Blogs: Finding the precious needles in the haystack

In a short few years, blogging has grown into a huge social and business activity. Its become so simple to set one up, that thousands of new blogs are created every day and millions exist across the net. But the fact that everyone can publish instantly, or make a video, or music track, or [...]

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MacBook Hacked

A MacBook Air was hacked in two minutes by a software engineer at a security conference contest. He exploited an unknown security hole in Apple’s Safari browser and could claim a $10,000 prize. No public disclosure on the bug details will be made until Apple has addressed the issue.
Read more at News.Com

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Summary for March 2008

This blog is less than a month old and at the end of March 2008 and there’s been an average of three posts per day, covering quite a diverse range of topics in the four primary areas: Arts, Business, Lifestyle and Science.
Here’s a summary of all the posts for March 2008

Blogs: Finding the precious needles [...]

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Low-cost flights to space

It looks like space travel could become more affordable in the near future with the development of the Lynx space taxi. It will be able to fly from a standard airport up to 40 miles in space.giving the passenger a breathtaking view of the earth from space. However NASA defines space as [...]

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What obsession can do to a man

Simon Garfield rediscovered his childhood love of stamp collecting, in his late forties, but this time it developed into an obsession which has cost him his marriage, and financial problems. Its an all-consuming passion and obsession, excluding nearly everything else (but he also had an affair with a beautiful young woman) .
He collects those very [...]

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Testing Muslim Racism in the USA

ABC News Primetime recently ran a test to gauge reaction to Muslim racism in the USA. This video on YouTube.com shows quite surprising results: 15% approved racism, 32% challenged racism, but most surprising is that 53% were silent. Obviously this is just one test so it doesn’t represent the broad US opinion, however [...]

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Freeze Dry Your Pet

For anyone who has had a beloved pet, a dog or a cat, or other animal who had become part of the family, their death is always a traumatic moment because emotional attachments are formed during the pets lifetime, and, at the end of it’s life, it hurts. For most people they grieve and then [...]

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Ice-free Arctic soon

The Earth is like a balding man – its loosing it on top, a little more every year until finally one day and its all gone. When we talk about the shrinking Arctic icecap we think, hey, a little loss around the edges, so what? Well now it looks like that loss is much [...]

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Lasers a Bright New Future

Invented more than 50 years ago, where initially, they were a solution looking for an application, lasers are now used extensively in scientific, medical and engineering fields, and their rate of use has increased enormously in the last few years as the technology has developed. High intensity, finely focused, pulsed lasers are [...]

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British National Gallery Painting Was Owned By Hitler

“Venus and the Cupid” a painting by Lucas Cranach, a Reformation artist in the 16th century, was once owned by Hitler. It was bought in the 1960’s by the British National Gallery, however an art historian has traced it back to Hitler’s Munich flat…
Read the full story in the Guardian.

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