on ABC

First there was forensic science television dramas, now forensic accounting will have it's turn in the spotlight.

The ABC will soon be screening an action packed television drama based on a fictitious Australian forensic Chartered accounting practice.

The script is complete with mystery, death and crime. The pilot program called 'Loot' will be launched by a strong cast including Jason Donavan, Barry Otto and Tara Morice, at 8.30pm on Friday 25th June.

The concept for this production came from our former Deputy CEO, Allen Blewitt, now the CEO of the Associations of Chartered Certified Accountants. He worked on this project for sometime developing concept outlines and then sought 'backers' for the project.

Watch it and enjoy!

I actually laughed at the this, then realised they were serious.... It even stars Jason Donavon, what more could you want. I can just imagine some people getting excited (I know I am).

Free Fuel

Petrol Prices too high? Certinly are. Well now is a good time to convert to desisel, ATM the only problem with desiel is that the govt is charging too much tax (in comparison to petrol) but you can get around this by making your own bio deseil from used cooking oil. It would be a great plan only if you worked at KFC.

Or just use it as an accelerant...

Wednesday, June 9

Picture

Picture this website contains pitcures of australia. Its quite a large database and is all good stuff. Its all copyrighted, but its ok for educational purposes. But not for internet? hmmm that postcard I scaned in had the link to this site so its also proberly copyrighted. ARGH.... hmmm interesting now that I have scaned some postcards in so I dont get over run with moths is proberly going to be a probelm....

Well its not like Im getting money from it, and i'm realy promoting the artist in some kinda way. So i'm like doing them a favour by even mentioning it on D-news.

So here I give you a link to the Copyright act 1968

Monday, June 7

100 years and 3 medals

Q. "How come a country of one billion can't win Olympic medals?"

I dont know. And neither does anyone else. (Everyone looks at everyone else to do something about it...)

Progress-->> India won its first individual medal in 1952. It took 44 years to win another in 1996. But then took only four years to win its third at the very next Games in 2000. If that's not progress, then what is?

The secrets of long life revealed?

Life expectancy rates
1. Japan 81.3
2. Sweden 79.9
3. Canada 79.2
4. Spain 79.1
5. Switzerland 79.0
5. Australia 79.0
7. Israel 78.9
8. Norway 78.7
8. France 78.7
10. Italy 78.6
15. UK 77.9
18. US 76.9
Source: UN Development Programme

Or is just that Old people live longer becuase they are still alive!

Note: Sir Micheal says that its your social status that is a major factor in longgevity of life. So just think you are better then everyone else and you will live longer. Oh wait most people already do that.....

He also says that edumacated folks live longer as in PhD then Masters, then Grads then other folks....... (he also has a new book out......)

One of my favorite websites

This site is proberly one of my favorites as its go a lot of practical information. Wana know something then check out SoYouWanna

Microsoft WONT acquire SAP

Well looks like the morning news was wrong. A big MUWAHAHhahahah to channel seven and nine for being morons.

ahhhah, like they want more legal trials

Wheelchair bound coffee drinker killed

Yaacoub was first wounded at the age of 14 during the first uprising in 1987, when he joined a group of boys throwing stones at Israeli soldiers. The soldiers shot him in the leg, his brother said. As an activist for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, Yaacoub was jailed by Israel for 10 months in 1991, Adel said.

In 1992, during another clash between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers, he was shot three times in the back, badly wounded and left paralysed from the waist down, his brother said. After he recovered, Yaacoub, now confined to a wheelchair, left Fatah and got a job at a natural medicine store in nearby Ramallah. When he saved up enough money, he bought a special taxi he could drive with hand controls and began plying the streets.

Fourth time unlucky

Saturday, June 5

Australian Red Nose Day. 25th June 2004

Get 15% of your sales/donations for your troubles.

Make people feel guilty and get money?

Bean Counting makes the news

Got Milk

Friday, June 4

Paper, love and glue - mmmm

Wow. This is truely geeky. It involves you building somthing. An arcade machine in this case out of paper...

Beep Beep

Pakistan tests ballistic missile

More testing by the communist country.

Its Inter-Balistic

CIA cheif Quits

This is important because? Well if you have been doing your reading then you would know. But since he's leaving this is a nice summary.

I remeber now. Its a book called "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afgansistand and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001." By Steve Coll (wow thats a long titles, also it retails for $60) I will try and look for a online version of the book review, as it looks like a good book.


AFR

Pirates told to walk the plank

The fact that the entire O/S was able to be cracked just be mearly changing the date (2000) should be an indication that this is just advertising fluff to scare off those of you that might actually want the pacthes. But one this is certain. There will be a crack for it. Just a matter of time.

