i.justrealized

Not sure if you noticed how little I blogged last week. My previous keyboard was all to blame. The alphabet ‘e’ cannot work and no matter how hard I depress it, the cursor just blinks nonchalantly.

Since ‘e’ is the most common alphabet in daily English, I was type-impaired. Assigned the alphabet ‘e’ to Control+C works for 5 minutes but I given up typing soon after.

As a bonus, I never did as much studying for a week. Perhaps when examination nears I can consider wreaking my keyboard.

Anyhow, I bought a new keyboard. It’s the very same one from Microsoft. It’s the wired curve keyboard 2000 or something. I got so used to it I couldn’t feel right typing on something else.

We were walking out of the Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ school. He needs a cigarette.

“Finally visited a girl’s school,” he announced.

“Yeah, is that in your things-to-do-before-I-die checklist too?”

He laughed, “Yeah, finally… Finally the day has come.”

“Checked.”

“Yup, checked.”

Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School (Secondary) (Abbreviation: PLMGSS) is an all-girls school located in Hougang, Singapore, running on a single session catering to pupils in the Special, Express, Normal Academic and Normal Technical streams, hence fulfilling its mission of opening its doors to the very able as well as the less able. Since 1995, PLMGSS has been offering Higher Chinese (HCL) to her pupils. There are 61 teachers, 80% of whom are committed Christians. Approximately 25% are old girls, a special feature of the school. (Source: Wikipedia)

Erm, what are old girls by the way? Or is that one of those Wikipedia nonsense.

The little-known cavity may support the theory that the 4,500-year-old monument to Pharaoh Khufu was constructed inside out, via a spiraling, inclined interior tunnel—an idea that contradicts the prevailing wisdom that the monuments were built using an external ramp.

The inside-out theory’s key proponent, French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin, says for centuries Egyptologists have ignored evidence staring them in the face.

Video Clip From Unlocking the Great Pyramid Documentary

[Source: National Geographic]

What to do when you’re really bored? You can listen to Nicolas Sarkozy (France President) speak:

Sarko et la langue de Shakespeare!?

What he’s trying to say is:

You are welcome to invest in France. We will be happy to help you make money in France. And of course to make some money with you for us.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Funny stuff.

Sarkozy, by the way, has a very beautiful wife. His third one to be exact. Sarkozy married Carla Bruni (with Italian descent) on just this year if I’m not wrong. Here’s a picture of the French first lady:

(French first lady Carla Bruni.)

Much better than Sarah Palin in my opinion. And speaking of Sarah Palin, she got pranked by Montreal comedy DJ duo:

Sarah Palin gets pranked by “Nicolas Sarkozy”

Sarah Palin spend much time boot licking. The best is that this is recorded and she sounded… Never mind.

This is so annoying, my kyboard is not working th way it should. It ats up on of my lttrs and I’ll lt you figur which ky is spoilt.

Manwhil, a quotation from th grat Alxandr Pop.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread - Alexander Pope

Yah, I copid.

That’s really odd statement, considering the fact that it originates from Microsoft.

The student put Ballmer on the hot seat by asking, “Why is IE still relevant and why is it worth spending money on rendering engines when there are open source ones available that can respond to changes in Web standards faster?”

“There will still be a lot of proprietary innovation in the browser itself so we may need to have a rendering service,” Ballmer said, adding, “Open source is interesting. Apple has embraced Webkit and we may look at that, but we will continue to build extensions for IE 8.” (Source: AppleInsider)

Seems like Yahoo’s Jerry Yang has changed his mind. Yang now wants Microsoft to buy Yahoo and was quoted saying “To this day the best thing for Microsoft to do is buy Yahoo.”

Yahoo played hard-to-get during Microsoft’s courtship. Fail!

Yahoo tells Microsoft: ‘Buy us’

The internet portal’s co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang made the comment despite the fact Yahoo rejected a $33 (£21) a share offer from Microsoft back in May.

Mr Yang’s suggestion also came hours after Google pulled out of an internet advertising partnership with Yahoo.

“To this day the best thing for Microsoft to do is buy Yahoo,” said Mr Yang.

During the on stage conversation in front of a standing-room only crowd, Mr Yang was asked why the company did not take the $33 a share offered back in the summer. The company’s share price closed Wednesday below $14 (£8.80) a share.

“They walked away from a public offering and we were ready to negotiate. We wanted to negotiate a deal. We felt we weren’t that far apart.

“At the end of the day, they withdrew and they have since been clear about not wanting to buy the company,” explained Mr Yang in a rare public appearance.

Microsoft did however come back and offer to buy the search part of Yahoo, but a deal was never struck.

Again Mr Yang said the offer then was not good enough but he still remained open to persuasion.

Mr Yang told the summit “I am passionate about Yahoo”

Mr Yang said he was “disappointed that they [Google] didn’t want to defend this deal.” (Source: BBC)