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The New York Times beats the whole "multi-tasking reduces productivity" horse to death, reporting on another set of studies that show human brains slow down when they have to juggle tasks:

"In a recent study, a group of Microsoft workers took, on average, 15 minutes to return to serious mental tasks, like writing reports or computer code, after responding to incoming e-mail or instant messages. They strayed off to reply to other messages or browse news, sports or entertainment Web sites...[continue]

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A perennial favorite, Netvibes (click the thumbnail for a full-size image) scores with its effortless customization, mammoth collection of feeds and modules, and all-around good looks.

To speed and simplify page setup, Netvibes provides a sidebar (which you can hide, of course) listing a couple dozen popular modules and a collapsible directory of feeds. Drag, drop, rearrange and you're good to go. Naturally, you can also search the site's thousands of cataloged modules, feeds, podcasts, events and user-built tabs (any tab can be published to the Netvibes directory). A recent update added the option to share your own tabs via e-mail, instant message or code embedded in a personal page like MySpace.

Netvibes offers a choice of 10 themes, though they're really just different colors for the page and module headers. You can also adorn each tab with any of a hundred cute little icons, or import one of your own.

Though I do wish for more color-customization options, Netvibes gets just about everything right. It's the page I want to see first when I fire up my browser.

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While our team explores Windows Vista, one of the favorite Vista features that provides potential productivity gain is the thumbnails that popup when you mouse over the taskbar. And with a simple program, this feature can also be added in Windows XP.

The utility we’ll use is called Visual Tooltip, which is a hybrid dock / thumbnail applicaton. With a few tweaks to the settings, we can make it work just like Vista thumbnails.

Download it [here]

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An MD5 sum is a string of letters and numbers that acts like a fingerprint for a file. If two files have the same MD5 sum, the files are exactly alike - which is why MD5 "fingerprints" can verify whether or not your downloaded file got corrupted in transit.

Read detailed steps by step [here]

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Built into Windows is the ability to let you assign a keyboard command to any shortcut icon. Just right-click the shortcut you want to assign a Shortcut to, click Properties, and click in the ‘Shortcut key’ field. Then press the combo you want to assign to launch the shortcut; it has to have one standard (A-Z 1-0) plus two or three of , , or .

Also, did you know that the -R launched the Run dialogue box and -E opens Windows Explorer? Consider yourself more productive!

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Built into Windows is the ability to let you assign a keyboard command to any shortcut icon. Just right-click the shortcut you want to assign a Shortcut to, click Properties, and click in the ‘Shortcut key’ field. Then press the combo you want to assign to launch the shortcut; it has to have one standard (A-Z 1-0) plus two or three of , , or .

Also, did you know that the -R launched the Run dialogue box and -E opens Windows Explorer? Consider yourself more productive!

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While my crawling agent sniffs out the Internet daily, I was notified of this interesting web site that does a reasonably good job in helping you convert all those camera videos into a DVD format....

Check it out at http://www.zamzar.com/

Nice...

Posted in: Technology on Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 0 comments  

Let's take a look from the book entitled The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Polla (38 ingredients in all)

1. corn-fed chicken
2. modified cornstarch (to bind the pulverized chicken meat);
3. mono-, tri-, and diglycerides (emulsifiers, which keep the fats and water from separating);
4. dextrose;
5. lecithin (another emulsifier);
6. chicken broth (to restore some of the flavor that processing leeches out);
7. yellow corn flour and more modified cornstarch (for the batter);
8. cornstarch (a filler);
9. vegetable shortening;
10. partially hydrogenated corn oil;
11. citric acid as a preservative
12. sodium aluminum phosphate, mono-calcium phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, and calcium lactate. These are antioxidants added to keep the various animal and vegetable fats involved in a nugget from turning rancid.
13. But perhaps the most alarming ingredient in a Chicken McNugget is tertiary butylhydroquinone, or TBHQ, an antioxidant derived from petroleum that is either sprayed directly on the nugget or the inside of the box it comes in to "help preserve freshness." According to A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives, TBHQ is a form of butane (i.e. lighter fluid)

Think again on your next trip to the fast food chain...

