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I was digging a post about spread Firefox, then I saw a url to spread Internet Explorer, where there’s a post by “Bill Gates” talking about a cruel practice going on on Firefox-controlled Period Blood Island in the Indian Ocean.
http://www.spreadinternetexplorer.com/node/169#comment
According to “Bill Gates”, stray dogs were being skewered on hooks and dragged behind boats as live shark bait. Here is a picture of a six-month-old Labrador pup having a huge double hook through its snout.
Then I went on reading the comments of the story. Many people accused “Bill Gates” of posting such a story to attack his rival companies and that he tortured a dog in order to to make up the story.
I don’t know the truth.
I once hated Microsoft for its sly business strategies, and I loved Google very much! Then all of a sudden, Google became a giant in Silicon Valley that everyone’s afraid of.
Not only does it have a powerful search engine, but it has web-based email service, instant messenger, map, a user-driven video streaming community, feed reader, and online shopping services like Froogle and catelog reader.
(Go to Google Services and Tools and Google Labs, and you can find a bunch of things that are under development at Google.)
Wired has an article about this rising star: how it became a threat to big companies like Amazon.com, eBay, Yahoo!, and even Microsoft.
All of a sudden, I had a feeling that that Google would be the next Microsoft, and people will eventually dislike it like we hate Microsoft. Why?
According to my very limited knowledge in Economics, making profit is what every company is trying to do. Well, maybe some exist for other reasons like as a political strategy to ease the tension between two countries, but I believe that the ultimate reason of their existence is to try to make a profit.
Even if there are political reasons or whatever issues involved in the practice, money is still a big interest behind the scene.
Think about what we’re doing everyday and what our countries are doing.
We may not see money as something very important, but we all want to survive and preferably, to live a better lives. That’s why we need to work. We need money.
Most conflicts between countries may seem to be something to do with humanities, but this so-called justice is simply a way for them to cover their real motives, i.e. to control natural resources that all societies need and to protect their own economies. Aren’t these all money-issues?
Google is not a charitable organization. Even though it’s making a lot of contribution to the world, it doesn’t mean that it has no intention to make money; and to make money, you want everyone to use your products.
We hate Microsoft because it always tries to dominate the world. It forces us to use only its products so that it can eliminate its competitors and maintain its position as the king of the computer world; but isn’t Google trying to do the same thing (with a view to its series of new tools and services under development)?
Maybe what is different between Microsoft and Google is that Google is more supportive to open standards.
If Google keeps its openness to open source applications and services, people probably will still love it even if it really becomes the next dominator of our world of computing and information.
Funny that we didn’t seem to hate Sony before for how it tries to make its products only supportable by other of its products. (The recent boycott is due to a different reason: the rootkit thingy on its CDs that seriously invades our privacy and the security of our computers.)
Anyway, I don’t think Google is a terrorist as spreadinternetexplorer.com claims in a post, and I don’t think Firefox has a connection to al-Qaeda as suggested on the site. These sound too ridiculous to me.
After all, we don’t know who are the people behind spreadinternetexplorer.com, like we don’t know if it’s really people from Yahoo! who are behind the prank of listing the address of Google’s headquarter in Mountain View as a fish store on the new Yahoo! Map.
Well, it’s a world of complicated relationship, and both human beings and animals become the victims of this world of gains and losses.
December 3rd, 2005
Russian squirrel pack ‘kills dog’
Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report.
Passers-by were too late to stop the attack by the black squirrels in a village in the far east, which reportedly lasted about a minute.
They are said to have scampered off at the sight of humans, some carrying pieces of flesh.
A pine cone shortage may have led the squirrels to seek other food sources, although scientists are sceptical.
The attack was reported in parkland in the centre of Lazo, a village in the Maritime Territory, and was witnessed by three local people.
A “big” stray dog was nosing about the trees and barking at squirrels hiding in branches overhead when a number of them suddenly descended and attacked, reports say.
“They literally gutted the dog,” local journalist Anastasia Trubitsina told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
“When they saw the men, they scattered in different directions, taking pieces of their kill away with them.”
