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Monday, 22 December 2008
It's a hacker's world out there.
Monster.com had the personal details of some subscribers to its online portal compromised a few years ago. Now the target is on eFinancial. It seems that hackers know a lot of financial stagg will be out of work after the credit crunch and have stoop so low as to wipe out whatever little or substantial savings they are left with:

"Dear Valued eFinancialCareers Member,

You may have received a fraudulent email sent out purportedly from eFinancialCareers.com or from someone claiming to have received your information from eFinancialCareers. These emails were made to appear as if they had been sent by, or on behalf of, our service. These emails were not from eFinancialCareers.com, nor does the information in these emails have any relevance to our service.

These emails may contain statements like the following: "Part-time position (eFinancialCarrers)"; "Response to your CV at eFinancialCarrers"; "Your salary will depend on amount of paypal transfers you'll get (you will get 8% from each transaction)."; "Our client will pay to your paypal account, you will receive payments, withdraw payments, then you will forward payment to our company via Western Union".

We advise against responding to any emails of this type in any manner and against following any instructions in any of the emails.

Once we were alerted to these emails, we launched an investigation and determined that eFinancialCareers.com was the target of a sophisticated hacker attack. While not all members were impacted, the hackers obtained limited information from some job applications including: name, email address, location, phone number and any text entered into the cover letter field. The hackers did not obtain any resume files. We believe their intention was to use this data for an e-mail phishing scam similar to scams perpetrated on other recognized job boards.

We constantly review and improve security features on eFinancialCareers and we have taken immediate corrective action to protect against future attacks such as this. However, sophisticated hack attacks do happen to even the most secure websites. We will continue to increase security measures designed to withstand the latest hacking techniques"

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Posted by pui-chee at 5:09 PM EADT
Updated: Monday, 22 December 2008 5:48 PM EADT
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Friday, 19 December 2008
Unintended consequence
According to wikipedia, unintended results/consequences are results that may be foreseen or unforeseen, but they should be the logical or likely results of the action. Confusing ?
Take example of the case on George Bush near miss with the shoe throwing. His actions in Iraq may have tried to bring about the result of peace from the Saddam Hussein's regime but instead it has caused severe grief and catastrophic results with the need for United nation countries to continually send troops over for law enforcement. Similarly by building the world's most advanced and unsinkable ship , the Titanic had to sink.
The theory of unintended consequences is in fact a term coined by people who happen to be able to sit back and see where this world and everything was revolving.

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Posted by pui-chee at 11:29 PM EADT
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008
NIGHT SHIFT PHARMACIST -wanted near the national park
Of all the jobs in the world, I guess this job must be one of the most boring and loneliest in the world. Granted the National park is a good scenic place to be in when the weather is all fine and sunny, but during the night, who would want to be in such a place ? You mean they have night safari and night tours too overnight in the national park ? I am not sure why you need a pharmacy open throughout the night at such a location -  perhaps the advertiser is assuming the pharmacist might be visited by some nocturnal animals or an injured moose over the night looking for a prescription? or some bushranger who needs medication for his asthma ? No wonder then I have been seeing this advert's been posted for a long time and I suppose you won't find any takers for this job unless the person is a nocturnal mammal as well and doesn't mind the loneliness and independence or extra spare time that comes with the job..

Posted by pui-chee at 3:55 PM EADT
Updated: Friday, 19 December 2008 4:27 PM EADT
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Backpain?
This news headlined "aussie getting backpain" seems ludicrous..Perhaps of the number of people getting backpain here, there are another group behind them who are stabbing them..

Posted by pui-chee at 3:37 PM EADT
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Sunday, 14 December 2008
Killer whale and penguin illustration

This video above reminded me of the companies and CEOs that were rescued by the federal government during the global credit crunch crisis. Sure, if you had a lifeboat (i.e. the government) parked near you, no matter how rough the sea is or how many killer whales there are out there, as long as you (the penguin) manage to manouever your way out of its line of sight, you're safe.

The same thing cannot be said of those fishes in the sea (i.e the junior execs)who are like the sacrificial lambs at the beck and call of the sea tide ..

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Posted by pui-chee at 11:00 AM EADT
Updated: Sunday, 14 December 2008 6:01 PM EADT
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