Leadership change at Yahoo

There is a new CEO lady for Yahoo at the helm and she's Carol Bartz, whose credentials spanned Autodesk and Sun Microsystems. Yahoo failed to be sold to Microsoft and smotch a partnership with Google late last year. During Yahoo's legacy, they decided to do away with  yahoo photos and forced all users to migrate to Flickr, a company which they bought. If you have been using Yahoo Finance or yahoo answers, you will also notice that the quality of support has dropped tremendously (emails have gone unanswered)and one won't be sure if there's anyone actually providing support to it on the backend. Not sure what will the new changes mean and whether users (esp. Yahoo mail/Group users)will be forced again to accept some unprecedented changes with the new leadership...

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Hamilton island publicity

In order to generate more publicity and interest in tourism into Hamilton island, the Tourism Queensland is offering some A$150 K for a lucky individual to work and live in the island. The only thing he has to do is maybe cleanup the pool, make friends with locals and probably blog about his adventures and escapades daily for six months. The the winner of this job most likely has to provide a really impressive reason why he would want this job to impress the interviewers or judges. Perhaps this is a role that former Guantanomo Bay convictee David Hicks or similar person running from the law should take up rather than jetting off to remote island called Vanautu. [ see source]

Fine for stooges

Talking about being fined and not in a "fine" city, this news is hilarious. This is a story about four stooges who are out to explore the wild life in Aussie. I thought it only happen in slapstick comedies :

"'Stupid' tourists fined after outback rescue

Two Korean tourists have been described as "plain stupid" by Northern Territory police after they became stranded on a dirt road that was closed because of flooding.

A Martial Arts Grandmaster's story

Your health is your wealth in the new year !
The film "Seven Pounds" is one of the better films with a superb storyline just before the end of 2008 . It's a must-watch film if you like Will Smith's narrative voice in the background - as in "I am legend" as opposed to Morgan Freeman's which has just been used in every other Hollywood movies or documentary.
 Just like "Merchant of Venice", seven pounds of flesh refer to the debt that needs to be paid and in this story's case, the debt of causing the death of six innocent lives in a car accident. The movie makes you re-think also the society treatment of blind people in general, as well as the conscience of drivers who caused fatal accidents and are still driving on the roads today without any tinge of  regret.
I am not sure if this film will generate a copy-cat cult for some film-watchers for the better good of society (minus the gross suicide, of course). Afterall, there were quite a number of films which generated controversy by having people imitate and execute their actions copy-cat style (Think Superman, Escape from Alcatraz, Mission Impossible). But if you are still in two minds on the Organs donation Bill or Act, this is a definite MUST show to watch as it may change your mindset after watching.