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Competition

Competitions are great, esspecialy when u wont win.

Anyway

This year's competition poses the question: Import workers or export jobs? Should developing nations be allowed to 'poach' skilled professional labour from countries who have helped pay for this expertise? Or is the influx of immigrants, whether skilled or unskilled, a positive force, bringing either expertise or ambition and hard work to the host nation?

The following questions indicate the sorts of issues entrants may wish to consider, though they should not be seen as complete or definitive:

• It used to be the case that most immigration/emigration was of unskilled labour in the manufacturing sector; however, now the same applies to people in higher-paid technical, professional and service jobs too. In light of this, should developed countries open their borders to migrant workers? Or can they allow jobs to be outsourced to low wage countries?

• Is it right that some poor countries suffer the loss of skilled workers, such as nurses who come to the richer countries, seeking a better life, leaving gaping skills holes in their country of origin?

• What of the accusation of 'brain drain', where successful developing countries are accused of poaching skilled professionals from other countries? Is this fair? If not, what could be done to discourage it?

• How are countries with highly developed social welfare systems coping with increases in immigration, given that migrants may work for lower wages, but they cannot be denied the same employment rights as native workers?

• The notion of a fluid employment market where workers are free to follow jobs often tends to inspire fear. But is the fear justified? Does it mask the benefits and possibilities? Should countries give more thought to the "skills" and "needs" of their people?

• The history of the movement of people and populations shows how dynamically immigrants can change or benefit host countries. But when and how does it go wrong? Is it a question of balance? Or (and) of matching skills and needs?

• The debate on movement of people ranges from the rational to the emotional. What clarity can you contribute to mankind's choices over the freedom to move? What may it mean for the way we work? What may it mean for our sense of place, of residence, of identity and of local and global belonging?

The prize-winning essay will receive US$20,000 and will appear in the prestigious annual publication from The Economist: The World in 2005. Two silver runners up will each receive US$10,000 and five bronze award winners will each get US$5,000. All eight essays will be published on this website.

Start those database searches, of course since this isnt a uni assinghment you can have your own ideas....

Shel pump the oil that makes plastic, that makes your computer....

One for the big guys

Blogs are pieces of digital paper, and the uses and application are unlimited. It is not the blog technology that determines the usefulness of the content generated.

Blogs has become a reductive way of calling personal publishing and mini content management systems that greatly facilitate direct authoring and publication of news and information by anyone. There are great reporters and online 'journalists' that use such blogs and which publish very valuable insight and news reporting on a systematic basis.

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No SMS for you

The North Korean government has banned the use of mobile phones by local residents, just weeks after allowing foreign visitors to use their mobile handsets in the country. Mobile phones were only recently introduced in the country, with the first services going live in 2002.

The ban

The reason why I will become an ant and not a cockroach

Does this seam some how wrong/weird? Somethings just not quite right.

Sex Education Resources for Teenagers with learning difficulties

Tuesday, June 1

Extreame brightness

Ever wondered what torches professionals use (i know maglite could also be included but just consider this company as a competitor (also maglite is more consumer orientated this stuff is highend insane stuff)

Anyway, if you are like me and like collecting torches you will love this site.

make it brighter

Your ugly if you dont drink water


Hotty Hepburn Posted by Hello

Film icon Audrey Hepburn has been deemed the most naturally beautiful woman ever in a poll of beauty experts.
The diminutive star of Breakfast at Tiffany's was chosen by beauty and fashion editors, make-up artists, model agencies and photographers.

They had to choose their top 10 beautiful women from a list of 100 compiled by water company Evian.

US film star Liv Tyler and Australian actress Cate Blanchett were voted second and third

drink water

dancin

Want to learn how to dance like a hot shit and pick up many women. Well this site has definatly helped me.

yeeehaw

I cant belivie its actually chicken?

yes, thats the first thing you say when you taste chickn in your chicken burger or in your chicken sandwich.

If your not sure about chickens then this page will surely convert you. It even has a test.

Cluck cluck

sorry

Michael Moore moves on to planning ban of his next movie

Michael Moore says that he has put the media storm surrounding Fahrenheit 9/11 behind him, and is already working hard on the media storm surrounding his follow-up movie, which has the working title Preaching To The Converted IV.

The director promises his fans that like the rest of his highly successful books and movies, his next film will demonstrate Moore�s enormous political clout by completely convincing lifetime Democrat voters not to vote Republican.

Read more: Chaser News

NSFW

oooh NSFW on D-news. Who would of thought (you know it was only a matter of time). Well this interesting "news" is of how to cook a women, if you know what i mean.

mmmmmm yummy

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