Random Musings - Day #219

Sometimes I surprise myself. Despite the things going on in my life, my sub-conscience is quite positive. I dreamed that I was telling someone

For every one, two people that have a bad life like me, there's another one, two, three, four people that things worse than you

There's probably going to be something made of this. But there are a lot of twitter results coming up for camtweet... specifically this one

Briefly, Susan Boyle has had one too many makeovers as now she looks like Anthea Turner

Irony strikes as the man who appears in the swine flu adverts (catch it, bin it, kill it) has got swine flu himself.

Random Musings - Day #208

Not much to say today. I had to seriously check out the NHS site for swine flu. The symptoms are kind of similar to regular flu except maybe more extreme. I was suffering with body aches, head aches and feeling warm (no coughing/cold). There is also a dedicated site for it as well

Random Musings - Day #182

Canada Day
Today is Canada's Independence day or Dominion Day. Canada is 142 years old. Meanwhile it's arguable Hong Kong Day too as the handover to China took place on this day in 1997.

Essential items over inflation rate
There are so many ways to interpret economy indicators. To me, food and energy costs have been going up. These factors may or may not be included in these indicators as a consequence, you get a slight misdemeanor where general inflation is low compared to the inflation of essential items (e.g. food has gone up 9%). Those that require essential items are the not well-off and they are struggling.

Veggies beat cancer
The claim that vegetables avoid more cancers may be taken with a pinch of salt. But you can decide for yourself.

Gagging and unmasking
People in the know being gagged is not a new thing and case in point as a researcher is barred from presenting a
ATM Security Vulnerability.
According to some security experts shoulder surfing is not a problem as they state masked passwords should just disappear.

Nothing beats a swine flu party
People are actually trying to catch the killer flu deliberately, thinking the effect is not as bad in the summer as it would be in the winter. So why not have a party

Celebrity Deaths
Ever since Michael Jackson died, aside from the numerous jokes. A number of fake deaths have occurred. Jeff Goldblum, Natalie Portman, George Clooney, Britney Spears, Harrison Ford and even Rick Astley have suffered from the hoax. The hoaxes are apparently originating from twitter and used for link baiting, which forces users interested celeb deaths to visit advertisers site to increase traffic and per click revenue.
Talking of death matches how about the iphone -vs- pre death match.


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