Posted by maca on October 28, 2004
If you haven’t see this it’s quite interestring. Scientists have discovered a new species of human which was approximately 3 foot tall and lived in Indonesia about 12000 years ago. The new species Homo floresiensis (no wonder they are extinct – yeah ok you heard that one before) lived on the island of Flores which [...]
Posted by maca on October 28, 2004
Looks like things could really explode in New Zealand. Things have been going great in New Zealand for a number of years with a tourist boom and a Maori cultural renaissance. But things could be turning nasty as the government is planning to nationalise the coastline to prevent anyone from claiming property rights over the [...]
Posted by maca on October 27, 2004
Just one of the stories from the earthquake in Japan. It always seems worse when there’s kids involved.
Posted by maca on October 27, 2004
“The Cassini spacecraft has made a close pass of Saturn’s giant moon Titan which is expected to result in the closest views yet of the mysterious satellite. “ I’ve started using a cool program called Celestia a couple of months ago. Basically Celestia is a real-time space simulation which allows you to tour the universe [...]
Posted by maca on October 25, 2004
Know what i saw today on the way home from work? A George Bush election poster … in Finland of all places!! I know they are pushing to get the expat vote but I really didn’t expect to see an election poster! Gas!
Posted by maca on October 19, 2004
Tough case ongoing in France at the moment. A couple are being prosecuted for allowing a guest at their party to drive away drunk. The drunk man crashed shortly after leaving the party killing himself and 4 members of another family. Only a 5 year old girl survived the crash. The grandmother of the girl [...]
Posted by maca on October 18, 2004
Tragic news about the two kids (ages 4 & 2) who drowned on friday evening in a neighbours pool.
Posted by maca on October 18, 2004
Ireland 77 41 Australia: A good performance by the Irish gave them a deserved win in the first test against the Aussies. The second test of the International Rules Series should be closer as the Aussies should be more used to the round ball, and maybe won’t have such a relaxed attitude for the next [...]
Posted by maca on October 14, 2004
…oh and while I have your attention I’ll just remind you about the Firefox browser. Rather than using mind control (just one of my many non-existent talents) i’ll take the honest approach and tell you straight of the dangers of using IE. Did you realise that computer viruses can actually be passed to humans when [...]
Posted by maca on October 14, 2004
I just got another security upgrade for IE yesterday (or was it the day before?), and according to Techspot 22 new flaws have been discovered in Microsoft products! Good thing I dropped IE long ago in favour of the more secure and stable Mozilla Firefox. (not to mention switching my email client etc to non-IE [...]