Posts Tagged ‘world-news’
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Georgia – Russia, war, and the Olympic Truce
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
The unfortunate events in South Ossetia, Georgia over the past few days have brought the Olympic Truce to mind. During the Ancient Olympic games, a universal truce was observed between all participating city-states. Once the commencement of the Olympic Truce was announced, every participant to the Olympic Games had to abide by the rules. All [...]
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The Internet is growing
Friday, June 27th, 2008
It is now official. Big changes are coming the Internet’s way, after ICANN the Internet’s regulatory authority has decided in a unanimous vote to expand the number of top-level domains (.com, .net, .org etc) to a potentially unlimited number. Among other decisions in a Paris, France meeting, is that the ICANN will consider and implement [...]
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Not all that sparkles is Gold…
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Today I read the news about Gold reaching an all time high of $1,000 per ounce. It comes to show that when currency value (see $US) keeps falling, people turn to well tested alternatives with age old demand in human history. Gold!
Since the turn of the year, the price of gold has increased 20%, can [...] -
Helping Greece after the fires…
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Over the past couple of weeks, shortly before the end of Summer, Greece caught on fire. The entire country fell victim to what some have called an organized arsonist attack. Raging wildfires which still burn today, have turned more than 2500 sq kilometers (965 sq miles) into ashes. 73 people died in the fires, and [...]
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Buy two $100 laptops, get one!
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project featuring the Children’s Machine, $100 laptop has announced possibly making their product available to the public. The $100 laptop was announced in 2005 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. An initiative to build cheap yet fully functional laptop computers to be distributed to and used by [...]