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1. Adama and Eve were not surprised when the serpent talked to them, implying a possibility before fall of mankind, that a common tongue prevailed
   
2. Ever wonder why the devil selected the serpent as his medium to communicate and tempt mankind? It's perhaps of its sleekness, stealthy silence during movement and one that can easily create an element of surprise in an encounter
   
3. Truth mixed with error and brought across through subtle mental suggestions - A tactic used by the devil even today, worked wonderfully with Eve
4. Lack of proper, sound knowledge of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was one factor contributing to the fall in mankind
5. Temptation usually comes in an appeal to our flesh, pride and visual - A classic framework used on Jesus when He was tempted for 40 days in the wilderness
6. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil exist to remind mankind of a higher order to obey and trust
7. Disobedience that led to sin, resulted in much changes to the perfect world, including the introduction of killing, sacrificing, and a vast transformation to many species on earth
8. God never short-changed His creation but the devil cunningly and viciously follow this path alway
9. The first curse was pronounced on the serpent species by God, knowing very well, the mastermind should actually received this damnation
10. The coming of Christ was foretold as early as the first book of the Bible
11. The second curse pronounced is in agonizing pain in child-bearing and a shift in balance that man is being placed accountable for the family
12. The third curse was directed at the removal of "auto" agriculture for food but work is now mandatory
13. The fourth curse is that mankind's life expectancy is now limited, signifying death as imminent in all
14. The women was named Eve only after the fall
15. A cherubim and a flaming sword now prohibits man's enjoyment from the tree of life
16. Immortality is possible only with the periodic consumption of the tree of life. Mankind by design is not an immortal like Angels
    

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Running Windows Under Ubuntu 7.04

QEmu can run an OS inside another OS - for example, Windows under Linux. QEmu uses kqemu, an acceleration driver included in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn to run Windows at usable speed.

Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn also includes a new version of rdesktop that can be used to start individual desktop apps from the VM on your normal desktop. See SeamlessVirtualization.

Note: Most computers purchased since 2006 support VT or Pacifica, technologies that speed up virtualization considerably. To see if your system includes these technologies, run the following:

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1. Mystical Evolution refuted with systematic creation - what do you know about this?
2. A distinction is made from the beginning (Darkness and light), signifying the existence of such cosmic order
3. An estimate number of species created is at 10 million (only 1.7 million species discovered today with 10,000 new species annually)
4. A subset "image" of God has been imparted into mankind during creation - you know them?
5. Mankind DNA signature is still intact (undegenerated) for a limited time period, making reproduction among siblings feasible
6. Mankind is created not as meat eaters but strictly vegetarians - how did it all changed?
7. The creation process was perfect in every sense of the word
   

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1. Seventh day = Sunday or Saturday? A day where God pronounced rest.
2. Rain never occurs before the fall of mankind
3. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was unguarded and ever-present before the fall of mankind
4. The garden of eden is believed to be today in north-western tip of today's Persian Gulf and depicts the reality of heaven on earth before the fall of mankind
5. Man, like Angels were created with a will to act, think and conduct himself, together with an associated accountability for disobedience
6. If Adam requires 5 seconds to name one created species, it would take him approximately 578 days to name all 10 million species (estimated) - that is provided he don't sleep!
   
7. The construct of mankind before the fall would be able to withstand temperature change resulted from the four seasons, without insulated clothing (They were naked)
8. The instituition of marriage was setup before the fall
9. Women were made to help men. Define "help" in today's context.
   

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Only around 275,000 marine species have been identified, compared to some 1.5 million terrestrial species. In reality, coral reef ecosystems alone are probably home to at least one million species, and as many as 10 million more may lurk in the deep ocean basins (only one-tenth of which have been systematically mapped). It is reasonably certain, then, that the greater part of species diversity remains to be discovered. Estimates of the total number of species on earth range from as 'few' as 3.6 million to as many as 100 million.

10,000 new species are being discovered every year!

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Its the fourth most populated country in the world (after china, India and USA) with 250 million people. Though t is the country with the largestMulsim population in the world, it constitution recognizes 6 official religions - Islam, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism.

