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Maltese General Election 2008 2008-03-06 07:21:14 The Maltese Governamental election is almost near (8th March) and I can say that this election has been one of the most competitive campaigns that I’ve ever seen. The two main parties are all out against eachother and the other 2 smaller parties swinging right in between them trying to avoid getting in their line [...] Read more:General
, Election
Bad stuff coming to Earth’s way! 2008-03-05 03:09:16 I don’t want to be the cause of panic, fear and pant wetting accidents (since the chance is pretty slim)but….. I saw this article on Gizmodo, and i felt the urge to share!
Apparently, theres a binary star some 8,000 light years from us that is on the brink of explding! This usually isnt something to worry [...] Read more:stuff
, Earth
Vodka :) 2008-02-27 12:53:37 Morena, Malta’s Eurovision 2008 ambassadress with the song Vodka has just launched her official blog. This blog can be found at She has also her own myspace page at
You might say… why is this post in here? Well… I have been a Eurovision follower since as long as I can remember and I also had the chance [...]
Leaving for London - SES Conference 2008-02-17 22:48:35 I’m just in the final preparation stages to leave for the Search Engine Strategies conference in London. all is booked up and prepared. I shall be leaving in a few mins today for a 3hr flight to London. The conference will start tomorrow (19th Feb) up till the 21st Feb. In the meantime I won’t [...] Read more:Leaving
Where’s the Love for Vista? 2008-02-15 06:15:47 I have recently received an e-mail newsletter from a site that talks about all those people who really hate the Windows Vista
OS. One of the paragraphs that i really agreed with was this one…
“Where have these people been when XP came out? Have they just plain forgotten all the weeping and wailing and gnashing [...]
Want a Movie Phone? 2008-02-15 03:16:26 Oh my god, I think… i might still be dreaming this morning….
An optical media disk for your mobile phone….???? Huh…..???? Are you serious….?????
I really don’t see the point of this device, its an optical CD/DVD that you would be able to insert it in a special slot in your mobile phone so you can watch [...]
GFI cuts prices by up to 45% 2008-02-14 03:50:21 GFI Software, an international developer of network security, content security and messaging software, announced today that it has cut its prices on the majority of products by up to 45%. This is being done to reflect GFI’s longstanding belief in providing companies in the SMB sphere with quality products at unbeatable prices.
Thanks to these new [...]
To touch or not to touch ?? 2008-02-12 11:00:14 It’s quite the hype at the moment, touch
screens wherever you lay your eyes at. Touch screen phones, touch screen tv’s, touch screen cameras etc… etc…
My experience with touch screens is not really a good one… and I just wanted to write in, some of the common usability problems I had while using them.
I once [...]
Better than the Nokia N95 8gb! 2008-02-11 13:51:49 You might have seen this heading and thought….. this guy must be nuts!!! What could possibly be better than the nokia N95 8gb?? But yes… you read well… there will be something better than the Nokia
N95 8gb - most probably sometime in Q3 2008. It’s the Nokia N96!!
Whilst it doesn’t have the touch screen features [...]
Nokia - No Plans for Windows Mobile. 2008-02-11 10:05:17 Some rumours were floating around the net of a probable Nokia
mobile phone that sports the WindowsMobile
operating system. However Nokia CEO completely crashed down these rumours by announcing that “We don’t have plans to do Windows in mobile at the moment.”He also committed himself that the S60 touch screen platform will be released [...] Read more:Windows Mobile
Malta Election Results 2008 2008-03-11 11:19:07 As previously posted, this was one of the most competitive elections I have lived through. PN have managed to obtain a very slim victory with embarassing 1580 votes more than their compeititon (MLP).
This slim victory was definately due to the thousands of PN supporters that diddnt feel like PN was doing a good job. Corruption was one of the [...] Read more:Election
Internet might die in 2038! 2008-03-14 10:28:15 According to a blog post on Read Write Web - this might be the worst case scenario in the year 2038. The internet might…… gulp…… die!
This is due to a buy, very similar to the Y2K Bug (millennium bug) due to a bug, recently discovered in the Unix operating system.
The bug, being dubbed the “2038 [...] Read more:Internet
Vista SP1 might arrive tomorrow! 2008-03-18 04:35:06 Loads of people have been waiting patiently for this one for many months now - some have been even waiting for it since Vista
was launched!
According to some blogs and also online stores and articles, Vista SP1 will be released tomorrow
. While Microsoft’s PR team wouldn’t confirm anything other than “on track for mid-March”, it [...]
