Rants N' Jibes

JetBlue Passenger Asks For It : Gets Lots More

Shareng — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:54:59 +0000

A Jetblue passenger causes havoc on flight lighting a cig on flight and punching a crew member

photo credit: Cubbie_n_Vegas

She now faces 20 years and 250000 in fines…

WOW!!!

She asked for it!!

Garmin’s Nuvifone To Be Manufactured By ASUS

Shareng — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:14:50 +0000

Garmin the GPS device makers have come up with a phone with GPS technology.

The phone named Nuvifone has a big touch screen display and looks pretty good.

The phone production is going to be done by ASUS. The phone is expected to be released by Q4 of 2008

FIREFOX 3 | DOWNLOAD SUCCESS

Shareng — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:06:06 +0000

MOZILLA Firefox is undoubtedly one of the favourite among the sea of browsing software.

Its FREE, FAST and SECURE

AT 1300 PST (2000 GMT) on 17 June they released the 3.0 version of FIREFOX and it was havoc.

The servers handling the downloads were crushed by the load of people trying to get their hands on the new version.

Within 24 hours of the release firefox claims around 8 million downloads.

The correct data is being scrutinised and will be then sent to the Guinness World Records organisation for the record declaration.

Train Strikes School Bus In France : 5 Killed

Shareng — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:55:40 +0000

A school bus was struck by a train in the French alps close to the Switzerland border killing 5 and injuring at least 12, the authorities said.

It was however not clear if the dead or injured were children. The accident has taken place near the town of Allinges in France’s Haute-Savoi Department.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the President, has paid tribute to the victims

Passport Info And Addresses To Be On Beijing Olympics Tickets

Shareng — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:09:02 +0000

I was just planning my trip to the Beijing Olympics when I came across the news that the Olympics tickets are going to contain all of the personal data of the ticket holder…

They are embedding data such as Passport Number, Home Address and Email Addresses. As if this wasnt bad enough, they are going to embed all of this data on an RFID chip.

This poses as a terrible threat as all this data can be interpreted by anyone as RFID data can easily read wirelessly and someone whois rally dedicated can find ways to break whatever security measures have been taken.

So, I, personally have put down my plans of Beijing. Id rather have my privacy.

FASTRA Desktop Supercomputer Developed With 4 Nvidia 9800 GX2 Graphics Cards

Shareng — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:40:55 +0000

I was surprised when i heard that a desktop supercomputer was developed using four Nvidia 9800 GX2 graphics cards. This is equivalent to eight GPUs. This, in effect, does the work of close to 350 CPU cores.

This architecture is similar to that of the PS3 Cell and therefore be used for the medical community and the likes that need this sort of computing power.

Did I tell you this is pretty affordable too?

2010 Chevy Camaro To Be Released By September 2009

Shareng — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:45:10 +0000

GM is working on the production of the 2010 Chevy Camaro. It is scheduled to start production by February 2009. And rumours are that it will be released in the Indianapolis Motor Show in Sept 2009.

This beauty has a V8 engine and is all set to take on its competitors. The build is awesome and the features are stunning!

This beauty has me impressed… I might indulge!

Facebook Lets Users Carry Their Profiles With Them

Shareng — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:27:39 +0000

Announced Friday, Facebook is joining hands in an effort to making it easier for people to share their personal profile online.

This came as a result of growing interest among the users for such portability needs. Internet social networking giant, MySpace has also announced their launch of such a feature. While MySpace allows users to use their profiles in only a few websites, facebook has announced that the facebook profile can be carried to any site that wants to host them.

The actual portability will be possible after several weeks.

Google Inc, the internet search leader has last year created a network that will make it easier to share music, picture, hangouts and the likes. Its Open Social. While MySpace has joined OpenSocial, Facebook has not.

Facebook widget application will get a new boom with the portability kicking in. This is because developers stand to gain more now that the profiles will be used even outside of the site!

Graphene To Revolutionise Display Technology

Shareng — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:25:36 +0000

Graphene is a derivative of Graphite (hexagonally bonded carbon). Scientists of the Manchester research team have found a way to use Graphene as electrodes in Liquid Crystal Displays which will help in making extremely thin displays. This is possible because the graphene layer is only one atom thick!!!

The research is still going on and the final products are expected to hit the market in the coming few years.

I guess postpone my plans of setting that Home theater…

New phones with roll up screen extension may not be that far off now!!!

Daytime Emmy Nominations 2008

Shareng — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:07:54 +0000

Well… Everyones been waiting for the 2008’s Emmy Nominations.

Outstanding Drama Series

General Hospital
Guiding Light
One Life to Live
The Young & The Restless

Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team

Guiding Light
General Hospital
One Life To Live
The Young and The Restless
The Bold and The Beautiful

Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team

General Hospital
The Bold and The Beautiful
One Life To Live
All My Children

Outstanding Lead Actor

David Canary (AMC)
Thaao Penghlis (DAYS)
Anthony Geary (GH)
Peter Bergman (Y&R)
Christian LeBlanc (Y&R)

Outstanding Lead Actress

Maura West (ATWT)
Crystal Chappell (GL)
Nicole Forrester (GL)
Michelle Stafford (Y&R)
Jeanne Cooper (Y&R)

Outstanding Supporting Actor

Trent Dawson (ATWT)
Daniel Cosgrove (GL)
Brian Kerwin (OLTL)
Kristoff St. John (Y&R)
Greg Rikaart (Y&R)

Outstanding Supporting Actress

Kelly Hensley (ATWT)
Heather Tom (B&B)
Judi Evans (DAYS)
Gina Tognoni (GL)
Tracey Bregman (Y&R)

Outstanding Younger Actor

Van Hansis (ATWT)
Jesse Soffer (ATWT)
Darin Brooks (DAYS)
Tom Pelphrey (GL)
Bryton McClure (Y&R)

Outstanding Younger Actress

Jennifer Landon (ATWT)
Rachel Melvin (DAYS)
Vail Bloom (Y&R)
Emily O’Brien (Y&R)
Tammin Sursuk (Y&R)

Outstanding Talk Show

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Rachael Ray
The View

Outstanding Talk Show Host

Ellen DeGeneres (The Ellen DeGeneres Show)
Regis Philbin & Kelly Ripa (Live! with Regis & Kelly)
Barbara Walters, Sherri Sheperd, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck (The View)