Most Indonesians speak Bahasa Indonesia (which is a dialect of the Malay language).

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PSPad is by far the best text editor I have ever used on the Windows platform. No matter if you are a designer, PHP developer, programmer, database editor, or just a casual user of basic word processing this software does it all. It has a laundry list of features including:

• work with projects
• work with several documents at the same time (MDI)
• save desktop sessions to later reopen all session files
• FTP client - edit files directly from the web
• macro recorder to record, save and load macros
• search and replace in files
• text difference with color-coded differences highlighted
• templates (HTML tags, scripts, code templates…)
• installation contains templates for HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, VBScript, MySQL, MS-Dos, Perl,…
• syntax highlighting according to file type
• user-defined highlighters for exotic environments
• auto correction
• intelligent internal HTML preview using IE and Mozilla
• full HEX editor
• call different external programs for different environments
• external compiler with output catcher, log window and log parser for an “IDE” effect in every environment
• color syntax highlight printing and print preview
• integrated TiDy library for formatting and checking HTML code, conversion to CSS, XML, XHTML
• integrated free version of the top CSS editor TopStyle Lite
• export with highlight to RTF, HTML, TeX format to file or clipboard
• column block select, bookmarks, line numbers, …
• reformat and compress HTML code, tag character case change
• line sorting with ability to sort on defined columns and drop duplicates
• ASCII chart with HTML entities
• Code explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in development
• spell checker
• internal web browser with APACHE support
• matching bracket highlighting
• PLUS MANY MORE!!!

PSPad is a free download and can be found at pspad.com

Posted in: Technology on Friday, March 16, 2007 at 0 comments  

If you are a Windows user who always wanted to get rid of the Taskbar for a more sleek approach - look no further. RK Launcher for Windows is a tiny application that mimics the functionality of the Dock in OS X. It even captures many of the special effects such as the magnification of the dock icons when the mouse hovers over them, drag-and-drop adding and removing (complete with the “POOF” effect), the genie effect for minimizing windows, etc. The developer hasn’t worked on it for a bit (since 2005), but the beta works great for now!

Download RK Launcher

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Getting Linux to run on a USB Drive may easily seem to be an overwhelming process, but we put together a very simple guide that an absolute novice could follow.

We successfully installed a distribution of Damn Small Linux on a Lexar 512mb Secure Disk USB 2.0 Jump Drive and it worked quickly and flawlessly. There’s no guarantee that every USB Drive will boot Linux using this method (for example, the new Imation 256mb Wristband Drives would not work properly), but we feel a vast majority will work fine.

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Windows only: Freeware application KeyTweak lets you remap any key on your computer's keyboard. KeyTweak makes changes to your registry to remap your keys where you want them. This could be especially useful for all you laptop users out there (myself included) who don't like the non-standard layout of your keyboard.

Download [here]

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A new version of Clamwin has been released to the public, with the following updates being made to the system

• A warning is now displayed if virus signature database is older than three days
• Fixed a virus database lock problem with relative file path
• Improved executable file type detection

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Taken from "What Mary & Joseph knew about Parenting", here the weekly tip I came across that may be of use to new parents in our midst...

Tip

You've probably heard the saying, "Look before you leap". Well, "Pray before you parent" is the best practical way to get into the habit of looking for and receiving God's help. Right in the middle od what you're doing - especially when you're facing a challenge - turn your attention and your thoughts to God, asking Him for wisdom and help. The very act of prayer will usually settle you and get you thinking on a more productive track. You'll find that this habit, like any other good one, takes a while to develop. Be patient with yourself and keep at it; it's worth the effort. Perhaps you could put up a sign for yourself that says, "Free Parenting Help - Just a Prayer Away"

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Here is a picture of a Public Toilet in Houston, TX.
There is more to this toilet than meets the eye.

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The Grand Canyon will soon have a suspended glass-bottom walkway hanging 70 feet over the canyon edge, with a vertical drop of 4000 feet.

The Hualapai Tribe began rolling its million-pound Skywalk over the edge of the Grand Canyon on Tuesday and plans to finish the job today.

