The awful part, is which child is now scarred for life and living with the fact that they were the one that killed Santa!

no-oh-oh-oh  

With thousands of passengers stranded at airports, the biggest hit being Heathrow, it would appear the fog is having major knock on effects to the websites of the airports, bringing them too to a standstill.

Can you see me?  

A resource is an abstraction of file-like objects, which could include zip/tar files and paths.  This lets you to treat groups of files as a single unit.

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With Ruby making the Top20, one wonders what other 'geek' names could sneek into the list; should I have maybe gone with Java Williamson for my new born son this year?  Got a certain ring to it me thinks!

goo-goo  

Released under dual licensing,  solidDB is officially supported and is free for download and use with MySQL on both Linux and Windows.  This is an important milestone considering Oracles control over InnoDB; one of the flagship engines of MySQL.

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We will get access to data such as high-resolution photos of the moon, space station tracking, weather forecasts and a large acrhive of historical images and data.

Fly me to the moon  

Their warehouse was completely emptied as shoppers flocked to pickup serious bargins, leaving both online and offline store without anything to sell!  Hamley's will continue to honor the vouchers but has shut down the scheme, that ran a little too long for their liking.

Where will Santa get his toys now?!?!  

Quite a price tag for 5 letters, or $600,000 for each.  Although, it may surprise you to know that diamond.com and business.com are valued in and around the $7,000,000 mark!

Time to dig out some of those domains eh?

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Disney officials took a dim view of this, after apparently some complaints from other visitors, who then asked Mr Wooley to stop it.  Apparently, and here is something you probably didn't know, Santa was a Disney character!  Aye sure he is!

the claus of this  

His bum prints was used to make colourful floral landscapes.  But his pants were pulled up, as it where, when he posted his rather interesting technique on YouTube, and it came to the attention to the officials of his school.

Ooops!  

As a long term user of Thunderbird, welcomed additions to the new version include; favourite folders, better searching, cleaner interface, and it works far better with large folders of emails.   Security is better allowing you to decide which images will load based on either domain or an individual.

Still a memory hog mind you, but that is something we've just come to expect from Mozilla these days.

go get it  

With a near 90% reach of all browsers it has achieved what Java applets failed to do and has become the standard to which the likes of YouTube and Google video have bet their future on in terms of delivery to the client.

Happy Birthday  

Corruption?  Unethical?  or just darn right sneeky?  You decide.

digg-backs

Single handedly she was responsible for the biggest contractor rate hike for the big 1999/2000 switch over!

Quite the character, Dr Hopper, would lecture often in full Navy blues, using a 12inch piece of wire to demonstrate how far light travelled in one nanosecond.  Pure class.

Grace Hopper - we salute you

The moon is covered by the same laws as International waters, and therefore falls under the remit of United Nations. 

What is that old phrase - not worth the paper it's written on

Unlike Java5, this release does not introduce any new language features but concentrates on providing more access to other areas of the computing infastructure.  For example, included is the JSR223, which provides scripting support for the likes of Javascript (included), PHP and Ruby for example.

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A man would have sat there with pride at his creation, but not this woman.  Instead she opts to strike a match, in flight, to burn off the methane!

With the smell of burning alerting the crew, they decide to land, where by her smelly wee secret was found out. 

Inflight farting - its one of the perks they don't mind you doing in coach!

whiffy!  

Hotmail will nuke your email account after 3 months, so those figures are very believable and quite encouraging to see that while the world seems to be Google, that there is still a large proportion of people seeking to others for their webbased email solutions.

Emailastic!  

In some instances, their domain registration has also been hacked, with them taking over the domain.  This is bit more worrying.  You are responsible for your own website security, but if someone manages to hack and seize control of your domain, there is next to nothing you can do.  Does beg the question which domain-registrar they hacked to seize the domains.

"Stop or I'll click" 

This moves make a whole lot more sense than say Amazon selling web services, messaging or data services.  One can see the investors shaking their heads in agreement instead of wondering why they are in the computing services market!

Gaaa-Gaaa 

NASA want a little help in funding this human exploration and would like companies to step forward.  Now considering just how rich some of our dear t'internet companies are, could we see Google digging deep and providing a significant amount of funding?  Do we have a Moogle.com on the horizon?

Stranger things have happenned!  

What was built over 2500 years ago, has now got a big ruddy highway going through it.  The company also destroyed 3 ancient villages in its persuit.

But its okay - they were fined !

The Godfather (Linus) isn't at all keen on it for its stance against digital rights management technologies.  Naturally, with everyone divided on the subject, when someone like Simon Phipps (the Godfather of Open Source @ Sun) pops in his blog that Sun isn't against GPL3 and was encouraged by its progress then its gets the community talking once again.

One thing is for sure, never before has a licence revision gotton so much public scrinity.