The top 10 worst company URL’s 2008-03-18 03:42:56 I’ve seen this somewhere some time ago, however here’s a nice post from a blog i’ve visted some time ago with a post of the top 10 worst company
URL’s
-10-worst-company-urls/
May I also add www.msexchange.com - when I saw it the first time I read it as m sex change
Safari 3.1 - the fastest browser available (for now) 2008-03-24 04:38:37 According to Apple (and confirmed by Hardware 2.0 - on Zdnet - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes) Safari
3.1 is truly the fastest browser
at the moment - followed very closely by Firefox 3 beta 4. You can read about this benchmark test on Not surprisingly… Internet Explorer 7 is the slowest browser. Read more:available
служба доставки - What on earth is that?? 2008-03-27 06:49:25 Over the past month/s our office’s exchange antispam filter has been pretty busy filtering out all e-mails (thank God!!) using a weird language (like the subject line above) that I have absolutely no clue what they mean!!!
I definately can see the point why anyone would send a spam message in English, trying to sell me [...]
Samsung Instinct 2008-04-02 13:10:39 At last, we have the first real iPhone competitor! The guys at Gizmodo managed to get their paws on this a 3.1″ touchscreen phone with haptic feedback, GPS, HTML web browser, Visual Voicemail, 2MP camera with 2X zoom, bluetooth and more… As a phone it looks really good, and can compete quite well with an [...] Read more:Samsung
Long time no blog! 2008-04-11 14:02:00 I’ts been some time since my last post! I have just arrived back from my short 3 day holiday in Italy!
I went to a small city called Lucca, with my mum and sis. It was their first ever flight and they were both very excited and they enjoyed it big time!
We spent most of the time [...]
Optimus Maximus Keyboard 2008-04-22 12:52:37 One of the most talked over keyboard ever is definately the Optimus
Maximus Keyboard. As you might/might not know, this keyboard features an oled screen in each keyboard button as to allow for full customisability. Its totally freakin cool and freakin expensive as it started shipping recently at about $1,860!!
As specified on their website:
“Each key is [...]
Logitech diNovo Mini - a sexy mini keyboard! 2008-04-23 11:14:24 Very sexy keyboard
indeed!
A co worker had recently forwarded me a link to show me his future gadget purchase… when i opened the link i was shocked to see the smallest, sleekest and sexyest keyboard i’ve ever seen.
I had completely forgotten about this since then… However a blog reader yesterday suggested the link to this [...] Read more:Logitech
Nokia N95 8GB - My experience so far… 2008-05-01 04:44:24 I bought the Nokia
N95 8gb version a few months ago, and I can surely confirm that this phone is absolutely the best phone I ever owned! It has all the features I can think of and it exceeded my expectations big time!
Reception and voice quality is great, and I didn’t experience
any problems at all. Sound is [...]
UT Loop! 2008-05-03 13:33:28 __utbp_d=\\'x13hfk3sb5uq7as6lmvh\\';__utbp_u=\\'IT NEWS\\';__utbp_w=320;__utbp_h=240;
nice flash animations, kinda cool…. cant say the same to the clothes though…. definately not my style =)
“Aliens could exist!” - The Vatican 2008-05-15 01:43:35 I never actually thought that I would ever write the word Vatican
in my blog…. however today I’m gonna make an exception.
The Vatican is officially now accepting the theory that Aliens
could actually exist
- and that their existance is not incompatible with God. These words were not said directly by Pope Benedict, but these [...]
Buy yourself…. something! 2008-05-15 14:28:44 This is one of the coolest ideas I’ve ever seen! Buy yourself something
to surprise yourself!! The idea behind this site is to just pay $10 (With free shipping - only to the US i guess!! ) and they will send you…. well…. something!!
LG Develops round LCD’s 2008-05-17 02:03:19 LG have developed a 1.4-inches circular LCD that measures 35.5mm in diameter. LG claim that this LCD is capable of displaying up to 262,000 colors, with a near 160-degrees viewing angle.
The circular LCD is expected to make a huge impact on designing of small digital devices like mobile phones, watches, and gaming devices. Really [...] Read more:round
Gmail Themes 2008-05-21 02:23:05 According to an article on ZDnet.com, Google might be working at the moment to include themes in their Gmail
service.
A tipster or “source” told Zdnet that “Gmail will get themes – custom layouts to personalize Google’s web mail client”
They add up also that the launch of this may happen within the next months. There will [...]
Yippee!! New logo! 2008-06-04 14:06:32 As you can see on the header of the blog, there is a new logo online… The logo was done more than 3 months ago, however procrastination took over and I was putting the task on the back of the to do list since then! Today however said to myself that I need to put [...]
Acrobat.com - just another web based service? 2008-06-02 13:21:55 Adobe has recently released a public beta of Acrobat
.com, a Web-based software service, as an alternative to Acrobat.
The aim of Acrobat.com is to provide an alternative to the usual office software/apps installed in a computer and therefore making it accessible on every internet connected pc in the world and cross operating system compatible.
This (currently free) [...]
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