When complete, the glass-bottom walkway will jut 70 feet beyond the Canyon's West Rim. Tourists who pay $74.95, strap booties over their shoes and walk across the U-shaped lookout will see the Canyon beneath their feet, an unprecedented view.

A VIP event is set for March 20 and the public grand opening March 28.

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As John admits, the church camp committee who is planning this year's camp is still keeping the lid on much of the details of the camp for unknown reasons. But as far as it goes, we know it will be around 19 June this year, at a posh golf resort near us. Price tag - $300 per head.

Theme - Church, past, present and future

May be interesting...watch out for more details on coming Sundays.

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The recent invite has been extended to all members who desires to give of our service as ushers - A ministry as sacred as the pulpit ministry.

As for those who has already signed up, let us put our smiles to the work this Sunday at 1040am, where we will begin with a short prayer. If you are unable to make it, kindly text me anytime.

God bless and see you folks tonight!

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Yes, for those who wants the conclusion of how Martin wrap up during the reformation, catch it this Friday at HC's residence. Dinner as usual but do bring along a token of appreciation for her faithful cooking for this family each week.

730pm is the time.

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You heard me right! A company from Amsterdam is building the C-Quester 1 and 2-seater submarines, who aim to make submarines available to the wealthy masses. Cruising at a pleasant 3.5mph, the C-Questers can dive 50 meters for an impressive 150 minutes at a time. And a joystick control will allow you to observe spectacular reefs without even getting wet/interacting with nature.

Only $128,000! Perhaps Brian is interested?

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Place this ICP Solar Sunsei SolarCharger SE-135 on your car's dashboard, and trickle charge your car's battery whenever the sun's out. It's supposed to increase your car battery's life, and is not intended to charge it up from scratch. Designed for any 12-volt battery, you can either lay it on your car's dashboard or use its suction cups to attach it to the windshield.

Buy yours [here]

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Calling all members to head down to dunearn this Sunday as we dish out those tons of food for the ever-hungry crowds from China.

Dinner provided.

6pm as usual. Contact any of our drivers if transportation available.

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Ever been to a spot where you are concerned over security while surfing on a public Internet kiosk or wireless hotspot? Well, you can now use a free anonymous web based proxy service at

http://www.unblocksurf.com/

to prevent anyone to track your web trails as you access your company emails etc. Simply enter the web site address within unblocksurf to begin worry-free internet access.

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* Consider business continuity with each purchase. Acquiring funding for “just in case” technology purchases is difficult, but production system upgrades often provide the opportunity to purchase with disaster recovery in mind. As you upgrade the network, consider making infrastructure enhancements and diversifying telecommunications networks to mitigate risks.

* For optimal recovery, create a dedicated recovery data center. Data-driven companies like financial institutions, health care providers, and communications service providers, often demand point-of-failure recovery in mere hours. To recover within 24 hours, experts recommend a dedicated recovery data center that mirrors the production environment. Investing in pre-owned networking equipment for a recovery site decreases equipment costs by more than half.

* Sparing provides critical security. Regardless of company size, sparing is a solid strategy for emergency network back-up that is within most budgets. Whether equipment failure stems from routine wear-and-tear or a disaster, having a spare or a “hot spare” dramatically reduces recovery time. Many companies find that sparing with pre-owned equipment is more cost-effective than extended service agreements.

* No idle assets. Equipment purchased to provide business continuity in case of disaster should not sit idle waiting for an emergency. A dedicated back-up site can be used to process non-critical workloads or allocated to development and testing. When a disaster occurs, critical workloads fail-over to the back-up location superseding non-critical activities.

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Network and IT management platforms

The top winners in this 2007 category are:

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In view of the recent indications from CEH MIS to seek both a quantitative and qualitative way of managing and tracking network performance and threats on a real-time basis, Portal Phenom is endorsing the use of a FCAPS-compliant solution on CEH HQ network. This will provide real-time monthly information on servers uptime, network service disruption pattern based on online threats etc. while having the ability to track online vulnerability threats 24/7

FCAPS (fault-management, configuration, accounting, performance, and security) is an acronym for a categorical model of the working objectives of network management. There are five levels, called the fault-management level (F), the configuration level (C), the accounting level (A), the performance level (P), and the security level (S).

