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A villager in India’s north-eastern state of Assam has been released from prison after spending more than half a century behind bars without a trial.

It seems the police just forgot about him thereafter,” says Assamese human rights activist Sanjay Borbora.
In 1967, the authorities at the institution certified Mr Lalung as “fully fit” and said that they intended to release him.
But instead of being freed, police transferred him to another jail…..
Strangely, even his relatives and family members forgot about Machang Lalung.

Link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4712619.stm

Not many people know how to install software, not to mention download software from the net as well. People might be very comfortable in using it, but not getting one installed. Trust me, there is A LOT of people do not know how to install application. Even less people know how to un-install them.

But strangely no one has problem getting some spyware install. You just have to admire these spyware developer.
If you are a software developer, a good lesson to learn from how spyware get to install EVERYWHERE.

Now who say there is very little innovation left in the software development?

It seems everyone is very concern about the debris this time. If the thing has to exploit, I am sure it will not cause by the same fault. There is, ironically, a thousand more ways to go wrong…

Link http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts114/050726images/

Left my credit card after pumping up in one of the petrol kiosk. It is rather silly to rethink about it.
All ATM that I’ve approached eject card physically and make sure I have taken back my card, then only pop the money out.
This petrol kiosk doesn’t eject card, the card reader has no slot loading mechanism (cheaper?), I have to push the card in and nip it out myself. So I don’t have a visual feedback on taking the card, and the screen at the kiosk was way too dull under the sun.

They should have disallowed me to pump up until I have removed the credit card, that is a very simple logic to write in the kiosk. At least all the ATM does that, and don’t tell me the bank can afford more expensive card reader mechanism then the gas company.

Go figure…

It was rare getting email with multi-megabytes of video as attachment, 2 years ago.

With the introduced on multi-gigabytes free mail service like GMail, upgraded disk space from Yahoo and Hotmail, wider availability on broadband, the table has turned.

These days getting video in email is as frequent as getting the still image one. The spammer will sure follow suite and pumping spam with videos – it is just a matter of time.

I couldn’t resist to think of the video spam from V1agra vendors… the spam filtering software will have hard time to deal with this one.

I use two browsers, Safai and Camino.

I’ve been using FireFox for quite sometime, until Apple released their own browser Safari.
Safari has been pretty snappy on UI, but lacks of kicks in HTML rendering. So I’ve eventually switched to FireFox’s sister Camino, and happily surf away.

The Camino native support on system UI (buttons and fields) almost tricks me into believing that I was on Safari all the time. I wasn’t thinking to use Safari all that much, until the day I’ve turn off the plug-in supports in it *.

Suddenly Safari has become very snappy again. I don’t have to look at those animated advertisements, over-bloated corporate entry page and background music!

Put it this way, rich media content is not a bad thing, but is it not easy to prepare, probably not easy to update and maintain too, so why should I spend time watching it again and again just because someone has spent his/her specious time on it?

If the author knowing exactly what to delivery, not because of “the boss wants it” or some itchiness on animated buttons – I am in. I don’t know about you, I am a simplism (I hates those fancy lengthly DVD title page too).

Now my PowerBook runs cooler too

* The plug-in supports basically handling rich media content like Flash or QuickTime – turning off the plug-in means those media will not be downloaded or display on the browser.

I remember those days many camera “print” the date onto the film, but not seeing such feature on modern digital camera now – the camera store date, time and many other information on a small “pocket” in the JPG file, called the Exif instead. Printing the date onto the picture would be the job for the printer, since all information IS in the Exif section.

Now, recording time when the picture being taken is a nice idea. But how about the location? Do you think you would just buy a digital camera with GPS build-in, and recording your position on every photo that you take in the Exif too?
Well, I would. Although I really need to get a GPS unit first.