So the code to Microsoft’s Windows 2000 and Windows NT was leaked to the net, and among the discoveries within the code are chunks of code riddled with profanities and hidden notes.
Here’s an example:
Looks ok to me 😛
[via MemeFirst]
Firefox
So the Phoenix that changed it’s name to Firebird has now changed it’s name again to Firefox.
I know everyone must have talked about the new version of Mozilla’s Firefox browser, but I thought I’d mention it too because I just finished downloading and installing it.
I still don’t have much to say, and still haven’t found much difference between this version and the older one, apart from the installer and the name.
Up to now, I still prefer Opera which has basically become my default browser. Fast and effective. There are only a small number of things I actually need IE for.
Tunisia 2004 : The Finals
So, today was the big day, and the Tunisia vs. Morroco match started at 3PM with millions of people’s hopes and dreams on the line.
Thousand of people a the stadium, thousands of others at different places watching the match on giant screens scattered around Tunisia and the rest pinned to their TV sets at home.
The match started, and everyone’s hearts started beating at abnormal rates, wishful but afraid of what’s to come.
It was obvious from the beginning that it was going to be a hard match, with both sides trying to take control of the game, but quickly Tunisia took over and pressed more and in the 5th minute the first goal came for Tunisia.
With a goal under their belts, the Tunisian team started playing with more confidence and ease, pressing even more and venturing even further into Morroco’s sacred 18m space, only to waste chance after chance.
Morroco shocked by the goal did everything they could to come back into the match and a mistake by the Tunisian defence gave them a gap to score their first goal.
The rest of the first part of the match was counter attack after counter attack with no resulting goals, and you could sense the stress on both sides.
After half time, the teams came back, and Tunisia pressed again to score their second goal after only 6 minutes.
Morroco pushed as hard as they could to come back into the match after this one, but the Tunisian defence and goalie just denied them that till the very end of the match, giving Tunisia a beautiful and precious win 🙂
Hoooorrrraaaaaayyyy…
Tunisia won the African Cup of Nations for the very first time in it’s history of football and they truly deserve it.
They played very well as a whole team and got better match after match both technically and physically.
I hope the Tunisian team goes on to bigger and better things, why not even the World Cup soon.
As for yesterday’s match between Nigeria and Mali, Nigeria won (2-1) and came in at third place.
Me at Southpark
Plastic Romance Melts Away
Now, this is the kind of news I could certainly do without.
But as I was unlucky enough to have a few seconds of my life wasted on reading this, I’m posting it to waste the same time from your lives too 😛
After 43 years as one of the world’s prettiest pairs, the perfect plastic couple is breaking up. The couple’s “business manager,” Russell Arons, vice president of marketing at Mattel, said that Barbie and Ken “feel it’s time to spend some quality time — apart.”
“Like other celebrity couples, their Hollywood romance has come to an end,” said Arons, who quickly added that the duo “will remain friends.”
… Arons hinted Wednesday that the separation may be partially due to Ken’s reluctance to getting married. All those bridal Barbie dolls in toy chests around the globe are really just examples of Barbie’s wishful thinking, she explained.
[via CNN]
Here’s the true version of the story. The real reason behind this breakup is because Ken is supernaturally gay, and Barbie being the warm and loving bitch that she is didn’t want to leave him earlier and risk exposing him even if it meant she’d stay 43 years without real sex.
But when Ken went too far and told her he was going to go public and start acting in gay porn movies, she just had to dump him. Enough was enough.
(This inside information was provided by the Ugly Brunette Doll :P)
Quote of the day
CIA Iraqi Rewards Program
How wonderful, intelligent, innovative, desperate and pathetic !
The CIA, the great agency that supposedly knows everything and that was 1000% sure that Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction, and even claimed to know exactly where they were is now giving up it’s macho act and showing that they basically know nothing at all.
It has posted a little form on their website called the Iraqi Rewards Program for people (snitches) to submit whatever tips on WMD locations or other Iraq related intelligence.