At the F level, network problems are found and corrected. Potential future problems are identified, and steps are taken to prevent them from occurring or recurring. In this way, the network is kept operational, and downtime is minimized.

At the C level, network operation is monitored and controlled. Hardware and programming changes, including the addition of new equipment and programs, modification of existing systems, and removal of obsolete systems and programs, are coordinated. An inventory of equipment and programs is kept and updated regularly.

The A level, which might also be called the allocation level, is devoted to distributing resources optimally and fairly among network subscribers. This makes the most effective use of the systems available, minimizing the cost of operation. This level is also responsible for ensuring that users are billed appropriately.

The P level is involved with managing the overall performance of the network. throughput is maximized, bottlenecks are avoided, and potential problems are identified. A major part of the effort is to identify which improvements will yield the greatest overall performance enhancement.

At the S level, the network is protected against hackers, unauthorized users, and physical or electronic sabotage. Confidentiality of user information is maintained where necessary or warranted. The security systems also allow network administrators to control what each individual authorized user can (and cannot) do with the system.

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The church is helping us in welcoming friends and visitors to our church by hosting an evening tea session in the church compound next Saturday. And I am sure those that lunch with us each Sunday may well be a new friend from the neighbourhood!

So, pick up an invitation card this sunday from the front desk and invite these good folks for Tea next Saturday. Simple!

Please join in for each successful invite. Contact HC for details.

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Posted in: Technology on Monday, March 05, 2007 at 0 comments  

Mac users: Speed up your mail

The Mail.app fan-site Hawk Wings has a great tip for Mail.app users -- a simple command that many are swearing by as a means of evincing a gigantic speedup in Mail.app's performance. If you're suffering through the same hell I lived with back in my PowerBook days, you might give it a shot.

Note: I haven't tried this. You might nuke your mail forever. Make backups. Don't say you weren't warned.

1. Quit Mail.
2. Open Terminal.
3. Type the following:
cd ~/Library/Mail
sqlite3 Envelope\ Index
An sqlite> prompt will appear.
At that prompt, type vacuum subjects;
After a short delay, the prompt will return. Type Control-D to exit.
4. Restart Mail and enjoy the extra speed.

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1. Shake a leg. Lack of blood flow is a common reason for lack of concentration. If you've been sitting in one place for awhile, bounce one of your legs for a minute or two. It gets your blood flowing and sharpens both concentration and recall.
2. Eat breakfast. A lot of people skip breakfast, but creativity is often optimal in the early morning and it helps to have some protein in you to feed your brain. A lack of protein can actually cause headaches.
3. Eat a light lunch. Heavy lunches have a tendency to make people drowsy. While you could turn this to your advantage by taking a "thinking nap", most people haven't learned how.
4. Laugh. Laughing relaxes the body. A relaxed body is more receptive to new ideas.
5. Think positive. There's no point in setting learning goals for yourself if you don't have any faith in your ability to learn.
6. Write, don't type. While typing your notes into the computer is great for posterity, writing by hand stimulates ideas. The simple act of holding and using a pen or pencil massages acupuncture points in the hand, which in turn stimulates ideas.
7. Stimulate ideas. Play rhyming games, utter nonsense words. These loosen you up, making you more receptive to learning.
8. Brainmap it. Need to plan something? Brain maps, or mind maps, offer a compact way to get both an overview of a project as well as easily add details. With mind maps, you can see the relationships between disparate ideas and they can also act as a receptacle for a brainstorming session.
9. Listen to music. Researchers have long shown that certain types of music are a great "key" for recalling memories. Information learned while listening to a particular song or collection can often be recalled simply by "playing" the songs mentally.
10. Constrain yourself. Most people need structure in their lives. Freedom is sometimes a scary thing. It's like chaos. But even chaos has order within. By constraining yourself — say giving yourself deadlines, limiting your time on an idea in some manner, or limiting the tools you are working with — you can often accomplish more in less time.

