Saturday, October 07, 2006

Saturday, Apex, NC evacuees now returning home.

A lot had happened in a day. I wasn't able to post yesterday because I was too busy with work. I didn't realized I missed a lot.

Yesterday I finished one of my project. A link directory site for a company selling remote control cars. I will discuss more on this later.

I have to read my news first and log the headlines today, before I get busy again.

Today's headlines:
  • Saturday, Apex, NC evacuees now returning home. Up to 17,000 people are being evacuated in Apex, North Carolina after a chlorine gas leak occurred during a Hazardous Waste facility explosion and fire.
  • Shots fired on SEOUL, South Korean border.
  • At least 54 dead in heavy fighting in Sri Lanka

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Case against John Mark Karr dropped

Todays events:
  • 13 hour bank robbery ends with no injuries in Setúbal, Portugal
  • Child pornography case against John Mark Karr dropped
  • Halloween faces pumpkin shortage
  • Possible eruption at Ruapehu Volcano in New Zealand
  • First plane arrival for more than 10 years to renewed airport in Grozny, Russia
  • Rocket launcher found near Pakistani parliament
  • US government 'can continue' eavesdropping
  • Haze in South East Asia worsens
Today is the 278th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. 279th in Leap years.
Did you know that in year 1582, Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

Gregorian Calendar?
From wikipedia the free encyclopedia

The Gregorian calendar is the calendar that is used nearly everywhere in the world. A modification of the Julian calendar, it was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, for whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 via the papal bull Inter gravissimas. Its years are numbered based on the traditional birth year of Jesus Christ, which is labeled the "anno Domini" era [1].

The Gregorian Calendar was devised both because the mean year in the Julian Calendar was slightly too long, causing the vernal equinox to slowly drift backwards in the calendar year, and because the lunar calendar used to compute the date of Easter had grown conspicuously in error as well.

The Gregorian calendar system dealt with these problems by dropping a certain number of days to bring the calendar back into synchronization with the seasons, and then slightly shortening the average number of days in a calendar year, by omitting three Julian leap-days every 400 years.
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According to history:
  • 2001 :Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
  • 1991 :An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
  • 1947 :The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
  • 1944 :Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
  • 1930 :British Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
  • 1921 :Baseball: The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time.
  • 1915 :Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
  • 1910 :Portugal overthrows its monarchy and declares itself a republic.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Amish Family forgives gunman

In today's news
  • Amish Family forgives gunman. He is a deeply troubled man.
  • Queensland, Australia, Tree of Knowledge dies. According to reports it was poisoned with up 40 liters of Glyphosate.
  • Yesterday. Turkish Airline hijacker threatened to blow up the plane. The best thing is, he is unarmed.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

A screaming PDA Phone

Have you seen it? Yes a screaming cell phone. When someone tries to steal your phone it will scream out loud. I saw it in the news yesterday. Pretty cool ha, it's now out in the Europe, and I think it will be available in the U.S. by early next year. The service comes with a fee, and from what I've seen and heard, your phone will start screaming as soon as you report it missing. The scream won't stop unless you take of the battery, but as soon as you put it back it will start screaming again. Nice. But do you think it will stop, those nice guys from snatching such a cool gadget?

All phones comes with security features, like those of the GSM phones sold by Cingular and T-Mobile, by default it will only work with the mother network, so if you are a cingular subscriber and you lost your phone, nobody can use it in the T-Mobile Network or vice versa, that's what you call network lock. But now you can see phones for sale on the net saying Unlock, meaning you can use it in any network, or you can just buy the software to unlock it. Also theire is the GSM Phone IMEI no. some network use this to secure your phone, so say you lost your phone, just call your provider and give them your IMEI no. and they can lock your phone. Even if they replace it with a new SIM Card, it won't work. But nowadays, a lot of people can bypass those security. Oh well, that's life, It's like a box of chocolate, you'll never know what you'll get.

Back to Headlines.

Yesterday's shooting at QUARRYVILLE, Pa was really horrible, I mean what is happening in our world. Last week the hostage drama in Colorado left two dead. Can you imagine the number of predators out there just waiting for the right moment?
  • According to report, this guy in PA identified as a certain Charles Roberts, 32 years old had plan the hostage taking for at least week, he even had 600 rounds of ammunition.
  • Now this is what I say, taking matters into his own hands. Bush stops online gambling. That is a really good thing he did.
  • Wow this one is also good news, Ford sales are up by 4.7%, that's new, haven't seen that in a long time. It' always Toyota, Honda, BMW, VOLVO, MERCEDEZ, da hello we're in America. What happened to the American Car makers? Looks like fords New CEO is doing a really great job.
  • Turkish hijacking ends safely in Italy. It started over greek airspace. Hijackers have a message for the pope. And looks like their reason for hijacking the airliner, guess what, "The Pope's planned visit to Turkey". Man give me a break, it's still a plan, why didn't they try to call him in the Vatican. The Pope is a good man, he will listen to what you want to tell him.
  • Now this is scary. North Korea announced plans to test nuclear bomb despite the fact that every thing they test turns out to fail, so I heard.
In History
  • 1993 : Today the Battle of Mogadishu begins. Remember, Black Hawk Down?

Monday, October 02, 2006

Shooting at Amish School

  • The Amish school shooting occurred on October 2, 2006 when a gunman killed multiple students in Wolf Rock School , a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Police report that the gunman, Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk truck driver who lived nearby, was killed during a hostage stand off in the one room schoolhouse.
  • India celebrates Mahatma Gandhi's 137th Birthday anniversary. Indians paid tribute today to the father of the nation, Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi on the 137th anniversary of his birth.
  • 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to American scientists.

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Home Run Kings

Today
  • A a new videotape with Al-Qaeda's second in command released.
  • Overpass in Quebec, Canada collapsed
  • Michael Schumacher wins 2006 Chinese Grand Prix.
  • French Teacher in Hiding After Criticizing Islam.
  • New video shows 9/11 hijackers attending terrorist camp in Afghanistan.
In the past

From the Library of Congress.
On October 1, 1961, Roger Maris slammed home run number 61 into the stands. In the last game of the regular season, Maris broke the long-standing 1927 record of baseball legend Babe Ruth for the most home runs in a single season. Fans loyal to Ruth criticized Maris. They argued that Ruth hit 60 home runs in a 154 game schedule, while Maris hit only 59 home runs in the first 154 games of the season, not reaching 61 home runs after 162 games. The Baseball Commissioner, Ford Frick, ruled that Maris did not break Ruth's record. It was not until 1991 that Maris was credited with the record.

  • 2005 - Bombing kills 23 people in Bali.
  • 2004 - Baseball: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki makes his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.
  • 2001 - Victoria Beckham's debut solo album is released.
    1993 - Polly Klaas is kidnapped by Richard Allen Davis during a slumber party at her Petaluma, California, home; Davis will be sentenced to death for murdering Klaas.
  • 1992 - Cartoon Network debuts.
  • 1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev is named head of the Supreme Soviet.
  • 1985 :The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
  • 1983 :Horizons opens at EPCOT Center, Walt Disney World in Florida, United States.
  • 1982 :EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World in Florida, United States.
  • 1982 :Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
  • 1979 :Activision founded.
  • 1979 :The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
  • 1814 :The Congress of Vienna Begins.