Mikhail Tiyunov, a scientist in the region, said it was the first he had ever heard of such an attack.
While squirrels without sources of protein might attack birds’ nests, he said, the idea of them chewing a dog to death was “absurd”.
“If it really happened, things must be pretty bad in our forests,” he added.
Komosmolskaya Pravda notes that in a previous incident this autumn chipmunks terrorised cats in a part of the territory.
A Lazo man who called himself only Mikhalich said there had been “no pine cones at all” in the local forests this year.
“The little beasts are agitated because they have nothing to eat,” he added.
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It’s so scary! I can’t imagine what I would feel if I witnessed the whole attack and saw those squirrels having a piece of dog flesh in their mouth. I hope squirrels in Toronto won’t turn into a violent beast like their “families” in Russia.
P.S. Thanks Chap for the pictures.
December 3rd, 2005
Finally I told you how I felt. I’m glad that I did because I won’t need to hide it anymore; but at the same time, I’m anxious about the outcome…the consequence.
Sure it may not be a good thing to reveal it all, but meh… I really hate to pretend that I feel nothing at all in my heart. I’m not scared to admit it to you.
Maybe the realization came a bit too late and perhaps it wouldn’t work out, but all I’m asking for, I guess, is just…… you telling me I have a place in your heart.
December 2nd, 2005
I never hated any of my professors so much before, but this one is really driving me nut.
I missed a test a few weeks ago, and I emailed my professor the day after the test. Since it always takes my doctor really long to get a medical certificate filled out, I made it clear in my email that I wouldn’t be able to give him my medical certificate within a week or so. He replied me with one simple sentence, saying that I should give him a medical certificate after class if I hadn’t done so.
“What? I told you I wasn’t able to do so. Did you or did you not read my email?” 
It seemed to me that he didn’t realize my difficulty of having a medical certificate ready for him in a week. Therefore, I emailed AGAIN and explained my situation AGAIN.
However, he didn’t write back. Therefore, I went to talk to him after class the next day.
I briefly mentioned the problem and the email I had sent him, hoping that he would remember the issue that I had been repeatedly telling him; but he didn’t seem to remember anything about it, and he asked if I emailed him within 24 hours after the test. I said Yes. Then he said it would be fine as he should have a copy of my email in his email box.
OK then! I finally got my medical ceritificate back from my doctor. I tried many times to go to his office hours to give him my medical certificate, but I was always delayed and arrived at his office 5 to 10 minutes late. I thought that he wouldn’t leave his office once the office hours ended, but he did.
Therefore, I finally had to drop off my medical certificate without giving it to him in person. I slid it into his office under the locked door. Then I emailed him when I got home, telling him my problem of giving him the medical certificate in person and that the certificate was now on the floor of his office.
He replied me this morning, saying that he asked all students to hand in their medical certificates after class in the week after the test and so he doubted if he should give me an exception.
What? What the hell are you talking about? I sent you 2 emails about my problem, and I talked to you after class about it. Are you blind, or are you deaf?? How can you be so irresponsible yet you blame it to your student?
I’m furious! It’s not my fault to take a long time to have a medical certificate filled out. It’s simply out of my control. I’ve arleady tried my best to get it done asap.
I called my doctor’s office and asked about it; I told the secretary to tell my doctor that my professor needed medical certificate asap.
Later when it was ready, I went to the office at 8a.m. to get the medical certificate back.
What did I do wrong?
Anyway, I wrote back using a really soft tone. I said things like:
“I was not sure if you clearly heard what I said about my situation because the classroom was noisy and there were other students trying to ask you questions.”
(I used a noisy classroom to cover up his fault.)
“I know things are getting really complicated here. I’m sorry, and I know it’s hard for you to keep track of every single issue of a class so big like this.”
(I blamed the class being too large as opposed to his inability to handle adminitrative issues.)
Well, I don’t think he’s gonna realize his problems. Pathetic!
If he really rejects my medical certificate, for sure I’ll appeal to my college or the department—whoever is in charge. I’ll make it big coz it’s totally not my fault, and I’m not gonna let someone so stupid and irresponsible to screw up my marks!
