Archive for March 28, 2006

Hacking misunderstood

This story needs to be told to everyone, whenever there’s something not working right on your servers or computers, please get a geek/nerd to study the situation first - BEFORE you send an email to the maker of your operating system, accuse them of hacking you and threaten to call the police.

The city manager Oklahoma’s Tuttle city did just that when four of his computers showed the Apache’s web server default page when he tried to access his town’s website. Well - actually the page itself explained what it is about but I guess when he didn’t see his town’s default page, all those blood draining out from his brain made his vision blurry.

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Slack off to become smarter

Ever get the most wonderful idea when you are taking a shower? Or right before going off to sleep?

Well that’s because we are smarter when we are relaxed and not thinking too much of something *like work*.

But it’s really, really hard, if not impossible, for the human brain to come up with fresh new ideas when its owner is overworked, overtired, and stressed out. And in today’s wonderful world of nonstop work, 40% of American adults get less than seven hours of sleep on weeknights.

“The physiological effects of tiredness are well-known. You can turn a smart person into an idiot just by overworking him,” notes Peter Capelli, a professor of management at Wharton.

Work smart, not hard.

Link : Be smarter at work, slack off

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Flying fish

Is this the biggest flying fish ever. its salmon btw.

i think if this plane fly over some lost tribes in amazon or wherever, they will stop eating fish as they’ve seen their gods giving the species superior place on the earth. okay that was pointless.

Link : Alaska Airlines Nets Largest King Salmon on Earth

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