Archive for the ‘World’ Category

Hans Reiser Held for Murder

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

No, it’s not Hans Reiser the actor, it’s Hans Reiser the creator of ReiserFS. ReiserFS is a journaled computer file system mainly used in Linux. He was taken into custody 10th October at 10am in Oakland. He is suspected of murdering his wife, Nina Reiser. Nina is currently missing, but the authorities think that she [...]

Microsoft revamps blogging policy

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Remember what happened to Chinese blogger Zhao Jing? His blog was closed down by Microsoft. Following that decision, many parties were outraged. So Microsoft decided to revamp its blogging policy. News Story by Jeremy Kirk JANUARY 31, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) – LISBON — In the face of outrage from many of its own employees [...]

Seagate Technology To Acquire Maxtor Corporation

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Scotts Valley, CA, and Milpitas, CA, December 21, 2005: Seagate (NYSE: STX) and Maxtor (NYSE: MXO) today jointly announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Seagate will acquire Maxtor in an all stock transaction. Read more about it here: http://www.seagatemaxtor.com/ Quantum was acquired by Maxtor, now Maxtor acquired by Seagate. I still [...]

Hurricane Katrina

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

I found the ‘Katrina’ button on Google Maps today. The difference is so clear:   Condolences to the people of New Orleans. 

Innocent Man Shot Dead

Monday, July 25th, 2005

It turns out that the man shot by Metropolitan Police Service was not connected to the bombings. Read all about it here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4711021.stm Quote: “A man shot dead by police hunting the bombers behind Thursday’s London attacks was a Brazilian electrician unconnected to the incidents.”