Man to sell life in internet auction

Ian Usher, from Perth in Western Australia, is offering his house, job, lifestyle and friends to the highest bidder in an online auction.

Mr Usher is single, 44, owns a house complete with spa, and goes skydiving and jet skiing.

But he was not looking for a potential partner when he put this information on the net. He was looking for someone to take over his life.

The Perth resident wants a new start after his marriage break-up and says all he wants to keep of his life in Perth is his wallet and passport.

He came to Australia from England in 2001, a year after getting married.

The couple bought a house, made friends, found work and enjoyed the relaxed lifestyle. But when the relationship ended, Mr Usher decided it was time to give it all up.

He is offering his furnished home, car, motorbike, jet ski and introductions to his friends to the highest bidder in an online auction.

"The home was something that we were building together and all the furniture in there was stuff that we bought together in the last home we had, so there is a lot of memories attached to it and sort of, that's in front of me on a daily basis," he said.

"So I thought, 'well, if I'm selling the house, how do I sell the stuff? Do I sell one piece at a time in the paper? Do I send it to an auction house or what do I do?'

"And then I was just hit with this idea, why not put it all together in one auction?"

Reference: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/18/2193214.htm

Ken Lee (the concert)

Ken Lee (the audition)

CSS Pinoy

Showcase of the Filipino talent in web design.
LINK: http://csspinoy.com/

Mac vs. PC

Mac vs. PCMac: In both the laptop and desktop showdowns, Apple’s computers were the winners. Oddly, the big difference didn’t come in our user ratings, where we expected the famously friendly Mac interface to shine. Our respondents liked the look and feel of both operating systems but had a slight preference toward OS X. In our speed trials, however, Leopard OS trounced Vista in all-important tasks such as boot-up, shutdown and program-launch times. We even tested Vista on the Macs using Apple’s platform-switching Boot Camp software—and found that both Apple computers ran Vista faster than our PCs did.

PC: Simply put, Vista proved to be a more sluggish operating system than Leopard. Our PCs installed some software faster, but in general they were slower in our time trials. Plus, both PCs showed weaker performance on third-party benchmarks than the Macs. Our biggest surprise, however, was that PCs were not the relative bargains we expected them to be. The Asus M51sr costs the same as a MacBook, while the Gateway One actually costs $300 more than an iMac. That means for the price of the Gateway you could buy an iMac, boost its hard drive to match the Gateway’s, purchase a copy of Vista to boot—and still save $100.

Detailed Benchmark Scores: Desktops

Benchmark Test	iMac 20-in screen; 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo; 1GB DDR2	Gateway One 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo; 3GB DDR2
Geekbench
Overall	3180 (2651)	1903
Integer	2766 (3398)	2324
Floating Point	4460 (2675)	1713
Memory	2299 (1720)	1597
Stream	1916 (1819)	1707
Cinebench
1 CPU	2619 (2429)	1979
2 CPUs	4840 (4641)	3739
Graphics	4819 (3834)	2913

*Scores in parentheses are for Macs running Vista in Boot Camp.

Detailed Benchmark Scores: Laptops

Benchmark Test	MacBook 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo; 1GB DDR2 (Out of production)	MacBook 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo (Penryn); 3GB DDR2	Asus M51 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo; 2GB DDR2
Geekbench
Overall	2885 (2465)	3156 (2657)	2445
Integer	2536 (3099)	2734 (3421)	3102
Floating Point	3959 (2429)	4395 (2660)	2444
Memory	2156 (1730)	2378 (1785)	1636
Stream	1809 (1850)	1853 (1717)	1772
Cinebench
1 CPU	2409	2741 (2561)	2214
2 CPUs	4468	5216 (4838)	4198
Graphics	2027	2040 (835)	2495

*Scores in parentheses are for Macs running Vista in Boot Camp.

Reference:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/4258725.html?page=1

10 Things to remember about AJAX

10 Things to remember about AJAX:

1. Ajax is an idea, not an acronym
2. It's really all about JavaScript
3. XML is not required
4. Plan for an increase in HTTP requests
5. Optimize Ajax requests carefully
6. Acknowledge the two-connection limit
7. Watch out for response ordering
8. Acknowledge the effects of eliminating "Layer 8" error correction
9. Old security threats get a second exposure
10. Abide by same origin for your protection

To read more about this go to: http://www.networkworld.com/research/2008/033108-ajax.html?page=1

HD Wallpapers

I found this site, HDWallpapers.net. It has COOL wallpapers for wide screen monitors.
Check it out!

LINK: http://www.hdwallpapers.net/

Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center Scandal

Here is the link to the video of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center Scandal in Cebu, Philippines.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5FKkSk5h4CA

I can put the embed code here, but I think it is not recommended to be viewed by the public because of content restriction of YouTube. You must login to YouTube to view it and verify your birthday

Life

I'll try to be not so dramatic bout this... ;)

Since I was in college, I had a passion for Computer Programming. I don't know how I came into programming. All I dreamed before when I was young is to be a Pilot or an Mechanical Engineer like my father.

The first Programming Language(PL) is encountered was BASIC(Beginners All-purpose Instruction Symbolic Code) which is really basic! It just funny that I don't really had a hard time learning it. I started to love web-based programming, since my 2nd year in college, when we had a subject about JavaScript. It was fun in that subject, some of my classmate had a hard time in that subject, but I don't.

PHP

I learned PHP all by myself. I never attended any seminars or any subjects about PHP. It just came to me that it was a great PL for web-based scripting. I love PHP! I love it than Visual Basic 6, which I also excelled in college. As of now, I am using PHP for more than a year and a half.

Web Developer life

You will experience pressures, like the client want the task to be finished in 1 day which a person can do it fast in 2 days. I learned a lot in my job. It is true that learning is beyond school and books.

My First Post!

Hahahaha!

My First ever post!


Can you believe it?! I've made a post!


Nah! It's nothing... hehehe... :P