Web Designer & Developer Ahmed's Musings

1.5 million people watched the midnight display, its centrepiece hanging from the Sydney Harbour Bridge, a fiery ring of red and gold around a blue circle. Around Sydney Harbour, the most popular points at Blues Point, Circular Quay and Mrs Macquaries Point had reached near capacity unusually early at 7.30pm.

Interesting bit of info here …

Last weeks 7.8 magnitude earthquake has actually physically moved the southern end of  NewZealand approx 12 inches closer to Australia and its eastern end approx 1 cm to west.

Pretty cool!

Huge as this earthquake was it caused only slight damage to buildings and property when it struck the remote southwest Fiordland region of the South Island last Thursday, creating a small tsunami with max wave of 1 meter.

New Zealand frequently suffers earthquakes because it marks the meeting point of the Australian and Pacific continental plates.

 Sea of Japan is once again hosting the Giant jelly Fish, known as Nomura’s jelleyfish as this inhabitant of the yellow seas has been transported to japanese waters by ocean currents. These massive sea creatures are spectacular indeed at  6 feet in diameter and weight of 450 lbs.

Marvel of nature though they may be, these jelly fish bring plenty of horror and destruction in their wake for the japanese fishermen, getting caught and tearing large holes in the extensive and very expensive fishermens nets.

Loss of these nets spells real economic devestation for these fishing communities.

“Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS, We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you on to the web in a few seconds. The operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web and that this OS was our attempt to rethink what operating systems should be. We are completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates, It should just work. This announcement is huge. This is the first time we have had a truly competitive OS on the market in years. This is potentially disruptive and is the first real attempt by anyone to go after Microsoft,” said Google.

“Funds would be used to help 2.5 million people displaced by fighting with Taliban militants. This latest contribution will enable the World Food Programme to transport local stockpiles of wheat flour to those in need and will feed around one million displaced people over the next six months. The funds came on top of 18 million dollars already committed to humanitarian aid in Pakistan since September last year”. said Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith.

Its almost official folks … as of July 2009 residents of NSW, Australia are likly to being payig and extra $2.50 per week for their electricity …… why??

The extra revenue generated will be used over the next 5 years to upgrade the CBD. 

awww … don’t be sad now … Its gonna cost 17.7 billion only! … Don’t you wanna pay for it??

We pay to keep the lights on in NSW - The Sunday Telegraph

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