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In: Liquor
31 Mar 2008
Absolut is no longer Swedish (did you even know it was Swedish in the first place?) as the government of Sweden sold off the Vin & Spirit, the maker of Absolut, for 5.28 billion euros. Pernod Ricard is currently planning to keep making Absolut in Sweden in order to preserve its Swedishness.
As a result [...]
In: Construction
31 Mar 2008When is a building too tall? Dubai Tower, currently the world’s tallest building, is still under construction but the projection is for the final height to be 2,300 ft with 160 storeys (already impressive given that Toronto’s CN Tower, the previous world’s tallest free-standing structure was just 1,815 ft). Now word comes that Saudi Arabia [...]
In: Cinema
27 Mar 2008 21Stats genius at MIT teaches his students card counting, and unleashes them on Las Vegas to rake in money.
Run, FatBoy, RunDavid Schwimmer features a fat Simon Pegg who takes on marathon.
Stop-LossRyan Phillippe returns to civilian life after a tour of duty in Iraq, and just when he’s reintegrated, he must go back to the [...]
In: Appliance
20 Mar 2008I welcome all robots that will simplify life’s mundane tasks such as building cars, construction, farming and commuting. But until robots gain a level of intelligence that could wipe out the human race, I will settle for a robotic vacuum… Samsung is no stranger to robot vacuum manufacturing and the latest model Hauzen VC-RE70V is [...]
In: Uncategorized
19 Mar 2008Due to numerous problems with my previous hosting company, I am in the process of migrating the blog to a new hopefully more reliable webhost. As domain transfer takes a couple of days, you may have some issues reaching this website over the next few days.
Thank you for your patience!
Backing up your data is important as we increasingly rely on computers for everything. Now all our music, photos and documents can fit in a single hard-drive, making its potential failure even more disastrous. There are plenty of back-up solutions (such as using an external harddrive, an USB drive, burning DVDs…) but off-site back-up is [...]
In: Movie Review
13 Mar 2008Transformers is as big as it gets when it comes to summer blockbusters. Featuring plenty of destructions, explosions and gigantic robots, you can’t help but enjoy the visually and audibly loud action sequences. The movie tells the story of Autobots and Decepticons, two alien opposing factions of robots that can transform who are bent on [...]