Sichuan (四川) Massive earthquake death toll raised to 20k people. It was really sad to hear that. God bless them.
Video took by student at Sichuan University 2:29pm in the afternoon.
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22nd is the Earthday celebration, there are actually two observances held in spring and autumn in both northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere respectively. The main reason of holding this event is to inspire the public for the awareness of Earth’s environment. Since January 1970, Earthday is celebrated every year around the world on 22nd April. Source: Wiki
If you are aware, Google search engine logo has been changed to Earthday logo to celebrate Earthday today.
I have moved this blog and other 2 sites to my new VPS hosted at vpslink.com, runnning CentOS 5 with LAMP. I was amazed with the performance of this vps, really fast disk writing and connection. however the low memory (Link2 package) which only comes with 128RAM and 256 Swap space, I can barely survived to run all the basic applications such as apache, mysql, vsftp and apf firewall.
Just a reminder, Australia daylight saving end on 6th April. Move clock back one hour at 3:00AM 6 April 2008. Next daylight saving dates:
2008/2009
Starts: Sunday 5 October 2008
Ends: Sunday 5 April 2009
Got a forwarded mail today, wish to share with everyone just for your own safety.
“My friend bought four pack of ice cream and to prevent it from melting, the seller put the dry ice amongst the ice cream. My friend put it at the back seat and he started to drive with the windows closed and the aircon on (as what we all do). Soon after that, he had difficulty to breath and it was getting worser by minutes.
Luckily, he was in a traffic jam and when he almost fainted, beside him was an ambulance.
He dragged himself to the ambulance and got the oxygen treatment. He was getting better on the way to the hospital.
The ambulance officer drove his car to the hospital and he had the same experience. However, before his condition worsen, he opened up the window and he can breathe easily. Only later, when my friend has returned to office and told his colleagues about his story, they pointed to him that the dry ice was the problem. WHY?
Dry ice was made of CO2 and when it “melts”, it becomes CO2 gas straight away without leaving any wet mark (that is why it is called dry ice).
CO2 is easier to be tied up in our blood and thus, when the dry ice sublimes into CO2 gas, it fills the car room with it along with the air con circulation and caused CO2 poisoning. So, dont put the dry ice inside your car if you are using aircon with fully closed windows. You must leave the windows open for such situation.
Hope this will help to prevent any fatality just from a small negligence like this. Imagine if you have your children inside, they might be the first victim as they are smaller than you.”
Today a big dust storm and rain hit Melbourne with recorded wind gusts of up to 132 kilometres per hour. Sorry top hear that a 57 old women died after hit by a collapsed wall in Mentone, South Melbourne. More than 290,000 peoples electricity users were without power supply during the bad weather.
Picture taken with my camera just minutes before the storm.
Picture taken from St Andrews Beach. Not many people there on my visit, may be it is too far from Melbourne. Ferry is available if you want to cross the sea to Geelong. Location on google maps.
The sunset in Brighton beach is not too bad. Picture taken by phone camera, please bear with the image quality.
“Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.
Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.
