| Election brief: PKR eyes 14 Pahang seats
KUANTAN: Parti Keadilan Rakyat will contest in four parliamentary seats and 10 state constituencies. Kuantan PKR chief Fuziah Salleh said she was confident about the number of seats to contest.
We have yet to name a few more seats as the party is still looking for suitable candidates.
Fuziah contested in the 1999 and 2004 elections and lost in both.
BN holds all the 14 parliamentary seats and 41 of the 42 state seats in Pahang.
Lim Yong wont contest
KUALA KLAWANG: Negri Sembilan MCA vice-chairman Datuk Lim Yong @ Lim Chen said yesterday it was time to give way to new faces after holding the Chennah state assembly seat in Jelebu for three terms.
The Jelebu MCA division chief has informed party president Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting of his intention.
Murray stuns Federer
Andy Murray claimed a remarkable three-set victory over world number one Roger Federer to progress to the second round of the Dubai Open. The British number one narrowly lost the first set 8-6 on a tie break but clinically took the first break point in the second set to break Federer's serve in the sixth game. Murray then broke Federer in the fifth game of the third set before he served out for a 6-7 (6/8) 6-3 6-4 win, his second straight victory over the Swiss having defeated him in Cincinnati in August 2006. Both players held serve in an entertaining first set but the world number one was able to break Murray twice during the tie break to win it 8-6. In the second set Murray led 3-2 and, after over an hour of the match, he was given his first opportunity to break the defending champion's serve at 30-40.
Dumpster Divers Go Mainstream In Thrifty Germany
Sven Brylla has been furnishing his apartments for years with discarded furniture, wood and fittings snagged off the streets of Berlin. In his kitchen stands a fridge so old that it predates electricity. Meltwater from a metal icebox once ran between the panels of the wooden cabinet, cooling its contents. Now it's his cupboard. His kitchen table is a gnarled old workbench. He found his favorite armchair at a garbage dump. His revolving inventory of street junk has included 20 vintage radios and half a dozen prewar bicycles made in the USSR. In many other countries, dumpster divers like Mr. Brylla would be written off as eccentrics. In Germany, he's just a normal 36-year-old graphic printer brought up to look down on wasting money on new things when sturdy old stand-bys are there for the taking.
Security risk management vs. software development
George Ou highlights problems with Vista's speech recognition software and wonders why the issue hasn't been fixed for more than a year. The reason: Risk management. Here's George's description of what he calls a flaw in Vista's speech recognition–some folks debate whether it's a flaw or not. This item was surfaced a year ago, but Vista SP1 apparently didn't take care of it. George makes his case that the speech recognition vulnerability deserves more attention. He notes: The test sound file I created managed to wake Vista speech recognition, highlight all the files on my desktop or all my pictures via Windows Explorer, and invoke the shift-delete command which wipes the files without the ability to undelete from the Recycle Bin. I could also open Internet Explorer and invoke TinyURL addresses which in turn redirect to some other malicious executable.
Good News Week
My humps, my humps, my lovely little humps," sang McDermott in tune with the Black Eyed Peas' 2005 song. It was probably around that moment that any misgivings one might have held about the decision to reprise the satiric current affairs show Good News Week after a hiatus of eight years were all but forgotten. McDermott has lost none of his cheek, and his sarcastic wit is as quick and vicious as ever. The banter between captains Mikey Robbins, the dry Claire Hooper and a panel of revolving guests is fluid and unpredictable - the X factor of live television. Indeed, just about all the parts of the old show seem to be in decent working order; the fruity language and smutty innuendo worthy of pimply teenage boys, the hard-edged political slander and post-mortems on what passes for news and information today and catch-us-if-you-dare assaults on the Mr Nice Guy values of middle-brow Australia.
Road blocks on Obama's nomination expressway?
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Microsoft prepares to take Office online
In addition to Google's effort, which, as of earlier this month, also includes presentation software, IBM has announced its free Lotus Symphony productivity software, which prompted 100,000 downloads in its first week of availability. Adobe, meanwhile, on Monday is expected to announce it has acquired Virtual Ubiquity, a start-up that has built a web-based word processor, called "Buzzword", using Adobe's Flash and AIR technologies. Adobe is also introducing a service, code-named "Share", that allows people to share and store documents via the web. A blend of online services and traditional software
For Microsoft, Office Live Workspace is also the next step in what the company touts as its "software plus services" strategy, essentially the notion that online services can serve as a complement to locally run software, but not necessarily fully replace software running on a consumer's own desktop machine or on a businesses server.
Gunman, 1 other dead in shooting at Wendy's restaurant in West Palm ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A man opened fire at a Wendy's restaurant around lunchtime today, killing himself and one other person. Officials say they believe five people were shot overall. Several were carried away on stretchers to waiting ambulances. No other information is immediately available. .
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