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In our weekly roundup of the most useful addon to a Windows XP desktop, a program developed by Microsoft called Microsoft Virtual Desktop Management tool allows you to instantly switch among four unique desktops spaces without logging off the current account.

That allows users with limited screen asset to easily allocate project-specific tasks or programs to run in specified windows workspace!

Download it [here]

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In our weekly roundup of the most useful addon to a Windows XP desktop, a program developed by Microsoft called Microsoft Virtual Desktop Management tool allows you to instantly switch among four unique desktops spaces without logging off the current account.

That allows users with limited screen asset to easily allocate project-specific tasks or programs to run in specified windows workspace!

Download it [here]

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With the existing licenses purchased from Portal Phenom, CEH is entitled a free upgrade to version 4 of the OS.

Xandros Desktop Home Edition - Premium is a complete Linux desktop operating system that also includes the applications needed to work, communicate and play.

Check out the complete feature list [here]

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http://linuxmonitor.blogspot.com/2007/03/ultimate-ubuntu-performance-tweaking.html

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Its fast became a norm that members within our family check in and out each week...just a recap, Robert and Reba is heading back this Tuesday, Sus and Jerrie is out in India till mid this week. Jenny and Nigel probably have their hands full with Ryan by now and we may not see them for a couple of weeks.

I may be checking out to Thailand next week...pending my client's readiness.

Anyway, I think our own Jerusalem is our family's current focus this month as we seek suitable family members to share with them the goods news. Our Saturday talk at Miss Clarity does lead us to conclude that there is a truck load of assumption/presumption/myths that our unbelieveing friends or siblings hold today and it would be a foolish act to witness to them without first knowing where they stand in belief.

John shared about his sibling - Penny, and I genuinely believe its time to pay these folks a visit during one of the Friday! What do you say?

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News and talks are underway that Palm be sold to whoever can pay $2 billion. Personally, I think its a company with much lack of confidence and capability to stay in the competitive mobile industry any more. And before things turn sour with the fading Treo lines of cash cow, it may well be a wise but expected decision.

I saw that coming two years ago when I ditched my Treo 650 for a Nokia 9300i.

Make a guess who may be knocking at the door to buy Palm...

Posted in: Technology on Saturday, March 03, 2007 at 0 comments  

With the topics centering around christians these days with a few recent attempts like "The Passion of Christ", you are invited to gain a balanced view of what the "Da Vinci Code" attempts to bring across to the gullible main stream of nominal christians.

But do take a look [here] to find out what this is all about.

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To kick start your interest in this area, I have included the following link to lead you on. Mind you, they are not exactly the most accurate but does serve its purpose to spur more questions in our next SF meeting.

Go on, see where it takes you...

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We want to thank God for safe keeping Jenny as she delivered Ryan in Thomson MC. If you can, do watch your SMS to receive details of where she is now.

Congratulation as our SF once again grew organically!

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This “How to Install Windows Vista Using A USB Flash Drive” is pretty simple, the first thing you need to do is buy Windows Vista obviously… the second step is actually buying a high-speed USB drive so you can get those amazing speed numbers and install Vista in less than half an hour, the third and fourth steps require more attention and some real participation on your part, but they are easy to follow.

• 3rd step - Format the Flash Drive
• 4th step - Copy Windows Vista’s DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive – use this command: xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\

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On the menu this evening is Chicken Spagathi and a movie on Life of Martin Luther (Thinking that a dense topic like Sabbath will wear most out). Venue for SF will be my place and time is as usual. Let me know if you need transportation.

Do remember Robert and Reba as they are traveling, Jenny and Nigel who is expecting to be parents real soon, health of John and Sus and blessing on each SF member.

Till we meet later today at 730pm!

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All the craze that's fast becoming hazardous is the emergence of online web office tools. And I have the review time to go through a couple, including that from Google, Zoho, and Thinkfree.

Offering 1GB of space to free subscribers, Thinkfree boasts free online document collaboration, document viewer, and most importantly free for use indefinitely.

Sign up and see if your next business day be meaninful on Thinkfree.

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