December 2nd, 2005
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watch this video
What’s the moral of the story?
Respect the elder.
Thanks
Hiatus for forwarding the video clip to me and
Chap for letting me copying the whole thing from his blog.
December 1st, 2005
I’m never into games. The only game that I was once addicted to was Mario. I played it on GameBoy, and I think I played really well
(according to a 10 year-old standard).
Besides Mario, I never play another game for more than 2 hours (in total).
I once wanted to learn how to play King of Fighters on Neo Geo. I don’t know why, but I simply wanted to know how to make those cool moves and attacks. (Don’t you think it’s fun?!)
Therefore, I asked my brother to teach me, but he said King of Fighters would be too hard for me and he suggested me try some Street Fighters first.
The outcome? I suck. I’m not born to be a gamer.
I could barely made a Fireball (Hadouken) and rarely a Hurricane Kick (Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku ) . My favourite is Dragon Punch (Shouryuuken), but it’s too damn hard for me, and I could never make one.
Anyway, back to the topic: a game to make you cry.
It’s a new game called Cloud. You play a young boy who flies through the air above a small group of islands and you can move the cloud when you’re flying.
I tried it for a few minutes. I like the music and I like the drawing. The boy looks cute in pictures but NOT in the game. Well, I actaully had a hard time figuring out what keys on my keyboard I should use to make my moves on the screen. I used my mouse, and I didn’t see ME doing much in the game.
Anyway, you can download the game
here if you’re interested.
Which character in Street Fighters do you think I like?
Hints: Ryu
or Ken?
November 30th, 2005
It’s funny that we dun care about what we have when our lives are quite, smooth, and troublefree.
During this peaceful time, however, we would think about what we dun have and our attention simply goes all the way to what we think we lack.
For the things we were once glad about having? They seem to have become invisible to our eyes.
I guess this is human nature, and it is a pathetic one.
Although you already knew that it was not what was good for you and it was not something for you, you still want to go for it.
Sometimes, you can put it off your mind and you think you’re totally over it; but the truth is …… somehow….. it can still makes its way back to your mind, and you’re again in a dilemma.
I wonder if it’s a true feeling, or if it’s simply stubbornness.
I hope you know what I mean.
November 30th, 2005
If you’ve paid enough attention to my Wish List, you should know that I want an iBook; but why am I not getting it?
First, money.
Second, something new is coming out……
As you may know, Apple is cooperating with Intel, and it will be using Intel processors in its new lines of iBook and PowerBook.
For a summary of what’s gonna happen in early 2006, go to
WiredNews.
Besides, there’s anticipation that the “new” iBook and PowerBook would be cheaper than the current ones. In doing so, Apple can cover the market of teenagers who have money for an iPods but can’t afford a Apple laptop.
I personally feel like having an iBook with the original Apple’s processors; but I’ll see.
November 29th, 2005
Why’s everyone blogging? Why do people want to draw visitors to their blogs?
Sure, it’s a way to reach people (in other words: your customers); but I do know people who are actually not earning money from their blogs but are very eager about making their blogs beautiful and helpful so that more people would come visit.
Are we all dying to tell others our stories, our opinions, and our ideas? Is there no way for us to voice our feelings and thoughts other than blogging? I dunno……
I like to talk. I like to share with my friends. I can never keep any of MY SECRETS from people.
If there’s something that I can’t tell my parents, I talk to my friends;
if there’s something I can’t tell my b/f, I share it with my friends/family/anyone not associated with my b/f.
People say everyone has his/her own dirty laundry. Is it true? Yeah…… I think so; but in my case, dirty clothes were buried deep in a closet that I wouldl never remember to open, and then as I’m moving on with my life, the closet would be gone by itself; and all dirt simply got flushed out of my mind.
Anyway, the Computer World is getting really fascinating. I wonder what our lives would be like in ten years.
November 29th, 2005
A funny song that sings the praises of System Administrators
| Writer/Composer/Singer: |
Wes Borg |
November 28th, 2005
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