They say the form is secure and confidential, but who knows, if they find your information to be interesting enough you just might hit the jackpot and find yourself in the next dark cell or aboard the quickest flight to Guantanamo and your face on the front page of every newspaper and website.
Interested ? Here’s the Iraqi Rewards Program.
[via Boing Boing]
Tunisia 2004 : The Semi Finals
Yesterday were the semi finals of the African Cup of Nations, with 2 big matches between Tunisia and Nigeria, and with Morroco against Mali.
Tunisia’s match was at 4PM, during working hours, but there was no way we could miss a match like that. so we turned the TV on and got an antenna and we were ready to go.
Tunisia turned into a ghost country during the period of the match, with almost no one on the streets, and everyone was glued to their TV set.
The match was one of the most stressful matches I’ve ever seen. Tunisia played well and controlled the match but missed a lot of chances. And then came the false Nigerian penalty, and we went one under.
Happily, Tunisia got a penalty later on, scored and tied.
The rest of the match and the extra time went on (1-1), and it was time for the shootouts, and God was that scary.
The Tunisian goalie who had made a number of mistakes during the match managed to fix that by catching one of Nigeria’s shots, and the Tunisian shooters were successful at driving each ball in.
And so, after over 130 minutes of stress, Tunisia won and passed to the final on Saturday.
Hooooorrrraaaaaayyyyy 🙂
Anyway, in Sousse, a couple of driving hours away, Morroco and Mali started playing, in a match that turned out to be a big surprise, for me at least. I was expecting Mali to win easily over Morroco, but no that didn’t happen, in fact Morroco won (4-0) in what was mostly a one-sided match.
So, the final on saturday will be Tunisia vs. Morroco.
A winnable match for Tunisia if they focus, play as well as they played against Senegal and Nigeria, and if they put in the hard work needed to score.
Morroco has a tough team and even tougher goalie, so the Tunisian team should really work hard on this one.
I wish them all the luck and i really hope we win the cup 🙂
Nigeria and Mali will be playing on Friday for Third and Fourth place.
The Truman Show
No, I didn’t see the movie again, it just crossed my mind again.
The Truman Show is one of my favourite movies, for the simple reason that i truly relate to it.
I didn’t go through the same experience of course or you’d have known about it for sure, but i thought about it a lot when i was a child.
There were times when I’d just think: what if all this is just a big show, a movie, plain and simple acting ?
What if all these people around me are just actors, playing their roles to give me a fake feeling that everything is normal ?
I don’t know what made me think that way sometimes, but it would occur to me very often.
Just like some kids were scared of turning out to be adopted, I was scared of my whole life turning out to be one hell of a big act.
I don’t remember when, how or why I grew out of it and stopped worrying. But when I come to think of it now, I don’t really feel that I was wrong, life really is a big act, and the people around us are just actors. We are just moving pieces on one big chess board.
Who’s watching ?
We watch each other. And God watches us all.
Africa 2015 : For an AIDS-free Generation
Everyday on my way to work I pass by a bunch of posters with the slogan Africa 2015 : For an AIDS-free Generation, and everyday I say to myself, I’m gonna check this out and blog about it, but I always forget.
So here it goes today 🙂
Africa 2015 is an initiative to promote awareness and achievement of the eight Millennium Development Goals that world leaders adopted at the Millennium Summit in 2000.
It focuses initially on combating HIV/AIDS, part of Goal 6. The target by 2015 is to halt and begin to reverse the spread of the disease, which has spread to 42 million people worldwide, more than 30 million in Africa.
… By targeting HIV/AIDS, the initiative also aims to help achieve the other goals – eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and empowering women, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, ensuring environmental sustainability, and developing a global partnership for development.
I think this is a great initiative, and I truly hope it gets enough support to go on and make Africa a better place for everyone.
For more information on this initiative, check out the official Africa 2015 website.